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MermaidPoppy
02-14-2015, 05:17 PM
Good luck to you! :D For now, I am still building up my store. My store looks so amateur compared to yours. I'm a little bit shy to show it off as it is not that ready yet. I will definitely put up my store link soon and ask you guys for some constructive criticism as well! Thanks for offering to check it out! :D
I have a noob question... I have google analytics set up, the tracking code works fine (already put the code on the google analytics section on edit clip site page)and all but where do I find the site report/stats? Is it on my own google analytics account or on my c4s admin? Google analytics is really confusing to me, I can't find the stats for my store anywhere. :banghead:
SophiaSylvan
02-14-2015, 06:36 PM
Sophia-sister,
Your content looks great. I wish you the best of luck with your new store. The space you're working in looks fabulous, I really don't have much to contribute. It looks like you've jumped in after really studying the best way to success, which is more than I can say for most who open clipstores--myself included. I was pretty young and naive when I started. I've always wanted to film girl-girl BDSM but honestly I have not had good luck with it at all. The guys seem to prefer femdom with a male sub. Your content looks fantastic though, and I hope it brings lots of sales! I think adding a lot of fetish clothing as you're doing should help. Your blonde doesn't seem to show her face in the previews? Perhaps if she does, you could indicate it in the store description or clip description, as some guys are averse to clips without faces in them. If you do custom videos or take requests, you could put up a contact link for your email and link to your site if you link back to c4s on it, but I think new studios have to wait for that a bit so maybe that's why it's not showing yet.
sophianz
02-14-2015, 07:34 PM
hey girl!
thanks for the advice! im working on those things you mentioned and taking them all on board. some I cannot do as there is a 15 day wait period.
You are totally right, guys DO prefer it usually,my real life fan base is very much girl girl so i am catering to them a bit to start with.
ok I will get those description notes a bit better, yes she does show her face in some and not others-just depending on if its a close up or not.
I have a bunch of FEM/MALE clips ready to go but I am going to release those slowly.
I have feet, high heels, vore, mouth, POV,etc etc-My main concern is releasing too quickly and using up my "new" content
Would you suggest to upload 3x per day?
Thanks so much for the advice xoxo
SophiaSylvan
02-14-2015, 07:41 PM
Once a day is usually quite sufficient :) If you need to build up traffic quickly and have time to make new content often, perhaps go for more frequently.
SophiaSylvan
02-14-2015, 07:50 PM
I have a noob question... I have google analytics set up, the tracking code works fine (already put the code on the google analytics section on edit clip site page)and all but where do I find the site report/stats? Is it on my own google analytics account or on my c4s admin? Google analytics is really confusing to me, I can't find the stats for my store anywhere. :banghead:
I haven't set up GA for my clipstore yet but I have for my Wordpress blog and my website. I agree GA is really confusing starting out! https://www.google.com/analytics/web/provision?et=&authuser=#provision/SignUp/ I think you have to have a Google account? Just log into that or access it once you're already logged into Gmail and you should be good to go. To get referral (what links led people to your site) information you have to go to the Acquisition tab. Took me a while to find that out! I kind of hate tutorials, so I never did theirs.
sophianz
02-14-2015, 10:13 PM
Is there a way to check when C4S has the highest traffic? have they released that info?
xx
SophiaSylvan
02-14-2015, 11:08 PM
I don't think so. I think the most accurate way to find out is to track or observe your sales times and keep an eye on your daily hits. Most of my sales are in the US and Europe.
sophianz
02-14-2015, 11:20 PM
Ok cool, I will do that.
I might do a little digging and see if there is some way of tracking that. if i find anything i will report back.
my sales are coming from ALL OVER lol!
its difficult because being NZ based I already have a fan base here which is a totally different time zone than usa and europe obviously, it will only matter for a while until i get regular clients though i suppose then i guess they just bookmark the store and return on their own time right?
My sales have been going really well for a noob unknown store-I got a repeat purchaser today!
Makes me feel good-like my stuff is "worth the money" etc.
shit this thread and you girls are THE BEST.
