Brand new sites scare me because of the inconsistent traffic.
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Brand new sites scare me because of the inconsistent traffic.
Is anyone having luck with this?
DiamondCupcakes, So how do you like the system so far? Any feedback?
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Nope, don't know who BrendaBlu is :(
I've signed up, still setting up my info. I actually even had a phone call from their team just making sure I had no questions or issues. I'm impressed and excited to finish my site and start promoting it :)
Thanks so much for the great feedback!
We are happy to be working with you!
We also have released blog functionality today, it's optional, but now available right through the interface. ;)
We're working hard to ensure that you satisfied with the service.
I do have some info about this for people that were curious. I think the set up is incredibly easy,and even tho there's a lack of many choices, the fact you can edit the colors and pictures and such makes up for it just fine.
However.... I found out today that you cannot make your own pages. Meaning it may give you 5 specific pages on your template and that's all you get. So you could never add in like a niteflirt page, or custom video prices page, or...yea you get the point. Even that didn't really throw me off so much. I know they are working on some things I'm very excited about.
What finally kind of did me in was the video set up. My intentions were to use this as my membership area for guys to go to and watch my videos. It's actually a whole lot faster than me doing the coding by hand like I currently do. But if your a girl like me who has thousands of videos and you upload them....they do not give you a way, that I see to seperate them into categories...or even into years...or even for instance niches lol
All the videos just run together and for me this is a big problem. My site is generally split 50/50 between smoking fetish guys and religious fetish guys.
That's a pretty big jump.
And typically they don't cross watch videos
so the fact that the smoking fetish guys might have to sort thru 50 pages of religious fetish content before finding a smoking video....well that sucks
Seems like such simple things really
I get that they have a bunch of cool features they want to add. Like the ability to sell personal items/videos/ or whatever else you may want to sell, and believe me i WANT that option.
But couldn't you allow us to make video categories, or add pages
it's the little things that makes me happy
I would also like to add tho the tech support is very friendly and awesome
And they do allow you to favorite videos. So the guys could easily favorite their videos to get back to the ones they like to watch most. I love this option....but yea I dunno how many really wanna sort thru hundreds of pages possibly to find their favorite videos.
I am interested in seeing how they respond to these concerns.
Having a decent webmaster is hard to find.
Having one that brings you traffic & sales, NEVER going to happen. Somethings you have to do yourself.
You want sales, you want to be successful, then YOU need to be doing all the marketing for that to happen.
As a successful solo girl site owner, I can tell you TRAFFIC is up to you. Even the most famous porn stars in the world have solo sites that average $300 to $800 a month in sales. They do NOT market their own sites, they have the same crap that they do for major companies that they shot for.
You need to find a niche & make fresh content that will members will love to do your own twist at this biz. Then marketing should be your full time job while creating content the part time of it. To be a success may take you several years of 60 hours a week, but speaking from experience well worth it. Now, I dont have to work like that now to make a decent living with my site, but I have in the past.
Do NOT follow into the category I will build it & they will come. NO, it takes work on your part of sales & marketing to make $$$. You are NOT ever going to find a webmaster who can supply traffic & sales. If they say they can then I have a bridge I can sell you.
Good Luck,
Sam
So a little more info about adult centro. I've been using it for a while now. I'm still really unsure. But I'll list a few other things that have annoyed concerned me. (Keep in mind though as I stated earlier that their tech support is actually very good and always responds.I have never experienced them calling me or giving me unwanted advice as I have seen others say.They only contact me if I've sent in a support ticket. And the they tend to respond within 2 minutes so I find that cool.)
I don't know how much of this they plan to change in the future as I've not really seen a list of things they plan to incorporate later. I do know my biggest issue was the fact that when you post your videos they have the ability to stream and watch them, and the ability to hit a download button. I certainly don't like that download button. Especially if your offering people 1-2 day trials to your site then they can just come in and download a ton of your content? And yes I could just delete the trial option. But why? I kinda like it. Plus I still wouldn't be okay with them downloading my content even at 30 dollars for a month.
This seems to be a more popular thing now a days where a lot of sites are allowing their members to download. How many of you are doing this? It is probably the question I get asked the most about my site "If I join will I get to download"...blah. It seems it's such a popular thing now a days, that they expect it, so I'm just curious how many of you do this, or agree that they should be able to.
In their defense they are suppose to be coming to disable the downloads on my site within the next week or 2.
But from my understanding because this was skipped and overlooked in the developmental stages they will never have this option for everyone according to the email I received.
Which does leave one wondering how many other things were overlooked and will never happen.
There seems to be a glitch with the live cam shows(that they've told me only happens to me) Where if I do not hit the STOP show button when I'm done then I can simply never log back into another live show until they come and physically reset it for me. Since I've learned to hit the stop button, and not just close the page down I haven't had nearly as many issues.....BUT occasionally you just simply disconnect. Then what. What if my power goes out...I have no power over these things, but same thing happens. Then I have to wait for them to come let me back into my own live sessions.
