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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
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25 people trying to sell their software
25 people wrongly thinking that software is the easy part.
the biggest issue you will have to deal with is fraud. MC is cracking down and enforcing 1%. Visa hates you. the second is traffic. the third is the overhead you will be faced with.
software is the easy part. nice software, shitty software, java, flash --- whatever... it doesn't matter. software is the easy part. the easiest. $10,000 for software is nothing compared to the costs and problems you are going to face at startup... and there is a reason that few sites survive more than a few months. everyone thinks they have a better idea. everyone thinks they have traffic.. everyone thinks they have girls.. everyone thinks they have a plan girls etc etc.
thinking software matters in the sucess of a cam site is like thinking that if you had the right TGP script, you could build the next worldsex.com or thehun.net.
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You're totally right of course. We don't sell LiveCamNetwork 1.9 as video streaming software and don't claim to, but as the "complete live video chat solution". - as in a package of services, software and technology to give the prospective entrepreneur as much of a start-off chance as possible.
Technical support and niche-specific advice/consultation are important to us and for our new clients, as well as established and/or more experienced webmasters and operators - because you might know the world about marketing a TGP, but a live cam site is another world entirely.
The other thing you bring up is fraud - well, that CAN be an issue. It depends how you deal with your processing company and how you deal with it yourself - as an independant or as an a solution provider like 2much.
We work to verify all transactions across our system which are flagged as "suspicious" and usually have a human monitoring the events in real-time to verify, allow or not the transaction. We call it AHMAD and it works just fine.