You got almost all the major steps down.
Also try:
1. Offer one-click upgrade trials in your members area
2. if you have an ad-manager like double-click in your members area, use it to upsell from your other sites (if you have a network)
3. contact your existing paysite partners and offer their members a special price
4. if you are entering an established niche, check out who are promoting your competitors, and contact them, asking if they would like to promote you.
5. watermark the shit out of everything. Good, clean watermarks too. Do not underestimate direct sales from your watermark
If you take a step back to the planning stages of your new paysite, it is important to follow the blue ocean / steve jobs strategy: either enter a market that is underserved and you can offer something 10X better than your closest competitor, or create a new niche. This can help determine where you should be investing your energy and marketing.
For example, extremely niche sites can be highly social, so you would spend more time marketing on reddit, tumblr, twitter, etc, as another GFY member suggested.
You also have the advantage of becoming the price leader which is extremely important. At a certain price level, the reward per conversion, is uesless. In other words, on the demand curve, there's no difference between two price points, so why not go for the higher? If you are setting up a new niche, you can dictate pricing.
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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
For me I go through a series of basic traffic-generating steps to "launch" a new paysite and to continue promoting it over time. Here's my basic 5 steps, what do you do?
1. Load promo tools to Affiliate Program for affiliates
2. Submit promo clips to tube sites
3. Send out mass email to current and former Members
4. Send out Newsletter with Special Offers
5. Submit galleries to several TGPs (paid accounts)
(I would also throw in advertising (buy banner spots), link building and Blog creation but I usually wait to see how a site is doing first before investing more time and energy.)
What do you do when you're launching you're new paysite?
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