Making Money Off a Modeling Website

by JakeC
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So I have the opportunity to work with a model who is looking to get a website up and running and make some profits. I am most likely going to partner up with her. She can bring in a lot of traffic just through FB and twitter

So my thoughts are of course that I can monetize with selling ad space. BUT I am trying to brainstorm other ideas to bring in cash from this thing. I am thinking some sort of membership site or VIP side. She is just a private model (nothing dirty). Maybe something like one time small fee for access to all her premium content, or like very small fee per month to receive all updates.

Any thoughts on how to monetize this thing. I haven't done anything similar to this before and am not sure it would even bring in any profits. She has a private promoter working for her on facebook. She has 5000 friends, and can delete them all and easily have 5000 new friends in a week. So I am seeing some opportunity here.

What are your thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ivelin2008
    I think you should create her a facebook fan page and twitter accounts and build her social network accounts. Increase her popularity and celebrity status. She should also be on youtube.

    Once she gets very popular she should be able to find deals to promote various products to all her subscribers across all networks. Once you have access to traffic you can figure out what's the best way to monetize it, but yeah, you could also try selling a membership on her site. I think what would make it more successful is if people in the membership had some personal access to communicate with her or if they got autographed pictures or something else that is personal. And it has to be really inexpensive so people don't really need much convincing and make an impulse purchase.

    Hope I helped..
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  • Originally Posted by JakeC View Post

    So I have the opportunity to work with a model who is looking to get a website up and running and make some profits. I am most likely going to partner up with her. She can bring in a lot of traffic just through FB and twitter

    So my thoughts are of course that I can monetize with selling ad space. BUT I am trying to brainstorm other ideas to bring in cash from this thing. I am thinking some sort of membership site or VIP side. She is just a private model (nothing dirty). Maybe something like one time small fee for access to all her premium content, or like very small fee per month to receive all updates.

    Any thoughts on how to monetize this thing. I haven't done anything similar to this before and am not sure it would even bring in any profits. She has a private promoter working for her on facebook. She has 5000 friends, and can delete them all and easily have 5000 new friends in a week. So I am seeing some opportunity here.

    What are your thoughts?
    well definitely get her on youtube. Animoto some of her picks and YouTube it. She can possibly get bunch more fans and followers that way and even more people to her website.

    You can sell ad space to other models or modeling agencies. Maybe a CPM of 1,000 impressions for $1?

    Work out the prices but you can do a lot with this
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Miranda
    As a former pro MODELING photographer, all the models create sites for different reasons. Most they are solely portfolio sites to show of their work to agencies and clients. One way to monitize a site with a pretty girl would be a membership site. Pay for pictures type of thing but I could see that quickly getting into the 'adult' arena. In the modeling world the money is in the naughty stuff. Of course high fashion and commercial models make decent money but just a regular ole girl trying to model won't cut it. Create a large fan base for the model via Facebook and Youtube AND ModelMayhem.com and then you could see ad space.
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  • Profile picture of the author JakeC
    Thanks for the suggestions. I think a membership site will really only work if it is super personal, and for only a bucks a month or something. I am sure I can make something work out quite well with her
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  • Profile picture of the author David Chung
    I've seen some pages where the model offers a local photo shoot for x amount of hours. Basically you pay, show up with your camera and snap away. Might help raise a bit of income depending on where the facebook fans are located.

    Do you think there would be any interest in a virtual form of that - maybe have several different potential photo shoots (various costumes/clothes and locations), and have people vote/pledge for the one they would like to see. People who pay for the photo shoot get high res photos and priority access. You get more photos to put on the site and show to potential clients.

    There's also the potential to start something up for other models, sort of a model membership site for other models. If you're able to make some money for this one perhaps you could use your success to start a "Make Money Modelling" membership site. Tutorials for the right poses, lighting/camera techniques (for taking photos of yourself), how to promote yourself, etc...
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