Originally Posted by Kyo

Hmm. So, at $1500 a shoot, and each shoot producing 4 sets, that's $375/set.

A paysite updating once per week needs 52 sets per year; that's $19,500 for a year's worth of content.

If the paysite charges $25/month membership, it needs 780 *typein* joins/rebills per year (65/month) just to break even on the content alone. If you're running a 50/50 revshare for affiliates, you need 1560/year (130/month). And this doesn't count the costs of hosting, bandwidth, design, and management.

I haven't actually started up yet, so don't have a good feel for how many joins/rebills per month the average site gets. Not to mention how much bandwidth would cost per year for a site of the aforementioned minimum size. But, from my newbie perspective, that price point for content would cause me to avoid purchasing your content, at least until I'd been going for a while and could see my stats on joins/rebills and the prices I was paying for hosting/bandwidth.

On the other hand, I understand that the newbie probably isn't your target market; that you probably are targeting more established customers. I'm just giving my perspective here.