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My experiences in starting Stremate
I started streamate a few days ago, and to be honest I was very unsure about it. I had previously worked for mfc and unfortunately I didnt seem to be a good fit. Now however I am very happy that I made the switch.
A little background, I do a bit of vanilla shows, not really and fetishes or anything mostly toy play. So keep that in mind. I started on streamate on 4/20, I have the encoder working from the minute i signed on, with sound, and the phone service as well. The first thing I noticed is they are 4 hours ahead of me (im in eastern time zone). Therefore at 8 p.m. my time the site switches over to counting what I make for the next day so it seems the deadline for my saturday check is at 8:00 p.m. I started out the first day making around 30 $ an hour and made around 120 before I got off. At that point I had around 6 5 star ratings. So I was perfect for my first day ( that was very hard to do, and I think it was luck.)
The second day (yesterday) I got on and noticed myself near the top I continued to be rated well until near the end. I did get a few bad ratings most of them because Id be in a premium (group) with multiple guys wanting me to do multiple things at a time. Cant please everyone :P. I still did well however and made around 40-45 an hour.
Today has been pretty busy for me, ive had a good group of people and have been making around 50-55 an hour. Ive noticed im very highly listed on the pages. Right now my rating is 4.72.
I think the main reason I am doing so well is I started out with encoder, sound, and phone. I also have what I think is a sexy flattering pic up, and had them turn off the updating cam after the first day. Right now I am working about 8 hours a day, 5 days a week making it full time. Right now I am trying for around 300 a day so we shall see if I make it :P. I definately have to contribute my good fortune with the site from learning what I have from these forums and wanted to comment on my experience from it so far :P.
For those streamate veteren what days do you feel like are the slowest on streamate? I want to have two days off, I was thinking about sunday and monday, or monday or tuesday? Let me know your experiences with days :P.
(edit) I forgot to add after the first day I raised my rates from 2.99/3.99 to 3.99 to 4.99
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my experience has been very similar! it seems that planning in advance so you can start full force makes a HUGE difference - congrats!!!
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Thats great!! Wish I had the time to cam full time :( I'm not a vet,but Monday & Tuesday seem to draaaag out...its super slow(for me)!!
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Monday and Wednesday sucked for me this week, but Tuesday was bangin' ;)
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thanks for posting this! ive been thinking about doing streamate and i think you just gave me some motivation to try.
i hope you hit your 300$ goal!
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in my experience it has been wednesday
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I am shocked by how many people have said Wednesday. That's my best day by far. Most wednesdays I can do my goal in half the time it takes me other days. Saturdays are horrible for me. Maybe it's because I don't usually work saturdays so when I try none of my regulars are around. I would say mon, wed and thrus are consistantly good for me.
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Does Streamate allow you to block geographical areas like MGF?
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alexxxi
Does Streamate allow you to block geographical areas like MGF?
no they don't
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I strongly beleive there are no slow days on camming, if your on a regular schedule, and also allocate some overtime. you should be able to meet your target every pay period. as I use to when working on cams.com I would average $15.00 an hour which was fantastic I miss those days.
I hope with my furture plans it will happen again. The way I see if it the studios in the third world countries have girls on the site litterally non-stop then it must be possible for us in north american to do the same, not the same activity some of them do in their room.
Your best bet is to stick to your schedule, if you want to be on 8 hours a day and 5 days a week then stick to it. your chatters will follow your schedule and some will try and make an appointment with you during your schedule. once you stick to your schedule you will see your regular pay. it's the only way to do it. As for your rates they are fine as long as your getting over $1 per minute of your premium chat then your fine.
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^^$15.00hr? I thought most models thought that was bad. On my slow days thats all I seem to average!! I've read where the ladies always speak of making $30+,even when its slow /:O If you meant $15.00,then I don't feel so upset anymore...
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This is too funny. The average american would kill to make $15 an hour and we're like "OMGAWWWDDDD that's bad!". I know it's the adult industry and all and of course aim high but darn $15 is a lot these days. Hell on my other site I average no less than $30 an hour and that's good money but some girls would be like "ewwwww!" LOL!
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TouringGirlfriend
This is too funny. The average american would kill to make $15 an hour and we're like "OMGAWWWDDDD that's bad!". I know it's the adult industry and all and of course aim high but darn $15 is a lot these days. Hell on my other site I average no less than $30 an hour and that's good money but some girls would be like "ewwwww!" LOL!
It's hard to do a full 8 hours at this, but yeah sometimes I need a reality check!
