Now that you can see a pay site is not as easy as some would make it seem, nor as inexpensive to do it right. We move on to the next subject which is a clips store.

There are a number of them, and they each vary in their own ways.

clips4sale.com
fetishvideos.com
clips.com
youyougilrs.com
clipclinic.com

While you can post your content at all of them to maximize your dollars. I, personally, do mainly clip4sale. I have clips on most of the others, but I mainly keep my clips4sale store updated the most.

They offer a 60/40 payout. It’s paid once a month. Normally on the 7th. I receive mine by WIRE to my bank account.

While clips4sale offers pix4sale, and dvd4sale and all the rest. I am going to stick to just the clip store part of it to minimize confusion.

Clip Stores

Advantages:

1. No cost to start up.

2. No monthly bandwidth fees.

3. No VISA/MC fees. No approval process.

4. Typically a split payout. Some higher than others. Some offer affiliate programs. This, in theory, to boost your payout and traffic.

5. 2257 docs and proper licensing of material still apply.

6. Simple site design. You pick colors, add some simple HTML, tada you are open.

7. Some clips store sites buy, drive, and dump a lot of traffic to the site. So you get some nice traffic when you do your updates. Others, not so much. You are pretty much responsible for driving your own traffic and sales.

8. Most clip store patrons are repeat buyers and will pay more in a month for clips than a membership to your pay site.

As you can see, there are some nice advantages to having a clip store. Low start up cost, and already established with billing in place and minimal grief.

For me when I went into adult full time, I started this way. I tested the market making my own content, posting it up on clips4sale, and then people would buy.

I already had a url for a pay site to be launched later, and watermarked my clips accordingly. In 3-6 months when I had enough content, I launched the first pay site. Then I moved on to stockings. I did the same formula, and bam launched another site. Then with the tickling, same thing again, Bam new site. I tweaked some things along the way and figured out the best ways to maximize clip store sales.

I never relied on the front page ‘pop’ of clips4sale for my traffic. Even though I have a TON of content, and can update almost every day. That ‘pop’ was just gravy. I drove traffic through my TGP submits, cross linking, board or forum posts, etc..

If you have do not have content, and buy or license some. You get a decent amount you can make some nice money on Clips4Sale. For all of the shoots I do in a given month. I make my money back in 30-45 days. So everything beyond that is gravy for me.

While I can go on, I will move to some of the disadvantages of clip stores. Yep, nothing in adult or online is all roses. So there is always a dark side.

Disadvantages:

1. Typically you give up more revenue (40%+) on clip store versus 15% on pay site.

2. You are competing with other stores.

3. You still need to drive the majority of your traffic.

4. Very limited site design options.

5. Limited off site linking. Pay site, network, etc..

6. Some of the interfaces are cumbersome at best.

7. Some clip store sites have a ‘review’ or holding period for clips before post.

While there are some stinking points to a clip store. It is still a low risk, solid, place to start out. Better yet, when shopping for a niche that is not saturated like most mainstream porn now a days. You can check out the independent producers on the clip stores.

Regardless of all the tubes out there. Most are re-running the same old tired mainstream porn. Why not? There is plenty of it, and programs give it to you for next to nothing.

Niche is not like that at all. Less of it. Customers demands are higher and less likely to be satisfied by mainstream porn. Regardless of economy or other crap. They will still buy.

With the clip store sites. There are certain ways to market on the site (as well as driving your own traffic) and get the most out of your content working it six ways from Sunday. However, that I am not going to share publicly on a board..

I save that for those I work with.