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Originally Posted by SteveLightspeed
Original and hard-to-find content are key for retention. People nowadays want it ALL. Think of sites you visit every day. Facebook, Flickr, Myspace, Youtube -- are all about quality, quantity, and community. I'm not sure regular porn paysites can survive much longer the way they are now, even mine.
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Agree with most of this except the thing about people wanting it all. If they did Tubes would not be a threat. Because you can't give away "all" for free. Just little snippets.
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Originally Posted by Nicky
So would you think It's suicide to start a paysite basically from scratch and building it up slowely now a day's even if It's in a hard to find niche?
What if you combine the paysite with the niche content and offer niche live cams etc inside the members area along with a forum etc?
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Depends, sometimes the cost of creating the niche content is not justified by he return. Up until a few years ago the best niche content was on DVD because the returns were better. I've lost count of the number of people who have asked me to produce niche content for a fraction of the return that magazines and DVD paid.
Live cams is something we should all be looking into and hitting the income of the Tubes. We offer it for free from inside our sites. We ca afford it.
But if you're lucky enough to have an archive of content that can't be shot easily today you're sitting pretty.
Astral Blue.