Advice on either moving away from C4S, or simply adding other outlets?

[Cocteau]

Hi I'm a noob here and I am not even sure you guys can help me with advice since I don't really do the same thing as most of you but it's worth a shot.

So I create fetish content. I have had a clips4sale store since around 05. All I have ever done that earned actual income is post my content to clips4sale in the form of clips. All my photo shoots etc have just been advertising but really just to share my "art" because it's a creative outlet for me.

In my genre I am fairly well known and I have customers that have been regulars with me for years and years.

Since you could more or less call my site a "mom and pop", it means I can shoot content for free ( I don't "pay" any models, my girl and I are the models and always have been) and as often as I want. If I want to film clips 10 times a day, I can and it costs me nothing.

Do you guys have any suggestions for someone in my position who would like to "expand" my operation? I would like to either find other outlets and use them as well as C4S, or move away from C4S.

With C4S, through the years they have taken the ability for me to interact with my customers away. I used to have their email. If they were a regular customer I could email and thank them and send them some free clips because I truly appreciate the regulars. C4S took away the ability to see the emails, then a few years later took away their names. Now I have regulars buying every clip from me and all I know is their initials, I cant tell them thanks or send them free content. Since I can also fulfill requests and make clips " to order" this feels like it is really holding me back.

C4S has also steadily been adding more links right back to their main page. It began as banners on the bottom of the clipstore. Now it is all over the top. It used to feel like my clipstore could feel like a legitimate standalone site to the customer. Now a lot of my customers that I pulled in myself with my own promotion is being linked to the big list of other guys right away. I mean no disrespect to C4S but that's a little different from what I signed up for.

I would like to know how hard it is to make a site that would again allow me to interact with our "fanbase" and also how to find webmasters who would like to buy my content and then sell it for themselves on their sites.

Thank you for listening and since it is friday have a safe and fun weekend.

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by Cocteau

Hi I'm a noob here and I am not even sure you guys can help me with advice since I don't really do the same thing as most of you but it's worth a shot.

So I create fetish content. I have had a clips4sale store since around 05. All I have ever done that earned actual income is post my content to clips4sale in the form of clips. All my photo shoots etc have just been advertising but really just to share my "art" because it's a creative outlet for me.

In my genre I am fairly well known and I have customers that have been regulars with me for years and years.

Since you could more or less call my site a "mom and pop", it means I can shoot content for free ( I don't "pay" any models, my girl and I are the models and always have been) and as often as I want. If I want to film clips 10 times a day, I can and it costs me nothing.

Do you guys have any suggestions for someone in my position who would like to "expand" my operation? I would like to either find other outlets and use them as well as C4S, or move away from C4S.

With C4S, through the years they have taken the ability for me to interact with my customers away. I used to have their email. If they were a regular customer I could email and thank them and send them some free clips because I truly appreciate the regulars. C4S took away the ability to see the emails, then a few years later took away their names. Now I have regulars buying every clip from me and all I know is their initials, I cant tell them thanks or send them free content. Since I can also fulfill requests and make clips " to order" this feels like it is really holding me back.

C4S has also steadily been adding more links right back to their main page. It began as banners on the bottom of the clipstore. Now it is all over the top. It used to feel like my clipstore could feel like a legitimate standalone site to the customer. Now a lot of my customers that I pulled in myself with my own promotion is being linked to the big list of other guys right away. I mean no disrespect to C4S but that's a little different from what I signed up for.

I would like to know how hard it is to make a site that would again allow me to interact with our "fanbase" and also how to find webmasters who would like to buy my content and then sell it for themselves on their sites.

Thank you for listening and since it is friday have a safe and fun weekend.

Hey Cocteau... I have a simple and honest soultion that will allow you to directly communicate with your fan base, as well as allow you to to do live shows, sell zipped pic sets, videos, etc.

Drop me an email at [email protected]

Good luck

[arock10]

shoot me an email

[Kolargol]

Dont leave c4s. BTW, do you know wordpress?

[Dmcontent]

Originally Posted by Harmon

Hey Cocteau... I have a simple and honest soultion that will allow you to directly communicate with your fan base, as well as allow you to to do live shows, sell zipped pic sets, videos, etc.

Drop me an email at [email protected]

Good luck

Harmon can you pass me that info also, need to sell some niche content.

Using wordpress but always crashing