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Originally Posted by EscortBiz
thanks,
I tried trailers I have trailers for all my stuff, as we edit movies we edit trailers just in case we might want to use trailers one day for a project.
Think about the avg joe behind the computer in these days:
he came to your site thru google or thru a TGP etc
He is sitting at his computer and has AIM, Yahoo messenger running, most likely he also has some spyware in his machine
He has aol or google email running etc
he has his cell phone next to him
He has a skype account with voip running or vonage
And now hes at your paysite, he sees a 25-45 second trailer (tons of them) he plays one, he proceeds to play next, why? because its there, maybe his computer is not in the mood of playing the flash or wmv file now, people are quick to hit the back button and bamn you lose them.
But lets say its playing fine, so now from when he comes to your trailer filled site till he hits join is 10x longer than if all you had was nice pics proving you have exclusive stuff related to what the site promises.
So why care if it takes 10x longer?
Because the longer it takes the more chances he will get a text message, or a aol email or a yahoo IM or a notice that someone posted on his myspace or hes responding to some twitter crap and bamn he gets sidetracked and you lose him.
How many times did you go online to buy something say to amazon you put it in the cart then a day later you reminded yourself shit I never ended up ordering the item?
Its simply because you got sidetracked and with everyone doing a million things at once in these days it happens all the time.
Keeping it simple while making the surfer comfortable that yes you do have the content you are promising is key.
If you notice I dont use real model names in my tours, guess what will happen if I did? My sales would drop, why? Because surfers will copy and paste the models name google her and find free shit of her or a set on another site they like better and bamn we all lose.
I can sit down with most paysite owners and point out a few things that they can change and it will really help them out, given they are open to testing my ideas, ideas that worked for me and many others.
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That's just an awsum fucking post. Thank you again.
I have noticed that surfers will click what you give em to click (for the most part in general) so yes the more in the way of the join page the worse.
The (misguided) reason I had that trailers were good (and I know this is all in general theory as there are exceptions and things are never cut and dry) was that it showed the surfer what your video quality was and that you had certain videos, a sample if you will, so they know you have something behind the curtain. Now I realize that pics shows them (even better) that their is indeed that content behind the curtain.
I knew I was doing something wrong.
And I suspected my trailers idea was flawed lately.
The over 29.99 price. Well one of my 3 top guys in my sig does charge more than that. For vanilla tho I feel still prob not a real good bet. Because (I don't want to name sponsors) there are some good ones charging 23.95 who do convert vanilla.
Of course vanilla is just plain hard to convert so maybe over 29.99 that is a prob for vanilla sponsors.
Anyhow, at least now I have some ammo to judge future prospective sponsors with instead of my other ideas.
Sometimes you need someone to actually grab you and point you in the right direction. Thanks again.