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Snowy0Star
11-20-2014, 07:46 AM
I know its hard but u just have to stick it out because it will get better theres too many horny and lonely guys out there with money to burn looking for our services the more time ur online the more ppl will see you and it will even out in the long run. i had a guy spend a few days in my room the other day and i was tired of seeing him in my room everyday for like a week talking to me and didnt go pvt the every fucking day i was gonna give like 5 min then ban him he takes me pvt for 15 min. so sometimes they just need time to warm up to u or their budgets arent jiving or glitches or whatever. unless theyre being mega douches or not even talking to me im not going to ban them anymore. if they won't talk i assume their hands are on their cocks instead of the keyboard pvt button or tip gold where they should be.
trying something different never hurts too . i went from days to super late nights into the morning the next day and im doing better and trying a different hustle and im working on getting my computer upgraded and making another one and getting a professional mic and sometime next year ill be getting the Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e. as well investing more in my appearance.
recently i feel like all i do is barely scrape by and put all my spare money into camming and like im not getting anywhere and nowhere near where i should be considering how long ive been doing this but if im honest with myself i was in the wrong mindset not putting in the hours i needed too and taking months/weeks off focusing on other sites or pso and i havent been investing enough in things like i should have from the start im not saying u guys arent im just saying this is what im going thru . ive also been doing a lot more positive thinking and changing my thoughts when i catch myself thinking negatively its been paying off i'm much happier and work has been a lot easier.
angelbby
11-20-2014, 09:48 AM
me and a couple girls decided to content trade, how would i go about to advertise that on sm? " 2 sexy girls videos or 2g/g videos"
Marina Starr
11-20-2014, 02:07 PM
Random thought Thursday:
#whywouldIbejealousofyoubitch?
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t94/tsmelania/oprahlaughin_zps1a21d47f.gif (http://s158.photobucket.com/user/tsmelania/media/oprahlaughin_zps1a21d47f.gif.html)
Monica_Lovely
11-20-2014, 03:51 PM
Is anyone else's payment history not updating?? I put my payment for this week as a regular paper check and I'm not showing that it's been issued yet at all........Is anyone else having problems seeing their payments that are being sent out?
Glamourmilf
11-20-2014, 05:14 PM
^^I just looked, and it does show up as having been issued. (a check that is).
anonymous camgirl
11-20-2014, 06:33 PM
That happened to me one time! I had to take a pic of it...LOL
100% in Paid chat! Twas fun to see that. It was because a custie who took me exclusive right before cut-off and stayed into the new day.
My % usually are pretty high, over 60% most of the time, so it was trippy to see that.
Loves it!:smellie_j:bouncey:
anonymous camgirl
11-20-2014, 06:42 PM
Well?? Supposedly the placement has a lot of factors ya know?? your ratings, your conversion rate, the encoder etc etc and also if you are in a special category that NOT everyone else is in?? that also helps move you up, Like I am in the pornstar category which is totally ANNOYING! and the guys who ask about it NEVER hardly go pvt...LOL.... But I dunno might help me to move up the line.. Yea so if your placement is slipping EVERY single free chatter and pvt COUNTS!... I have had bad times to. .. AWHILE ago before i even took SM seriously, ( it never used to be my main site) I was on like page 6!..YES indeedy!... then I worked my way all the way to page 1.. sometimes I have slipped and fell and went to page 2 or 3 . mostly because of emotional disturbances! but I manage to get back on the 1st page eventually.. But make EVERY minute in pvt count! And I don't agree with lowering rates to get more sales.. I don't think it works! I noticed most of the time no matter what I charge I have about the same AMOUNT of customers! or the same amount of pay!... so I don't bother to lower my rates when it's slow. I am charging $6.99/$7.99 and I just raised them 2 weeks ago due to a yeast infection so I couldn't do TONS of shows all day, so so far I am testing it out and see how it goes.. I only raised it $1 per minute each. Not that much difference from what I was charging before.
So it's pretty much swim or sink at some point, right? Once you are there, you either get more pvts =>better stats=>higher placement=>more exposure=>more pvts or do nothing but sinkuntil you drown?
