I need help with my game plan...

fffventures posted 29th of July 2008 in Community Voice. 5 comments.

I'm just starting development my new site...I am completely new to all of this, I'd appreciate any input! I'm hoping people will pay to be a part of my community, I figure I may as well try it first and if people don't pay then make it free. So my question is does anyone have any good advice as to how to get a good base of members first to attract on going paying customers? Make it free for an initial group of members for the first 6 months? What do startup dating sites do? Thanks for your help!

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theGhost•29th of July 2008

That really all depends on the community your building. Making money on a community could be as simple as creating a free community that runs affiliated marketing campaigns for the community to click on.? Maybe privacy warrants cost? Maybe features warrant cost as to could community content limits? How much money do U think you should make?

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mscott•29th of July 2008

Most of the successful BIG dating sites started out by buying out existing sites and then advertising like CRAZY. I'll tell you right now no one is going to pay to join a site that just started and has very few (or no) members.

The easiest way to make money is to have a free site, get TONS of members and then sell advertising to companies.

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gameutopia•30th of July 2008

I got to agree with mscott. You are not going to have anything to offer to warrant a fee if there isn't something in demand inside the site you wish to charge for.

The internet is totally free so what do you got in there that will attract others? If you have no members how are you going to entice them to pay for nothing?

Only time I've seen this 1/2 work from the bat, and that was questionable is with an adult site, where a fee was involved for some premo video's and content.

A gal offering see more

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fffventures•30th of July 2008

I understand what you guys are saying I was prepared and expecting that. And ghost of course I want to make LOADS AND BUCKETS FULL of money! Don't we all?

I was thinking maybe I could inform members that the site may not always be free and to get in now! That way if I choose to charge in the future they'd be prepared. And maybe I won't give up all the sites features for free.

Mscott, you answered my main question, basically I was wondering how the big charge per member dating sites got started. see more

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gameutopia•2nd of August 2008

Hosting is very cheap now. Unless you are on a dedicated box or something. Most of the shared hosts are $5-$10 per month. You really can't beat that for at least trying some thoughts and ideas.

You aren't going to get rich over night, and despite what many think adding them goodle adsense ads on your pages aren't going to make you rich either.

It's a combination of trying your thoughts and ideas. What works for one, doesn't work for another. If one thing don't work then try another. Brainstorm, see more

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