Free Paysite Tip - A Great Reasource
 

This month has been a real positive one with the tradeshow and the growing success with my partners at sterlingcash.com and digitalangeldollars.com (plug plug!) so I haven?t had a ton of time to write. But I did come across something that I think every webmaster should be checking out. This falls strongly under the ?knowledge is power? category. The good folks at www.thebestporn.com have a site for the viewers to do reviews on and they conduct these polls that are just about the most telling thing I have seen in a long time.

Have a look at http://www.pornusers.com/browse_polls.html. They have asked great questions here like ?What?s the most irritating thing to you inside a site?s member area?? and ?How much do you trust a site?s tour pages?? I strongly recommend everyone who is serious about running pay sites have a look at these polls and the results? And the big lesson here is to not let your ego get in the way of interpreting the answers! So many of us have a hard time letting go of our own notion of how things should work or feel the need to educate an ill-informed surfer but ultimately the best sales are going to come from catering to the perceptions (and misperceptions) of the surfers at large. So again, take these polls and glean the knowledge from them. It?s golden nuggets for sure!


-- For more tips see: http://www.guaranteeddesigns.com/blog/

Thanks, I will check it out...

Thanks for the post... lots if interesting views from surfers there :thumbsup

Really a nugget and very interesting, thanks !

Nice post Mark!

- Brent

that is cool. Thanks.

as always thank you very much!

No prob guys. We always have to remember to set our own prejudices aside and let the data speak for itself. I went through this this big time with choosing video formats.

Thanks for posting this.

Great info there. Great find Mark

And what did you end up settling on? :)

I haven't got all the sites conforming yet but our top delivery platform is to have a page with an embedded streaming FLV with links to download WMV high and WMV low and then an IPOD MP4 link. I'll also do 2mb WMV low clips if I think we have enough slow speed users. The big thing with the FLV embed is that it streams in fairly quickly and people seem to use it to preview a clip and then d/l the WMV if they really like it. I've got a whole tip on that blog for video settings and the software that's being used, etc...

Do typos or errors on a tour influence your decision to sign up?

Definitely, it's a bad sign 16% 4 Votes
Makes me more cautious 44% 11 Votes
Not really, it's no biggie 28% 7 Votes
Not at all 0% 0 Votes
I rarely notice them 12% 3 Votes

This is a good one that will END a certain debate

What video file format do you prefer?
Windows Media 64% 16 Votes
Quicktime 4% 1 Votes
Xvid/Divx 24% 6 Votes
MPEG 8% 2 Votes
Flash 0% 0 Votes
Other 0% 0 Votes

Well those polls could be interesting once you get more voters.
Right now it doesn't show anything.

another good one

Would you signup to a pay-site with DRM downloads?
Yes, doesn't bother me. 0% 0 Votes
Yes, if content kicks ass. 13% 4 Votes
No, too many restrictions. 83% 25 Votes
What's DRM? 3%

yeah, i agree, why are there only like 30-50 voters per poll? thebestporn HAS to get more traffic than that

are the polls not put in public places?

The only Caveat I'd add here is that most iusers don't realize an embedded vid is one format from another. So like with the FLVs they like the preview but they would have no clue what it is.

The XVid/Divx was the issue for me because I prefer the quality but it just bore out not to be the way to go. All the Mac guys I do vido editing with love Quicktime of course and it's pretty ubiquitous as to what it'll play on but still the surfers just don't go for it the same no matter how good an argument you wanna make. Stats don't lie (although they can be misinterpreted!).

2mb wmv for the slow speed users? That's pretty fast for the slowies, no?

Ohhhhhh, clips.... ok.

that one site you have up with all the different formats you use is visited by me at least once a week now

this review site is amazing thanks the link

nice... will check it out yes! :)

Yah just 2mb size files to D/L. That was actually something Duke from DukeDollars wanted to do and it just stuck with me as one of the many smart ideas he had. It seems to be a nice option for users with slow connections.

ah, that looks like it could be really useful