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Too old to care
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws.
Posts: 52,943
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When it comes to shooting, marketing and selling solo girl material I've got more experience, more knowledge and more skill than a pseudo marketing man and a programmer. I've made my living from it for 33 years, whoops make that 34 years now. Started in 1977.
So here's a budget for a solo girl site, both ends. shot by the site owner on the cheap and by a decent shooter. Based it on 50 scenes, less would not be a very good site, in the opinion of the member. Also the site owner can hold back something for updates. More would put up the initial price. More will be needed for updates to keep the site retaining.
50 scenes will take 10 days or 17 days to shoot. Paying a model $500 a day, a decent girl will want that, $5,000 to $8,500 for the model.
Site owner shooting $00, good shooter subcontracted $500 to $1,000 a day. $8,500 to $17,000.
Equipment. If the site owner doesn't have it, then a cheap stills camera, video camera and some builders lights $2,000. Good shooters have all their own equipment.
Locations can be at the shooters home or at a location. Better the location, better the scenes to keep them varied. Let's throw in $100 a day for a good shooter to have some good locations. Not really enough, but don't want to break the budget. $1,700.
Props, clothing, expenses, make up, etc another $100 a day. $1,700. for the cheap end not required.
Experience, skill and talent shooting solo girl. Priceless and the key to good content.
So the bottom end comes out at $7,000
Top end comes out at $20,400 to $28,900.
At a cost of $30 a join with $10 going to costs of the site. That 350 sign ups or recurring members, for a bottom end site. At 1 sign up a day, 1 year to repay the cost of content at 5 a day, 70 days. Unless the guy is a genius at traffic with a good site, 5 a day is about the limit for a new site.
With a good site run by a good company with a good shooter and using an affiliate program to drive sales. Maybe a figure of $10 a sign up is more realistic. 2890 members or monthly retentions.
Now comes updates. Without it the site dies, because retention is minimal and affiliates get put off. Yes with a good cluster of sites, if the content is good theres a good point of upselling. If the content isn't, then again this income stream is limited.
Again model and shooter, if required, with other expenses comes out at $100 a scene just paying the model. Or as high as $500 a scene shooting 3 scenes in a day with just a model and good shooter.
Updating 1 set or video a day, $1500 to $7,500 a month.
Putting te model on profit sharing means promising her a lot, deliver it and shes happy. Don't as so many have done in the past and she pisses off and updates are over.
Relying on a porn model to work next week is like relying on the weather in Czech. It might be sunny and fine one day and pissing down the next.
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