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Felicia[FightServ]
05-05-2017, 06:23 PM
I'm seeing a large discrepancy with the "Top 50" clip rankings in a category we update in frequently. I thought the consensus was they were calculated by a 7 day rolling average, but we're 4 clips out of the top 5, and the rankings between all of our clips doesn't match up with sales data. I contacted support and was told it's now a 60 day average (which doesn't seem true for other categories btw), but that still puts clips of ours with fewer sales above clips of ours with more sales.

Anyone else seeing discrepancies like this? In the grand scheme of things, it's not terribly important..but it is a bit point for marketing and talent always likes to hear when something they worked on ranked well in something.

Tea4Me
05-05-2017, 07:17 PM
I'm seeing a large discrepancy with the "Top 50" clip rankings in a category we update in frequently. I thought the consensus was they were calculated by a 7 day rolling average, but we're 4 clips out of the top 5, and the rankings between all of our clips doesn't match up with sales data. I contacted support and was told it's now a 60 day average (which doesn't seem true for other categories btw), but that still puts clips of ours with fewer sales above clips of ours with more sales.

Anyone else seeing discrepancies like this? In the grand scheme of things, it's not terribly important..but it is a bit point for marketing and talent always likes to hear when something they worked on ranked well in something.

Yes. I've noticed some categories update slower than others. More popular categories seem to update daily and weekly, but a few other categories seem to update MONTHLY.

As far as the sales and rankings not matching up, yeah, I've wondering about that too. I've had a few clips in the top 10 (in a category) at the same time and X is ranked higher than Y, even though I made more sales of Y in the last 7 days. I've noticed other odd little things too.

Felicia[FightServ]
05-05-2017, 07:41 PM
Support just responded with a correction saying it's 7 days, which still leaves all of our numbers out of order. " If there's bug, it will be fixed during next 48-72 hours."

Classy_Katy
05-06-2017, 12:39 AM
my sales still aren't amazing - I know I need to give it time and stuff I just feel like I'm getting frustrated with the constant filming/editing/uploading for not much back

-patience isn't my forte haha-

Sometimes I have a clip to edit and upload but just can't face doing it, so it just sits there on my laptop until I can.

PixiieGirl
05-06-2017, 02:23 AM
Sometimes I have a clip to edit and upload but just can't face doing it, so it just sits there on my laptop until I can.
yeah same haha - I have like 3 to upload atm but I've not planned them to go live till next week so they can wait till after the weekend v.v

lucymariexxxx
05-06-2017, 02:11 PM
Haha this made me smile! Well I am so pissed off at the lack of sales the last 6 days... I have decided I am not looking at clips untill Monday, hopefully then I will have some good ideas.

SFHS
05-06-2017, 06:47 PM
Don't take this the wrong way but if you're complaining about sales and are not updating your store everyday then you have no one to blame but yourselves if your sales are terrible. I update my store daily. The last time I didn't update my store was a year and a half ago when I was hospitalized for a week. Some months are slower than others but you need to be updating every day if you want to make real money. In April the first half of the month was slow but I still updated everyday and sales rebounded at the end of the month and I feel that's because I never stopped updating my store and that momentum has carried over into May because my sales in the past 6 days have been great. You need to fight through the disappointment of low sales and continue to update daily or the chances of your store being successful are going to be very low.

justsometwat
05-06-2017, 09:28 PM
I think it sort of depends. I can tell that it's a bad month when my regulars aren't buying videos and I am getting low sales. Usually during that time I will take a step back and hold off on daily updates and try to update once every other day or so. I will then save my updates for the following month or when people normally get paid and then gauge from there.

If you're only updating once a month, a week, or once every couple of days then it's definitely you that needs to work on updates to generate those sales. A lot of people come in and think that as long as they have a camera that they can make and sell videos and just upload them and make all of this money. Many of the don't realize that it takes a lot of work and a decent camera and some sort of editing skills. There's a reason why a lot of people that 100% rely on sites like ELM or MGF don't make a lot of money and could never make it on C4S or other sites like that. Many of those girls are amateur in every sense and have no idea how to even edit a video and rarely make new content. It's not nearly as easy as many people think!

