Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Change can be good.

Hi everyone, I'm gonna start with something I know most of you will appreciate.Yes... it's a femskin!

Having said that. It wasn't cheap! and I'm not exactly a millionaire with thousands of dollars to be throwing around, regardless of the fact that I did this one time.
After I basically cleared out my savings on a splurge of interest I realized that this fetish is getting more expensive than I ever anticipated... also, it's one of the new, seamless, translucent ones.
I figured I'd go top of the line as long as I was shelling out the cash.

I got the femskin a few weeks ago, but wanted to wait on making it public that I had it. The reason being, 1) I didn't want to give an inaccurate description of the item due to the excitement of getting something new and expensive 2) I've been thinking about making a change as to how I engage this site and my fetish to some extent.

So as far as my first reason..
If anybody has any questions about the femskin, feel free to ask and I'll be happy to answer them in my next post.

As far as my second reason, here is the part when I talk about how things are going to change for me and to some extent, this site.
In the past few months I've been buying lots more latex and fetish attire than usual, topping it off with the femskin. Previously I wanted to be able to make some sort of revenue from my blog, but at the same time I don't want to step on anyones toes by creating a pay-site.

The first way I tried to go about this was creating a donations button. I was hoping that some of you would be nice enough to drop me some change or maybe even a dollar or two for all my effort in making my rubbered up antics public, but no one did. However, I know if I were in your shoes I wouldn't have donated either, because regardless of donating or not, it wouldn't necessarily change the content of the site, therefore there was no REAL reason to donate, even though I did say that all the proceeds would go into me getting more rubber that would be displayed on the site... but again, if I were in your shoes, I'd rather have my money going into my own fetish rather than someone else's.

The second way was through advertisements and search bars.
Granted, this method has worked, but pays out about a hundred dollars every 2 years. Now, it's not as though I'm masking and cross dressing in order to make money, but I certainly have realized that it's not a cheap habit to keep up.

So this leaves me to the third way I am going to try to generate some revenue.
But before I get into the specifics I want to start off by saying that I gave this a lot of thought and tried to keep you, the viewers, in mind when doing this.

The obvious option was to go to the pay-site setup, meaning that in order to see my content you would need to pay a weekly/monthly fee to gain access to it. However, I personally don't belong to any pay-sites largely because I hate the idea of giving my credit info to some private site with an auto-renew policy all designed to sneakily separate me from my money. I also hate having to sign up anywhere, especially non-official sites that will just distribute my e-mail address to various parties ultimately ending in my in-box getting filled with spam.

The next option was to set up an account on some site where I could host my media and in order to download the media you, the viewer, would need to also make an account at the same site and pay a small fee in order to view the content on a pay-per-view basis.
I did like this idea because it didn't call for a weekly/monthly subscription on the part of the viewer. However, I didn't like it because it would be a pain in the butt for you guys to sign up at some obscure site and pay for every view/access.

So now, after much consideration I have finally come to a conclusion.
I have signed up with a site that works directly with pay-pal. I have inserted purchasable content on the bar to the right as you should all be able to plainly see. If you are interested in downloading any of this content, all you need is a pay-pal account (which is a completely reputable money handling site and any of you who have ever used eBay should be quite familiar with it).

All you have to do is click the "Buy Now" button, log into your pay-pal account, pay $1.50 (with no hidden fees or obligations), and you get to immediately download the content directly onto your computer, which means it's not pay-per-view, but rather you can view it as many times as you like. Also, this whole process should take under a minute.
It was the easiest option I could come up with and honestly, I can't think of any other method that would be easier without being free of course =P

So.. I've tried lots of methods to make some sort of revenue to pay off some percentage of my fetish related purchases, but nothing has worked.
And I think this way is completely reasonable. I'm only asking $1.50 in return for premium content of which is the final product of thousands of dollars of purchases on my part... Yes, Thousands of dollars.
So for the same price as a snapple, soda or less than a subway ride, cookie, crappy sandwich, or cup of coffee you can download a years worth of photos or an amazingly rare type of video... Oh yes, there's a video of me wearing a femskin in there, perhaps the first of it's kind on the web.


In closing, this is still a free site and I intend on keeping it that way. I have merely added premium content that has required work on my part and would otherwise never have hit the net, partially because it's a pain to format & post and partially because most of it is of a mature nature and couldn't be supported on youtube or any similar public video sharing site.
So, nothing is changing in terms of my content, the only thing that is changing is that I'm offering you guys more..
and if you choose to take part, then that will only act as motivation for me to generate more and of course, any money that I do make from these pictures/videos will be going into future fetish purchases that will be featured here.

SO NOTHING IS CHANGING!!! don't worry.

11 comments:

shutz said...

I just bought your "Shower" video.
Congratulations, you have produced the first ever video of a Femskin being worn that I've had a chance to see online. There have been some pictures, here and there, but no videos that I know of, before yours.

At first I was somewhat annoyed at having to pay, but your reasons are all valid, and your prices, definitely reasonable. (unlike the Rubbersisters, whose site I've been paying for for a while, even though I'm only there for the videos, and they only put up one to two videos per month...