Glamourmilf
11-21-2014, 11:03 AM
^^ I have to disagree. I lowered my rates a couple of weeks ago, only as an experiment. I knew when hundreds of guys were coming into chat, yet nobody was buying, something was terribly wrong.
as soon as I lowered them, I mad 100 plus per hour.
Another cam girl on here asked me what I lowered them to, and she also made 100 plus per hour.
I don't split when I'm camming, so I really need to make every minute I'm on count.
I have raised them back to what they were, because I have more regs who are now paying, instead of poping in and out.
I never mind being in long prvts., because for me personally, it's the free chat that drives me crazy, and makes me turn off my cam.
With a lower rate, more guys pile in, and it's like getting compound interest at the bank, because they stay longer.
The only thing that is different is the type of guys. After a while, their weird requests get to me.
I guess coming from the stripping world, my head space is different. I go onstage, do my set, get money, get off the stage.
The sitting and teasing with camming for no money in free is something I'll never get used to.
That's why I've taken a second job. I'm much more relaxed now on cam, because it's second income for me now.
SoloDesire
11-21-2014, 11:12 AM
^^ I have to disagree. I lowered my rates a couple of weeks ago, only as an experiment. I knew when hundreds of guys were coming into chat, yet nobody was buying, something was terribly wrong.
as soon as I lowered them, I mad 100 plus per hour.
Another cam girl on here asked me what I lowered them to, and she also made 100 plus per hour.
I don't split when I'm camming, so I really need to make every minute I'm on count.
I have raised them back to what they were, because I have more regs who are now paying, instead of poping in and out.
I never mind being in long prvts., because for me personally, it's the free chat that drives me crazy, and makes me turn off my cam.
With a lower rate, more guys pile in, and it's like getting compound interest at the bank, because they stay longer.
The only thing that is different is the type of guys. After a while, their weird requests get to me.
I guess coming from the stripping world, my head space is different. I go onstage, do my set, get money, get off the stage.
The sitting and teasing with camming for no money in free is something I'll never get used to.
That's why I've taken a second job. I'm much more relaxed now on cam, because it's second income for me now.
Just more proof that different strokes for different folks. When I lowered my prices down to $1.99 I wasn't getting that much more privates than usual. Instead, I was getting more demanding and lower ratings...still only getting 1 or 2 paying customers in at a time and averaging maybe $20 an hour. It wasn't worth it for me. I raised my prices back up to $4.99, got my hustle on (because I felt better about my rates) and was able to make over $100 an hour. So low rates just don't work for me...my experiment failed lol. I'll do whatever makes me the most money, and higher prices are what makes me the most money. Everyone is different and has a different hustle...so do what works for you :)
badcompany
11-21-2014, 11:25 AM
For Fucks sake..........This IS Friday right???????????
badcompany
11-21-2014, 11:26 AM
Never seen a Friday this bad
JaneBurgess
11-21-2014, 12:55 PM
I tried that once and all had were guys that were demanding and rude as fuck. MY patience for that kind of customer is low so I went back to higher rates. I seem to get longer shows with higher rates but I also do a lot of fetish shows.
^^ I have to disagree. I lowered my rates a couple of weeks ago, only as an experiment. I knew when hundreds of guys were coming into chat, yet nobody was buying, something was terribly wrong.
as soon as I lowered them, I mad 100 plus per hour.
Another cam girl on here asked me what I lowered them to, and she also made 100 plus per hour.
I don't split when I'm camming, so I really need to make every minute I'm on count.
I have raised them back to what they were, because I have more regs who are now paying, instead of poping in and out.
I never mind being in long prvts., because for me personally, it's the free chat that drives me crazy, and makes me turn off my cam.
With a lower rate, more guys pile in, and it's like getting compound interest at the bank, because they stay longer.
The only thing that is different is the type of guys. After a while, their weird requests get to me.
I guess coming from the stripping world, my head space is different. I go onstage, do my set, get money, get off the stage.
The sitting and teasing with camming for no money in free is something I'll never get used to.
