There are so many wonderful things about Fan Clubs, it's impossible to squeeze them all into this little space here. So we dedicated an entire area of iFriends to the question, "Why FanClubs?". Click here for the many, many answers.

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Your iFriends FanClub is just like any other page on the iFriends platform -- it is created automatically when you register your iFriends Chathost account, and becomes accessible to iFriends visitors when your documentation materials for your Chathost account are approved by iFriends' Compliance Department.

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You can edit your FanClub from the iFriends Chathost Console, or go directy to the page, and provide your Chathost Star login and password.

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Your FanClub is located at http://FanClubs.iFriends.net/Stars/YourScreenname. For example, if your Chathost screenanme is "AMANDA36C", your FanClub is located at http://FanClubs.iFriends.net/Stars/AMANDA36C

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The easiest method is to "make like a surfer". Close your browser, restart your browser, and go directly to your FanClub home page: http://FanClubs.iFriends.net/Stars/YOUR-SCREENNAME

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The easiest method is to "make like a surfer". Close your browser, restart your browser, and go directly to your FanClub home page: http://FanClubs.iFriends.net/Stars/YOUR-SCREENNAME

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Any adult can join your FanClub. Your FanClub is a one-click join for any of the millions and millions of documented adults on the iFriends platform. Because FanClubs is a part of the iFriends platform, and iFriends shields minors from sensitive content using the iFriends credit-card wall, iFriends membership is a prerequisite for one-click join access; however, individuals can also join your FanClub directly, even if they're not already members of iFriends. But to do so, they have to fill out the full credit-card join formprovided through your Fanclub. (click here for sample screenshot).

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You earn credit for a FanClub join, as well as a FanClub renewal, the moment iFriends collects the funds from the FanClub member. Your FanClub earnings are automatically added to your weekly iFriends payout package. Because FanClubs are integrated directly into the iFriends platform (your FanClub home page replaces your Profile Page, for example), proceeds are divided evenly and are otherwise treated in the same fashion as your videochat payroom revenues, with one exception: Your FanClub earnings are not subject to the 5% six-month reserve applied to live payroom minutes; you receive your full payout without delay, no reserve adjustments are applied.

For more information on FanClubs billing and payments, please click here for an expanded FAQ section.

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Of course! iFriends is built on a simple premise: When iFriends delivers the customer, and you deliver the content, proceeds are split 50-50. But when you deliver the customer, you keep every penny that customer directly spends with you.

(New! Special Exclusivity Incentives effective May 2006)

To ensure that you earn credit for such customers, iFriends provides an easy-to-use "full-credit" join link. For example, if your VCH screenname is "AMANDA36C", your full-credit join link is: http://www.ifriends.net/JoinMe.htm?AMANDA36C Provide this simple link to any prospective customer that you introduce to iFriends, and you'll collect 100% of everything that customer spends with you: Your FanClub membership revenues, your live videochat revenues, shopping cart revenues, even FanClub GetCloserTM revenues.

For more information on FanClubs billing and payments, please click here for an expanded FAQ section. For more information about the many ways you can earn revenues on iFriends (including both 100% and 50% payout types), please click here for an expanded FAQ section.

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Sure!! There are some great Internet resources, as well as some wonderful books dedicated to teaching you exactly how to design your web site. Here are just a few: As a part of the iFriends platform (see above), you are paid when iFriends is paid, and if iFriends experiences a refund or chargeback, you also share in that return. So, if a member cancels his FanClub membership with you in a way that does not result in a refund or chargeback, you are fully paid for that member. However, if the member cancels his FanClub membership in a way that results in iFriends not collecting any membership amount, or refunding the membership amount, then there are no proceeds from the membership.

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All applicable revenue, including previous payment history, and the amount of your next payment, is reported in your FanClub editing facility under "My FanClub Revenue Report"

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All the parts that your Fans like the most! "Eye Candy" (pics, vids, replays, fan faves, Elite Live Moments) and "Secrets & Fantasies" are both populated automatically as you host live iFriends videochat sessions, update your regular iFriends archive content, and as your fans, iFriends members, even other Chathost Stars rate your archives. Also, some Stars have active discussion boards whre FanClub members exchange news and information about their favorite Star ... all without the Star's participation! (Of course, we encourage Stars to moderate their own discussion boards). Bottom line: Some of the most popular areas of your FanClub freshens themselves and are self-updating ... even while you sleep or take a vacation!

