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TheBrownFox
09-22-2012, 03:12 AM
I want to know if this is pretty decent for a new person on SM. I have made about 675 dollars per week doing 30 hours per week TOTAL. That's free plus privates.
Tonight was the WORST night I've experienced. Now, on LJ or IML I had 40 dollar nights but in four hours I made 45 dollars. Never had this happen on SM and the amount of begging was insane. I mean, insults and begging and one guy even called me the "c" word because I told him I would NOT do a twirl for him for free because I wasn't a damn ballerina. But he could tip me, and I would. HAHA. I ended up being so bitchy that I started using dom phrases in my room display area to draw in slaves so I could at least be bitchy to them and use it as an outlet. And if it wasn't for the foot fetish people I had I would have went insane. I even lowered my rate from 6.99 to 3.99! And STILL no privates. But I did get more begging which sucked. I think I'll stay at 6.99 and listen to the crickets than to go back to 3.99 and hear "show ass" "i want you to spit in my mouth while I shove my fist in your ass" and my personal favorite "show me your tongue, I'll punch myself in the nuts, and if it turns me on enough we'll go private".
I know that everyone has different opinions on what is 'good' and 'bad', but I think $675 in a 30-hour week is good! :)
Yeah, I think you should stay at the higher rate that you were at, rather than lower your prices. Lowering your prices tends to attract the lesser quality rude cheapos who want you to do this and that as quickly as possible. I think you should stick with your higher rate of $6.99 and attract the better quality customers.
__ChanelMonai
09-22-2012, 01:37 PM
Ugh. I'm so confused right now. I signed up for Streamate last week sometime, just got approved yesterday, so of course I got on to stream since for the past few days I've been streaming on Chaturbate and it's discouraged me so much. Anywhoo, I downloaded the encoder and started trying to Stream, but when I looked at myself through the cammodels link it looked like my cam had a few seconds of lag, probably like 5 to 6 seconds at the most. I was so worried about it affecting custies coming into my room that I stopped streaming and just decided that it might've been the encoder. So I stopped streaming with that, and just decided to stream using the HD drop-down option. When I did that the lag time still had no change. I'm running with a Toshiba i7, and I have 8 gigs of RAM and a 750gb Hard Drive so I don't think it's my specs. I did an internet speed test and it was at 3.69 UP. Is that too slow to broadcast on SM (Encoder or no encoder) or is the lagtime just normal? Iask this because whenever I broadcast on Chaturbate I don't see an lag. But I just wanna get this up and running, so someone please HELP ME! :-\ :(
SarahTime
09-22-2012, 02:10 PM
What on EARTH is up with SM's placement right now????? The last couple days it has been seriously whack.... Random girls who are normally low page 1 or page 2 are occupying the 1st and 2nd rows..... ahead of some of the top models....
Are they changing the way they place models or something???
BlasianBytch
09-22-2012, 02:54 PM
I think they just to a random rotation sometimes to encourage low ranking girls.
Fridays
09-22-2012, 03:01 PM
my check for 2nd-9th sept never arrived..
the one for the week AFTER that just arrived today..
I never had a problem.. untill this check.
it was my BIGGEST ChECK ever and its disappeared!
yea right!
reissue it for $25 now, cause you know I want it. Duh!
Seriously..........
this makes me mad!
ManyRoses
09-22-2012, 03:16 PM
my check for 2nd-9th sept never arrived..
the one for the week AFTER that just arrived today..
I never had a problem.. untill this check.
it was my BIGGEST ChECK ever and its disappeared!
yea right!
reissue it for $25 now, cause you know I want it. Duh!
Seriously..........
this makes me mad!
Once, I randomly had a check come over a week late!! I was in the process of e-mailing SM to get it reissued, and it just appeared...
First off - call your local post office and report it. Sometimes there can be weird delays, issues with new carriers, etc etc - it's not $25, so why not?
If you really need it RIGHT NOW - e-mail SM (but bear in mind, I was going back and forth for a few days, so be quick about it), otherwise, I would e-mail them to say that it didn't show up but you want to wait until it is free to reissue.
xxx
Fridays
09-22-2012, 03:45 PM
what happens if I end up with 2 checks LOL
PrincessLuna
09-22-2012, 03:50 PM
what happens if I end up with 2 checks LOL
I don't think you can. The $25 is a cancellation fee of the first check.
