Originally Posted by
kortneykay
Meh, sorry but I don't think SM cares at all. If they did, the emails we get from them would be over matters that were actually important to MODELS. We ask for higher percentage, we get a shiny new site. We ask for live customer service, we get silence, we ask for better paying traffic, we get contests and pushed to bring in our own traffic!
We have a lot more needs and wants, but what do we get? Oh, a contest passive aggressively warning us that the site will be running on low capacity and occasional suverys about shit we dont care about, like customer notes. LMAO. Really? Unless there's a way to block them after they leave, I don't give a damn. People in power will always gaslight and distract with shiny things to keep your mind off of what you want.
SM sees us as work ants. We're not their employees, and what we think comes last to their employees, stock holders, investors and whomever else. Why is it that we still don't have a personal live chat of our own? But yet clients do? So they're worried about those that bring money to the site, and who have power to take that away.
Why dont they see the value in us, then? They know that WE could simply not sign in as a group and the site would go to hell. But they know we wont do it because patriarchy tells them thay women dont put their foot down as much as they should. Our only value to them is what we make them. That's why we get 35% with no actual model focused bells and whistles.
Thays okay though, I treat SM like they treat me. Business only. I log on and make my coin whIle splitting with other sites so that my bottom line exceeds my own expectations. SM is good when it's good but I'm not down with someone pissing on me and calling it rain. Nah. They don't give a damn. And it's good because WE made the damn sale!
SM is just another platform. We all give up 70-65% for them to bring us guys, so let's not make it seem like they're doing soooo much for us. They do the same things that every other platform does except we get lower pay, and they just happened to get there first.
There's nothing magical about securing a marketing budget, paying for ad space, getting a adult payment processor, finding investors, hiring others to find clients for you, building multiple sites, and then throwing the product in one space so the client gets to shop. Brick and mortars do it every day.
Again, you are already paying them to do this for you and you can supplement your own income by doing the same damn thing and keep damn near 100% of YOUR money. You are the product!
We sit there come hell or high water, and we HUSTLE those sales ourselves. They're not guaranteed! We pay SM up to 70% just to pitch a sale to someone! And when we ask for shit it gets swept under the rug. I guarantee if models striked that percentage would go up, and the bells and whistles would be on that bitch, too!
Sorry for the vent and emotional vomiting but can anyone honestly compare what they've given to sm (up to 70%, our holidays, our time, our sales techniques, devotion, etc) to what they've given us that we don't already PAY for? I'll wait. I'm used to it with them.