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Originally Posted by JohnnyClips
9 out of 10 people don't have the time, patience, diligence or work ethic to set up, run, maintain and promote a membership site. Alot of the top 50 studios make enough money to be satisfied but yea a membership site for some of them wouuld be great
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Once up, the trouble of running a site is very little extra work. If you want to run a big affiliate program, yes that's a lot of work. Running a paysite isn't if you have a good CMS. Cost is design, CMS, Hosting and then you have somewhere for people who like your clips to buy full memberships and for you to upsell from.
Will this harm your business selling high price clips, or will people who see the high price for very little realise the members site is a better buy? That depends on you, your site, your content and your updates.
Will allowing a few webmasters access to send traffic be a boost? Yes, so long as they don't need their hands held and demand more attention than they're worth. There's little work required in running an affiliate program, the real work is looking after affiliates and their demands. If they're good it's worth it, if not. You're wasting your time.
I have a CMS that people can buy set to run their paysite, prices are one off and start at $3,000.
Still listen to Rochard a guy who can't shoot content or run a paysite. He knows how to not to do things.
