Hello everyone.
My male friend wants to start doing web cam modeling. Do you have any ideas which the best sites are for men? Is traffic even any good? He is older (in his 40's) but he likes performing and asked me if I had suggestions.
Thanks!
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Hello everyone.
My male friend wants to start doing web cam modeling. Do you have any ideas which the best sites are for men? Is traffic even any good? He is older (in his 40's) but he likes performing and asked me if I had suggestions.
Thanks!
He will need to be okay with the fact that nearly all his customers are going to be gay men watching him.
I know of a couple of male chathosts on imlive and streamate who do well.
I was just going to ask this question. I have an attractive bisexual male friend who is 26 years old and wants to cam. I work with streamate but I wonder how the traffic would be for a bisexual male.
Here is a link to a site that I promote for web cam modeling The picture has women in it but they also have males couples, ect...I like it because the site is very secure for the model and I have never heard of anyone not getting paid for their work:
http://sexualrealist.blogspot.com/20...-safe-sex.html
Just would like to say thanks to all of you for really helping me out getting started at camming. I am a 33 yo bi male who should be approved on SM very shortly. I had an oops on my docs and had to resubmit.....
From my perspective, SM really does not have alot of guys on their with a decent set up. And it seems that at any one time there are no more then 10 guys on there from the US. I plan on following the advice from this site with set lighting, HD, and audio. I really think this will help drive traffic and pvts.
I know from a customers pov, I have gone into a free chat room, then gone right back out when the cam is crap and there is no audio....... It really makes the whole experience that much better when the interaction quality is the highest level it can be when your spending your dough.
Once I go live, I will repost to let you know how it's goin......
PV
I have a male friend who works on niteflirt. He mainly does fetish type work. He makes a lot of videos and sells them to guys who are into financial domination, foot fetishes, cuckold and such. He is actually quite good, and has a nice income from this. Since you are bi you wont mind camming for men. Most straight men think that they can get a bunch of women to pay them, but that's just not the case.
Thanks Busty... Gonna definatly check out niteflirt. Love the idea of being able to sell videos too.....
Does anyone if there is a site out there like MFC that has guys on it????
Adultwork.com has a gay section. You may want to check it out. I noticed a lot of men on there, but not sure how they make out.
Definitely let us know how it goes! My BF and I are always amazed by the low quality of the guys on SM... hardly any have sound & HD AND actually speak English. My bf's cam isn't the highest quality but at least he talks & interacts with everyone in his room and his lighting is decent. His name is Holdenwood if you're interesting in 'spying' (just don't tell him I sent you, lol).
Thanks for all of the advice ladies. I'll pass along the info. He is aware its men. He is bisexual so he was hoping for more men anyway. :)
So got my approval yesterday. Logged on for about 2 hours. Made 12 bucks in 3 pvts. Gotta work at making those last longer. I think that means I only spent about 18 min in pvt.
Here is where I wasted my time. When I first tried to log on using their HD encoder, for some reason, people couldn't see me. So tried it again and still no luck. I saw people coming and going from my room with no chat. Finally someone told me they couldn't see me again after about 15 minutes. Theres 30 minutes shot. So then I logged on through regular streaming in HD and that worked fine, except I forgot to change the settings on my cam for this format and I was super dark. Well, still got a couple of privates like this and then forgot to turn the audio back on afterwards. Sitting there wandering why no one is chatting. I realized this about an hour later and fixed it. Then got one more pvt before I logged off. Little learning curve, huh........
I am going to back on tonight and spend more time making sure everything is cool with the set up. Might even have my first reg too. We will see.
For having tech issues and being male, I think you did great for your first few hours! I know of some guys who might make that in a week, ouch :'(
Good thing you're so open minded. That is how you will make money. There is a thread on here about hd on streamate. I take it you're on streamate? I think some girls have reported issues with it, but don't take my word for it. I don't use hd, because I had problems on another site with it, and have Heard about issues elsewhere. So I guess that was it? Sometimes clearing cookies and cache will also fix the issue.