Tea4Me
05-06-2017, 10:09 PM
Don't take this the wrong way but if you're complaining about sales and are not updating your store everyday then you have no one to blame but yourselves if your sales are terrible. I update my store daily. The last time I didn't update my store was a year and a half ago when I was hospitalized for a week. Some months are slower than others but you need to be updating every day if you want to make real money. In April the first half of the month was slow but I still updated everyday and sales rebounded at the end of the month and I feel that's because I never stopped updating my store and that momentum has carried over into May because my sales in the past 6 days have been great. You need to fight through the disappointment of low sales and continue to update daily or the chances of your store being successful are going to be very low.

I respect your opinion of your own personal experience, but you yourself also say "Some months are slower than others". Exactly.

We've had the update every day, update 5 times a day, it's not necessary to update that much or every day, debate on this thread before. As we all know, what works for one person, doesn't work for everyone. I have had some great sales months where I didn't update much and then I had some slow months where I put in a ton of updates. There's no doubt that the more you post, the more content you'll have to sell BUT I believe the point others are trying to make is that they ARE putting in the effort and are frustrated that sales aren't flowing as they feel they should be.

PixiieGirl
05-07-2017, 06:33 AM
Don't take this the wrong way but if you're complaining about sales and are not updating your store everyday then you have no one to blame but yourselves if your sales are terrible. I update my store daily. The last time I didn't update my store was a year and a half ago when I was hospitalized for a week. Some months are slower than others but you need to be updating every day if you want to make real money. In April the first half of the month was slow but I still updated everyday and sales rebounded at the end of the month and I feel that's because I never stopped updating my store and that momentum has carried over into May because my sales in the past 6 days have been great. You need to fight through the disappointment of low sales and continue to update daily or the chances of your store being successful are going to be very low.
Idk if this was aimed at me but I do update daily

Cam_Model_Jess
05-07-2017, 06:59 AM
I respect your opinion of your own personal experience, but you yourself also say "Some months are slower than others". Exactly.

We've had the update every day, update 5 times a day, it's not necessary to update that much or every day, debate on this thread before. As we all know, what works for one person, doesn't work for everyone. I have had some great sales months where I didn't update much and then I had some slow months where I put in a ton of updates. There's no doubt that the more you post, the more content you'll have to sell BUT I believe the point others are trying to make is that they ARE putting in the effort and are frustrated that sales aren't flowing as they feel they should be.

I agree. If I updated daily I'd be burnt out, my quality would be much lower, I would be running out of ideas & wasting content. I post 9-16 videos per month, and when it's slow posting less frequently is what helps me actually, not posting more. Posting more when it's slow, for me, is like throwing money away. So yeah, there are people who complain a lot & don't do much to help their situation. But there are also people working their asses off & still having a slow month. And there are those of us who have spent several years experimenting, gathering data & developing a business plan that fits our lives & income goals. What works for one doesn't work for everyone else.

Tea4Me
05-07-2017, 08:16 AM
After this past April, I decided that at the end of the year I am going to compare all of My sales months to plan for 2018. I would rather shoot/edit clips during the slow times and NOT post them and then bombard my store with them during My best months. Making the most of the times when I know guys are in the spending mood! Slow months can be demotivating (and to be honest, a little demoralizing as well) and so I want to try use them to my advantage.

SFHS
05-07-2017, 08:39 AM
The problem is you guys seem to think that when it's slow that people aren't looking at your store. They are and if they aren't buying your new content now then they might buy it tomorrow or next week or next month. Just because you put up a clip during a slow period doesn't mean it will never sell. My old clips sell all the time. Depending on the month 30 to 40% of my sales are older clips. After a slow period I tend to get big orders that more than make up for that slow period. If you don't upload daily then your store gets seen less which means you have less possibility for sales. I've compared monthly sales from different years and they are all over the place. Trying to predict when sales are going to be best is just guess work that is most likely going to be wrong. I'm just letting you know what has worked for me and that is daily updates.