Fridays
09-22-2012, 03:58 PM
I don't think you can. The $25 is a cancellation fee of the first check.
damn it!
I wanted two of them.. for the aggravation hahhaha
Jessica1001
09-22-2012, 04:07 PM
Off-topic ---
It's always the biggest check that this happens to, isn't it? I was switching payment methods on one of my sites once, because they had discontinued the one I really liked. It took me a gooood long while to find an alternative, PLUS I was dealing with an address change at the time. So I put all my weekly payouts on 'hold' for a while, while I sorted things out. I kept camming, of course, so the $ was piling up, I just wasn't being paid out for a while.
When I finally did get a check issued to me, it was pretty huge... just over $12k. Deposited it using the ATM along with all my smaller checks, and my vanilla job checks, like I always did.
Guess which check the ATM decided to eat, without crediting my account? Yup. The twelve thousand dollar one.
I don't think I ever ran into a bank manager's office so fast in my life. LOL! :-)
/threadjack
Cam_Model_Jess
09-22-2012, 04:15 PM
[QUOTE=__ChanelMonai;2402828when I looked at myself through the cammodels link it looked like my cam had a few seconds of lag, probably like 5 to 6 seconds at the most.([/QUOTE]
It's absolutely normally to have a slight delay. I really doubt it was as long as 6 seconds. Time it next time. I think you'll find it's only a second or two. If it's more than that, then you may have an issue but I doubt it. Think about how much that little video stream has to go thru to get from your computer to SM and back to you as you watch yourself.
I would worry if it's obvious that your lip movements aren't lining up with what you're saying (both things noted while watching yourself). Unless that doesn't line up or if you have a delay of at least several seconds, don't worry.
sammii
09-22-2012, 04:24 PM
^ I see a delay as well when I watch myself while I'm streaming (and I use an i7 computer and a high speed internet connection), but whenever I ask guys in my room if there's a delay or if it's freezing, they say my stream is great. So even though you see your stream delaying, it's probably not to everyone else.
I've never had one guy mention my stream lagging *knocks on wood.* So yeah, don't worry, the same thing happens to me. Unless people are complaining, I wouldn't worry about it.
SarahTime
09-22-2012, 06:00 PM
my check for 2nd-9th sept never arrived..
the one for the week AFTER that just arrived today..
I never had a problem.. untill this check.
it was my BIGGEST ChECK ever and its disappeared!
yea right!
reissue it for $25 now, cause you know I want it. Duh!
Seriously..........
this makes me mad!
Regular mail or fed ex? Is it showing as issued in your account? If so, I would start with the post office (if it's regular mail) or contact fed ex if it's fed ex, also they might have a tracking number at SM if you used fed ex.
Your Evil Twin
09-22-2012, 07:48 PM
when you join twitter get listed on Cam girl twitter directories, also follow streammate, they'll tweet to everyone when you are starting a show.
For the life of me I can't figure out how to get listed on the cam girl twitter directories. Can someone please explain how?
PrincessLuna
09-22-2012, 09:55 PM
For the life of me I can't figure out how to get listed on the cam girl twitter directories. Can someone please explain how?
Just tweet them to be added. Just something like "Hey @camgirltweet I'd love to be added to your list!" or something like that.
Marina Starr
09-23-2012, 10:10 AM
What's up with traffic today? Sunday is supposed to be one of my busiest days! Anyone notice?
exxotic
09-23-2012, 10:14 AM
Well, it has gotten cooler and the weather is nice. Friday was bad. Plus it's the end of the month and if you think about it, some schools are already out for fall break up north. So, could be people have either no money OR they are doing things outside or with their family.
I went to a tourist destination yesterday and it was packed. A friend of mine said their hotel is booked all weekend with travelers. To be honest, I don't even fool with SM from Friday through Sunday. Sunday around 11PM seems to pick up a bit. But usually I stay off SM on the weekend. I tried Friday night because I was alone and bored and it was a nightmare with begging and rude assholes.