Btw, if your videos and picture sets sell well enough, you might consider some kind of flat annual fee to unlock all downloads for your bigger fans... I might be tempted if the price is right.

Would it be too much to ask for you to make one video that really shows off all the various aspects of the femskin, including showing it from many angles, and even better, showing you putting it on (I've always been curious as to how easy it is to put on, and how it's done...) I would certainly pay for such a video or videos.

Also, showing at least a still from each video would probably go a long way towards selling it. I bought the femskin one for the reasons above, but I still wonder about the others, because there's very little for me to go on (except for the exceptional quality of your previous pictures, naturally...)

Well, I hope your new business becomes profitable enough for you to keep funding your "habit" (see what I did there? It's a pun: there's "habit" as in "addiction" and "habit" as in clothing -- "nun's habit")

Thanks!

Anonymous said...

To Shutz,
Yaaaay, my first 'sale'.
Thank you.

As far as making yearly/monthly access, I'll consider that more if it ends up being really popular, however I highly doubt that it will. What I might end up doing is just bundling groups or all of my downloadables and offering it for a reduced price at various times.

Furthermore, if it does end up being popular I'll take these videos more seriously, but as you saw, it's just me setting a camera, taking a single shot, and trying to make it look nice with editing. BUT! I am planning on drawing in a friend to try to take a more serious video that will look a little more professional with actual (gasp) camera work and angles.

Also, thank you for your suggestion for video ideas. I'm going to message my friend right after this and see when she'd be available for such a project.

With your second to last paragraph, I'm assuming you meant to write "haven't bought" instead of "bought". But yeah, there'll be more stuff up here featuring the femskin and if you have any questions, lemme know.

Ah haha, nice pun, however if you hadn't pointed it out I would have probably missed it =P

Anonymous said...

questions about femskin (keep in mind i haven't seen the vid/pics):
1. how much of you does it cover and how anatomically correct is it?
2. from pictures i saw previously, the breasts looked a bit funky and a bit unnatural. do they actually stretch out enough to allow for larger breast forms?
3. is it comfortable to wear or is it uncomfortably tight?

questions/suggestions about premium content:
1. i think you should consider posting thumbnail teaser pictures of the albums and videos so that we get a better idea of what's in each one.
2. will there still be occasional posts with free content like there have been in the past?
3. like you, i don't like the idea of giving away credit card info online. who exactly sees my information and transaction history with this?

thanks and sorry for the long list!

Anonymous said...

Hey Teejay,

I'll address your questions about the femskin in another post.

As far as the premium content:
1) I will figure something out as far as teasers/samples, etc. soon.
2) Yes, there will definitely still be posts featuring content, like there's always been.
3) I know, I know. That's why I picked a service that works through pay-pal. The only person who will see anything is me, and the only thing I will see is your pay-pal account name.

don't apologize about the long list =P.
It's well appreciated.

Anonymous said...

pay-pal account name, does that mean my email address or the name attached to my account?

ClosetMonster said...

I was so hoping you'd end up with a femskin... ;)

It looks pretty darned sleek on the preview pic! I've been wanting one for awhile now, but the wife would kill me if I shelled out the bucks for one. Some day....

I'm also digging your method of making some sales! Very reasonable! I'll be picking up a video or two of the femskin...later, after hours. ;)

Keep an eye on YouTube and Yahoo groups for people reposting your videos. That would kill some of your revenue. I'll be sure not to allow any reposting of them on my own group.

Anonymous said...

Кредитные карты это ужас + небезопасно... я их даже никогда и не видел в живую, это только маразм для онлайн использования. А вот если была возможность использовать электронные системы перевода вроде WebMoney или E-Gold было бы замечательно... а как сейчас - чушь, практически полностью сокращает потенциальную аудиторию покупателей.

Anonymous said...

Could you give me a clarification on the payment: Is it 1.50$ per video/collection or 1.50$ for the right to download the whole shebang?

Anonymous said...

To Teejay:
It depends. I've noticed that sometimes I just get the account name and sometimes I get the e-mail address, but normally not both. But that's all the info I recieve.

To Closetmonster:
Thank you for the message and support. I'm happy that you like my idea for selling the content and think it's reasonable.

Also, thank you for the warning about re-posting, I do normally check nearly all the related groups and youtube pretty normally, so I'll be sure to make a stink of anyone reposts.

To anonymous 1:
Sorry, I don't speak... Russian?

To anonymous 2:
it's $1.50 for the right to download a single file.

Andrey said...

hoo boy, if only I could get a femskin for myself... it looks so damn nice and smooth (I don't mean to berate, but it looks like a porn magazine photoshoot... sorry if it eventually came out offensive).

also, I'd like to see you in it, but I don't seem to be able to afford your videos... ù.u

well, anyway I got impressed already with it. hope I can get to see it for myself, not only through a computer screen.

Anonymous said...

Hrm, I thought I already answered this.
Anyway, thank you for the comment and I wish you luck in getting one yourself! =D