Tea4Me
05-07-2017, 09:01 AM
The problem is you guys seem to think that when it's slow that people aren't looking at your store.

Where did any of us say that? And why are you assuming what we think? It's not that people aren't looking, they aren't *buying*.


They are and if they aren't buying your new content now then they might buy it tomorrow or next week or next month.

Agreed.



Just because you put up a clip during a slow period doesn't mean it will never sell.

Who even said this?


My old clips sell all the time.

As do mine and many others on this thread, I'm sure.


If you don't upload daily then your store gets seen less which means you have less possibility for sales.

That goes without saying, but there are times when the sales are slower and it doesn't even feel like it's worth it to get the few sales that you do get.


I've compared monthly sales from different years and they are all over the place. Trying to predict when sales are going to be best is just guess work that is most likely going to be wrong.

I have as well and unlike you, I have had a different experience. There are months that DO stand out sales-wise for me and that is Sept - Jan. The cooler months have always been my best selling months. The summer months steady and somewhere from Mar-May there is a dip. BUT, there is a definite pattern there...not 'all over the place' as is your personal experience.


I'm just letting you know what has worked for me and that is daily updates.

Yes, you have and it would have been nice if you could have done with more tact instead of making it sound like if we all just did daily updates (like you), we wouldn't be bitching about slow sales.

Listen, this is NOT an easy industry to be in. We aren't getting a weekly paycheck with a set amount like people who go to 9-5 jobs, our income fluctuates. (I am NOT complaining because I LOVE being my own boss and I wouldn't trade it for the world). So with that being said, it's nice to have a place to come and talk about the ups and downs of what we do.

Cam_Model_Jess
05-07-2017, 09:30 AM
I have actually found that if a video doesn't sell right away, it rarely recovers from that. Sure, it's happened some. And I'm talking about a FEW videos, vs several dozen that haven't. So when I post more to compensate for things being slow, or when I continue to post at a rate which my current sales can't support, I am sure that it hurts my sales in the long run.

Everyone's experience is different. I think it's important not to assume other people who aren't doing what you do are doing the wrong thing. I am a very analytical person & I have spreadsheets full of data which help me run my business in a way appropriate for my audience & my content.

Honestly, when I see people posting daily, I have to resist the urge to be judgmental about that. But over time I learned that that works for some people. For me, it's a waste to allow my supply to exceed my current demand. I'm sure that's not the case for everyone. I don't put a lot of stock in predicting when sales will be good, as it's all over the place for me too, but I do know when sales are doing "X", that I can try "Y" &/or "Z".

SFHS
05-07-2017, 09:49 AM
Who even said this?

When you act like putting content up during a slow period is a waste that's pretty much what you're saying. Putting up content during a slow period is never a waste because that content is always there and is always available for sale. This is a tough racket, no doubt about it. You are going up against a thousand other stores as well as competing with all the free tube sites. When I first started, I played it safe. It didn't work. You have to be aggressive. You have to look at all the failure that comes at you at the start and just ignore it. The first year I did this was a disaster. Most people would have walked away and never looked back. I actually did quit for a few year but it always bugged me that I couldn't make it successful. So I came back and I experimented with all types of content to see what worked and what didn't and I got aggressive with uploading content. That is when things started to improve and it wasn't an overnight improvement. It was a steady but slow increase in sales. Only in the last two years have things really taken off. If you're gonna get into this biz you have to be in this for the long haul and prepare yourself for a rough start when it comes to sales. Very few stores are overnight successes and there is always gonna be slow periods but they last a short time and usually big sales days follow them. This is what I've taken away from my experience on Clips4Sale. Will my plan work for everyone? I don't know. This is what has worked for me. In the last two months I've also expanded to Kinkbomb (they suck for sales), Iwantclips (they are decent), and Manyvids (really good but not as good as Clips4sale) and now my monthly income is even bigger. Yes, it's more work now (especially uploading over 600 clips onto each of those sites. I started two moths ago and I'm still not finished!) running 4 stores but it's worth it. For a long time I was limiting myself to just for Clips4Sale and that was a mistake so my advice is if you're not on another clips site then get on one because a slow day on clips4sale might be a great day on Manyvids.