I'm so happy we got a guy cammer here! This will be helpful for the other guys. Come back and let us know how your night went. I am sure it will be busy tonight. Pay day, Friday night, and horny drunk people lol. I will be online later. Have fun!;)
I'm so happy we got a guy cammer here! This will be helpful for the other guys. Come back and let us know how your night went. I am sure it will be busy tonight. Pay day, Friday night, and horny drunk people lol. I will be online later. Have fun!;)[/quote]
Last night I made my $20 payout, wohoo!! JK. So I guess I do officially have my first regular which is cool. He actually showed at the time he said he would. I did notice alot of the same names from last night in addition to some new ones. Still not getting the traffic I thought I would be getting after the quote above, gonna try a couple of things that may help....
1. List on my intro my low low clearance rate of 1.99..
2. Put up some more pics
3. Move my cam for a differant view in free
4. Advertize my fancy pants PTZ cam. Funny most guys don't even know what that is..... Though last night I played around with it in free and got a pvt out of it.
5. Stopping and starting my show when things get slow. It seems to me for some reason traffic picked up after a restart and not really sure why....
6. Show my feet more.... Did two shows with foot fetish and damn those are a cakewalk.....
Thanks Busty for the encouragement. I am really glad I found this forum. So much info and so much help!!!!!! ;D
Oh yeah, and Busty I am on SM......
I hope it gets better. Ya I know 20 bucks is not a LOT, but it is harder for guys. I think once you build up those regulars, and are consistent online, and of course don't mind doing shows for men, it will pick up.
Also don't forget Niteflirt. If you go there and do a search of men who do financial domination, you will see some pretty interesting profiles. Well interesting to me. I was intrigued that men also make money doing this.
It will take quite a bit of work to get things going. I have a feeling you are heading in the right direction.
Ok.. So this seems like its turning into some sort of journal or something..... Hope it helps someone out....
Logged on at about 3pm today. Not much action at all. Opened another browser and opened cam hub to check myself out on the search stuff.... Never came up really high. Around 5:30 took off my shirt and shorts, leaving me in my thong only. Started rubbing my junk like the dudes that were higher on the list and started getting some traffic. Shortly there after I had six guys in my room (which I have never had more than 2) which were sticking around. Then after about 15 min of chatting I threatened to leave unless someone took me PVT. They did, and another two followed, albeit for a shorter time. Then the main custie wanted a pop shot. I really wasn't in the mood and faked it with some KY warming jelly.... He totally bought it other then he didn't actually see it.....
So I guess I am going to stick with the formula a bit. After the the PVT I was the number anal dude in the catagory..... And like number 4 overall for guys..... Wohoo!!!!
Let you know how the rest of the night goes on SM.... for a guy.......
So got about 6 more pvts since 8ish in about 2 hours.... Its picking up a bit. For awhile it was one after the other. I guess I'll have to show tits in free... Damn. :)
I think I see how to work it..... And atleast I am going in the right direction......
Great job Prescott! It's great to hear about webcam from another guy's POV. I think my boyfriend would make GREAT money if he figured out an efficient way to "fake it"... but it looks like you've already started doing that so you're a step ahead. ;) It may take a week or two to really build up your earning potential but it sounds like you're very motivated and intelligent... I'm sure you'll be very successful.
Just a "little" update... I haven't really devoted the time to this in the last week or so due to being really busy at the vanilla job... But there has been some progress. Got three pvts in the first hour or so tonight, then traffic fell of a cliff. Gonna go back on in a bit, just taking a break right now.
It seems like traffic overall isn't really what you all describe you having on SM. Granted it has increased and my conversions are getting better. But really the most I have seen in my room has been 6 on a saturday night. I had four earlier tonight.
On that note, I think to be a guy cammer you definatly have to open to just about anything to get the business to be successful. Sometime last week I had to pretend to give myself a military haircut with clippers!!! Whatevers clever, huh.....
In the next couple of days I am going to sign up with nightflirt, AW, and clips4sale. Gotta expand those channels.......
I love it =)
I have helped sign up males on aw before and they have been doing well. I would recommend it.
Hello everyone... Hope you had a good holiday...
