general comments / questions from a newb

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To answer your question. Starting a paysite is not as easy nowadays as it used to be. Some "non nude models" won´t make it, I´m afraid. First thing is that you have to convince them doing porn, not an easy part.

Reading is one thing, doing it another. If I were you, I would try something traffic building before launching a paysite.

A nice thing to learn about paysites is building one with deluxepass or another one like them. there you can try out what will work without high costs.

great points frankthetank.

we are going with 2 models to start. they were comfortable going the full nude route, so convincing them that taking a step back and doing non-nude will work for them (i personally wouldnt use them for non-nude if i didnt think they had the talent to pull it off)

my programmer is currently playing with the building traffic model to see if we can stand on our own 2 feet. (not falling over yet)

as far as going with deluxepass or adultcheck... how different is the business model than doing it on your own?
any advice on the subject would be aweseome.

we have no 'real' timeframe as far as when we need to see money coming in. were piggybacking on our already existing hosting costs (we host our own sites), and until the traffic dictates we need to move to a dedicated server, etc.. we wont allow the additional expense. the programming and design work is all on our own time. the only 'cost' i forsee coming up is the setup of our pay accounts, and paying the models to shoot (which we are doing ourselves as well)

we trying to build this thing slowly so we dont burn out our time and pocketbooks.
were going to try and roll this thing out so it pays for itself as it goes, if we make profit on it in the first 6 months to a year? kool.. if not.. fine, as long as we dont lose more than the time spent on it.