Creating a betting tips website has become easy: within minutes it is live and your first tips are published. What decides whether your members stay is the choices you make around it. The seven mistakes at a glance:
| Mistake | What it costs you |
|---|---|
| 1. Promising profits | Disappointed members at the first losing run |
| 2. Hiding your results | Visitors who don't believe you |
| 3. Managing VIP access by hand | Members kept waiting, others who no longer pay |
| 4. Declaring nothing | A frozen account, a penalty, a business brought to a halt |
| 5. Getting your price wrong | Too few members, or members with little commitment |
| 6. No domain name of your own | Less trust at the moment of payment |
| 7. Not collecting emails | An audience lost if a platform cuts you off |
1. Promising profits
"90% strike rate", "pay back your subscription in a week", "today's sure thing". These hooks draw people in, because they sell exactly what punters want to hear. But no one can guarantee the result of a match. A tip is a reasoned opinion, never a certainty.
Why it costs you members: the first losing run always comes. That day, your member doesn't judge your results over the season, they judge the gap with the promise. They feel misled, unsubscribe, sometimes ask for a refund and say so publicly. Promising winnings can also break consumer protection and advertising rules.
What to do instead
2. Not showing a transparent track record
Only showing your big wins, posting hand-picked screenshots, deleting losing tips: it is tempting when you are starting out, especially after a bad week.
Why it costs you members: punters know these tricks by heart. A track record with no losses doesn't reassure, it drives people away. The hesitant visitor goes to a tipster who shows everything, and the member who spots a deleted result doesn't come back.
What to do instead
On a Typsa website, you mark each tip as won or lost: your statistics update, and so does your members' bankroll.
3. Managing VIP access by hand
A member pays by bank transfer or via a private message. You check the payment, add them to the VIP group, then have to remember to remove them when their subscription ends. Multiply that by every member, every month.
Why it costs you members: with ten members, it is manageable. With fifty, someone waits hours for access because you were asleep, someone else stays in the group without paying, a third forgets to renew because nobody reminded them. The new member left waiting is disappointed before reading your first tip, and the one who no longer pays but stays devalues everyone else's subscription.
What to do instead
Create your betting tips website
Automated payments and VIP access, live in 5 minutes. No commitment.
4. Ignoring the rules and declaring nothing
Selling tips is not the same as taking bets: you sell analysis, you don't take any bets, so no gambling licence is involved. But it is a business activity. Many start without registering anything, take payments into a personal account and declare nothing.
Why it costs you members: an undeclared business can stop overnight. A personal payment account receiving business payments can be frozen, and your members can no longer pay. Without clear terms of sale, a refund dispute quickly turns sour. And the way you promote your tips can also be regulated, depending on where you and your audience are.
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5. Getting your price wrong
Two opposite mistakes: a very low price "to attract people", or a high price from day one, with no track record to justify it.
Why it costs you members: too low, and you attract members with little commitment, who leave after the first loss, and you manage lots of them for a modest income. Too high, and nobody subscribes, and you wrongly conclude that nobody wants your offer.
€10 – €30
a month: the usual range for subscriptions
≈ €17
the average payment on Typsa websites
What to do instead
6. Not having your own domain name
Sticking with a generic address, or just a social media link, means building your business on ground you don't own.
Why it costs you members: at the moment of payment, a long or generic address inspires less trust than one in your name. It is hard to remember and to share, and you don't keep it if you change tools: the links you shared for months lead nowhere.
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7. Not collecting email addresses
Your whole relationship with your members runs through a social network or a messaging app. Outside that platform, you have no way of reaching them.
Why it costs you members: a suspended account, a closed channel, a collapse in reach, and you lose touch with your audience overnight. Nor can you contact a former member to invite them back, even though they are often the easiest to win over again.
What to do instead
The checklist before you launch your tipster website
These mistakes are much easier to fix before launch than afterwards, when you have to win back disappointed members.
- You sell a method, never guaranteed profits.
- Your track record is complete, wins and losses alike.
- Payments and VIP access are automated.
- Your activity is declared, your terms of sale are displayed.
- Your price matches what you deliver.
- Your website has a domain name in your name.
- Your members have an account, with their email, on your website.
Next, our guide on how to sell betting tips covers your offer, your price and finding your first members, step by step.