That's why I've taken a second job. I'm much more relaxed now on cam, because it's second income for me now.
MissQuirk
11-21-2014, 02:03 PM
Just had someone come into my room and their messages were highlighted in green. What's up with that? Did a quick search but didn't really find much.
pippapippa
11-21-2014, 03:44 PM
I've been kicked offline three times and had one guy kicked out of private so far today. And I've been on a whole thirty minutes. Whatthefuck Streamate?
whiteheat
11-21-2014, 05:48 PM
Can someone here give me some advice on how to be a dom? I am naturally submissive and thats all i know, but that is cutting my camming clients in half. Im way too shy lol.
no that's not cutting your earnings in half. You don't need to do "everything" in order to do well or earn the most.
They will tell and won't it if you don't enjoy / don't know wtf you are doing with domination...
And "be a dom" is really vague. Work your personal selling points -personality looks and outfits- wether you are vanilla, sub or whatever.
If you reeeally want to try with Femdom research a lot.
CitizenVain
11-21-2014, 06:12 PM
I've been kicked offline three times and had one guy kicked out of private so far today. And I've been on a whole thirty minutes. Whatthefuck Streamate?
I'm having the same issue? What the heck! I'm missing a lot of business here. :/
pippapippa
11-21-2014, 06:27 PM
I'm having the same issue? What the heck! I'm missing a lot of business here. :/
I made $50 in an hour, which I normally consider a good day even with that many glitches. I ended up getting offline because I couldn't stand it. I'm pissed I missed out on so much money tonight.
gingerstripper
11-21-2014, 06:36 PM
Has anyone had issues this week with being diconnected on sm? i never have issues and this week. i have lost money from gold shows. 3 of them and luckly got it refunded back to me. but seriously am just not knowing if its me or if its sm. i still have internet... they said im the one who disconnected...but i didnt.. so is there something i should look at on my computer or could my router be going bad?
pippapippa
11-21-2014, 06:54 PM
Has anyone had issues this week with being diconnected on sm? i never have issues and this week. i have lost money from gold shows. 3 of them and luckly got it refunded back to me. but seriously am just not knowing if its me or if its sm. i still have internet... they said im the one who disconnected...but i didnt.. so is there something i should look at on my computer or could my router be going bad?
I got disconnected about ten times in an hour tonight. So yeah, it's been bad.
Magical_Hoohah
11-21-2014, 06:55 PM
I've been having issues with disconnects, too. I think it's SM, because I often split with Kink. If it's a disconnect in my internet, both sites normally show the disconnect, but in this case I keep getting them on SM only. It only seems to happen when I'm in private, too, which is beyond irritating.
shysara79
11-21-2014, 07:31 PM
Is anyone else having issues with the topic box not showing the topic in free chat?
violet_sweetiexx
11-21-2014, 07:37 PM
Hey! I had my first night of camming last night for about 2 and a half hours and made less than $10. I figured that it's my placement because the most ppl in my room at a time will be like six ppl and even then its mostly just people popping in and out. I'm using the HD encoder, and still have my new model status so I didnt figure this being a problem for me right off the bat. But maybe it's the way I'm talking to people? Im not sure, if anyone has any tips or has an idea of what's up it'd be greatly appreciated!!
SoloDesire
11-21-2014, 07:39 PM
I just want to add something positive to this thread. I was reading through my comments on my Streamate profile just now, and I wanna say how happy that makes me to have there. Reading through these makes me love my job and appreciate my customers so much!! Sometimes we forget just how sweet these guys can be...the sweet comments, great ratings, long shows they purchase, extra tips they give, and sweet compliments they shower us with...it makes the job so much more enjoyable when I think and focus on that stuff instead of the freeloaders/trolls/beggars that I sometimes get (okay, more often than the good guys). BUT, some of them really are grateful for our services and enjoy our shows!! Of course we know this from our paychecks, but the extra things they do and say really mean a lot to me. <3
Nikki_Fox
11-21-2014, 08:01 PM
Hey! I had my first night of camming last night for about 2 and a half hours and made less than $10. I figured that it's my placement because the most ppl in my room at a time will be like six ppl and even then its mostly just people popping in and out. I'm using the HD encoder, and still have my new model status so I didnt figure this being a problem for me right off the bat.ed whfBut maybe it's the way I'm talking to people? Im not sure, if anyone has any tips or has an idea of what's up it'd be greatly appreciated!!