Tea4Me
05-07-2017, 03:11 PM
When you act like putting content up during a slow period is a waste that's pretty much what you're saying.

Don't put words in my mouth. I never said putting up content during a slow period will never sell.

YOU are the one who got on your high horse with the post that started with "Don't take this the wrong way but if you're complaining about sales and are not updating your store everyday then you have no one to blame but yourselves if your sales are terrible."

And I call bullshit on that and I have screenshots and data to prove that. I've been on the top 50 stores main page before and I wasn't updating every day. In fact, if you actually go through the list, there are some stores that are constantly are on there and don't either.

And yes, people can have a few slow days, week or month even and no, sorry, updating everyday doesn't magically make it NOT be a slow period.

The first 3 months of 2017 (for myself) were record sales months, I thought April would follow course (even though it's never been a strong month) and I was surprised by how slow it was. I went through and analyzed a few things from the prior months and found a few things to change/do differently in May. Great/good/average/slow months happen throughout the year. Look at any other industry and you will see the same. Now if at the end of 2017 I noticed that April was the stand-out crappy month and the rest were good, then I have a choice to make. I can keep churning out updates that month OR I can use that month to create content and post it in months that I know have historically been strong months for me. But you took away from that one comment that posting clips during that month will never sell, when I *never* said those words. Nor does that insinuate that I'm lazy, don't work hard or give up easily. I was looking for (thinking out loud) about a way to use a slow month to better sales advantage. And nor am I advocating for everyone to do what I do, they will run their clips stores for what works best for them.

SFHS
05-07-2017, 03:58 PM
Don't put words in my mouth. I never said putting up content during a slow period will never sell.

YOU are the one who got on your high horse with the post that started with "Don't take this the wrong way but if you're complaining about sales and are not updating your store everyday then you have no one to blame but yourselves if your sales are terrible."
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I never got on high horse. You irrationally took it personally and then seemed to get offended by it. I never pointed you out but you seem to think I'm personally attacking you. I'm not. But when people are on here complaining about sales and their solution is to not post more content for awhile then I have to do disagree with that approach. Doing nothing will get you nothing.

And yes, there are a lot of stores in the top 50 that do not post every day. That's because they built up a huge buyer base and have the luxury to not have to post every day. The people complaining about low sales can't do that if they want to be competitive and have the chance of ever making the top 50. I would love to get to the point where I don't have to post content as often as I do and not suffer lower sales. I'm not at that point yet so I'm not going to do that.

If your solution for getting more sales is to stop posting content for periods of time then good luck with that strategy. I hope it works out well for you.

MissJu
05-07-2017, 05:01 PM
I wonder if any of you promote. If you promote and post a link on your website or tumblr,twitter helps people to find your vids and better navigate in them.
Not to update vids is a bad idea!Lately people come in one day and buy all updates I made. What if I would not post those vids?!I would lose a wave of people!
I had times when I didnt update and sales were good, but surely enought next month was verrrryyyy bad!

gril
05-07-2017, 05:22 PM
I wonder if any of you promote. If you promote and post a link on your website or tumblr,twitter helps people to find your vids and better navigate in them.
Not to update vids is a bad idea!Lately people come in one day and buy all updates I made. What if I would not post those vids?!I would lose a wave of people!
I had times when I didnt update and sales were good, but surely enought next month was verrrryyyy bad!
IMO social medias are useless. I promote on Twitter, Tumblr, FB and IG. I have a total of 40k followers and it has no impact on my sales. Guys on social media are just broke horny ding dongs who want free porn and they will send you gorillions of dick pics.

Cam_Model_Jess
05-07-2017, 05:44 PM
I wonder if any of you promote. If you promote and post a link on your website or tumblr,twitter helps people to find your vids and better navigate in them.
Not to update vids is a bad idea!Lately people come in one day and buy all updates I made. What if I would not post those vids?!I would lose a wave of people!
I had times when I didnt update and sales were good, but surely enought next month was verrrryyyy bad!

