Yes, Yes and Yes! :)
I am so thankful for this place and the encouragement. I doubt I would have had the guts to try raising mine!
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last week i went from 4.99 pvt/6.99 exl to >>> 7.99 pvt/9.99 exl :D
ive had one guy complain, and he STILL took me exclusive! i'm still busy and i make more doing less work, giving me more enerfy to work longer (i think someone said this earlier as well)
ladies- you can do it!! :)
Make that 7.99/10.99!!
And it's been going GREAT!! I like keeping a $3 gap between the two and 10.99 is the highest I can go right now, so I'll be sending a nice little e-mail over to support soon so that I can experiment some more if I so please to.... just for science, of course. }:D
AND ALSO, for any girls who are hesitant about raising their prices because of their regulars.... if they love your show they will keep paying YOUR price so that they can see YOU. A few dollars isn't going to change their minds and make them go to another model instead. Not one of my guys has said a single word about all of the price jacks I've done over the past few months.
I have debated which thread this should go in, but because this is me reporting back on my increased prices, this felt the most fitting. If any mods think it should be somewhere else, of course feel free to put it where you see fit.
A sobering, potential realisation which may or may not be accurate, but I am doing so badly lately, that this one niggling possibility is still something I feel I need to take into account:
I cannot pull off the "classy, stubborn and deserving" attitude that I have adopted to go along with my high prices...
In some ways (for my own sanity really) I have felt it necessary to put a bit of a bitchier spin on my persona - I am more stubborn, much more rigid (i.e. "I won't lower my prices guys get this great gold show deal!"), and much more righteous, in order for me to deal with freeloaders and guys who complain. And also to prove to myself that I can do this of course.
I deserve to be paid $9.99 (£2.19 - my cut) per min to do all of the things I do, so when I get times when I just seem to be swamped in all of these crappy, demanding, nasty-ass freeloaders and guys telling me this "show tits now", "be sexier to get more tips", "you need to tease more, show us some ass" shit (oh my GOD), my patience and tolerance decreases the more my self-belief and price increases!
I never used to get this angry at freeloaders and beggars. Ever.
But at the same time, I can't remember having this many, but I've no idea why. A $100 gold show with a $5 buy-in for 5 mins seems to me like the bare minimum. Anything lower than that for me just doesn't sit quite right. But I just can't seem to make them lately. I'm pretty lucky in fact if I go over the half-way mark.
It has got to the point where I will actually convey my feelings like "what is going on?", "omg seriously you guys?", "maybe I should just turn the cam off and masturbate alone? lol", talking this way to my guests if they treat me like this because I am ME! And I don't deserve to be treated so badly:
1. When I'm trying to work.
2. When already I am entertaining for FREE in FREE chat!
No sir. No you shall not get anything for free sir. Get out. :|
But I can't work my room like this. Reaching targets is getting too stressful. I am going to have to resort to selling myself shorter. If I am being treated like this then I will have no choice in the matter.
Unless my paranoia is right, and even the top girls earning are suffering (every time I look at a top girl, many of those too are struggling to get $100 goals, with the odd exception), I am starting to feel down.
I am 25 years old. I originally set my age on SM as 23, but I got guys tell me that I was much younger, so I set it to 19 and that seems to fit me...
I guess I seem to fit that horny teen thing more than anything else, but that horny teen can't so well pull off a classy persona that commands respect, even though it is rightly what I, and every other camgirl should be earning. It has dented my self-esteem to the point where I think "If only I looked differently - older; classier; more adult-like facial features; less naive; less innocent and babyish - I would be able to pull this off.
I put my prices up and I start doing well, so I let my ego get the better of me, which has ruined my cam persona, and it doesn't suit me. Plain and simple.
I have no idea.. As admittedly hard as I'm finding it at the moment, if anyone told me to find another job, I would flip shit. :P I love my job, just not so much when I'm not doing great. I know I can rock this, maybe I'll cheat on Streamate with AdultWork or MFC... I am so sorry to be a downer. This was a vent as much as anything, and I promise myself that I will make up for this with an epic post of great positivity when I get it again.
Oh Incantatious...you sound like you need a great, big hug. Sorry you are having a bad time of it. I started last Nov and burnt myself out trying to catch up bills and pull Christmas for three kids and survive. And just stopped for MONTHS. So, I am going back in slow for the past two months. Don't let the negativity get to ya!! It's gonna pick back up soon...just keep having faith. Re-read all your first posts, you've come a long way babes!! You are one of the success stories, IMO.
Hun, it's not you. Everyone's watching the election speeches. Shhhh, I think obama's up next!!! :-P
(Seriously, hugs!!! But i KNOW this is just temporary. One thing though-- do NOT allow your viewers to smell your desperation. Do not. Your laptop will be arriving in no time, and you'll be back in business. I just know it.)
I agree!
I really think this is a bad week to judge anything due to the election speeches interruptions and everyone getting geared back up after the holiday long weekend.
It may just need a bit more time and tweaking! I'm having a hard time adjusting to going longer between shows but my money total is more and I have to keep telling myself to look at the totals.
Last year when I tried raising rates I just didn't give it long enough.
Rasing rates was the smartest thing I could have ever done. I plan to raise them another .50 cents when I get to a full year on the site ( April time frame), I did lose two regulars but both were cheapo anyways. Ladies decide what you are worth and don't accept anything less! I had two 50 minute exclusives Saturday night one with a 50 dollar tip, remember like attracts like and you can't get department store pay at a dollar store price! Sure some nights I spend longer in free chat waiting on someone to take me but then when they do it's more quality, I do have a strong bannhamer though and if someone is an asshole I will ban even during a show! You have to realize you are a luxury and charge accordingly!
You are worth it!
just seen a girl in group before and now in pvt at this price. deff raising mine now :O!
A "porn star" maybe? Not sure how much business they'll really get...
nope, just a normal girl. only got 14 feedback and at least 3 bad ones too!
yikes!
I guess for the 25% negative feedback , the guys didn't think they were getting their £6 per min worth :) Best to be realistic I guess. hahaha
i haven't seen her in private since haha. i upped my price to £4.11 pvt and got taken private :D keeping it at this! can't belive i used to charge £1.50ish
Good if she can get it, let's see how long it lasts
how much is this in $? lol
Lower than what you charge, Fri. Don't worry... you're safe. ;-)
Im curious about something.....
How much would you charge if you had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how much others charge
and you had absolutely no means of finding out?
Fuck an inflated sense lol! I wouldn't just pluck a number out of thin air though, i'd probably weigh up how much giys usually pay for that sort of thing on other sites, how much they pay for porn in general, and how much i'd be earning doing something else, plus all the personal safety/ privacy issues and base my price on that. I'd probably have come out with around £4 per minute my cut.