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Originally Posted by charly
The mistake in your posts was simple. There is absolutely no need for 100% exclusive content, unless you can't buy it good and new, to start a paysite, it's expensive and exclusive is not what provides the sign ups. Unseen and good content is what does it. 50/50 is a better ratio.
Plus today you should not even dream about starting up a paysite unless you can compete with 10% of your competition, look around at what's available in the niche and make the calculations. I would say in todays business the first thing you need is a lot of money to start a proper paysite. $20,000 is not a lot of money.
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Yes, I see the point about not needing 100% exclusive, but as I look around, many sites are beginning to update more than once per week. Although I didn't mention it, there was the concept in the back of my mind that one could use non-exclusive to fill in, i.e. doing 2 updates per week, while still being able to market to affiliates and surfers that exclusive content being added at least once per week. Doing more than 1x update/week fits in with that "being able to compete with the competition" bit you mentioned.
And yeah, I don't think $20k is a lot of money (in relation to starting a business); my original post came from the concern of not being able to get enough return on the $$ to justify buying (most of) one's content at those prices. But standard supply-and-demand comes into play....if that's what quality content costs, that's what it costs.
Thanks for entertaining my queries, and I apologize for the mini-hijack that happened when I misunderstood AaronM's post.