I saw an article at how folks around here were sooo pleased that a telemarketing firm was hiring a bunch of ppl at $9 an hour, no benefits. This beats that any day!
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Lol. My husband gets so frustrated when I'm like "ugh. This is taking forever" He asks me how it's going and I tell him "I"ve only made $20 so far" Then he's like "uh, hun, you've only been down here an hr."
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Yeah my aunt is a CNA and makes $11 an hour. Ummm... for the shit (literally) they have to go through I'll take camming any frikkin day!
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^^My mom was to,trying to work her way up to that amount!! I finally was able to convince her to quit...THANK GOD
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If I work 2hrs and make $80 I get pissed lol yeah we have some issues
I use to work 45hrs week and made $600/ after taxes I brought home $460. That paid for food (lunch and home)/light/electric/train fare/babysitter/rent/cable/cc bills/school loans/cell phone/ internet/turtle food lol
needless to say I was a broke bitch but my bills got paid. Reality Check as I wrote this.
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^^$15.00hr? I thought most models thought that was bad. On my slow days thats all I seem to average!! I've read where the ladies always speak of making $30+,even when its slow /:O If you meant $15.00,then I don't feel so upset anymore...
Plus its personal everyone has thier own diffinition of what success is doing this type of work. plus if your expecting to make $200 a day you have to work harder and sometimes longer to make it. I keep it my target small to at least cover my rent and anything above that is a bonus. It's how I have always done it in the 8 years I have been online.
my goal is to make a minimum of $30k a year from camming, which means $2,500 a month if you need to make more then that the you need to work longer hours to be online. some are able to make that in short hours of being online but they have to be really good at talking to their chat room and getting into private shows back to back. very few girls I know can do that.
and when cams.com had the top performer page I was on it back to back for 6 months.
Plus it seems most don't have realistic goals of what they should be making and what thier financial needs and goals are.
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^^Excellent points!! You ladies are awesome ;D
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Glad to see this thread is taking off :P.
Im happy to say that yesterday I beat my goal at about $360. Its funny to think a few months ago, I was a waitress making $600 in two weeks. My bills are a a little high because of my location, so they come to about 2500 a month. Im looking to pay off my car asap and save up as much as I can. My husband is going to be going into basic for the airforce, so Im trying to put away some money for a rainy day or to get by while hes in basic. The more the better :P. Keep up the hustle ladies!
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Wow you ladies are awesome!!! I think I'm gonna raise my rates on streamate...I may get a customer account so I can do some comparison...
Yesterday, I went on streamate for the first time all week and made $80 which was good for me...I think I was on for about 2 hours, without any toys or anything too crazy, and I had my boyfriend walking around in the background (he made his webcam debut!!!)
My streamate goal is at least $100 a week, but thats just cause I work a reg job and go to school. I also work other sites too...Schools over in a few weeks then I'm amping up my SM goal to 100 a day! Woohoo I wanna be playing with the big girls! :-P
Gotta start saving because my reg. job ends in July...But like I told my boyfriend, I'll be the most comfortable unemployed student ever!!! :-P
Oh yea and to answer your question, lol, my slowest days are usually Wednesday...Monday & Thursday are good...And of course Friday nights will always get you some bank :-P
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KamiOnline
Wow you ladies are awesome!!! I think I'm gonna raise my rates on streamate...I may get a customer account so I can do some comparison...
Yesterday, I went on streamate for the first time all week and made $80 which was good for me...I think I was on for about 2 hours, without any toys or anything too crazy, and I had my boyfriend walking around in the background (he made his webcam debut!!!)
Congratulations on the good $ day :)
Maybe you know this, but they can and will suspend or ban you if your boyfriend hasn't submitted age verification documents and he appears on your webcam, even in the background. Streamate watches things way more than MFC does.
Definitely a good idea to get a customer account. I love checking rates and comparing, plus it's fun and informative to see how things look on the customer end.
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Hey Ladies! I am a newb camgirl. Just signed up on SM. Have a couples acct w my bf. I have gotten so much helpful info off this site. It rocks! The only thing I haven't been able to find out is how long it takes them to activate your account? I recently lost my job and am a mama of 2 and need to make $$$ now!
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Hey Ladies! I am a newb camgirl. Just signed up on SM. Have a couples acct w my bf. I have gotten so much helpful info off this site. It rocks! The only thing I haven't been able to find out is how long it takes them to activate your account? I recently lost my job and am a mama of 2 and need to make $$$ now!
You have to email streamate, when I signed up on them 8 years ago I had no idea it was activated til one day I just logged in.