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Originally Posted by NoWhErE
If you think there are set costs to a shoot, that there is only one way to building a paysite and that there is only one way to getting your sales, then you're set to fail. Those that will succeed are those that can keep an open mind and find their own way of doing things.
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Exactly right. I have never followed the sheeple in my own path. Whether shooting content or hosting. Yet still succeed.
When I started, I licensed content and tried to make a go of it that way. However, over time I did not like the restrictions and realized there was money to be made in licensing (older content), DVD, and many ways to skin that same investment six ways from Sunday. So I decided to leave my corporate job and do this full time. I was already making money online with the sites I had, was not married, no kids... meaning minimal expense.
When I decided to go down this path, people told me I would never get anyone to shoot for the dollars I wanted to pay based on budget available at the time. They told me girls were paid $150-500.00 a scene, even for fetish content, and so forth and so on. A lot of discouraging remarks and feedback.
Needless to say, they were wrong. We COULD find people willing to work for what we paid. We COULD find ways to get 5-10 scenes out of girls in a single photo shoot. We COULD make money and return on our $3000.00 initial investment easily. We COULD make pay sites without all of the best and fanciest CMS, content, designs and so forth.
1. Keep your overhead costs low to maximize profits.
2. Live in a place where you geographically have a labor advantage.
3. Make your own rules for how your business will run. What you pay. What is involved.
There is still money to be made. But there are many many different factors involved on what can, and will, determine your profitability and success. That is, if you really want it, and have the work ethic and drive to make it happen. As I said before, few actually do.
