How are membership sites done these days?
 

I've been out of the membership site game for over a decade. We have video content only and want to offer a membership site. What scripts/methods are there now?

Thanks in advance...

Too much media has some nice scripts

isn't flash almost dead now? "CARMA continues to lead the industry in support for generating Flash videos."

That's right.

Membership sites continue to do well BUT it's not the way it was ten years ago (or so I hear; I've only been doing this shit for 7 years lol).

But when it comes to videos go all mp4 and HTML5. Flash is dead.

Best of luck! Also, I would lower revenue expectations and make sure your ROI goals are reasonable. :)

Sales are up !

Thanks. Any script suggestions?

Well it depends on what you want to do. Create galleries? Rotate images? CMS? Video editing? Watermarking? FTP? LOL

There are about 22 jobs involved with running a paysite. :)

Do you only have 10-year-old content?

Same here too! :thumbsup

It works like this...

[1] Spend a shit load of time and money creating content.
[2] Spend more time and money building out your site, setting up payment processing, affiliate program, etc.
[3] Open for business.
[4] Spend even more time and money advertising, uploading samples to tubes, building affiliate tools, etc.
[5] Within 2-3 weeks wake up to find your entire member's area freely distributed on site-rip org and a thousand other pirate/torrent sites.

Have Luck.
:thumbsup

So much depends on your plans moving forward really. Will you just do one site and keep it simple or will you be managing scads of content over many sites a couple years from now?

CMS software can make it a lot easier to expand and manage updates. Obvioulsy, Elevated X is a big one and it's kinda like Photoshop where it's so feature rich that you couldn't possibly use everything it has, but it gives all the room in the world to grow.

NATS is great for managing the affiliate game. Unparalleled, really.

Do you need a network of free sites to pump traffic in? Then you're looking for tube scripts and whatnot.

In short - there is no "in short." It's a big conversation.

wow. someone actually answered my question. thanks! :) Elevated x is massive, you're right.

So so

But I had some heavy hitters buying over $100 cam credit packages to tip and buy privates with the cam girls Christmas day.

Ho, ho, ho :)

OK here's some more advice. Mark had given some.

Find a good designer who has experience in designing paysites.

Also, if this is all you have start shooting a lot more.

we might do well in the "classic porn" niche

I tried to answer your question but it was too vague and I didn't feel like giving out a free Paysites tutorial.

But here's a Pro Tip: You can sell ANYTHING. ANY porn, ANY content - yes Paul Markham, even if it's shit. (I could've sold Paul Markham's content too had I given a damn enough).

Old porn? Sell it as vintage. Niche porn? Do your research and sell to those customers. Same porn everyone else has? Tell a better, more interesting 'story' to frame your content and it will sell.

But when I said 'lower your expectations' I meant it. Vintage/niche etc WILL sell. But will it sell in the numbers you need to make it worth your time?

Good luck. :)

Sliing is a great affiliate software. So I heard through the grapevine.

Yes it's true you can sell anything these days. 10,000s could have sold my content if I had given it to them for free.

In business, it's all about ROI and that's why everyone says "You can sell ANYTHING". But doesn't once told the price for buying it. Can you afford to burn money for a design and CMS?

What I saw wasn't Classic. it's 2000s and I suspect Russian, which doesn't match the 2257 info. Can you produce the documents?

Thanks, man!

Ahhh but you see people? THIS COMMENT says it all (highlighted text).

Old school content producers view their work as having value - which it does - just NOT the value they THINK it has. Even modern content producers realize their work is valued less today than it was twenty years ago. SO WHAT??

Make adjustments, resize your expectations, work within the new limitations and realities OR do what Paul has done: quit and wax poetic about when porn was worth $10,000+ a scene in profit.

Your problem Paul - and this is true of many old school producers and porn people - is you got stuck. You did not adapt. You held onto your 1990's and before view of what porn was 'worth'. It is what it is NOW. Deal with it, adjust, make MONEY. Everything else is discussion.

Elevated X, Adult Site CMS, Stag CMS, NATS

I think the same, do a front end and separate membership area. Sign up for a third party billing service like Verotel to take payments and send the user to the members area.

Piece of cake.

adultsite cms looks promising for what we're wanting to do.

Anybody using the adultcentro publisher setup? Looks like an interesting option. I may drop them a few questions in the New Year after the holidays.

Expensive combo right there

Ahhh but you see people? THIS COMMENT says it all (highlighted text).

Webmasters think the value of content is what it's worth to them. $300 for a solo girl set and video. Or $4,000 + still owning it.

Or $2,000 for a boy/girl set and video. Or $20,000 + still owning it.

