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    Default Advice for clip making

    I found this article in the Yahoo Money area. All of these tips have been given in many threads already. I just figured that having these main tips in one spot seemed like a good idea. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advis...193056410.html

    1. Stop Focusing On Quantity Over Quality

    One of the best ways to increase revenue and productivity combined is to stop focusing on the sheer volume of leads you’re pursuing and instead focus on nurturing quality leads.
    Generating quality leads requires sales professionals to better understand their prospects. When you have a deep understanding your prospects’ demographics, psychographics, and behaviors you can recognize their needs, what pains you can relieve, and how to best communicate with them. Knowing what stage of the buying cycle your leads are in puts you in a stronger position to close the sale.
    Focusing on quality over quantity will allow you to ultimately generate more profits from fewer leads while lowering your acquisition costs.

    * It's all fine and dandy if you can pump out four clips a day. The more you're on that front page the more exposure you're getting right? It won't matter how much you're on the front page if you aren't making sales. Would you rather create and post four mediocre clips a day and only have one that sells, or put more effort into making one great clip that sells?

    2. Stop Focusing On The What & Not The Why

    You believe in your product and that’s why you sell it, right? That’s a good thing. However, your prospects aren’t there yet. Too often we focus our attention on what our product is and how it works. Too little do we address our prospect’s need for the product and why our solution will make a difference in their life.
    When we stop focusing on what we’re selling and start focusing on what the customer is buying and why, we’re better able to satisfy customer needs and build meaningful relationships. Focusing on the client forces us to discuss what our customers care about and what value we can provide.

    * We're always saying that the customers will choose your fetish for you. It's 100% true! There's nothing wrong with filming different stuff occasionally, especially if it's something you love doing anyway, sometimes customer's tastes change. But focus what makes you money. For example: Customers love your sneezing clips but you've never sold a blowjob clip. Don't go out of your way to make BJ clips when you have a cold!

    3. Stop Ignoring The Power Of A Story

    No matter our age, people love stories. Stories allow us to relate to ideas, characters, and fantasies. Stories allow us to dream and imagine.
    A story can be an effective way to engage your prospects by creating emotional responses and building a captive audience that can easily bond with your brand.
    A good story can even increase a prospect’s desire to buy what you’re selling.
    When developing stories for your brand, ensure they’re engaging, creative, and relatable by following these three tips:

    • Be concise and focus only on one idea.
    • Be concrete and create an experience by using details and sensory words.
    • Tell fresh, unexpected, and delightful stories by presenting unusual information, leaning on pop-culture references or current events, or by telling fascinating tales.


    * It's not a rule that you have to have a script for your actual clip. Some of us hate to talk to the camera or just aren't that creative. You do want an interesting description though. Which sounds better as a smoking clip? I'm sitting outside having a cigarette and decided to strip down to my panties. OR It's a hot sunny day out. So hot that I have to take off all of my clothes. I don't want to give up my nicotine, so I have to be careful while I take my top off. The sweet smoke gets trapped in my top as I exhale...

    4. Stop Hesitating When Asked About Pricing

    Buyers understand that nothing comes without a price. After all, nothing in life is free, right? The key to having a comfortable conversation about price is first understanding and discussing the value that’s attached to the price.
    Without a thorough understanding of our customer’s needs we can’t effectively inform customers of the value in our solutions.
    Don’t hesitate when you’re asked to discuss pricing, instead re-direct the conversation to value. This way, you’re able to remove your customer’s resistance to price because they first understand the value and expect to pay for it.

    * Do you really think it's ok to accept $10 for a 30 minute custom of you doing anything?! If you start high and negotiate down to something you're ok with that's fine. But do you think a customer will want to pay you $8, $10, or $12 a minute if you seem insecure about it? You have spent a lot of time researching your fetish. Not everyone can do what you do. If the customer really wants something, they will pay whatever they have to to get it! Don't lowball with custom pricing! When YOU know YOU are worth every penny, they will think it too.

