Basschick,

You hit the nail on the head.

The amount of content available for these micro niches simply doesnt warrant a full priced membership as we are used to as webmasters i know i certainly wouldnt stick around in a site that charged me $30 a month for access 5k pics with regular updates and i feel certain that regular surfers wouldnt either.

Same thing for the trials really, why offer a surfer a trial at say $5 when within the first 10 minutes they will see the amount of content inside the members area and cancel their subscription.

Fom *my* point of view i would rather have a slightly lower monthly cost and, if offering the sites to webmasters for promotion give them 50-70% of that cost (upto $7 per sale) than having to bank on a trial recurring to a full monthly.

Obviously for the most part there are going to be more single sales than rebills at least until enough content is readily available for the individual micro niches but, with that being said, if you do get the die hard fetishist surfer into your site and they can see that you are updating the sites on a regular basis (daily or weekly) then when that next rebill period comes around they may just hang on to their site membership for another period in which case, the webmaster benefits again from their own micro niche traffic.

In all honesty i am looking at this from the point of view that even if a webmaster makes a hundred sales where the monthly cost is $10 to a surfer and they get paid $7 per member billing the data that *I* can collect on what the surfer is actually looking for and, more importantly, what isnt around in the gay / straight marketplace at present will be invaluable and, on the same note, the affiliated webmasters will also get to see this same information, for example, if their surfers are joining transexual one legged midget paysites, THEY know that there is a demand for such a niche and no, im not suggesting going as micro niched as that LOL

Way i see it, if a surfer hits your site looking for guys wearing eye glasses and you are able to at least offer them the option of joining a paysite that specialized in that type of content even if that paysite only has say 5k images and a handful of movies, you can send them to there instead of a general gay site and potentially lose not only a surfer, but a sale.

In essence, its a balancing game, giving the surfer what they are looking for whilst making sure even if they do cancel on one of these sites, both the program owner and the webmaster promoting the sites knows that any given niche has a demand and secondly, that in finding this information out, they have all made money from it regardless of how little money was made.

Some money is better than no money is my philosophy

Regards,

Lee