Twin, I use 5.99/6.99, and I find it works out okay for me.... Better than when I was 3.99/4.99 actually. The fetish guys are willing to pay more for the excl I've found, if you do that kind of stuff.
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Twin, I use 5.99/6.99, and I find it works out okay for me.... Better than when I was 3.99/4.99 actually. The fetish guys are willing to pay more for the excl I've found, if you do that kind of stuff.
I do this... I Ban EVERYONE who abuses it no matter what. Today I had a guy who has spent about $100 this month on me....he abused it twice(well once he got caught paying at 32s) and he camped in my free chat so I know his computer was working fine so I banned his ass.
I raised my rates AGAIN - feels like I'm raising them every week? Trying to figure out what works for me. I've been @ 7.99priv/5.69excl for the past week. Only gotten 1 private which is great because I hate trying to read what a bunch of people are saying and do their requests all at once. But I'm not making any *more* money and I have more downtime between shows. I do less than 10 shows a night and I'm not exhausted at the end of it. So far I like this better and am willing to deal with going hours between shows although there are still a few nights when I might want to pull my hair out
edit: UPDATE! After 2 weeks(?) or so of this price I decided that I really don't like the private higher than the exclusive because the guys actually don't know about it until you tell them/take you priv. The first week of this was great but I noticed a huge drop in traffic the 2nd week and virtually no paying customers. So I'm going to back to the higher excl / lower priv format and I'm still looking for my happy medium.
Not sure if it is a psychology thing but I seem to have had more success with rates that end in .4 or .6 rather than .9 anybody else noticed this?
ok i have had a good read of this thread and although it is mainly for sm girls i feel aw girls could do with a boost too. so aw girls raise your rates. i found it scary when signing up the other day that £2.50 was considered high! maybe if we all start at that and then raise it it wont be seen as high.
Ladies Raise Your Rates!! If they bitch that you are "too expensive" BLOCK them you don't need someone wasting your time. I went up to 4.99/5.99 after debating it for a long time and I have guys all the time who do over an hour with me. I had a guy last night 1 hour 26 minutes mostly talking at 4.99/minute last night and one who did it Monday night for 45 minutes with a 50 dollar tip at 5.99/min. I am a fetish, I have HD fantastic stream, I'm educated and speak fluent English. You are worth it! I assure you someone out there is willing to pay whatever you wish to charge!
Funny moment - working yesterday, I had a customer come in who RAVED about my rates. He was so stoked about me charging so much....kept going on about how I was worth it, etc etc.
He is one of those guys who has a thing for arrogant women - likes to hear about how I know that I give better head than anyone else, that I am the best in bed EVER, that other women are all ugly and frigid compared to me.....so he actively looks for girls with high rates, because it fits his fantasy of the cocky bitch-goddess. He doesn't spend vast amounts of money, but he always does a short show, and it is pretty much straight up non-nude, just me talking about how awesome I am.
Just an interesting note to people worried that some men will be put off - there are other men that will want you MORE because you are expensive.
^ Haa!! ;D Now that is pretty fucking awesome! Nice one!!
I charge what works for me and what I am comfortable with but every year I give myself a raised.
So I raised my rates nervous and excited about this i am going to give it 24 hr's to see how it goes.
Good Job! If at anyway possible you can, try to give it like two weeks. I am BBW on Streamate also, it took a little while when I raised my rates. And I lost two of my best regulars, but you will get a better quality of new regulars now! I wish you the best of luck!!
Agreed. Gotta give it longer than 24 hours to see the real results. Good luck!
Definitely give it longer than 24 hours! We all know that there are good and bad days in this business, so you really can't judge from just one day!
May I ask what you are going from and to?
To be honest I can't afford to give it past 24 hr's I have to pay rent wkly so I can't play with my funds to much I went from to 2.64/2.74 to 2.99 to 3.29
^^^That's such a small jump, that I doubt anyone will even notice!!! You should have NO problems with anyone complaining - definitely not enough to make a dent in the earnings!
I can understand not having a lot of money to play with - but I really don't think that this would absolutely TANK your earnings within a day - you aren't upping your rates to $20 a min! Obviously, do what you gotta do - I would just hate to think of you having a bad day that would have happened no matter what your rates were, and then giving up on upping them again, and losing out in future...
Girl what a wonderful night thank you so much ladies I am half way my daily gold I can't even begin to explain how I feel right now all of you must have put your super cam goddess powers together for me. You guy's don't know my back story but know there is some trickery going on where I stay right now they are wishing for me to fail. I WILL NOT FAIL I WILL NOT I WILL NOT this to me is a big victory in my heart my little spark is turning into a flame then we will make it into an inferno. weeeeeeeeeeeee
Now I know everyday won't be wine and rose's but as long as it can be T.G.I Fridays and a bourbon n coke 3/4 of the time it will be good. :)
I'm so glad it went well for you. I think you should up your rates tomorrow, since tonight went so well. If your custies are willing to pay 2.99, they'll definitely pay 3.99.
^^ I thought I would add this. I think it was mentioned before if the price ends .99 that means less questioning, and crying even if it's a higher price.
I think more camgirls should follow odd even pricing. I remember learning about it back in business classes in school. It is a method of pricing ending in odd numbers as it will increase sales, because people think they're getting a deal.
http://www.businessdictionary.com/de...n-pricing.html
100%!!!
It's so funny that if a guy in my room asks my price, I will say that they just have to look in the profile, but other guys in the room often tell them for me. Except...they ALWAYS leave out that .99 at the end. Which means that guys quote my rates at $5 and $10...when really it is $6 and $11....small difference, but it really shows something about how they think when they see it.
It really is amazing how this works...
I'm also finding out that I get WAY fewer buy ins with a $5 gold show than I do a $4 or even $3 gold show. If I set everything the same and put the cost at $5... I don't make the goal. If I keep it the same and lower it to $3 or $4, I get $50+ past the goal!
I guess because $4 or even $4.99 is not $5 so, wow what a deal! LOL!
Just raised mine a little, will report how it goes!
after reading this thread I tried raising my price I was scared at first bc it was slow and I had bills to pay but so far so good. I charge 4.49/4.99 I get a lot more exclusives and less cheap 2 min shows. The quality of customers is much better. I used to charge 3.99/4.99. I haven't had any of my regulars complain. After I tone my body a little more I'm gonna charge 4.99/5.49 I can't wait!
So I'm just waiting on my SM account approval. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the default price setting was .99 a min! Very quickly switched that to 3.99/4.99. I think starting at the 'higher' rate will make it easier to raise it in the long run.
I think I'll up the rates each time I can add to my fetish stuff though. Like 4.49/5.49 once my milk comes in and I can do lactating shows and stuff. Then up my rates to 4.99/5.99 when I lose the baby weight and lactate! And once my milk supply dries up (I have a hard time breast feeding) I won't even lower the rates. I'll just deal with the transition between fetish customers and 'normal' customers (If I even have any regulars at that point). I am determined to be a girl that sticks with higher rates.
Now I need to get the courage to turn on the camera. I got approved for MFC yesterday, but chickened out and worked on clips instead. I guess it's time to got look up a newbie encouragement thread!
Same here, i used to charge same like you then decided to go 4.49/4.99 and i get more exclusives too, i think the small difference between private & exclusive makes people decide for exclusive thinking "hmmm, just 50c difference, let's go exclusive and have her all to myself".
I must say i tried 4.99/5.99 and was not working well for me, regs will complain and new ones will say "i am expensive" but now nobody complains.