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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Agreed.
1. You can hire a model for $100-250.00 and get 5-10 scenes out of them. I did not say HQ porn. I said original content.
2. You do not need a fancy CMS to start. You can do PornCMS or MechBunny or even WP.
3. You do not need an affiliate program, or the hassles, if you can drive your own traffic.
That said, I am not saying you are going to have an easy go doing it all on the cheap. I am not saying I recommend trying to do everything on the pennies plan as there is endless frustrations doing it this way. I am simply saying that it can be done. It will take you a lot longer to scale up doing this method, but you can easily shoot your own content and start a clip store with $1000-3000.00 between models and used equipment. Once you start making some money over a period of time, you launch a pay site, and then scale up from there. Add in more pay sites, shoot or purchase semi exclusive content, make a network pass, and so on and so forth.
I did not say it would be easy, nor that you will be a millionaire doing it this way. But you can make a decent living if you treat it like a job, and with minimal investment at the start. It will take a lot of hard work, and you will have to put in the hours to learn, tweak, trial and error. But you can be working full time in this industry as a start up.
All of this considered, I feel few have what it takes to make it in this business from a work ethic point of view. For every 100 who try, maybe a handful will make it. Not because of the business climate so much as the fact they just do not have the drive and work ethic to make it work.
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Its been mentioned multiple times in this thread, the cost to launch a business where you make a bit of money is infact minimal. This thread didn't have making it in the business in mind, nor making minimum wage, he asked can you make a business based on paysites and make GOOD money on a modest budget. Good money isn't making 1500-2000 a month, or atleast not in the original posters view. Sometimes i wonder why people keep steering away from the actual question and turn it into a thread regarding 'can newcomers make it'
No need for an affiliate program? Drive your own traffic?
Again you steer away from the initial question, the original poster said newcomer, a newcomer doesn't come into this industry and have the abilities to market their own program. Hell most experienced programs dont even have the ability to send themselves all that much for sales.
And drive your own traffic only works if you want to be a few sales a day max. What newcomer would have enough traffic to send themselves more than a sale or two a day?
No newcomer is going to come into this industry, send themselves 5-10 sales a day.
To make enough money to grow (make more than your bills), you need to pay your bills and make enough to save for a new project before you run out of content/updates for your current website.