I will post my successes and failures so others can learn from me as I did from all of you xo
MermaidPoppy
02-15-2015, 07:04 AM
@SophiaSylvan I woke up today and logged on my Google Analytics account again and now I see the report for my clip store! What gives?! I'm not complaining though. It's on my Home tab>My Clip Store Name>Overview. GA is confusing to me right now but it can be really helpful. Most of my visitors are coming from all over as well but sales have been coming mostly from Europe. Now I just gotta post more according to the European timezone! And btw, I also saw the Acquisition tab you were talking about. My referrals mostly comes directly from c4s.
I will now take time to read all the GA tutorials that comes WITHIN it, LOL. That's what happened to me too, it's so confusing that I just couldn't be bothered to read the tutorials. Lots of analyzing and confusing terms, LOL! There's a lot of useful information though, regarding which niche, what type of people, where they're from, where they found me, etc. on GA. I will make use of it! :D
Thank you for answering my question! :D
justsometwat
02-15-2015, 01:11 PM
How do you guys price videos?
Typically I price around $1 a minute, but as of right now I have sold 128 clips (this month) and have made just under $600. I've gotten almost 6k hits - which is significantly higher than what I normally get, but I feel like that's not enough money for the number of videos sold. It comes out to be about $4.50 in commission per video. Generally my best selling videos are smoking (solo) and fuck videos. My smoking videos average around 5 minutes and are really great sellers for me, but I price them around $1 per minute. I've been branching out and have been doing more videos with talking, but people seem to really like them whether they have talking or not, I just don't know if $1/minute is really good enough.
I know it will vary per person/store, but if you look at some of the top store they are kind of all over the place. Do you guys have a method of pricing certain videos based on what category/length or?
MissJu
02-15-2015, 01:17 PM
I price 1.50 per min. I had some loser complaining that if price them less, more ppl will buy. For that i make shorter clips, thats all. i had almost 5000 visitors this month, last month 6000. Good thing about clips that you made them once, but you can sell them 10000 times. I have seen top studio price clips 500$ for 2 mins, like wut?
justsometwat
02-15-2015, 01:20 PM
I think I might try that for some of my newer videos and see how well they do. I love that all I have to do is upload them and wait for the money to come in. As exciting as it is to get my clips order emails, I would love to see a bit more money come in. Especially since I am uploading a new video every day, it's a lot of effort for what should be (in my opinion) be more money.
I use excellent lighting, a great camera, and never upload anything in less than 720p (would be 1080, but my camera does not record in that and I can't afford a better camera right now!)
How do you guys price videos?
Typically I price around $1 a minute, but as of right now I have sold 128 clips (this month) and have made just under $600. I've gotten almost 6k hits - which is significantly higher than what I normally get, but I feel like that's not enough money for the number of videos sold. It comes out to be about $4.50 in commission per video. Generally my best selling videos are smoking (solo) and fuck videos. My smoking videos average around 5 minutes and are really great sellers for me, but I price them around $1 per minute. I've been branching out and have been doing more videos with talking, but people seem to really like them whether they have talking or not, I just don't know if $1/minute is really good enough.
I know it will vary per person/store, but if you look at some of the top store they are kind of all over the place. Do you guys have a method of pricing certain videos based on what category/length or?
I price it at what clips4sale suggests. I've experiment this month with longer videos (one runs 19 minutes and I charge $19.99 for it) and my sales have been pretty great this month. So far, I've almost made this month what I made all of last month. I'm also experimenting with a continuing story line through a bunch of clips and that seems to be working well too.
MissJu
02-15-2015, 02:40 PM
I think I might try that for some of my newer videos and see how well they do. I love that all I have to do is upload them and wait for the money to come in. As exciting as it is to get my clips order emails, I would love to see a bit more money come in. Especially since I am uploading a new video every day, it's a lot of effort for what should be (in my opinion) be more money.
I use excellent lighting, a great camera, and never upload anything in less than 720p (would be 1080, but my camera does not record in that and I can't afford a better camera right now!)
Charge, what you think is suitable all your efford.
For customers maybe clip cost 10$, but for me just to make that clip cost more. I have to write a script, prepare myself(makeup,hair)after record, edit and + extra things clothing, lighting and etc. if you put more costy clips perhaps losers will not so happy to post it on some tubesite.