have someone check your feed while you are streaming - you feed may be bad -lighting - audio - start with checking that first
Sunnylexie
11-21-2014, 08:28 PM
Just more proof that different strokes for different folks. When I lowered my prices down to $1.99 I wasn't getting that much more privates than usual. Instead, I was getting more demanding and lower ratings...still only getting 1 or 2 paying customers in at a time and averaging maybe $20 an hour. It wasn't worth it for me. I raised my prices back up to $4.99, got my hustle on (because I felt better about my rates) and was able to make over $100 an hour. So low rates just don't work for me...my experiment failed lol. I'll do whatever makes me the most money, and higher prices are what makes me the most money. Everyone is different and has a different hustle...so do what works for you :)
Exactly my experience. Every time I set my rates low I start getting those special kind of "stress pvts" where people seem to do nothing but test my physical limits - like how fast, hard and for how long I can fuck myself, what's the biggest toy I can get in, how much throatfucking I can take before I puke etc. They want to leave me sore and exhausted (probably, they are trying so hard because they want to be my last and probably only customer for the day?); and when I see how little money the show's brought me and how many of them I yet have to do to hit my goal it makes me want to cry. I think I yet have to find the price range where I'm neither "way too expensive" nor "disposable".
Snowy0Star
11-21-2014, 10:12 PM
i tired to go on in the afternoon like around 1230-130 ish EST guys were having a harder time staying in my room then normal ppl couldnt stay in my pvt it was bad and really annoying. i logged off after two >30 sec pvt - i didn't even get my bra off -_- . i'm about to go on in like an hour so i hope its better. I have like 60 so far this week because ive been experimenting with my sleep and work hours so everything has been all kinds of fucked up. with my new schedule tonight is pretty much the last night i have before cut off so ill probably have to work all the way thru into tomorrow at the rate this week has gone to even have a chance of getting the other 40 i need for payout.
SamanthaSugar
11-22-2014, 10:45 AM
Not sure if it's me but when I log into the site the interface is not loading. Rebooted several times and still can't get into the site!! Grrrrrr!!! Not a great way to start the day!
SoloDesire
11-22-2014, 11:02 AM
Not sure if it's me but when I log into the site the interface is not loading. Rebooted several times and still can't get into the site!! Grrrrrr!!! Not a great way to start the day!
That happens to me sometimes too...very weird. Clearing my cache and cookies has always fixed it though.
JackAlexander
11-22-2014, 11:10 AM
I am burdened by the glitch monster today as well.
I looked at my feed and it was weird, to me. Usually it is about 3 sec behind, today it was playing things I did 3-4 mins before I looked. i wonder if this is why I am having issue keeping people in my room.
The room count is one number but I do not see that many names in my room. See number 15, but only see 9 names - I am in classic and CC only.
When someone does come into private, not taking me to private screen, just sound then showing them logging off. But this has happened since day one with SM.
A few diff custies at diff times since 2 a.m. reporting cam cutting off/blinking - I am running solid on my end- hitting Excellent in all categories except time on line.
Maybe there are rats in the server room, snow interference, maybe I got moved to the punish her server for not logging in more, lol, hell IDK. Sometimes rebooting DOES help. Sometimes, patience is a virtue :-)
comstar
11-22-2014, 11:24 AM
It seems that I cant log in to streamatemodels.com for the last few days :( every other site on the net works its just SM that will not load for me. I can not even get to the log in screen it just keeps loading and loading and loading...It works like 20% of the day if I am lucky enough to find a period when it will load and then it just throws me out of pvt.