My point is: not to upload may be a bad idea for YOU. It's just hard to read all these generalizations about what everyone "should" be doing. People coming on here telling people what they should be doing & when. This business isn't one-size fits all. It's just not. If what you're doing is working for you, great. But it's not fair to shame people about not doing what you're doing. Or say it's "bad".

But I think I've said all I can about this w/o repeating myself & sounding confrontational. All I can say is that I make a lot of money on clips. I wish I felt comfortable posting how much so I could make a point that posting daily isn't the hard & fast rule. I don't post daily. When I have, it has actually hurt my sales by saturating my store & burying my content. But again, I'm repeating myself. I've said all I care to on the topic. I just hope people will realize that it's not fair to think what works for you will work for everyone else then shame them about not following your plan. Gonna leave this thread alone for a while because I don't think arguing about it will do any good.

I wish everyone a wonderful & profitable month.

SFHS
05-07-2017, 05:58 PM
My point is: not to upload may be a bad idea for YOU. It's just hard to read all these generalizations about what everyone "should" be doing. People coming on here telling people what they should be doing & when. This business isn't one-size fits all. It's just not. If what you're doing is working for you, great. But it's not fair to shame people about not doing what you're doing. Or say it's "bad".

But I think I've said all I can about this w/o repeating myself & sounding confrontational. All I can say is that I make a lot of money on clips. I wish I felt comfortable posting how much so I could make a point that posting daily isn't the hard & fast rule. I don't post daily. When I have, it has actually hurt my sales by saturating my store & burying my content. But again, I'm repeating myself. I've said all I care to on the topic. I just hope people will realize that it's not fair to think what works for you will work for everyone else then shame them about not following your plan. Gonna leave this thread alone for a while because I don't think arguing about it will do any good.

I wish everyone a wonderful & profitable month.

You've been able to not upload content everyday and still make money. That's great. My advice was never for you or anyone in your situation. My advice was for the people complaining about low sales. If people have low sales and you're not uploading new content to try to get more sales then you'll still have low sales. The only way to stimulate sales is to add new content. Sitting around and waiting for a supposed hot selling time is not what I would consider a great solution. If you are uploading everyday for months and you still have low sales then you might have a bigger problem and that's your content. That is a much bigger problem to address. That was a problem I had to address when I first started and thankfully I figured out but it took a lot of trying different fetishes to see what sold and what didn't.

SFHS
05-08-2017, 08:16 AM
No one said that was a solution though? In my post a few pages back I stopped posting for a bit - at that time my sales were fine and I needed time of. The time off is what caused my sales to drop. Not everyone has the time to upload new content everyday!

I make 3 videos a week and upload 2 formats so that's 6 uploads a week. So I don't really see how that qualifies as not uploading new content or waiting around for things to sell? I've sold a lot more when I was only uploading two videos a week so I don't think uploading more makes much of a difference, at least for me.

No one was on here complaining about low sales yet saying they weren't uploading any new content.

Actually go back and read. People were saying that just because it was a slow period that they were going to hold back on uploading new content which I think is a HUGE mistake. But hey, if people don't want to upload new content then don't. Believe me, less content being uploaded is great for me as it's less content I have to compete with.

PixiieGirl
05-08-2017, 08:17 AM
No one said that was a solution though? In my post a few pages back I stopped posting for a bit - at that time my sales were fine and I needed time of. The time off is what caused my sales to drop. Not everyone has the time to upload new content everyday!

I make 3 videos a week and upload 2 formats so that's 6 uploads a week. So I don't really see how that qualifies as not uploading new content or waiting around for things to sell? I've sold a lot more when I was only uploading two videos a week so I don't think uploading more makes much of a difference, at least for me.

No one was on here complaining about low sales yet saying they weren't uploading any new content.
I dont wanna get involved in arguing but yeah this - idk if it's my own paranoia or what but the whole "if your not uploading daily" post was right after mine complaining about sales - I took it to be at me and was a bit confused about why the assumption was that I wasn't doing that - it might not have been aimed at me though and if it's not sorry about the misunderstanding

on the plus side - while my sales are low I'm noticing when I do get sales now it's usually 3/4 of my clips in one order so thats nice

Tea4Me
05-08-2017, 09:25 AM
Actually go back and read. People were saying that just because it was a slow period that they were going to hold back on uploading new content which I think is a HUGE mistake. But hey, if people don't want to upload new content then don't. Believe me, less content being uploaded is great for me as it's less content I have to compete with.