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Absolutely. Remember that your FanClub contains only two kinds of content: 1.) Content you place there, and which you can remove at any time, and 2.) Content that your fans place there, which you also can remove any time. You are always in complete control of your FanClub ... not your Fans, not IFriends, but you. To control your FanClub content, use your FanClub Manager tool.

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The potential is enormous. Some loyal, longtime iFriends chathosts have as many as 10,000 members on their iFriends "Fan Lists" (that's the list to which you can send messages from your iFriends chathost console or the videochat-session sign-in page, and which grows over time as iFriends visitors opt in to your live videochat, or send you if-grams, or select the "Notify me when live" feature on your iFriends profile page. If you can convert even a small fraction of these fans into FanClub members, do that math ... That's dozens, hundreds, perhaps even thousands of FanClub members generating monthly renewal income to you, like clockwork, at FanClub monthly prices ranging between $14.99 and $29.99 per month.

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The free www.MyiFriends.net hosting platform -- available only to iFriends chathosts -- is an excellent "do-it-yourself" resource for Stars who have strong HTML, javascript and webmastering skills. However, because the number of fully-developed chathost websites on the free hosting platform is very small, relative to the total number of active iFriends chathosts, the MyiFriends hosting platform is not highly visible across the iFriends service. As a result, chathosts who use the free hosting platform have to fight for traffic and exposure, just like any webmaster on the internet. (It's easy to build a website ... but hard to attract shoppers and buyers to a website).

FanClubs is different in all these respects. FanClubs offers several advantages over the free myiFriends.net hosting platform, including:

Simplicity: FanClubs requires no technical skills whatsoever ... in fact, your FanClub is created and ready for business the moment your iFriends chathost account is approved, without you having to make so much as a single additional mouseclick. And to edit your FanClub, you need no internet skills beyond the simple ability to complete a web form. If you are reading this text right now, you have all the necessary skills and abilities to manage your FanClub and maximize its potential.

Exposure & Traffic: Your FanClubs is exposed widely throughout the iFriends platform. In fact, your FanClub home page doubles as your iFriends Profile page! When your iFriends visitors check out your archives, your FanClub is there. When your iFriends visitor exits your videochat, your FanClub is there.

Generate interest in your Live Videochat: When surfers visit your MyiFriends website at the same time that you happen to be in live videochat, it can be challenging to alert the surfer to your live webcam, and invite him in for a look. But if someone is persuing your FanClub at the same time that you're live, they receive a gentle pop-up advisory every five minutes, politely urging them stop by and pay you a live visit! Plus ... every single page in your FanClub automatically contains numerous "Status Indicator" graphics so attentive surfers will see you the moment you log in with your live webcam. None of these features are available on the free live hosting platform.

Upload your own graphics and videoclips: Both FanClubs and the free hosting platform permit you to upload your own homemade graphics and videoclips for display on your website. But only FanClubs automatically integrates that uploaded content into the "guest overlay" environment that ensures that prospective members can get a feel for what you have to offer, while not seeing too much for free.

But guess what? If you have HTML and web-design skills, you can create and maintain your own MyiFriends.net website, and make it a part of your FanClub! That increases the appeal and attractiveness of your FanClub, and helps retain fans longer.

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Of course. FanClubs continues iFriends' legendary prowess for safeguarding your privacy and ensuring that people you don't want to see your unfiltered, uncensored materials, can't see your unfiltered and uncensored materials. Forexample, if you've configured your chathost "block zones" feature to prevent individuals from Las Vegas (where you live now) or from the Chicago suburban zip code 60195 (where you grew up and where your family still resides) from seeing your unfiltered archives or accessing your live uncensored videochat, those same individuals will not be able to join your FanClub and will not be able to see your uncensored and unfiltered content in your FanClub.

