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1) Price
Have had paysite for 4 years, prices all over the board. Cheaper means longer retention and less likelihood of chargebacks.
2) Content.
Most surfers are impulse buyers, esp if you work in the general niches like big tits, amateurs, teen. All bullshit content recycled over and over. They want to get in on the cheap trial, pop off a load or 10, and cancel before they get rebilled 30 bucks.
BUT, if you have content that nobody else has, and I mean nobody else has (and its good) you can retain like fucking mad, esp if it is in a good niche that is not glutted. I have alot members that have been recurring for OVER 2 years simply due to this fact.
They only getting rebilled 9.95 a month, and you can only find my content on my sites. I dont know about you, but I would rather have a member recur at cheap ass 9.95 for 6 months, than someone who never gets past the trial because monthly charge is excessive. I cant believe what some sites are charging today.
I have worked in both areas. For awhile I ran a site that had several thousand dollars in feed costs per month, content updates almost daily... good content in a niche that had a bit of competition but was not horribly over glutted. It costs me a shiny penny to run the bitch every month. And for the life of me I cant get those motherfuckers to recur past 2 months. I know others with same style paysites and they have the same trouble. I know its because I have to charge more to cover all the expenses. It sucked, I shut it down.
Im half drunk and rambling, prefunk for the Hatebreed show. ANYONE around here like them? Just fucking brutal. One of the smaller bands on Ozzfest last year.
Anywho, just my two cents.
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