Your Evil Twin
09-23-2012, 06:48 PM
I was talking to a friend (she does not cam) but she thinks that the website should protect my IP address. Does anyone know if this is the case or not. I can't imagine being able to effectively cam using a VPN or proxy server.
Marina Starr
09-23-2012, 06:59 PM
I actually do very well on Sunday late morning onto the afternoon but this Sunday was very strange. I got tons of freeloaders and beggers. They weren't rude or abusive because I won't tolerate that shit.
Well, it has gotten cooler and the weather is nice. Friday was bad. Plus it's the end of the month and if you think about it, some schools are already out for fall break up north. So, could be people have either no money OR they are doing things outside or with their family.
I went to a tourist destination yesterday and it was packed. A friend of mine said their hotel is booked all weekend with travelers. To be honest, I don't even fool with SM from Friday through Sunday. Sunday around 11PM seems to pick up a bit. But usually I stay off SM on the weekend. I tried Friday night because I was alone and bored and it was a nightmare with begging and rude assholes.
ManyRoses
09-23-2012, 07:37 PM
Its FOOTBALL season ladies! Today was week 3 of Sunday football (according to the NFL website, anyway - I don't follow sports much..)
NFL sure will fuck with some of our Sunday traffic.
DiamondCupcakes
09-24-2012, 09:02 AM
Sorry for not updating on my TV issue sooner. I had a crazy week but definitly wanted to let everyone know what happened. In short I was compensated for the entire price of the TV Show and then some by Streamate. I couldnt be happier. It meant a lot to me to have a higher up message me and express concern and aplogize personally for the issue I encountered with the show. They assured me that the issue would not happen again and because it is a new feature they appreciate my patience with them in delaing with the problem.
I must admit that I did not expect a resolution to the issue nor did expect any money back, let alone getting afull refund plus extra. I was looking into finding myself a new main site because I was so dissapointed in how this issue was intitially dealt with but have had a change of heart. For now SM is my home and I hope that this professional behaivor continues. Thanks SM!
Marina Starr
09-24-2012, 10:29 AM
I'm glad things worked out for you! SM was my very first site I signed up for and I still love it.
Sorry for not updating on my TV issue sooner. I had a crazy week but definitly wanted to let everyone know what happened. In short I was compensated for the entire price of the TV Show and then some by Streamate. I couldnt be happier. It meant a lot to me to have a higher up message me and express concern and aplogize personally for the issue I encountered with the show. They assured me that the issue would not happen again and because it is a new feature they appreciate my patience with them in delaing with the problem.
I must admit that I did not expect a resolution to the issue nor did expect any money back, let alone getting afull refund plus extra. I was looking into finding myself a new main site because I was so dissapointed in how this issue was intitially dealt with but have had a change of heart. For now SM is my home and I hope that this professional behaivor continues. Thanks SM!
volatileghost
09-24-2012, 11:41 AM
live on Sm right now... can't keep anyone in my room for anything :( ballllssss. what do yall do when no ones in your room, just chill?
Marina Starr
09-24-2012, 01:08 PM
Hang in there and look pleasant! Smile once in a while, play some feel good music. This week is brutal, lol! Must be the end of the month thing.
live on Sm right now... can't keep anyone in my room for anything :( ballllssss. what do yall do when no ones in your room, just chill?
volatileghost
09-24-2012, 01:10 PM
Hang in there and look pleasant! Smile once in a while, play some feel good music. This week is brutal, lol! Must be the end of the month thing.
I guess so. A male cam guy is in my room and he said his room is empty as hell and he cant get anyone either, guess maybe football + end of the month is killing it here. im smiling and talking, but about 4 people at a time in my room so far.
Marina Starr
09-24-2012, 01:20 PM
I fucking hate football and sport in general. I rather be at the mall. It will pick up so no worries!
I guess so. A male cam guy is in my room and he said his room is empty as hell and he cant get anyone either, guess maybe football + end of the month is killing it here. im smiling and talking, but about 4 people at a time in my room so far.
Your Evil Twin
09-24-2012, 01:31 PM
Has anyone in the US had trouble cashing their Streamate checks? Is it a foreign transaction?
Marina Starr
09-24-2012, 01:33 PM
Never had any problems! I don't know why there should be.
