KickStart

This is a new modelling competition I am involved in and it has just gone live. KickStart. The idea is very simple – to find some new talent and help “kick start” their modelling career. Winners are selected each month by a panel and by text votes. At the end of the summer there will be a big final and party where an overall winner will be decided. Any profits made will also be shared out with Cancer Research UK



The first month has over 80 girls competing for 2 places…

View the kickstart facebook page or visit the KickStart site for more details.

Besinful

Besinful is entering a new phase now. We’ve done much of the basic site development and testing and are beginning to see good registration and uploading statistics now. Soon we’ll be adding some large new features such as webcams which will really raise the time spent on the site. But even now we have enough traffic to begin optimising the whole site and user experience. The first 2 areas we’re starting to test are the registration/payment pages, and the membership pricing.



From the business perspective it’s important for us to get the best membership pricing to get maximum profits. But even more importantly, from the customers perspective they need to be receiving the best value membership to encourage them to extend their memberships over many months. We have a unique business model with Besinful where girls are paid for posting content to the site, so the challenge becomes balancing member value, with maximum reward for the girls. Too low a pricing means we can’t afford to give the girls anything, and premium content dries up. Too high pricing and members won’t want to pay, full stop. I don’t know where the perfect balance point is, but I intend to find out!

AdultSeeker

Development on AdultSeeker had dried up for a few months before we were really able to finish the site and give it a big push. We had to instead focus on making Besinful profitable. With this now being the case, taking on more developers and having spent some time in the Ukraine planning exactly what needs to be done, we’ll be working on final fixes and updates to AdultSeeker to put us in the position where this baby can start getting lots of active members too



My own time over the next few days is going to be spent in preparing wireframes for new pages to test on Besinful, and on general improvements to AdultSeeker.