Looking for some advice

[frawdav]

I have a girl who modelled for years (fashion and commercial) before going to college. Now that she is done with school, she would like to make a few bucks by starting an adult website. The idea would be for her to be the focus of the site as she is both beautiful and has a sexy girl-next-door look. I think if we can capture who she is (a pretty, sexy, smart nerd who loves computers and sci-fi and is willing to take off her clothes for the camera), then we can get customers.

I have worked in the online business myself for years in various capacities, but I know enough to know that I don't know anything apart this end of the industry - so I was hoping some of the people on this board might be able to help me out with some advice and suggestions.

1. Should I try to put everything together myself? I would need to find a hosting service, an ecommerce service for billing (ccbill?), and put he actual site together (I do have graphic designers and web guys for that). Or should I go through some type of turnkey service to do all of that? (I am guesisng that the turnkey services are not the way to go - but I should still look at it.)

2. What are the business implications of doing it myself? Licenses, etc.

3. How many of these types of sites are successful? Are single-girl,monthly-subscription sites a feasible way to make money? I know some of them drive a lot of traffic - but how rare are those?

4. How much content do you need to start out with? How much new stuff do you need to post each week? How important is video content?

What are the things I should be aware of? What do I need to watch out for? How good an idea is this for a side venture to make a few bucks?

I would really like to hear from people who know what they are talking about - and that seems to be the people here! Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

(By the way, if this is the wrong forum for this, let me know and I wil try to get it moved to the right one.)

Thanks!

[Kide83]

Hi and welcome

1. i think it would be better to do it yourself (with help of professional designers and webmasters if you need it)... you'll have better control of web site building process and you can make it like you want also by working like that you'll learn all that in time so you won't need other people anymore... ccbill is good way to go imo

2. You'll need 2257 info for models and movies

3. to be honest i don't know much about this, i'm rarely promoting single-girl sites... but i think if people like your girl they can become loyal members for very long time (of course if site offers them good amount of unique content and lots and lots of interaction with model)...

4. as much as you can videos are VERY important, site without them is doomed imo... there are thousands of sites with videos, site without them don't have a chance imo...
for start, well if it's going to be unique content (and i guess it will) i'd say few hours of videos (10-20 vids maybe) and few thousands of big resolution pictures (20-30-40 sets, depends on number of pics in them)... of course the more you have it's better
keep site updated weekly, 1-2 long videos and picture set or two per week should make them happy spread them like (1st vid on monday/thuesday, 2nd one on thursday/friday or something like that... between those add some pic sets to keep them entertained)

watch out for bw, they will burn LOTS of it don't look out for affiliates too early, better concentrate on building your traffic and making site good... when you have all that and site is making sales constantly go out and offer other webmasters partnership also don't expect to start with traffic affiliates will send you - it won't happen...

hope some of these will help you