I have a site ranked well for a certain sexually suggestive search term (page one google) and right now I am promoting Adult Friend Finder, making some decent extra money. But I was thinking of starting my own dating site, keeping 100% of the payments on a recurring basis. I have been looking at some services and you can get plans where you can use an existing profile base, so your first new members will have someone to go after... Any suggestions or recommendations on this?
If it were me, I would weigh whether or not the 100% payments was worth the extra work involved in operating the dating site. Calculate what you make per hour now and what you would make and compare the numbers. Would your per hour income increase?
Per hour? Hell I don't have time do do hardly anything extra now. But this is what I was looking at (or something similar): http://www.datingsitebuilder.com
Yeah you should start it. Its not wise to sent the member to the adultfriendfinder coz you can earn more if you own dating site. abledating.net is a nice script for this kind of site.
The owner of Plenty of Fish is a millionaire. Staff consists of just him. He spends a couple hours a day monitoring the website. I was reading about the guy in a magazine couple years ago...damn him and his riches. It won't hurt to try at all
Personally I would say no. Adult friend finder makes you money as it is, and there is probally very little effort for this. If you start your own dating site the chances are that its not going to make as much as your going to first have to let people join for free as you can't really have a network without users... then eventually your going to have to start charging for the service, and at this point your still not sure if anyone is actually going to pay... Just looks like alot of effort for something that might not actually make anymore money for you.
One should start a dating site if he has got a definite idea what his site will offer new or different.. Ideas go first!!
Thanks for the replies guys. The reason I was thinking about it was reading about the plenty of fish guy in a magazine article while waiting to get my hair cut. I did have somewhat of a twist on the adult dating niche and want to try it out. The service I was looking at does have a 5 million member base, supposedly, that I can use with my own brand. I pay their fee and hosting and keep 100% of new member fees. Plus, since promoting AFF I learned a little about what gets people to join. A good "independent" review site/videos (muhuhahaha). So instead of changing my site that is ranked well, and jeopardizing losing my ranking, I can simply change the recommendation from AFF to the new one that has a focus on _____ (top secret) Think I will give it a try... BTW, AFF is still a good dating affiliate to be with, but I don't ever see getting rich with them.
I personally never use such schemes, although it is simpler than starting your own. I prefer struggling with the windmills
If you start your dating site, then create awareness locally among your friends and tell them to refer others. By this way your site can start getting attention and will be popular. Good luck !
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