Has anyone in the US had trouble cashing their Streamate checks? Is it a foreign transaction?
sweetgapeach
09-24-2012, 02:01 PM
Has anyone in the US had trouble cashing their Streamate checks? Is it a foreign transaction?
There are a few threads on this already. No, it's not a BIG problem. I heard from here that Walmart stopped cashing them, not sure why though or even if that is true, I just stopped going there when it was stated on here. Every now and then I have difficulties having mine cashed when there is not enough funds in my account to cover it....but I just also assume that is because some of the tellers seem to frown on the business itself. I have been at a national bank for six years, camming for one. Never had a problem with my account, they just seem to act an ass when they wanna.....
Hope that helps a little
MommieLongLegs
09-24-2012, 05:46 PM
Ok, so a few posts back I was complaining about how much camming has sucked lately, but it's gotten better. This month in particular has been hard, but I'm still going. If it weren't fot this thread/site, I'd have noone to vent to.
Anyway, don't know if it's been mentioned before, but what's with the Tag section under My Users? It shows 0 tags and apparently goes off words in the About Me section. Well, what words qualify as tags? I'm confused lol
Cam_Model_Jess
09-24-2012, 06:16 PM
As far as I can tell, the customers are allowed to tag you, then you have to decide whether or not to make the tags "public." I have to say, this is the longest that SM has gone between injecting a new feature and introducing that new feature. It makes me nervous, but I'm not so into speculating too much about it since it seems that we're allowed to hide the tags.
CurvyWinona
09-24-2012, 10:09 PM
I finally dragged myself back on SM after almost two months hiatus and I had a nice time. :)
I cannot find my SENT messages on there... I sent few messages and I do not see any in the sent folder. :(
ManyRoses
09-24-2012, 10:15 PM
^^^ You have to manually check a box to copy messages to your sent folder. Sucks. So if you just typed a message in and hit send, it won't save.
CurvyWinona
09-24-2012, 10:38 PM
wth. alright, thanks for telling me that. :)
ManyRoses
09-24-2012, 10:39 PM
^^^ Yup. It doth suck - took me a while to figure it out, and even now I forget from time to time! I wish you could just change a general setting, but no such luck.
For future reference, it is a check box at the very bottom of the e-mail, on the left.
volatileghost
09-25-2012, 02:27 AM
(yay for being a newb! .... Or reborn newb!) 4 hours here at $39? My only question is best way to drive traffic to your room specifically? I'm doing the twitter to my cammodels link, I wont do facebook, I have ELM and MGF but not trying to promote there. Any way to entice men into your room or is it more of a waiting game? On imlive, it seems busier, but not necessarily more profitable and I'm no fan of chargebacks....
originalcyn
09-27-2012, 08:27 AM
How do the 'tags; work? Mine are empty ;( thanks ladies!
volatileghost
09-27-2012, 08:30 AM
Good question original, I wondered the same thing...
DarlaSummers
09-27-2012, 01:20 PM
I didn't want to start a new thread for this, and considering SM is what I'm considering, I'd like to ask here. I've been out of camming for two years, and have a "regular" job that makes me miserable. Underpaid, overworked, you know the drill. I make roughly $250 a week there. If I quit my job, and did strictly camming on a regular schedule, is unrealistic to think that I can make $250 a week, minimum? I just don't know how the "economy" of camming is doing these days and don't want to up & quit my regular job, if I can't bring in at least 1k a month like I'm doing now.
annabellz
09-27-2012, 01:40 PM
Camming is the type of job where what you put in is what you'll get out. No one can tell you what youre going to earn, but I get what youre asking...
So lets see. With out knowing who you are and what youre going to be offering or what niche you'll fill or what your prices are-
If you can work 4 hours a day- 7 days a week thats 28hrs total. You would need to average around 9 dollars an hour to earn 250 dollars a week. That is a very obtainable goal to start out with.
You would have to keep in mind with camming (if you dont remember) there are ups and downs. You may be logged in for two hours and earn nothing and then your third hour earn 30 dollars. Or your first hour you earn 65 bucks and nothing the rest of the night.