Made more in the last two days then the first two weeks in a lot less hours. Woohoo!!! So thank you for all of the advice that all of you (princessjenny, ameera, and smurfette) sorry I can't name all of you, who have given me advice. It is really a testiment to this community and I am glad you have included me in. Ok, enough of the mushy stuff..... :)
I totally hate the little cam that does the screenshots on SM. I have asked to get that deactivated. If traffic get a little slow I just stop and restart my show which brings up my bio pic. Traffic jumps again. One more little trick that I think has helped is the quality of my stream. HD, audio, and pan tilt zoom, they really dig it. Oh yeah, thanks jenny, smiling alot more has helped too.....
This probably belongs on another thread, but here is a little embarassing story. I use a Orbit cam from logitech with a wireless mouse and keyboard. Well, while in pvt with a foot fetish guy, I was all focused in on my feet and performing, when I reach back and hit the keyboard. I hit just the right key to reset everything back to default settings. IE It caused the cam to rotate around the room and adjust all of the color settings. Oh well, he stayed for another few minutes anyway while I reset everything.....
Overall, things are going well. Filled out my profile for AW. Still have go check out NF a bit more. The financial domination is very interesting. I had someone who became my bitch tonight, and it totally got me thinking about NF. I have always been more of a sub, but I think I can play the role......
Thanks again,
PV
Have a prosperous new year all!!!!!!!
prescottvespoli,
Thanks so much for detailing your experience? Any updates?
What are the best sites to get traffic for male webcam models?
I'm very interested in getting into male webcam modeling too. Any tips for getting started?
Thanks for any info!
Hi Cool Dude... I was actually thinking about this thread yesterday and thinking about posting... Then tonight I saw your post and so sure I will help as much as I can....
So it's been about a month and a half of camming, minus two weeks for a vacation, so really about a month. SM (streamate) is where I am for now. I haven't really ventured beyond that for camming.
I signed up on AW (adult work) but haven't gone on there yet. I guess I am trying to find my persona first before going anywhere else. And by persona I mean your character you play on cam. It may very well be you in general, but that is still a persona. That persona is what people are paying for you to portray in PVT. So you always have to think about that in your free chat as that is what you are selling.....
As far as traffic goes, SM is good depending on the time of day... For guys I think from 3pm untill 10pm CST is totally dead. You may get some traffic, but nobody's buying. After that and before that it seems ok. Friday and Saturday nights are good after those times for me. I can usually make about 100 each night for about 5 hours of work.... Not great, but it pays the rent atleast. Weeknights are more hit or miss for me. Sometimes do great, sometimes do horrible.... Depends on the day.
In the end I have come to the realization that camming is very differant for a guy. The advice on this board is great and definatly applies, but the traffic is alot less. So you have to take it for what its worth.
Other sites that I am looking at is AW for sure, Niteflirt, and Cam4. The first two are both recommendations from others on here, and the third is something that I found interesting. You can do shows as on MFC, yet you can also advertize your skype (indy camming), so it is interesting to me...
Anyways, maybe this helps a bit, definatly start on SM to get your feet wet and figure out your show... Beyond that, Let me know how things are going and I will keep updating this as things progress for me...
PV
Thanks so much for the info! I'll have to test the waters with SM.
Thanks for the info on the best times to cam. I'm on PST so, starting at 8 p.m. PST/10 p.m. CT works well.
I'll let you know how it goes. I appreciate you sharing your income information. 8)
BTw, what is a good rate to start at? Are you still at 1.99?
Have you thought about using software to be on multiple cam sites at the same time?
My friend would do well. He was hot, young, had a nice lean, bodybuilder body. Total boy next door thing. He'd make $80 or more a day working part time hours. About 3 or 4 a night. He was on imlive, jasmin, streamate and I'm not sure what else.
He eventually got very bored of it although it came to him more easier than me. I have to sit there and put on a fake in free chat. He'd just ignore everyone and browse other sites until he heard the ding. Hahah. There was a top guys promo video on jasmin and he was like 5th place. The other guys were jerking off, teasing wearing nothing but little undies and then you get to his video and he's just sitting there in sweats looking bored as hell. lmao.