    5. Stop Blaming Your Manager For Your Results

    When we’re children and we make a mistake or do something we aren’t suppose to, we tend to first react to these situations by blaming our sibling, the dog, or anyone else in our direct line of vision.
    The thing is, this behavior often follows us into adulthood. However, it’s a behavior that can damage our professional success.
    We blame others to protect our self-confidence and self-image but we soon realize that blaming others is counterproductive and actually weakens it.
    To thrive in sales we must never blame our manager, the product itself, or other extenuating circumstances for our failures. When we own our blame we’re able to move forward and focus on solutions. If you find yourself struggling to meet quota look for new opportunities, get creative, and try something outside of your comfort zone. Focusing on blame is unproductive. When we practice a solution-driven attitude we find ourselves producing results and improving our sales outcomes.

    * This one is a bit tricky for me, but here I go... You are the sole person responsible for your success. Sometimes you have bad sales one month. Or don't do as much filming as you had planned. Dog ate a prop you were going to use. Shit does happen, but it is up to you to deal with it, learn from it, and handle the situation better the next time.

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    Default Re: Advice for clip making

    thanks! this is awesome. after christmas i intend on selling clips since it will be dead at the club til spring, and im scouring clip posts. just what i needed to read right now

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    Default Re: Advice for clip making

    Great advice.

    Also, from what we have seen in our studio and the website, the vanilla stuff doesn't sell well unless you add some fetish element, or somehow capture their interest in ways regular vanilla fare won't.
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    Some of us really NEED to diversify though, I found two awesome categories that I do very well in early on and I tend to forget about other fetishes. I need to remember that at this point even if a clip sells once or twice it's worth it. I don't push myself nearly enough to try new things, so going "oh well I will definitely make more money if I do a ---- clip instead of a --- clip" has really hurt my business. Never stop exploring with clips, I've been nervous to break into other fetishes (yeah, I'm pathetically terrified of making shitty videos that will generate bad posts about me), but once I did it the guys raved about my videos. You aren't the judge of what's a crumby video, the customers are. I've had videos I thought were trash sell wonderfully and had a ton of guys email me about how they want more.
    What's mediocre to you can be amazing to someone else. There are subcategories in every fetish, your video might appeal to a smaller subcategory and not sell as many times as another in the fetish but that doesn't make it mediocre. I certainly know when I've come up with a good idea, but I'm not going to sit on my ass waiting for that awesome clip idea to appear instead of making a video that will appeal to some people. Traffic is traffic, if that video doesn't appeal to them chances are good one of the other 600 videos I have will and the update may bring them to my store. Farting is big, just because you make a nude farting video and it sells less than the one in jeans doesn't mean it was mediocre, it means your target audience is smaller. Those guys shouldn't be ignored, they're still fans with money that will talk to each other about how great you are.

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    Default Re: Advice for clip making

    I'm in no way saying that this is how it is or how it goes. It just seems, that after scouring threads for so long, these are generally agreed upon ideas.

    I think items #1 and #2 are the most flexible. Everything we do is going to be a fetish to someone. It doesn't hurt to have a variety of clips. I agree with AureliaC, our customer's tastes do change and differ from our own. And who knows, when a new person joins the site, they may buy all clips from that category in your store. That's why I think it's a good idea to focus on what you know sells, but occasionally do other stuff. There have been days that I went and filmed EVERYTHING I did. I had my normal stuff I filmed, but then some of the most random clips sold. I NEVER thought I would sell in the burping category before that day! It's nice to break away from what you normally film once in a while to "spice things up".

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    Default Re: Advice for clip making

    I'm definitely not trying to argue, or say that you're wrong, I just don't want anyone new to come along and feel as if they're making mediocre videos because it takes awhile to get their name out there and start really seeing sales. The amount you can wait in between video uploads also really depends on the fetish, with some you can drop 5-10 places in the rankings if you take a couple days off. With others you can wait for a good idea for several days-weeks and not have it really hurt business.
    If someone does quite a few videos in a fetish and none ever sell then maybe it's time to try something new, but it's important to hit the subcategories to make sure that the fetish is really explored before giving up and limiting themselves. Research is key.

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