During a live show there is a chat function so the members can talk to you. I can make smiley faces.(something I never do anyway)
Yet I can't change the size of the text, or color....or even mute -ban-warn-boot....nothing
In some ways I understand this as anyone who could see the cam show would be a paid member,so it would be bad to ban or boot them, but come on.
Some dudes see the fact they paid you as an excuse to be a prick. So I can see how this might be a problem for some girls who are use to having more control.
On the sign up pages you have the control to physically add in people by hand and grant people access . However if you somehow mess it up, or for whatever reason want to remove it....you can't. (updated tech support did just tell me that they are doing a major overhaul on the sign up/registration pages to give the models more control over the interface.)so yay
Oh, I didn't know that you could broadcast live cam shows to memebers....hmm.
Hi Sinistress,
Thanks for the feedback - we are very interested in any advice as to how we should improve. Right now we're actively working on finishing up the affiliate program functionality, so that's top priority as we've had a lot of models requesting it. Along with that we're improving stats and info in the admin.
These are some very useful tips - you are actually the first to point out the video organization matter, I guess it being a solo site we didn't expect such volumes of content that it was necessary, but yes - we never limit you on storage space, so we should take care of this too.
We let you know about new developments and plans through mailers - you should be getting one per month with latest updates. We've recently released blog, functionality to add extra models to videos and some other things, so over the past month you probably have seen lots of new things popping up.
yup, you can, this is to promote communication and give the users more reasons to stay subscribed...
Sinistress, as to the download option - we never thought it so important as - technically, there is no way to restrict download completely. We will provide an option to take down the button, but - universally, no matter what the security process - if you can stream it, you can save it. So, by taking down that button we're only restricting those users who are not very techie. Those who log in and want to download will do it regardless of the site.
Heh that is true. I realize if people want it they'll get it. But I'd rather have them get it on their own than me sitting there with a big download Button that says...please take me
But I'm not overly concerned about most of the stuff. My biggest concern really is the lack of categories for the videos...which I do think have been being added to lately, as there seems to be more now than I remember even a week ago.
And me having no ability to group them into sections...
I know these were probably made for solo girl sites or whatever, but I dunno that a foot fetisher wants to spend much time sorting through a lot of smoking content to get to the feet.
Even that's not exactly the problem.
But I for instance have a lot of videos that ARE NOT me. That I offer to my members, but I haven't loaded them yet, because I do not want those other girls mixed in with my videos.
Plus not all my videos are worthy of being loaded and looking like content.
Meaning I'd rather be able to load my bloopers into a blooper section
Or video blogs I've done I do not want mixed in with my normal content...
Yet these are still videos I want my members to be able to access.
Yes, this function is actually the only reason I started using adult centro. I really really can't stand live chat rooms, like mfc, or chaturbate.
I have a more personal relationship with my clients/fans and love just chilling and hanging out when them when I can. I don't wanna deal with all the why are you just sitting there show me tits bb crap
So this option was perfect for someone like me who only wants to see their own site members.
Sure I can't get tipped or anything but I don't mind it kills my boredom. I often just sit and hang out with them when I'm taking niteflirt calls. So in between calls I hang out, when I get a call I mute my mic....which literally has to be done on my mic
Because there is also no mute on the live show....
just throwing that out there. heh
Just wondering if any ladies have been successful making money with this site yet.
Hi space_cowgirl,
We've had a few successful launches, so yup. These sites are doing really well:
dominika-c.com
benedictgarrett.modelcentro.com
kisskara.com
nickyferrari.com
and many catching up with these right this moment... payout day is Tuesday and there will be lots of payouts next week ;)
If for any reason we try your site and for any reason it doesn't work out, is there a way to take down the entire site without having to go in manually and delete everything?
I also agree with the fact that I would not like to have a download button. While anyone can technically save any video online, I certainly don't want to invite them to do so or make it any easier.
Side note, is there any way to accept extra money aside from the monthly subscription on the site? Such as tips/tributes? Are the tabs still not customizable?
Thank you for being so helpful with all of our concerns =)
Pages are still not customizable, you only get what they choose to give you. No way for tips or tributes
I was told you could just request to have the download options removed from your videos,as they wouldn't be disabling them for everyone
However mine are still there, and it's way past the deadline they said they have em down.
I am not saying it's all bad mind you. They have gotten many functions working even since I joined...just nothing i wanted or would help me lol
I'd like to know if they have an affiliate program and if the reason the payout % is so low is that the other percent is to cover. If they don't, I really don't find that attractive.
An affiliate page popped up recently. It says
50% Lifetime RevShare
Get 50% of all initial sales and 50% of all recurring billing for the lifetime of each membership you refer. Every time the customer rebills, you get 50% of the sale!