Has anybody else encoutnered this problem? It is just Streamatemodels.com that will not even load let alone work :-\
JackAlexander
11-22-2014, 11:43 AM
I am not having that problem at all. I am using Chrome Version 39.0.2171.65 m, which browser are you using?
Did you clear your cache and temp files?
comstar
11-22-2014, 11:56 AM
I have tried both crome and firefox...all other sites load except streamatemodels.com my download is 100mb my up is 5mb/s all other sites stream perfectly only streamatemodels.com wont even load the log in screen it just keeps loading and loading and will not display anything for like 80% of the day. Sometimes I can log in it works for a while and then it dissconnects me. I have been reading about some "Band list" and changing my IP address but I will have to wait for my friend to come and do this. It seems I am blocked from SM by their server if this makes any sense. I did not do anything I would have gotten an e-mail my account works from another computer fine and there is no message for violations or anything. I just cant load streamatemodels.com
JackAlexander
11-22-2014, 12:00 PM
Band list? I have not heard of this, please elaborate for me darling or PM me. I can probably walk you thorough new IP reset
LaylaLovely
11-22-2014, 12:22 PM
Those in the BDSM Section , do they allow wax play/ candles?? Is there any limits on BDSM that you have gotten I trouble for? Sub/dom... I'm mainly sub...
Blasphemy
11-22-2014, 01:05 PM
I am Having the same issue as Comstar. I can access any sites, except steamatemodels Ive used IE, Safari, AND Chrome. Ive restarted, everything. they all wont let me access that site. I did download Peerblock recently after reading about it on a thread here. Could that have something to do with it? That's like the last thing I can come up with. Do you also have peerblock newly installed, Comstar?
Blasphemy
11-22-2014, 01:38 PM
Disabling Peerblock and the HTTP thing solved my issue.
JessaBelle
11-22-2014, 06:13 PM
Hello,
Please forgive me, as I am sure this has been asked before. I used the search function; however, the topic is discussed in one of 616 pages in this thread, and that's a lot of pages to read.
I have seen models changing their biopics on SM often, like per show, or when they update a pic, etc. How do they do that? Do biopics get updated by SM often?
For example, a lady updated her biopic and the pic says "cum show" or "really long show"... just curious how they get these updated that often while they are logged in.
Thanks so much for your help.
JB
BritishBecky
11-22-2014, 06:16 PM
Can anyone help - I've just upgraded my computer and it came with Windows 8.1. Now my framerate on SM encoder won't go above about 23 (even though I have it set to 29.97). I've tried it with multiple webcams (I usually use the bcc950 which is not compatible with Win 8 but I also have a c910 and a 9000) and with / without splitter software. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
BritishBecky
11-22-2014, 06:16 PM
Should add that I've tired both Encoder versions 3.1 and 3.2
SoloDesire
11-22-2014, 06:43 PM
Hello,
Please forgive me, as I am sure this has been asked before. I used the search function; however, the topic is discussed in one of 616 pages in this thread, and that's a lot of pages to read.
I have seen models changing their biopics on SM often, like per show, or when they update a pic, etc. How do they do that? Do biopics get updated by SM often?
For example, a lady updated her biopic and the pic says "cum show" or "really long show"... just curious how they get these updated that often while they are logged in.
Thanks so much for your help.
JB
Once you get a profile pic approved it sits in your profile picture folder. Once there you can make them your profile picture at any time.
JessaBelle
11-22-2014, 06:55 PM
Oh that's great news! Thank you so much, Solo!
Prussia
11-22-2014, 06:57 PM
It seems that I cant log in to streamatemodels.com for the last few days :( every other site on the net works its just SM that will not load for me. I can not even get to the log in screen it just keeps loading and loading and loading...It works like 20% of the day if I am lucky enough to find a period when it will load and then it just throws me out of pvt.
Has anybody else encoutnered this problem? It is just Streamatemodels.com that will not even load let alone work :-\
Go to streamate.com and log in through there. It should work. That takes you to your dashboard using your username & password from streamatemodels. Hopefully that works. Email admin & let them know in cases it's on their end. Also, try downloading a new browser like Firefox etc and see if you can login into streamatemodels that way for now. :)
pippapippa
11-23-2014, 09:45 AM
Anyone cam on Thanksgiving last year? I had an early Thanksgiving, so I'm going to be home and I'm debating whether or not to cam. Holidays are always either extremely busy or extremely dead.
