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Originally Posted by cam_girls
AWE is a good acronym. Your logic is flawed, a couple sites used cheap domains
and lots of capital so therefore I'll need lots of capital?? I've already said I'll just
start small like many others that are doing well.
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The first thing you need to understand is that the traffic your domain produces is just a drop in the bucket of what you need to make a successful cam site. On top of that traffic is just one of the many parts of the equation you need to do flawlessly, and to take it one step further you need ALL parts to come together at the exact time to make the site succeed. Lots of traffic no girls on = fail. Lots of girls on, no traffic = fail. Girls and traffic and site breaks = fail. Girls, traffic, site works, and processing problems = fail. etc etc etc.
You say you make 30K a year off of sending all of your traffic to a cam site. ( I believe you said PPS). Thats about $82 a day or $3.42 an hour. If you are paying your girls 35% that means all of your chat host collectively would make $1.20 an hour. So if you have just 5 girls on, they make 24 cents an hour. I know you like to run calculations, so if you can appreciate and understand the one I just did you will see that you don't have even a fraction of the TRAFFIC you need to launch a cam site and make it stick. 0.24 an hour, you probably wont even be able to get the worst of the worst studio girls in 4th world countries to work for that. Even if you did, having really poor quality girls, your members will leave fast or never buy in the first place. If you have times with no chathost on then you have 0 percent chance to make money.
Keep in mind that the site you send your traffic to NOW, so you can make 30K a year ALWAYS has 100's of girls on, lots of variety and top quality girls. So you have a max potential to get your traffic to turn into paying customers and spend money. Switching that same traffic source to shit girls, and just a hand full to choose from, and you will likely make less as an "owner" than you would as an affiliate, under those circumstances.
My personal opinion is that you did well buying this domain name just for the simple fact that you sound like you are about 18 - 21 years old. 99% of the kids your age would have blown 350K in a couple years time on crap and have nothing to show for it. You invested into something safe with a positive cash flow and decent ROI.
You have to understand the value of a good domain.
1. self generated traffic (type ins) but this is just a fraction of what you would need for a cam site, so you MUST learn how to generate more traffic.
2. brandable, good for word of mouth and easy to remember. This "helps".
3. the value of the domain should go up or at least stay the same. Safer investment.
Your calculations of cams.com, livejasmin, etc... only proves that it is possible for you or anyone to have similar success and has nothing to do with the name of your domain. Livejasmin is a terrible cam site name imo, i wonder how many people type in livejasmine and it sounds like a solo girl site. Their success has nothing to do with their name but due to other factors.
We all started off as newbs, but most of us tried to learn early on as much as we could from others that were successfull, and what not to do from those that failed. The " i think I know it all because I can do some simple math and own a good domain " is the wrong attitude to have if you want to be successful. It is great to be excited, confident, but don't be nieve and foolish.
I think you made a GREAT decission to buy the domain with your money. Many others your age would have blown it. But I fear if you think you know it all, you will end up either selling the domain in a year or two to pay off debts from failed cam ventures or give away equity in the domain to someone to build you a cam site, and you wind up losing it. Just don't fuck with it, leave it alone. Make your 20K or 30K a year, bank it. Leave the domain alone, put a white label on it and build up a customer base. Make money and LEARN the in's and outs, especially how to generate MORE TRAFFIC. Save up that money and then if you want to try your own camsite, you have saved up some money over time to give it a shot ( a couple years from now would be my suggestion).
You have gotten a lot of good advice from good people, stop trying to convice the people who have been around the block a few times why you think they are wrong. You just got involved with this, instead of being defensive, stop and listen to them or you can learn the hard way on your own. it's your money and your choice...