TL;DR
Take control and keep ownership over your own content and stop paying fees!
I need four other people who are up for paying £2,000 for a website that will look sexy as hell, is unique to your style that has all the basic stuff on it BUT ALSO gives you full control over your content (videos, photos blogs) allowing customers to access it through subscriptions or purchases with methods that protect your privacy.
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Apart from payment processing and hosting fees. You don't pay anything else.
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The Full Story
I started using ko-fi so I could take online payments last year when I made IRL wrestling my main source of income. It was one of the only platforms that allowed privacy for both me and the client that didn’t charge an arm and a leg.
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I created a membership because I had some nice photos and stuck up a few selfies because it was free to do and was a little like, OMG when people actually started signing up and giving me tips.
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I was posting about 5 photos a week, most of them shitty selfies and photos of food, but I was making just under £200 per month within 3 months… when PayPal (who I hadn’t connected) stomped on ko-fi and blocked all my content. Just like that. I was like ‘Dude, they’re sexy bikini photos, tell me what’s wrong and I’ll stop posting whatever was the issue’ but they refused to engage.
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I’m sure you know that sinking powerless feeling (I was even on holiday at the time!). It’s sadly far too common. We have no control over our content and have to just kinda hope that the many systems we use (hosting, platforms, payment processors, et cetera) stay benign and don’t vanish our income overnight.
I went on a bit of a journey and found that I’m too fetish to get away with it on vanilla sites and because I do in-person bookings as well as (newly) selling online content, the platforms which do host NSFW online content, wouldn’t allow me to promote my IRL work as it drives traffic away from their site, so I was like, okay so I have to have how many separate pages and accounts??
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It’s all quite maddening, especially as everything I do is legal in the UK, but against the 'morality code' of other countries where the tools I need have shareholders.
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I’ve spent 10+ years in the arts and holistic sector helping microbrands (orgs of 1-10 people) develop their businesses through strategic business development and marketing, so ran the numbers based around my previous activity
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5 pics a week
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1x professional, 3x shitty selfies, 1x food
Average subscriber fee: £10
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I charged £5.99, £10.99 and £21.99 - with no real difference between the services
Average subscriber length: 12 months
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People do come and go, but you’ll get some super loyal
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100 subscribers
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I had 30 by month 3, so while it would take me a little while to build my subscriber base, it wasn’t all that hard.
That’s a total of £12,000
So with a 15-25% cut (just for my online content that wouldn't even allow me to promote all the things I offer) that’s £1,800 - £3,000 in fees.
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IN THE FIRST YEAR ALONE.
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I know I’m small potatoes in the sex work world so I was just like, why the hell are we letting other people take all our money, and for what exactly? To give us little security, opaque algorithms, and as I'm coming to learn on platforms run by some quite nasty people who don't care about us and aren't willing to put our safety first.
And often they look like shit.
So I had a chat with some decent developers and I have found someone amazing who is a Full Stack Developer in the corporate world, who used to sell sex toys and is in some of the alternative groups I already move it - and we can do a bundle of 5 websites for £2,000 per website.
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They’ll have the same functionality as each other but will be skinned differently according to each of our brands. And at this stage, because my dev building the modules from scratch, we can form a little focus group and get exactly the functionality we need (within reason!) and we can build extra custom modules as required.
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To save you some time you are welcome to use my spreadsheet to run your own numbers to see if it's a good fit for you.
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I’m getting mine done, and I need another 4 people who are up for doing it with me to go ahead...
The Options
Brilliant Base
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Post photos, videos and blogs
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Schedule content in advance and tie in with your social scheduler as a URL is generated for each draft on creation
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Peace of mind - we calibrate external service providers so your privacy is our first and foremost concern
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Capture customer email addresses for future email marketing campaigns
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Reduce time-wasters with a pre-screening form for service requests
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Total control - a very easy to use CMS so you can edit and update your content and services whenever you want
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Total ownership- you own everything and have access to all of it so you can tweak it yourself, or easily bring in friends or freelancers to change things for you
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Get discovered more easily with SEO optimisation
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You'll never lose your content as he CMS we use is open source, meaning it will never block you.
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No ongoing fees to us, or cut of your hard earned profits
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Run by a sex worker so you can always have an honest conversation with someone who gets it
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Understand your audience with google analytics - who are they, how do they browse and where did they find you?
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Ongoing fees
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Payment processor
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£0.20 per transaction + 1.4% for UK cards or 2.9% for international cards
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Hosting
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circa $30 for 250G storage and 1TiB streaming. We can negotiate a bulk discount if you'd like us to do this for you
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If the hosting or payment processor block you, we're here with a range of other options and will help you plug it in.
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Pay Per View Module
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Paywall individual pieces of content, or bundles
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Sell merchandise
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Accept Tips
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Take payments for sessions in part or in full
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Accept online payments with a choice of trusted providers
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Customers can manage their own accounts, see order history and access digital goods
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Easily export sales data for accounting
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Subscription Module
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Decide which pieces of content are available for different subscription levels
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Recurring billing to maintain long-term subscribers
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Customers can manage their own subscriptions
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Billing with by a choice of trusted providers
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Easily export sales data for accounting
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Dynamic Booking
coming soon
This service will allow fully customisable live booking.
Features may include
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Only allow certain customers to book certain services
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Set a standard deposit amount, payable immediately, or customise the amount by customer
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Full control over your availability for each service, at each location, with custom buffer time between appointments
The Cost
I need 5 people minimum in each module to go ahead, and you can choose​ 2 or 3 modules.
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£2,000 - 6 weeks - Base + Shop
£2,000 - 6 weeks - Base + Subscription
£3,000 - 10 weeks - Base + Shop + Subscription
These prices are locked in for the first 5 people who are ready to sign up.
Dynamic Scheduling requires more conversation as it's potentially quite complex and we want to ensure it has the right functionality for your needs, however, if you'd like to lock in the price at £1,000 we can accept advance payment as the price will increase when we launch it late spring.
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This is a great time to get involved because it's the cheapest it will ever be, and people who sign up now will get to form a focus group to decide exactly how each module functions (within reason!)
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We're hoping to get something usable up by the middle of January 2023, if we start in the next few weeks.
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Sign Up
You probably already have my number, but if not, feel free to email me. I'm also on twitter, but I don't check my DMs regularly.
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What Next
Why stop there?
I outsource my social media because I have more important things to do with my life, but I don't want to stop generating new sales... so was thinking, if I can bundle all this together - I have an AGENCY here. Run by a worker, for workers.
If you want to give up learning new platforms, dealing with mind numbing time-wasters, and generally all the fucking about that goes with the job - while increasing (or stabilising) your level of sales knowing that your privacy and time will always be respected... take a look at what I think I can offer...
