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 processing. Using a CC to purchase on the net is so easy. All a surfer has to do is fill in a few numbers on a form and with online porn, they receive immediate satisfaction. No waiting for checks to clear or for money orders to travel through the mail.
It would be convenient for us if everyone paid for his or her cyberporn the same way but that’s not how the world works. Different countries have different currencies and quite a few don’t do credit cards.
So What is a Paysite Operator to Do?
The simplest thing would be to block payments from countries where the citizens don’t use VISA. That’s the simplest way, but blocking out other countries on the World Wide Web seems a little counterproductive when the whole planet is a potential member base. The US has a lot of smut surfers on the net but there are so many more out there in other lands, other nations, other homes. Those others have money and libidos just the same as any schmoe with a credit card. There has to be another way to process payments for foreign traffic.
Luckily there are companies who specialize in international billing. They’re adept at doing what it takes so that your product is viewed and sold to as many members as possible. The adult paysite owner can encourage foreign traffic and generate income from it with an international biller. No filtering out the Germans or blocking the French. Now you get to open your porn site to the whole world.
How Do International Billers Work?
Mostly, they work as a dialer.
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A dialer is a small executable program, which dials a special number to connect to the web. The customer is charged for the time they stay connected to the net on that special phone number. The charge appears on the customer’s phone bill. A great part of the world’s populace may not use credit cards, but most folks have a phone and a phone bill. Any foreign customer with a computer, a modem and a telephone can connect to your paysite and their local TELCOM provider takes care of the billing. The dialer-billing model is similar to the 900 number method of charging for adult entertainment. The longer the client stays on the line, the more money you make.
If you’ve heard anything about dialers, you’ve heard about mistakes from the past. At first, dialers were much abused by unscrupulous webmasters. There were reports of some forcing the dialer download on user machines, Then there was a case of a dialer provider who had poor surfers calling up servers thousands of miles away from their point of origin. Those cheaters have been punished and the practice of deceptive dialing is pretty much history.
Now dialer providers/billers work with the TELCOMs of foreign countries. They operate within the guidelines and many foreign porn surfers are happy with the pleasure a dialer account brings to their lives. In fact, dialers have gotten more sophisticated. They’re not just for modems anymore . Dialers can work with broadband connections too.
Even better, you don’t have to make a bunch of mirror sites in different languages for your new potential members. Most international billers already run sites that are country/language specific. You can simply send your foreign surfers to pages they’ll understand and still make dough. If you want your foreign members to see only your content, an international biller can make it possible.
So, instead of shutting out the rest of the world, why not blow lid off your foreign traffic with international billing? Some great international billers are:
So keep your options open. Consider international billing for your paysite. Chances are, if you don’t - your competitors will!