Originally Posted by Paul Markham

I missed a 0 when I made the last post. Content cost needs 10,000 members to sign up. And the 3,000 every month after that.

Add a number for the rest of the site start up at $35,000. The total's now $100,000.00 to start a small solo girl site and keep it updating at 1 piece of content a day. Not worth staying long and best to come back in 3-6 months later and see all the updates.

This is to do it right and not the "it can be done cheaper" method.

Very few programs could afford this when they started. So the start up model was very much 2 buddies shooting some naked chicks and seeing how it goes. They started that way, grew or disappeared and those who grew thought it was the way to go and carried on with the same model.

Even today investing this kind of money in starting up a site seems to be beyond most. I've made the "distance themselves from the smaller guys" comment a lot of times. Even discussed it with some of the biggest out there. The reply is always the same. No proof it would make any difference.

The astounding thing is that some sites could of afforded this 10 years ago. By selling the content to other levels of the porn industry. A decent magazine set was certainly worth $1,000 in sales. In fact $3,000 is a better guess. A good BG video worth $5,000 maybe even $10,000, without stepping into the top fields. Where a BG video was worth more.

This would of slashed or even made the cost of the sites content $0.00.

This side of the industry preferred to convince itself the surfers wanted poor porn and that other levels of the porn industry had it all wrong. And based that on stats that proved less than 0.5% of surfers agreed with them. Yes it took probably took 200 surfers soaking up free porn to get 1 sale. And that number got progressively worse.



And now you know why few could afford to have decent sites.