See and that's the thing....why do YOU care what WE do for OUR businesses? We weren't asking your opinion, we were just stating what WE were doing and yet your comments came off as aggressively angry. Even this comment: " less content being uploaded is great for me as it's less content I have to compete with" is passive aggressive. But I think that's what you intended the whole time when you started off a post with "Don't take this the wrong way...." and the give your opinion of the way you think we should do things.

SFHS
05-08-2017, 09:33 AM
See and that's the thing....why do YOU care what WE do for OUR businesses? We weren't asking your opinion, we were just stating what WE were doing and yet your comments came off as aggressively angry. Even this comment: " less content being uploaded is great for me as it's less content I have to compete with" is passive aggressive. But I think that's what you intended the whole time when you started off a post with "Don't take this the wrong way...." and the give your opinion of the way you think we should do things.

I came here and gave my OPINION on how people having a problem with low sales could possible increase them. We're all here to share info and try to help each other. You don't like my advice then ignore it and move on. You're the one who got all butt hurt about it, not me. You being super sensitive about my OPINION is your problem and not mine. I honestly don't care how anyone else runs their store. I care how I run my store and I have used advice from this thread and implemented into how I do things BECAUSE WE ARE ALL HERE TO GIVE ADVICE TO OTHERS and I have ignored other advice because I didn't feel it would work. Never did I feel the need to constantly go after the person giving that advice but if that's what brings you joy then continue to have your fun.

PixiieGirl
05-08-2017, 10:44 AM
I came here and gave my OPINION on how people having a problem with low sales could possible increase them. We're all here to share info and try to help each other. You don't like my advice then ignore it and move on. You're the one who got all butt hurt about it, not me. You being super sensitive about my OPINION is your problem and not mine. I honestly don't care how anyone else runs their store. I care how I run my store and I have used advice from this thread and implemented into how I do things BECAUSE WE ARE ALL HERE TO GIVE ADVICE TO OTHERS and I have ignored other advice because I didn't feel it would work. Never did I feel the need to constantly go after the person giving that advice but if that's what brings you joy then continue to have your fun.
so just a question if you dont mind - do you think it's worth doing more than 1 update a day? just because I have some customs I've yet to upload - so I was wondering whether to wait till I dont have something to upload for that day - or whether putting them up as a second upload of the day would be good?

Ms.Lacey
05-08-2017, 10:44 AM
Anyone else seeing an increase in refunds lately?

SFHS
05-08-2017, 10:53 AM
so just a question if you dont mind - do you think it's worth doing more than 1 update a day? just because I have some customs I've yet to upload - so I was wondering whether to wait till I dont have something to upload for that day - or whether putting them up as a second upload of the day would be good?

It depends. Are you happy with your sales for the day or the last few days? If your sales are at a level that you're happy with then hold off and post it later. If sales aren't good then I'd post it and see if it can stimulate sales.

SFHS
05-08-2017, 10:54 AM
Anyone else seeing an increase in refunds lately?

Last month I had a bunch. This month, thankfully, I've had none.

DonaDiabla
05-08-2017, 10:56 AM
I do some very light social media promotions on Twitter and some forums such as the fembot fetish one. However, I would say that social media does very little to boost sales :)


I wonder if any of you promote. If you promote and post a link on your website or tumblr,twitter helps people to find your vids and better navigate in them.
Not to update vids is a bad idea!Lately people come in one day and buy all updates I made. What if I would not post those vids?!I would lose a wave of people!
I had times when I didnt update and sales were good, but surely enought next month was verrrryyyy bad!

