Kick-starting sales in messages
Step five is where the revenue is actually made: in private messages. The job of your posts is to build attention and trust; the vast majority of the money comes from messages and PPV. This page walks through the mechanics — the actual scripts are inside the product.
Practical tips
- ✓74% of our revenue came from messages — that's where your time should go
- ✓Never pitch in the first message — ask first
- ✓Mention the price at the end of the conversation, not the beginning
- ✓A few conversations a day, seen through, beat twenty you only started
Why this order?
This is the most important and the most misunderstood step in the whole method. Most new creators optimize for posts, because that's what's visible: likes, views, feedback. But on Fanvue, the post isn't the product — it's the shop window. In our own documented first month, of the $1,510.31 in revenue, $1,114.81 — 74 percent of the total — came purely from messages and PPV. Posts brought in $184.88 by comparison. That ratio isn't a quirk of ours; it's how the platform works: the subscription gets fans in the door, but a paying fan pays again and again for personal attention. Selling in messages isn't improvisation, though. It has an arc: opener, question, rapport, offer — and only then the price. Sending an offer in the very first message is the same mistake as opening with explicit content in your first post — you skip the trust step, and the reply never comes.
What results to expect
From this step on, your revenue becomes predictable. Post performance depends on the algorithm — which is outside your control — but selling in messages depends on your work: how many conversations you start, in what order, and when you make an offer. This is the first point in the method where more work directly means more money. Realistically, in the first weeks a few conversations a day are enough, as long as you see them through.
A concrete example — post brief
The skeleton of the mechanics: open with a personal greeting (never a templated hello), ask a question that invites a reply, tune in to their answer, and only bring up the offer in the third or fourth round of the conversation. Always mention the price at the end of the conversation, not the beginning. The product's chat script library breaks this down into concrete, copy-paste lines — separately for openers, objections, rejections and repeat buyers.