If you could work more hours, your hourly goal would be less, but working more hours is stressful both physically and emotionally and honestly there are only so many profitable hours for camming. Typically the best hours are 'after dinner hours' when guys get home from work/ winding down before bed. Depending on your time zone, you can log in earlier or later to catch traffic from other zones and from Europe. But there also a market for 'early morning delights' and 'mid afternoon delights', just a smaller one.
PrincessLuna
09-27-2012, 02:00 PM
I didn't want to start a new thread for this, and considering SM is what I'm considering, I'd like to ask here. I've been out of camming for two years, and have a "regular" job that makes me miserable. Underpaid, overworked, you know the drill. I make roughly $250 a week there. If I quit my job, and did strictly camming on a regular schedule, is unrealistic to think that I can make $250 a week, minimum? I just don't know how the "economy" of camming is doing these days and don't want to up & quit my regular job, if I can't bring in at least 1k a month like I'm doing now.
Don't quit your day job until you know you can earn more in your night job. Before losing your regular pay check, go through the forums and make absolutely sure you have the physical items to cam. Meaning, your computer is up to speed, you have a proper cam, clothing, etc etc.
Cam_Model_Jess
09-27-2012, 02:18 PM
^^I think $250/wk is very attainable. But if you've been out of camming for two years, just realize that a lot has changed. It's a lot more flooded than it used to be and the "tech" requirements are a lot larger. I recently bought an i7 Asus for $1k, just as an example. My internet is the best package I can get in my area. I have a better modem than most "regular" people. Those are just some examples. So, as Lunah said, make sure you can get by on what you have or have the funds to purchase what you need. As far as clothing for camming etc, I wouldn't worry as much about that. As long as you have a couple bra/panty sets, you should be fine :)
Read up. And good luck.
volatileghost
09-27-2012, 02:20 PM
I just recently started again after 2 years off and I've found that at first, it's super slow in your room but that without HD, you won't get very far, so it's really worth it to invest in a good cam!! My encoder is broken for SM... And the difference = day 1: $40, day 2: nothing. So.... I'd say the same as the others! And try to find unique things to do to make you stand out so people will remember you and keep coming back!
Cam_Model_Jess
09-27-2012, 04:42 PM
Is anyone else experiencing trouble w/ viewing profiles or blocking customers? I thought this might just be a minor glitch from this morning, but it's persisting. On the list of customers, if I click on one name it switches the order of the names. It would basically take three tries of clicking on the customers' names before I could block the right person.
It happens in guest chat & in private (if there's more than one guy in pvt).
It just started this morning. It's also been shutting down on me a cpl times a day & that hasn't happened in a long time. Wondering if this is what's causing it to be so slow (site issues). This is the first time in probably 4 months that I won't be making my weekly goal :(
OMG I just saw another model hit a 700 DOLLAR GOAL on SM :O
$5 buy in / 17 min show
sweetgapeach
09-27-2012, 05:16 PM
^^ I am OBVIOUSLY older than her, but she just makes me wanna grow up to be just like her....lol. True inspiration, but I missed it this time!!
PrincessLuna
09-27-2012, 05:21 PM
OMG I just saw hit a 700 DOLLAR GOAL on SM :O
$5 buy in / 17 min show
You really shouldn't call out girls by name :\
You really shouldn't call out girls by name :\
Edited - you might want to edit the quote in your post :)
PrincessLuna
09-27-2012, 05:31 PM
Ha! How awesome of me lol
MommieLongLegs
09-27-2012, 08:02 PM
Is anyone else experiencing trouble w/ viewing profiles or blocking customers? I thought this might just be a minor glitch from this morning, but it's persisting. On the list of customers, if I click on one name it switches the order of the names. It would basically take three tries of clicking on the customers' names before I could block the right person.
It happens in guest chat & in private (if there's more than one guy in pvt).
It just started this morning. It's also been shutting down on me a cpl times a day & that hasn't happened in a long time. Wondering if this is what's causing it to be so slow (site issues). This is the first time in probably 4 months that I won't be making my weekly goal :(
Yeah, after awhile it tells me I have to be logged in view the profile. Also, have had issues with guys getting kicked out of privates, but it's fine on my end. It's been a long time since I've had glitches like this, but hopefully it will pass like it always does.