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View Poll Results: Trial Pricing & How Many Days | |||
$1 1 Day |
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8 | 38.10% |
$2.95 2 Day |
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3 | 14.29% |
$4.95 3 Day |
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10 | 47.62% |
Voters: 21. You may not vote on this poll |
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#1 |
Life is good
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Trial Options and Pricing
I would think many webmasters agree trials are a good option for 90% of the sites out there.
But what trial to offer the surfer? 1 day? 2 day? 3 day? A trial is a trial so all is good as the surfer can join cheaply to see what's inside without forking out an entire month in this day and age. If he likes what he sees then he'll hopefully stay. The main idea here is to increase sales overall and also increase member conversions. Conversions is where we all make more money. So what do you like as an option for a trial? What do your surfers seems to like? What works best for you as far as making sales? Discuss.... |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Personally I like revshare no trial unless the site wants to also give me more then the revshare on the trial.
But if there is a trial then two days seems about right try the site out and get hooked. |
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#3 |
That which does not kill us, will try, try again.
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Forgetting about the trial length for a minute, one thing to consider is European surfer traffic and how they'll be paying for the trial.
As I understand it there are some limits to *how small* an amount can be paid. And I think it converts to about that $4.95 number. I'll see if I can find some source info for this later on unless someone else can confirm or deny it before I get to it.
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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Personally I'd say $1/day as a trial -- and revshare on the trial. Bigger chance to hook someone on a trial if you ask me.
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#5 |
You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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I picked 1 day. A surfer should be able to decide if they like the site within 24 hours. BTW, I alway pick revshare when given a choice.
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#6 |
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Join Date: May 2007
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Yeah, I'll go with a day assuming the content isn't shit. If it's good stuff, surfer should be ready to sign up, and three days there's a greater chance of losing them.
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#7 |
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I prefer a $29.95 30 day trial.
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#8 |
"Young dumb and full of cum"
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I'm the one who picked 4.95 for 3 day trial.
I hate seeing a revshare sale of 50 cents or even 1.00. I work too hard to get that sale and the low payout is so depressing. Especially if it doesnt convert to an upgrade or a rebill. When I see the 1.00 sale I think to myself "this sux" IMO If someone pays 5 bucks they are more likely to upgrade or rebill the 29.95.
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#9 |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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As long as the site has an honest and informative free tour and had quality content with regular updates I would go for revshare no trial. They are the only ones worth promoting IMO.
If you set a 1 day trial it is easy to forget to cancel and then you might feel cheated that it rebilled automatically before you did cancel it. This surfer could be lost forever to adult sites, or certainly to that paysite and maybe the referring site too as he won't trust it any more. If I had to choose a trial I would take the longest as it seems fairest to the surfer (if it has automatic rebill at trial end). ![]() |
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#10 |
Life is good
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Ok so many like having no trials. That's good, I'm with you there as I too hate the $1 sales I make with some revshare sites.
Otherwise it's a toss up between $1 and $4.95 so far... |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I like the $4.9X for 3 days ... especially since that makes the standard $29.9X for 30 days look better (about $1 per day vs $5 for 3 days LOL) and if they stay the 3 days they usually think the monthly ain't a bad deal ... especially when it's broken down as "just under $1 per day" compared to a cup of coffee.
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However Europe is not a federation, each country is free to set it's own rules and I can only speak for Britain (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland). But I would guess that most of the sales will be to English Speaking countries as most European countries have liberal porn laws, so will have their own sites in their own language that their countrymen will be joining instead of English Language sites. But the other big country you have to worry about is Australia, they speak English and they have strict anti-porn laws that mean most Australians will be looking abroad for their porn. So you probably want to find out if Australians have a minimum foreign spend on their cards. Last edited by ecchi; 2009-04-24 at 05:16 AM.. Reason: Screwed up quote |
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I haven't been able to find a source so far for my comments about there being some minimum amount that can be paid in Europe. And I may have misremembered about exactly how the payments which had some limit were made. It may not have been credit cards, maybe SMS billing or something else more popular in Europe than it is here. But I haven't found a source either way so if anyone else finds something related to minimum payment amounts allowed I'd be very interested to know what the hell I was talking about.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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I went with the longer trial mainly because it has the better payouts on PPS.
On the revshare side I generally go with the $29.95 no-trial for solo-girl/single sites. For places with multi-pass options I generally go with a trial because the volume of site contents tend to convert/recur. |
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#15 |
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I think you need more days. Because a lot of times if it's just a day trial the person buying will cancel that day. I always hope that the buffer of more than one day they just forget and then they say fuck it and just end up with a full month. That's my logic about it anyway.
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I personally don't like trials on revshare, but I went with the 2 day trial $2.95 - I think it's inexpensive enough that they are OK with the initial sign up and perhaps long enough for them to recur for the month as well, just to get a bit more of it.
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The point I made is valid for the predominantly English speaking countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) except the Republic Of Ireland. Each of the other countries will have it's own rules, laws, and banking traditions. However, as I said in my last post, they probably account of almost none (or more likely none) of your sales, as they would mostly use their own county's porn sites. |
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No, I wasn't then and still am not under the impression that "Europe" is one big country. Even though many in Europe seem to think so, we're not all dumb Americans over here.
![]() I'll post my source for what I mentioned earlier if I ever find it again. In the meantime it's good to know that, for example, a one-dollar trial can indeed be paid for without a problem in much of the world. I still prefer the $4.95 trials or no trial if on revshare, for all the reasons already mentioned, but the $1 trials have their place with some traffic.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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I do a mixture of trials - from free to $4.95 for 3 days, plus about half straight revshare with no trials, depending on the program. Some programs offer a trial, but then will charge the surfer $29.95 or 34.95 a month with no reduction! If that same buyer had opted for no trial, they would be charged $5 less per month.
Be fair to the surfers, be fair to the webmasters. Give us the console, cross sell, and link to a page option and we all be happy.
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![]() Sorry if I cause offence. I posted the reply because you keep referring to whatever it is you heard as being the situation in "Europe" when it will probably be totally different in each country, there is no "Europe wide" law/rule on the matter. |
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That'll teach you to leave your sister unattended.....
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IF the country involved uses Euros, it might be easier and therefore more cost effective, but we do know that not all of Europe uses that currency. Your "English-speaking countries" are actually parts of the United Kingdom, which is ONE government and which will have one set of laws. The Republic of Ireland is not included in the UK. (And UK folks, please do correct me if I am wrong!) I do believe the porn laws are not as liberal as in some other areas, like Scandinavia and The Netherlands. How many nude beaches do you guys have in the UK?
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Pagan, I don't think you should have used the "dripping sarcasm tag" because by saying "There are policies the lump all of the European countries into one basket" you are kind of demonstrating that you are still not enlightened!
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I lived in Europe for almost half my life and there are thousands of treaties, policies and laws that lump Europe into one basket. Just like there are thousands that lump The Americas into one basket. Pull your head out of your ass and smell the flowers dipshit. |
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