Lesson #01   Introduction to Paysite Success
A paysite is one where the surfer must pay a fee to access a member’s area. In hierarchical terms, paysites are at the top of the mountain. Paysite...

Lesson #02   Understanding the Realities of a Paysite
It is important to understand that an adult paysite is serious business. It’s one thing to sell porn for other people. When you are an affiliate...

Lesson #03   Paysite Laundry List
To open a paysite, a general idea of start-up costs will prove worthwhile to you. In this lesson, we will provide you with a laundry list of basic...

Lesson #04   What Makes a Good Paysite?
Your paysite must offer what the average surfer cannot find for free on the web. A paysite should offer quality and quantity. A paysite should be...

Lesson #05   The Domain Name
You can buy content, hire graphic designers, solicit web hosts and invest in all sorts of overhead to get your paysite started, but until you spend...

Lesson #06   Buying a Domain Name
There are far too many places on the Internet to buy a domain name. Since this step is vitally important, paying close attention to and reading the...

Lesson #07   Registering Your Domain
The process of registering a domain name is complicated but not impossible to perform. Actually, it's very easy to do the clicking and submitting....

Lesson #08   Choosing The Right Web Host
To open a paysite, you must have a reliable place to host it. Not only should you take cost into account, you should look very seriously at their...

Lesson #09   The Paysite Tour
To get surfers to buy memberships to your paysite, you're going to use several methods. The most important method is a series of pages known as a...

Lesson #10   Different Types of Tours
The basic concept of one is to give customers some free samples to look at while you ply them with your sales copy. The way you lead surfers through...

Lesson #11   Tour Design Considerations
A good tour consists of high quality graphics, layout and persuasive sales copy. Each element must be the best that can be produced. This does not...

Lesson #12   The Paysite Member Area
In your perfect scenario, you'll have hundreds of surfers so impressed with the quality of your paysite tour; they readily tender the fee to become a...

Lesson #13   Expanding Your Paysite Niche
If you've read some of the lessons in our Cozy Academy Nichology Classroom, you've noticed that the different sources from which humans achieve...

Lesson #14   Credit Card Processing
If you are going to open a paysite, it will really have no purpose without some way to receive payment from your new members. Perhaps this has been...

Lesson #15   Using Multiple Processors
In Lesson #14, we showed you the different types ofways you can receive payments for your adult paysite. What we didn't cover was a new and...

Lesson #16   The Importance of Search Engines
When Arpanet was split into a public web and a military web, the public side wasn’t much of a web. The networked computers involved initially were...

Lesson #17   Acquisition of Search Engine Traffic
As explained in the previous lesson, search engine traffic is good traffic. Many adult webmasters will talk about amounts of traffic and the...

Lesson #18   Real Customer Support
In real-life retail there is the legend told of the polite customer. The polite customer buys your product, doesn't complain about the price and on...

Lesson #19   Your Privacy Policy
Whether your members and surfers read it or not, your paysite should carry a privacy policy. Perhaps more than any other adult page, the paysite is...

Lesson #20   Creating a Privacy Policy
Every web site should contain a privacy policy, especially sites that conduct financial transactions. Adult paysites collect very personal...

Lesson #21   Guarding Your Member Area
Naturally the object of the paysite is to provide content that only money can buy. The paysite webmaster has to lock their member product away so...

Lesson #22   Site Security Methods
In the previous lesson you were informed about how people can be dishonest. The content you believe is safe -because you charge a fee- is not safe....

Lesson #23   Hired Gun: Custom Programming
The adult webmaster is a renaissance man/woman. Whether they come in that way or learn as they go adult webmasters are proficient in several skills....

Lesson #24   Common Paysite Mistakes - Part #1
At Cozy Academy we feel obligated to warn any adult webmaster to stay away from opening a paysite until they’re ready for the task. It costs a lot of...

Lesson #25   Common Paysite Mistakes - Part #2
In the previous lesson we covered some of the mistakes webmasters make when they get into the paysite game. Is it really accurate to call them...

Lesson #26   Maximum Member Profits - Part #1
The cool thing about your paysite members is they’ve proven they’re willing to spend money on your stuff. You probably love each and every one of...

Lesson #27   Maximum Member Profits - Part #2
In the preceding lesson you learned that your existing paysite members are a great source for additional income. You learned they’ve already proven...

Lesson #28   International Billing Options
American webmasters often forget that not every country is as dependent on credit cards as we are. So much of our web income comes from credit card...

Lesson #29   Other Payment Options
Money is money. Whether you get your money today or you get your money a week from today, as long as you get your money, all is well. The truth is,...

Lesson #30   Updating Your Member Area
Maybe someday computers will have the artificial intelligence to run a paysite but that day is not today. Granted, computerization makes work easy...

Lesson #31   Keeping Your Members in the Loop
You know exactly when you’ve updated the content on your paysite. For you, this process is memorable because it involves time, money and work....

Lesson #32   Content Management Basics
What if you had software that would enable you to administer your whole paysite from one program? What if you could edit, update and manage all the...

Lesson #33   Member Protection for Windows NT
Unfortunately we can’t always get what we want and some of you will be stuck hosting your site on a Windows NT server. Windows NT isn’t so bad but it...

Lesson #34   Professional Text Copy
As brilliant as they may be, most adult webmasters are notoriously bad spellers. On top of that, many of them are incapable of composing a coherent...

Lesson #35   Give What You Promise
People don’t like to be lied to, especially when money is involved. There is a big difference between effective marketing and outright bullshit. If...

Lesson #36   Reducing Chargebacks
In Lesson #35 we learned what chargebacks are. To refresh your memory: A chargeback is a credit card version of a refund, except worse. A merchant...