PixiieGirl
05-08-2017, 10:57 AM
It depends. Are you happy with your sales for the day or the last few days? If your sales are at a level that you're happy with then hold off and post it later. If sales aren't good then I'd post it and see if it can stimulate sales.
tbh, I rarely sell more than one clip a day - but thats a good idea for deciding thanks!

final thing (question for everyone) - I'm gonna start making my own gifs instead of using their gif maker - are there any softwares that work like their gif maker? so I open a video - then us the software to make screenshots and create the gif - or do I have to do those two steps separate? thanks in advance everyone :)

Classy_Katy
05-08-2017, 11:13 AM
I'm gonna start making my own gifs instead of using their gif maker - are there any softwares that work like their gif maker? so I open a video - then us the software to make screenshots and create the gif - or do I have to do those two steps separate? thanks in advance everyone :)

The C4S gif maker is really, shockingly bad! I make gifs from still images. I take snapshots using windows movie maker than make them into a gif using Photoscape.

PixiieGirl
05-08-2017, 11:20 AM
The C4S gif maker is really, shockingly bad! I make gifs from still images. I take snapshots using windows movie maker than make them into a gif using Photoscape.
yep I was hoping I could just do both those things in one programme - I'll post here if I manage to find anything that works like that haha

SFHS
05-08-2017, 11:26 AM
tbh, I rarely sell more than one clip a day - but thats a good idea for deciding thanks!

final thing (question for everyone) - I'm gonna start making my own gifs instead of using their gif maker - are there any softwares that work like their gif maker? so I open a video - then us the software to make screenshots and create the gif - or do I have to do those two steps separate? thanks in advance everyone :)

I use Sony Vegas to edit so I edit an MP4 clip of what I want my .gif to be and then I upload it to this website to turn that MP4 file into a .gif https://ezgif.com/

pramilaganguly
05-08-2017, 01:10 PM
I have joined iwc in march end and have been contemplating to join c4s for long, though it was blocked in my country for over a year until recently when i found it is unblocked so sometimes i think if it gets blocked again my money (if i make any by selling) would be gone in the air. I usually make videos on femdom/findom stuffs, do u think sales would be better in c4s? or would fetish items sell better? I agree that sales is something which is variable and can never be predicted by even the industry veterans probably, but i am very new to this clip making sites, as i am from such a country where all these things are still kind of taboo even without nudity. anyways getting back to the topic, do u think it would be easy to make a minimum monthly payout of 150 USD as am not from USA every month if i update at least once every day? I think the best person to help would be the girls and guys out here who are already selling there for a long time with tons of experience hence asking.

Rispy_Girl
05-08-2017, 01:51 PM
I found amazing exciting software for free. Guys check out DaVinci Resolve.

Rispy_Girl
05-08-2017, 09:28 PM
If you have photoshop it's really good for gifs! You just import the video as frames and can chose what section of the video you want, then edit or delete frames as you like and export as a gif. You can also change the frame size and stuff in image settings.

Same with Gimp, you just have to install GAP

Ms.Lacey
05-08-2017, 09:41 PM
For those that don't want to download software and learn it, iwc has a simple gif maker.

PixiieGirl
05-09-2017, 03:12 AM
I ended up screenshotting in VLC and using photoscape - the quality is so much nicer than the C4S gif maker hahaha I should have done this sooner xD

Classy_Katy
05-09-2017, 05:20 AM
I ended up screenshotting in VLC and using photoscape - the quality is so much nicer than the C4S gif maker hahaha I should have done this sooner xD

I'm glad you've found way, you may well see your sales increase now!

PixiieGirl
05-09-2017, 05:32 AM
I'm glad you've found way, you may well see your sales increase now!
hopefully! I've done my few days moping over it - time to actually do things that may help :)

thanks once again to everyone here <3

SSBBWKittyxo
05-09-2017, 06:03 PM
So, April was my first month on C4S.
I still haven't been paid.
My page says "Previously Unpaid Payouts (12/31/1969 - 4/30/2017): $93.37"
I have payouts set to $50 minimum.
I put in a support ticket but won't hear back till tomorrow.
Anyone have any idea what's up?

JaceyLynn
05-09-2017, 08:28 PM
How are you getting your payments? If it was a direct deposit you should have probably gotten it already. If it was a check it could have got caught up in the mail.

