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Originally Posted by paralavar
how do you duplicate something successfull ?
I can' t believe you just have to make ten times the same site just changing a few words.
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It's not perfect, but it generally works.
Lets say you have a site that makes $4000 a month. If you have tweaked and re-tweaked that site and that's the most it can make, it's time to make another one.
Analyze the site, the content and the price points, and recreate it. It's that simple. Get a new domain, get like content OR load the same content, but load it in a different order than the other sites. There is more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to loading content.
Change the text, change the colors, the logo and the domain. Make it look different without losing the core frame of the other site. It may do better, it may do less or it may do the same. Either way, it's going to make money.
One Example: I have 2 old ass crappy Thai sites. There is not a huge market for these sites, traffic is limited, yet there is a market and those guys are hardcore members and love this raw style of content, even if from a webmasters POV, it's garbage.
We use poor photos and screen caps. The tours are small, there are no video previews and I only show around 35 scenes each. I have another 40 scenes in the data base, and rotate the content. Each week I add one scene and drop one off. A member would have to stick around for 10 months to notice what I'm doing. On average, a member stays 3 - 6 months for these sites, as old as they are.
Now, the first one I made was BangkokStreetWhores.com (I think 5 years ago! - It's still selling!!!!). Then recreated that feel with like content but added creampies, and created AsianBabyMakers.com. Then again with SiamSlam.com. I made three sites with limited content, we NEVER have complaints from members and they stay 3 - 6 months, with the occasional 8 or 9 month guy. If someone did complain, I would just give him free access to one of the other sites, but so far, nada.
Now, this is cheating you may say, but the rebills are decent and the sites make a few grand a month each. It's not much compared to a large site, but these sites are NOT saturated thus they STILL CONVERT!!! AsianBabyMakers.com STILL converts today, as it did years ago when it opened! Go figure. The content is crap, but its real, raw sex, and that sells and rebills for the small market that we sell in.
Laugh if you want, but I did this three times with three small paysites. Today, they all three are making sales and rebilling. I'm not rolling in cash from them, but they add to the pot. Plus, I don't have to shoot for them anymore, and can spend my time shooting for NEW sites, to do the same thing all over again.
This of course is one small example, but it really is that easy. I could also have loaded the content differently so they did not show the content at the same time, looking like different sites. I didn't, but I could have.
For me, my money is best made, and quickly made, by shooting NEW content. Then I can sell it, trade it, put it on new sites, release to DVD or whatever. NEW CONTENT is where my money is. That may not work for you, but it does for me. I don't want to keep shooting for old sites when they are converting just fine and there is a limited market to begin with.