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Through the "My Hot Friends" circle capability, you can trade traffic with your friends, acquaintances, business partners and other Stars. Consider: When a visitor checks you out, and decides to continue his search elsewhere, wouldn't it be great to refer him to other Stars in your "My Hot Friends" circle, rather than just watch him run off to the general iFriends universe of 150,000+ video chathosts? It's all about one word: control.

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Easy! Click the "See Friends List" option in your FanClub, as a viewer would. The list of stars that appear in the right column are those stars who have added you to their Friends List. (For illustrations, click here and here.)

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The free iFriends FanClub Hotline is where your FanClub members can have private, personal contact with you, via your own toll-free number and extension. Information about how to use the free FanClub hotline is provided in your FanClub editing facility.

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You'll find your pin number under the "Features I should Update Only Once in a While" link that appears in your FanClub edit facility. (look towards the bottom of the page)

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An optional part of the FanClub platform, GetCloser is a great new way to "get closer" to your fans and videochat regulars, through regular toll-free telephone calls that take place through the FanClub hotline. GetCloser is not only toll-free (for both parties to the call), but it's also privacy-protected. Your fans never know your phone number, and you never know theirs. At your option, you can even generate additional pay-per-minute revenue from these calls, even when you're not onlne. If you've ever wondered if you can earn income from your fans while driving your car or shopping at the mall, GetCloser may be for you. If you've ever felt that you were spending too much time talking on the telephone with your iFriends fans, but had too little to show for it, GetCloser may be for you. Click for more information about GetCloser.

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There are four levels of access in every FanClub:

1. Guests -- all archives and thumbnails are censored
2. iFriends members -- archives available on the iFriends website are also available to any iFriends members who check out your Fan Club, while all other FanClub archive materials are censored
3. FanClub members -- all archives published on iFriends, plus any unpublished archive materials (for example, archive images once marked favorite, but which you subsequently removed from favorites), and;
4. FanClub "Star" level -- the level accessible only to the Star herself, so that she can edit her FanClub and remove any archive materials from her FanClub's reach, at all FanClub access levels. In other words, the Star has full "veto" authority over each archive in her FanClub, regardless of whether it is labeled a 'Favorite' on iFriends, or otherwise published on iFriends.

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Prior to the debut of FanClubs, replays represented the only way on iFriends for fee-based chathosts to earn income on a 24/7 continuous basis. While replays continue to serve as a "value alternative" to live sessions for iFriends members who can't afford live videochat rates or a FanClub membership, they also suffer from another important limitation: Like a television set with only one channel that you can tune in, a chathost can run only one replay at a given time. With FanClubs, however, your paying FanClub members can be simultaneuosly downloading any material from your Replay Library. Also, our own research has determined that the tiny amount of revenues generated from replay shows - a trivially small fraction of the revenues generated from live videochats -- is substantially less than the revenue potential of FanClubs. (In other words, if you're thinking of removing all your Replay material from the members-only area of your FanClub, don't -- that's being penny-wise and pound foolish.)

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If a FanClub member leaves you a personal message on the Free FanClub HotLine System, it's easy to retrieve it, right from within your browser. There's two ways to do so: First, while editing your FanClub, under "Features I should update Daily", look for the "Listen to your FanClub Hotline Voice Mails" option. The second area is in your FanClub member list. ("Review My FanClub Activity --> My FanClub Member List"). In the "Comment" column, you'll find any message that has been left for you by that member, and a hotlink to play it (click here for illustration).

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Some Stars have had trouble adding "My Favorite Fantasies", and it's usually because they've got more than one FanClub and accidentally had the wrong FanClub logged in when they tried to add the Fantasies entries. Check out this screen shot; it'll show you just where to look to confirm that you've got the right screen name logged in.

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You bet! If you have your own videoclips that you'd like to share with your FanClub members, and they present only people who are already documented on iFriends as being 18+, simply upload them directly to your FanClub! In your FanClub Edit Facility, simply click on "VideoClips" or "replays", and you'll find a link to the videoclip-upload form. Here's a screenshot.

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Just click here for step-by-step instructions on how to add a "Favorite Memory" to your FanClub.

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