Marina Starr
11-23-2014, 09:50 AM
I never work on Thanksgiving but you can give it a try. It could be great or dead!
Anyone cam on Thanksgiving last year? I had an early Thanksgiving, so I'm going to be home and I'm debating whether or not to cam. Holidays are always either extremely busy or extremely dead.
Glamourmilf
11-23-2014, 12:03 PM
I've worked every thanksgiving for 4 years. NEVER again!! (and that's when camming was busy everyday. I can't even imagine how bad it's going to be this year.)
But best of luck! Maybe if you get on at 4 a.m. it will be good.
I'm taking the entire day off.
CitizenVain
11-23-2014, 12:32 PM
Anyone having issues with being disconnected again?
It happened to me a couple days ago where I was even unable to cam, and now it is happening again. Anyone else? :/
pippapippa
11-23-2014, 12:45 PM
Anyone having issues with being disconnected again?
It happened to me a couple days ago where I was even unable to cam, and now it is happening again. Anyone else? :/
Yep, still having issues. I'm mostly having issues with a black screen though.
JackAlexander
11-23-2014, 01:31 PM
Should add that I've tired both Encoder versions 3.1 and 3.2
I am running 8.1 and can only use the 3.2. I am usually running at top speed, 30fps and around 860 bitrate after ramping it up to 1000. However today I am running poorly, around 17fps and 300 bitrate if I am lucky no matter what setting. BUT it is raining hard here, furiously hard. I have crazy pixielating and i assume this is the reason. I have tried more lighting and rebooting everything and combing through all setting on network, computer and modem. I jsut jumped and and made them so horny they didn't care :-)
Have you tried to run the encoder on another cam site to see if you are having the same issue?
When I split cam I am in love with Webcammax lifetime purchase for only $24.95. I needed to re-install and their customer service is great. I am using C920, normally have no issues, bt not the case today.
gingerstripper
11-24-2014, 08:08 PM
my pvt is 6.99.. it was 7.99 but decided to experiment and people still think im expensive. my exclusive is 10.. and im just like.. dude how am i suppose to make money. what do you girls charge a min
Snowy0Star
11-24-2014, 08:43 PM
my pvt is 6.99.. it was 7.99 but decided to experiment and people still think im expensive. my exclusive is 10.. and im just like.. dude how am i suppose to make money. what do you girls charge a min
Need i say more ...
Im always told Im too expensive, no your not expensive.
They are trying to dumb you down, dont let them mess w your mind
lol i get this every once in awhile....and its like...too expensive for who? the guys who i am making a bunch of $$$$ from?
or the one who is complaining and giving me nothing :D :D
are you having a hard time getting shows at all or are you making enough? i think you spoiled ur fanbase doing gold shows . all u do is back to back to back gold shows for like a dollar so yeah... 1 dollar to see u squirt in a 10 -15 min show vs paying multiple times that per minute of course they're going to resist. im not trying to insult ur hustle im just saying this is what happens to all models who only do gold shows then try to do privates. stay strong and pull back from the gold shows only do them once in a while if thats what u really wanna do . its not that expensive for someone with ur looks and large fanbase theyre just being babies not wanting to cuff up the big bucks for a legit show with u .
i personally dont like gold shows nor do i do them because they attract a certain kind of crowed in my opinion that i dont like. i'll have guys come into my room ask to see things not tip stay in a room for a few more minutes ask me for a gold show i tell them i dont even have the option to do them (even tho i do i just chose not to) they ALWAYS leave . My rates are 1.99 for premium and 2.99 for exclusive if they cant even pay 1.99 a min for a show with me go fig they wont spend 6.99 on u.
SO NOT YOU ITS THEM - ur either going to train ur regs to suck it up and pay up or ull have to make a new fanbase of guys who do pay ur rates for pay per minute shows.