Your problem PN - and this is true of many webmasters - is you got stuck. You did not adapt. You held onto your 2000s and after view of what porn was 'worth'. It is what it is NOW. Deal with it, adjust, make MONEY. Everything else is discussion.

AdultCentro Market | Seller Page

The problem was most online thought porn started and ended there, even though is was obviously not true. They never really looked to ways of making a scene they bought in for $300 worth $3,000 with a few phone calls.

So we came to the decision, why shoot exclusive for someone who think our content is worth $300 a scene, when we have a group of people who KNOW it's worth $1,000 to $2,000, for a non exclusive license. And run the risk of site owners making a phone call.

Good suggestion for a start up to test the waters. Not sure about what there cut would be. Will send them a message.

Elevated X rocks, use them.

Thanks Paul. Yep, I was wondering about their cut and also how their billing syatem compares to CCBill or Epoch percent wise. Will have more time next week.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh So true...

The plus points are, no server or CMS needed, you can be up and going in a few weeks or less, not sure about design which you should do anyway.

Kick it off there, feel the water and then think of something bigger. I would definitely put a site there if I was going to drive traffic.

Elevated X is the best there is.

This is EXACTLY why I got out of the standard membership sites years ago.

It started with exponentially expanding free affiliate content. So much free 'promo' content that people started asking why even buy porn. I remember back in 2006 I became an affiliate along with being the webmaster of my own sites. I joined as an affiliate for several sites and in no time I had so much free content thrown at me that I didn't even have time to organize it.

Then password sharing sites, then newsreaders and torrents, then the final nail in the coffin - tube sites..

So IMO membership sites selling access to pics and videos is very hard to profit from, and if you have good content people will just pirate it via torrent or newsreaders.

Interactive sites, live streaming content, and selling adult related services (like adverts, design, scripts, selling niche traffic, etc.) seems to be the only thing that works now. Of course I'm sure there are some legacy sites out there that still turn a profit, but it's a pain in the ass filing DMCAs and tracking down all the assholes stealing your content.

Paul you are talking as if it is still 2000.
I use to shoot a scene and sell it on DVD and make thousands with it, then cut it up and encode it 5 different ways to make over 150 clips out of it and make another 500.
Then put it on the pay site as an update.
At the end selling the scene for 5 times more than what it cost me to make it.
I can't do any of that anymore. Hell back then I charged the customer 500 for the custom video so I made 500 to film the video and gave half to the girl so the cost of making the video was nothing. It made money.
You can't even compare it to back in the day.
I forgot the VOD sites LOL.

As regards CMS I had read that it was possible to integrate Mechbunny? That was the road I was thinking of going down. I'm still putting a big list of questions together :thumbsup

None. The future is now. And like The Matrix, there is no more human freedom. Only tube sites.

Not so for us. This was how we worked up til 2007. Think on it like this.

We were being asked to shoot exclusive for the return of 5 store sales. It's impossible to saturate a scene with only 5 sales.

Then there were the set sales via the stores, 10 x $35 =$350. These sales figures are ridiculously low. When all those sales were done, on the main site. The content went into bargain basement at $5 and could sell 50 to 100 times. Lesbians and Boy/girl did better.

Then magazine sales. $1,000 to the UK and $1,00 to $2,400 to the US. Then EU sales. 17 were paying $250 for a non-exclusive set so long as we shot the girls in their T-Shirts at the end of the shoot. Second rights were a small market for us, like Japan and Australia. And in the end, there was Photorama, still get the occasional check.

The BG videos were good, we swapped them with other producers for 1 of ours to 5 of theirs.

And today I'm still getting money from sales.

We paid the girl $500 for the day and shot, at least, two scenes. Worth $3,000+ each scene.

You were shooting DVD, I moved to magazine sets the moment I arrived here. I don't think we had a video camera for the first few years. I sold my Beta Cam in the UK. So we're comparing apples and oranges.

Especially when people tell me content producers had an over inflated opinion of their content.

Look on it as two sites, site A converts 1-100, site B converts 1-1,000. With exactly the same traffic. And the owner of Site B is telling you, your opinion of what you're worth is inflated.

Not sure if that's possible on Adult Centro, Alex is the man to talk to on Skype.

As SomeCreep says Tubes dominate the market and getting sales from them is tough. To spend the time and money putting a brand new site together from the very start is risky. Try Adult Centro and see how it goes, if it works then think of breaking away.

We use Elevated X as CMS and NATS for our affiliate program.

Porncms and elevated X will def work!!

why not set up a membership site with ModelCentro


no need for scripts, just sign up, upload your content, add some images & appropriate text on either of their templates & begin promoting your membership site :thumbsup