I just found couple of my clips, i sold those clips 2 times only, i kinda know whos balls to cut.
visiono
02-16-2015, 10:19 AM
I price 1.50 per min. I had some loser complaining that if price them less, more ppl will buy. For that i make shorter clips, thats all. i had almost 5000 visitors this month, last month 6000. Good thing about clips that you made them once, but you can sell them 10000 times. I have seen top studio price clips 500$ for 2 mins, like wut?
can you link us to the $500 for 2min video? if not can you give us the details of what the content was?
Azzie
02-16-2015, 11:47 AM
I believe it was the top store on the front page for a couple days. There were some previews but looked like some grainy vanilla fucking clips, and a couple of heel walking clips. Idk maybe price some of them at $500, she must have sold a few of them if she's been a number one for a few days
Azzie
02-16-2015, 12:15 PM
http://widget.clips4sale.com/mobile/store/76439#startingpoint
CurvyWinona
02-16-2015, 12:19 PM
For anyone who shoot videos with iPhone, do you have a favorite app to extract the frames from video into still images? There are few apps that do this but I want to know if anyone on here has used and is happy with it or not. I need this to make animated gifs.
Oh and did anyone try make gifs on iPhone too?
I'm looking for a much easier way to make images and gifs. Bed ridden at the moment.
justsometwat
02-17-2015, 05:54 PM
I believe it was the top store on the front page for a couple days. There were some previews but looked like some grainy vanilla fucking clips, and a couple of heel walking clips. Idk maybe price some of them at $500, she must have sold a few of them if she's been a number one for a few days
I saw this! My first thought was that they were using it for money laundering, but I always jump to horrible conclusions.
sophianz
02-17-2015, 06:57 PM
It looks to me like she is selling to an already exisiting slave base who would be instructed to purchase for either cam shows or some other service/way to tribute.
If you did deep enough there will be some "outside of C4S" reason why, my guess is 1 whale she is findomming online already.
Good on her I say-she will be getting good traffic from the placement.
MissJu
02-17-2015, 08:21 PM
To be honest i thought about money laundry too...i hope it is not what we think..cuz clips4s be serious. We are your partners and we want you to stay clean!
sophianz
02-17-2015, 09:40 PM
I would say they are pretty onto it-whatever she is doing is relatively extreme so will attract attention
Nix-r
02-18-2015, 02:15 AM
Hey girls, long time lurker, first time poster.
I was just wondering if any of you use the option to send emails to your customers in the admin console. I would try it but I don't want to be overbearing, and I have no idea what to write. Do any of you use it?
Thank you!
MissJu
02-18-2015, 05:19 AM
Lol, i do not write like" hey watcha doing, like my clips". I sent email to everyone only once, but i think clips4s are reviweing emails.
takiaya
02-18-2015, 08:42 AM
You know you need to film that...right? LMAO Sneeze fetish, coughing fetish. I do the coughing fetish category every time I'm sick.
I just got over being sick for like two weeks, I forgot ppl actually pay to watch you cough your lungs out or I would have filmed it lol.
MissJu
02-18-2015, 11:59 AM
Just get a pepper spray, prepare a camera, light and most important prepare yourself. Spray with pepper spray and here you go, you got everything at once tears, mucus, cought and most important you will not fake it;)
Another way to get your mucus, in the most nasty way it could be yup right GREen. Get a plant called mother of 1000, get the most juicy leave and squise juice out of it as more as better. After insert it in your nose and snif really deep. But before ofc prepare everything, camera lighting. Effect would not last long. Does not have side effect, good for people who has actual stuffed nose too.
Once i arenged "whole class sickness" and teacher got scared and let us go home. I think i squized whole plant at home hahah, i got almost a cup of juice.
Ps:mother of 1000 is absolutly safe, it will cause you sneezes, which is fun thought. About pepper spray, hm, i kinda joked, but once I expirience pepper spray and i had a dry cought, tears,someone sprayed it in school once but all 6 levels got really poluted
sophianz
02-18-2015, 08:52 PM
Hey everyone!
is there a straight forward way to check that your clips are on tube sites etc?
software? links? etc?
any help would be appreciated
xo
MissJu
02-19-2015, 11:14 AM
Once i was looking for some vids to see what people do in that category it was a surprise to find my own video, with actually bad reviews:)))))but mostly fucks were hating the actual fetish not my video in fact. You know those kinda guys who thinks if you are not naked you do not deserve money.
