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    okay its not a definite but i wanted some pointers from girls who already have pay sites of them and what it all involves, are they worth doing and all the ups and downs i've been considering my own paysite for quite some time but not sure how to go about doing it, if you dont wanna post here feel free to pm me.. thanks ahead of time!
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    Do you have a photographer, have you done some modeling stuff online before? You will probably need a business license and there's a lot of reading up to do.... I just started my own a few days ago... we'll see how I do! *fingers crossed*
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    Hey there,

    Its surprisingly easy......but, I already had the cameras and iMac......and my very first design was done by someone else. But, in the meantime, I bought a couple of books, fooled around on the computer and voila!

    Setting up the credit card service for collecting memberships was very easy.

    Feel free to ask.

    Crystal

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    Does anyone use CCBill? So far, I'm not completely impressed... they messed up the first day on the pricing and what not...
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    I don't want to make a whole other post... but I love this mix of pictures and I already started jumping around like a moron
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    Bella

    I checked out your site. Very cool, and I love the ferret.

    I have ten ferrets myself....love 'em

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    Good God! That's a lot of ferrets!!!!!!!!! I've got all I can handle with one! Thanks though

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    Funy thing- Paris Hilton is now fighting for the right to own ferrets in LA. She is taking it up with the Terminator Governor.

    Pay sites are fairly easy- I have done some photography for friends who are setting up their own pay sites as well. I think they are using ccbill.

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    we experimented with a paid portion of the our site ..

    we figured since we allready take c/c have a web site and a loyal following it would be easy ..

    it wasnt so we shelved the idea it took so much time to update that the return wasnt not worth the trouble for us .. good luck seems you have more patiance than us


    ps the site looks really good Bella

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    Bella you should talk to Melonie about using CBill. I believe that she has used them for a while and had a bad experince with it. She can give you the inside scoop on this. Good luck!

    ViXie

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    Default Re: making your own paysite..?

    I HAD a pay-site a long time ago, right after I quit dancing. It was on an old site called www.wildcities.com (several girls who had independent sites). It was VERY rudimentary compared to today. Wildcities handled the money, etc. etc..... (Wildcities is totally gone now).

    ANYWAY..... I never made much money off of it, but found a whole BUNCH of my pictures on other sites as front-end come-ons. I'm still stumbling across a pic every now and then and writing a nasty letter about it.

    I would recommend joining someone else's pay site and just contributing material. You get paid and someone else has the headaches, plus the critical mass of you and other performers adds to what you can get.

    Depending on your tastes, contact an acquaintance of mine, Mike South (use my name -- mention that he knows me through Wankus at Ksex Radio). His web site is www.mikesouth.com. He's also into videos, etc., so there's plenty of opportunity to move into other areas with him

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    Just a quick, totally off topic remark - Bella, you are gorgeous!

    - Dan

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    When I was a photographer in Los Angeles, I helped a girl run a nude paysite. This was back in 2002, and the site was doing some good business (a couple of extra thousand for each of us a month), though we had to close it down because of her real life boyfriend going stalkerish and emailing the site to her friends and family.

    Obviously, such issues are an important thing to consider.

    Technically, sites are not difficult to update, if you are familiar with HTML and have templates that can automate stuff. Photoshop in particular has great automating tools, and applescript in general on a Mac can make things easier. The key is deciding how often you want to update, and how much time you want to put into a site. Nowdays, webcam chats are becoming big business, and you should set aside some time once or twice a week to do it to keep customers.

    I used iBill, and had few problems with them, but this was a couple of years ago, and since then they seemed to have become a lot more prude. You may want to contact them.

    Amateur Sites have become very popular and the market has become VERY saturated. But for a unique girl, there's still a market. One big bit of advertising advice I'd make is to take advantage of whatever amateurreview or thumbnail sites you can. It is an effective way to increase your visibility, and depending on your prices and costs for the site and a photographer, it doesn't take many customers to easily supplement your income.

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    I've heard ibill was pretty good... but they take a higher cut than ccbill... which was why I had gone with ccbill... but ooooooooo, they're pushing it!!!!

    For everyone who's dipped into private sites... how often did you guys update?

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    The site I ran, we did one update a week, which at the time (2002) seemed to be the norm for most 'amateur' sites we competed with. Although our decision to pull out was not based at all on the site's performance, in retrospect, I would've suggested 2 or 3, to try and stay ahead of, or at least keep up with, other sites. The costs to do additional photo sets would've not been that great, and probably would've been more taxing to keep coming up with ideas to keep things fresh.

    I pressured her to do other sorts of updates/features regulalry, like cam and chats, but that never had a chance to materialize.

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    Bella,

    A smart thing to do is do a cross-promo with someone else with a similar site. That way you both get new content and can share some traffic.

    I went through 4 different credit card companies before finally settling on

    They have this 'tickets club' feature that seems somewhat confusing at first but my members like it because only 'tickets club' shows up on their credit card statement.

    I've been with Verotel for over a year.........no worries.

    Crystal

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