How to start up a porn site?

[AAP]

Two difficulties:

1) Continually getting slammed with excess bandwidth chargers as your business grows.
2) Finding unique content. Don't buy stock photos. Open an amateur site like yourhotnakedneighbor.com (no, I didn't check it) where people send you content for free. Make the nudes free to suck people in then charge for hardcore content.

Think of it as Elites growth problems X 100.

I pretty much as a very unique idea.

 

[manny78]

Two difficulties:

1) Continually getting slammed with excess bandwidth chargers as your business grows.
2) Finding unique content. Don't buy stock photos. Open an amateur site like yourhotnakedneighbor.com (no, I didn't check it) where people send you content for free. Make the nudes free to suck people in then charge for hardcore content.

Think of it as Elites growth problems X 100.

No 2 is easy. I dont know about your area but as I said, the rate around here for a "girl next door" type is less than 100$ for a scene. That means, for 1k$ you could easily get enough content for one site.

Bandwidth is a bitch and not easy to control....

BTW AAP, what about something like www.QueersFuckingYourGirls.com ?

 

[AAP]

I have been reading a bit on the xbiz.com website and it led to a few more questions. Basically I see the step-by-step process as :

Develop a catchy name

Get Webhosting space and buy/register domain name

Maybe buy one of those turn key packages that give you the entry/sign in screen (but it doesn't say anything about generating username/passwords unless it is included in that), a splash (welcome) screen, couple of banners and animated buttons/gifs (though not sure what I would do with those.

Load the content

Get set up with a credit card billing service and age verification service (this is where I need to read up more about these services)

upload all that once it is put together online

find someone that will exchange links to increase traffic or purchase advertising spots on a bigger board.

hit the marketing campaign with ads in magazines read by my target audience.

Continue to work on new material and updates.


Now keep in mind, I am not expecting this to take off and make $20,000 a month. Because then it would take up every minute each day running it. It is going to be small and only takes an hour each day or just time on the weekend to keep it going. If I make $1,000 a month I would consider that very successful by my standards and expectations.

 

[manny78]

Btw is this going to be straight or gay porn ?

 

[stilleto]

I have been reading a bit on the xbiz.com website and it led to a few more questions. Basically I see the step-by-step process as :

Develop a catchy name

Get Webhosting space and buy/register domain name

Maybe buy one of those turn key packages that give you the entry/sign in screen (but it doesn't say anything about generating username/passwords unless it is included in that), a splash (welcome) screen, couple of banners and animated buttons/gifs (though not sure what I would do with those.

Load the content

Get set up with a credit card billing service and age verification service (this is where I need to read up more about these services)

upload all that once it is put together online

find someone that will exchange links to increase traffic or purchase advertising spots on a bigger board.

hit the marketing campaign with ads in magazines read by my target audience.

Continue to work on new material and updates.


Now keep in mind, I am not expecting this to take off and make $20,000 a month. Because then it would take up every minute each day running it. It is going to be small and only takes an hour each day or just time on the weekend to keep it going. If I make $1,000 a month I would consider that very successful by my standards and expectations.

that about sums it up. except...
good luck getting more than a handful of people to pay.... its harder than it looks.
hey.... there's your new slogan!

 

[coldblue1955]

Is there a HOW TO book or any good links to read?

Basically, I would think that all you had to do was get a webhosting gig offshore, install some kind of thingy that allowed you to accept credit card payments, design the site and dump all the content (porn) into it.

But then, if it were so easy, everyone would do it right?

Anyone have any inside info or advice on this? I would guess that the more original and unique your content is, the more traffic you will generate through paying customers.

if you decide on making a porn site make sure that i get in for free!