Addison Lynne
02-26-2015, 06:09 PM
Can we see any details about a refund? I see 1 clip was refunded, but no details on it. Am I looking in the wrong place?
justsometwat
02-26-2015, 06:12 PM
I'd see about contacting support. Maybe it was an issue with the video upload or something easily fixed. I've never had a refund, but I am sure they will tell you more. You can't see any details about refunds/chargebacks, but I don't see why they wouldn't tell you.
Addison Lynne
02-28-2015, 08:10 AM
I'd see about contacting support. Maybe it was an issue with the video upload or something easily fixed. I've never had a refund, but I am sure they will tell you more. You can't see any details about refunds/chargebacks, but I don't see why they wouldn't tell you.
Thanks.
I've never got one before either and I've been on there for years! That's why I was wondering....maybe I need to reupload it or something.
CallyCake
02-28-2015, 11:51 AM
Haven't opened a store yet (still building up clips). I see a lot of folks offering custom clips, & I'm wondering how well c4s handles those. Is there some kind of secure messaging system, or do you need to use an external email? Is it all pre-pay? Trying to decide if I need to wait until I have a separate website/payment processor set up or if I can go ahead and offer that right off the bat ... thanks for any of you awesome ladies' hard-earned insight!
MissJu
02-28-2015, 01:39 PM
Thanks.
I've never got one before either and I've been on there for years! That's why I was wondering....maybe I need to reupload it or something.
This is extremely rare situation,and i had it once and i even saw why that person did a chargeback, but i cant remember how i saw it.
I remember, that person by mistake bought same clip twice.
You can always call clips4sale and ask.
MissEgo
02-28-2015, 03:02 PM
Can we see any details about a refund? I see 1 clip was refunded, but no details on it. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Log in to your studio admin. Click the Sales tab. Click Run Report. Select Report: Refunds and Chargebacks, and the start and end dates for the report. Click Run Report.
Voila. Name, city, state of the person who did the chargeback.
Most guys don't realize we can see this info.
MissEgo
02-28-2015, 03:05 PM
Haven't opened a store yet (still building up clips). I see a lot of folks offering custom clips, & I'm wondering how well c4s handles those. Is there some kind of secure messaging system, or do you need to use an external email? Is it all pre-pay? Trying to decide if I need to wait until I have a separate website/payment processor set up or if I can go ahead and offer that right off the bat ... thanks for any of you awesome ladies' hard-earned insight!
Clips4Sale does NOT allow you to receive money through them for customs. You can put up a "Tribute" or "Donation" button on your page for c4s tributes, but you're not allowed to offer anything in exchange for the money.
List your email on your clips4sale studio page, and tell people to contact you for custom requests. You'll need to decide how you want them to pay for the videos, and have that info for them when they email you.
Lacy Luck
03-02-2015, 04:50 PM
Is everyone getting a Captcha and incorrect password error when they try to log in right now?
bootiebabe
03-02-2015, 05:26 PM
Yes i am too, thought i had been hacked, hope its just a glitch x
Lacy Luck
03-02-2015, 05:36 PM
That was my worry too! thanks for replying, now I can quit freaking out:)
MissJu
03-02-2015, 06:13 PM
Log in to your studio admin. Click the Sales tab. Click Run Report. Select Report: Refunds and Chargebacks, and the start and end dates for the report. Click Run Report.
Voila. Name, city, state of the person who did the chargeback.
Most guys don't realize we can see this info.
Oh yes, we can see full name heheh i googled everyone:D i know my pervs.
justsometwat
03-02-2015, 06:52 PM
I can't log in either, I hope they have this fixed tomorrow!
justanothercamgirl
03-03-2015, 05:10 AM
Is everyone getting a Captcha and incorrect password error when they try to log in right now?
I just came to check if everyone was having the same problem.
I am blown away that this issue has been going on since late afternoon yesterday.
Has C4S told anyone at all what is going on. :/
justsometwat
03-03-2015, 10:54 AM
Just a head's up, it is 12 pm CST for me and I am able to log in and upload. The videos are taking 5-10 minutes to appear in my store, but they are there!
