Re: Help And Advise Here Please!
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:56 pm
I personally think it's very difficult to start a network of sites and expect it to be financially rewarding, certainly in the short term if at all. Pretty deep pockets are needed. As someone else stated, having a network of ten sites sounds good but when you see how much content is on each currently it would hard to maintain each customer past the first month.
You also need to ask yourself, who is your intended customer? As everything is aimed as being British, the customer base over here is pretty small and from everywhere else it is only going to be considered a niche market. Some Yanks might like British girls in the same way that they might like Asian, Black, BBW, Foot sex etc. Still effectively a niche. Now niche websites do work (pretty well), when they give their specific customer base exactly what they want and they tend to be very loyal. Generic sex sites would be impossible to compete with the big boys. A company I represent has a network of over 40 sites, with daily updates, with content ranging from teen, anal, asian, milf, gay, lesbian, solo, foot sex, european girls, american girls etc etc etc. Each month a member stays loyal they get access to another site. They have over 5 years of archive footage and stills, still shooting daily, so it would be impossible for someone to download everything in one month. All this for the same price as your sites. That is what you are up against.
In my opinion going down the route of British is tieing your hands together. Look at the Japanese market or Asian market, they have so many models to shoot and with new girls all the time, how many new British models are there? And if you shoot them, so does everyone else. You have no exclusivity.
I would also say that before launching any sites, it would have made sense to have someone on board who knows about generating traffic. They are worth more than anyone you have shot for your site.
You also need to ask yourself, who is your intended customer? As everything is aimed as being British, the customer base over here is pretty small and from everywhere else it is only going to be considered a niche market. Some Yanks might like British girls in the same way that they might like Asian, Black, BBW, Foot sex etc. Still effectively a niche. Now niche websites do work (pretty well), when they give their specific customer base exactly what they want and they tend to be very loyal. Generic sex sites would be impossible to compete with the big boys. A company I represent has a network of over 40 sites, with daily updates, with content ranging from teen, anal, asian, milf, gay, lesbian, solo, foot sex, european girls, american girls etc etc etc. Each month a member stays loyal they get access to another site. They have over 5 years of archive footage and stills, still shooting daily, so it would be impossible for someone to download everything in one month. All this for the same price as your sites. That is what you are up against.
In my opinion going down the route of British is tieing your hands together. Look at the Japanese market or Asian market, they have so many models to shoot and with new girls all the time, how many new British models are there? And if you shoot them, so does everyone else. You have no exclusivity.
I would also say that before launching any sites, it would have made sense to have someone on board who knows about generating traffic. They are worth more than anyone you have shot for your site.