SSBBWKittyxo
05-09-2017, 08:31 PM
Direct Deposit.

JaceyLynn
05-09-2017, 08:36 PM
Strange. I got my DD on the 3rd. Could be a problem with the information that you gave. At this point I would just wait for a response from C4S and see what they have to say.

SSBBWKittyxo
05-09-2017, 08:41 PM
Yeah :/ I'm pretty sure I put it all in right.
I have two things I think could be the issue but hopefully I get it by the end of the week.
I have bills to pay.

KittyLovelicks
05-10-2017, 02:25 AM
For the month of April, I had 1 sale. This month so far, nothing. I can only conclude, after following all the suggestions here, that a) my store isn't getting enough traffic and b) no one wants to buy my clips. In 5 months of having my store, I made $141. I have not bothered updating any clips there for the last 4 weeks, and now my account has been "restricted". At this point, I think I may just close my store again, the second attempt on this site and I failed again. ManyVids is the only clip site where I have consistent sales of maybe $50 a month. I have tried customs4u, no sales on there so far either.
When you try so hard and consistently fail it's a really big hit to the confidence. With Twitter cracking down on adult content it's made it even tougher to find sales from there. I've tried joining fetish specific forums, but that hasn't brought me any extra sales or new customers so far. I guess maybe I should just focus on the one site where I do get sales. I just don't know why every other clip site I try I can't find any customers that like BBW MILFS! Am I just too ugly?
Surely there has to be a niche market somewhere for BBW MILFs that do feet, glove, pee, and squirting fetishes?? Can anyone suggest some clips sites where those categories actually sell? I have tried ELM, Yezzclips, yooclips, iwantclips, customs4u, youkandy, SpicyFind, ClipFoo,and Roolons. Have not sold a single clip on any of those sites.I'm slowly uploading them all to indiebill as well. Any other clips sites I should be trying?

lilly90xxx
05-10-2017, 04:13 AM
So, April was my first month on C4S.
I still haven't been paid.
My page says "Previously Unpaid Payouts (12/31/1969 - 4/30/2017): $93.37"
I have payouts set to $50 minimum.
I put in a support ticket but won't hear back till tomorrow.
Anyone have any idea what's up?

hmm..are you from U.S. or you are international producer ? Maybe that’s the point ? For international producers the payout minimum is 150$, maybe that’s why you didn’t get your money yet

chloemay
05-10-2017, 07:33 AM
For the month of April, I had 1 sale. This month so far, nothing. I can only conclude, after following all the suggestions here, that a) my store isn't getting enough traffic and b) no one wants to buy my clips. In 5 months of having my store, I made $141. I have not bothered updating any clips there for the last 4 weeks, and now my account has been "restricted". At this point, I think I may just close my store again, the second attempt on this site and I failed again. ManyVids is the only clip site where I have consistent sales of maybe $50 a month. I have tried customs4u, no sales on there so far either.
When you try so hard and consistently fail it's a really big hit to the confidence. With Twitter cracking down on adult content it's made it even tougher to find sales from there. I've tried joining fetish specific forums, but that hasn't brought me any extra sales or new customers so far. I guess maybe I should just focus on the one site where I do get sales. I just don't know why every other clip site I try I can't find any customers that like BBW MILFS! Am I just too ugly?
Surely there has to be a niche market somewhere for BBW MILFs that do feet, glove, pee, and squirting fetishes?? Can anyone suggest some clips sites where those categories actually sell? I have tried ELM, Yezzclips, yooclips, iwantclips, customs4u, youkandy, SpicyFind, ClipFoo,and Roolons. Have not sold a single clip on any of those sites.I'm slowly uploading them all to indiebill as well. Any other clips sites I should be trying?

If you are already making clips for Manyvids, it isn't that much trouble to upload them to C4S too and see if it brings up some action eventually. I'd ditch ELM as they are having payout problems and have the cheapest, demanding clientle anywhere. Have you tried the All-Natural category on C4S? It has a variety of clips on its top selling lists.