Addison Lynne
03-03-2015, 01:14 PM
Log in to your studio admin. Click the Sales tab. Click Run Report. Select Report: Refunds and Chargebacks, and the start and end dates for the report. Click Run Report.
Voila. Name, city, state of the person who did the chargeback.
Most guys don't realize we can see this info.
Thank you! I see it....I just don't know why he got it. Well, it was the only one so maybe it was his computer or something.
Thanks!
Addison Lynne
03-03-2015, 01:18 PM
Clips4Sale does NOT allow you to receive money through them for customs. You can put up a "Tribute" or "Donation" button on your page for c4s tributes, but you're not allowed to offer anything in exchange for the money.
List your email on your clips4sale studio page, and tell people to contact you for custom requests. You'll need to decide how you want them to pay for the videos, and have that info for them when they email you.
You know what I was thinking? Why couldn't we do the custom....then upload it to C4S and list it for the custom price? If a guy is willing to pay say $80 for it, why can't we just list it for that? I know they get their cut and all, but I have some overseas guys that I just can't get payment from. Just a thought.
I did have a guy who sent me a fur to film in, and when his clip goes up....I'm at least doubling the regular price!
Classy_Katy
03-03-2015, 11:15 PM
You can list the clip at the custom price - but you risk losing sales when other guys look at it, see the price and go away. You also risk the customer who ordered it not buying it. Or you could upload a dummy clip for the custom first, making it clear that's what it is.
MissEgo
03-04-2015, 07:59 AM
^^ Exactly.
The guy might never buy it, other customers most likely won't buy it for that price, so you'll need to drop the price to make sales. Not worth it unless the guy is a serious regular you can really trust.
loveshooks
03-04-2015, 10:23 AM
Clips4Sale does NOT allow you to receive money through them for customs. You can put up a "Tribute" or "Donation" button on your page for c4s tributes, but you're not allowed to offer anything in exchange for the money.
List your email on your clips4sale studio page, and tell people to contact you for custom requests. You'll need to decide how you want them to pay for the videos, and have that info for them when they email you.
On LCMS I've been doing quite a few lately for chicas who need payment processing for custom videos. My processing can be used internationally and the payout is 80% base, 85% of the total amount if earnings in any given week are $100 or more. As the pages are unbranded, no traffic you send to the page goes to anywhere else on the site, and the pages can be as basic or complex as any given chica wants them to be. I've done multi-page unbranded designs, basic pages with nothing but a payment button and a custom clip order form, and everything in between, it's all just a matter of what suits the needs of each individual. If anyone has any questions please feel free to contact me either here or via the email address posted in the link above.
I actually only recently learned about the 'no tributes for customs rule', I had just assumed that most of the chicas who joined LCMS for that purpose did so because the take home percentage was higher. I find it so odd that c4s won't allow payment processing for customs, I guess it does make sense though in that with the sheer number of studios on the site, figuring out who did what in the small number of cases where custom clip transactions go wrong would be a daunting task. I can't even fathom c4s's average daily processing volumes, I suppose at those heights adding on new features or tribute button uses could get a bit unwieldy.
PrincessTina
03-05-2015, 04:47 AM
Ive been a long time lurker and figured it was time to make a profile and thank all of you amazing girls for alllll the information in this thread (and other threads too!) I have gone through all 104 pages while I was setting up my clipstore and it definetely helped a lot! thank you thank you!
I dont remember who it was, I think more said it actually: "just film all the things!" So I did. I filmed myself taking a nap which ended up being for over an hour. I was like fuck it, just gonna put it up for 70dollar and well see. Some guy actually just bought it yesterday and ugh, it was just the 9387 confirmation how much I love clips4sale!
Loving it a lot! Thank you all again ladies for the sea of knowledge!
MissJu
03-05-2015, 05:23 AM
Yesterday, i was thinking about..to film my sleep time haha, if i dont see a sun im getting very sleepy. Use your misadvantige as advantage.;)
PrincessTina
03-05-2015, 05:35 AM
weirdly enough im less comfortable with people watcing me sleep than watching me fuck myself.. but if they pay me proper money im cool! Definetely gonna film all my naps from now on :D