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Side Jobs: More Eggs, More Baskets
I've been super lazy about signing up to other sites, even though I know it's a risk to only have one cam joint. From what I've read lately, other models are starting to branch out if they haven't already. Going on new sites is super daunting to me, and filling out paperwork especially forms is my kryptonite.
So, I wanted to start a thread where other models who are doing this can encourage each other in the process and to hold each others' hands while jumping in the scary deep end!
I'll go first: my main site is SM. I have an account ready to go at MFC but am not ready to tackle that quite yet. Right now I am in the process of starting on Cam4 as well as Cams.com, hoping to be able to split cam (eek!) with one or the other while I do SM. I am also on C4S but have let my store fall behind. Also on MGF and ELM but those never brought me much moolah.
What sites are you looking at? Are you doing content sales as well?
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I like this thread idea a lot! I'm working on getting approved at Chaturbate, as well as filming and compiling clips to start a clips4sale studio. In addition, I'm also scoping out other camsites, re-reading threads on here about them and trying to get a feel for other places I might like to work. It may be a slower time, but I'm not going to let that discourage me! I'll make this work. :D
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im branching out i dont want to overwhelm myself so im adding one cam site at a time im singed up for pretty much every cam site out there but only a few ive tired. i spent a lot of time on mfc and cb but theyre not curvy friendly i plan on using them to get tokens for naked/topless dances while i do DDR and workout tho. My main site is sm but i do content sales on c4s. ive just got done trying im live and its ok to split on the guys on there think anything over $2.80 a min is a high price to ask and they only give %30 but still i wouldn't go under 3.80 i think we should at least get $1 a min our cut IMO. Cams.com and Adult Work are next on my radar to try and Nite Flirt . As soon as I get my camming comp up and running again i plan on uploading my content on Extra Lunch Money and My Porn Profile. After I try Adult Work and Cams.com I'm considering trying Flirt4Free and I'm also toying around with the idea of giving All BBW cams a try again. And dipping my toes into indie camming with CMD and some other indie sites I know about and considering making my own site I have a domain snowy0star.com but its linked into my tumblr right now. Yeah I know I'm gonna need anther monitor #self-employed-tax-wright-offs-FTW!
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My main sites are Streamate and AdultWork. I'm currently signed up with just about every other camsite lol...but I hate them all with such a passion. I won't list them all because it's sort of embarrassing and I doubt I'll even remember them all lol. But I've tried just about all of the bigger ones, as well as some of the newer ones. I just can't branch away from Streamate to put much effort into anything else. At least I have them just in case I need them ;)
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^What she said! Except my main sites are Naked and MGF, plus my non-adult gig. I also have accounts with a ton of cam sites that I never go on anymore but they are good just in case. Webcams, cams, cam4, chaturbate, SM (through a studio though, still waiting for my contract to expire but I could go back if I was desperate for money), xmodels... I feel like I am leaving some out. Oh, and I just started the approval process for IMLive even though I probably won't use it. And I have a c4s studio that i'm neglecting.
The the thing is? Having more eggs = good. Having too many eggs = BAD. I would never advise a girl to rely on only one site but it's been my experience that if you try to work too many it's harder to build a presence and ultimately make more money. I personally do my best when I am only active on two cam sites, but of course ymmv. I DO need to start up something relating to my non-adult work, so I will be adding that to the other three streams of income I am actively working right now. Does that count?
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^ i think it counts she didnt say it had to be adult related just any avenue you can to get that green =^y^=
jac got in my way again -_- lol
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CourtneyRaine
The the thing is? Having more eggs = good. Having too many eggs = BAD. I would never advise a girl to rely on only one site but it's been my experience that if you try to work too many it's harder to build a presence and ultimately make more money. I personally do my best when I am only active on two cam sites, but of course ymmv.
I think I've got too many eggs in my basket right now, and it has been a disaster. Taking on too much, especially if you are new like me, is so draining and distracting. I feel so overwhelmed and with so much shit going on at once, nothing is as successful as it could or should be. I'm signed up for almost every big box camsite, and a few of the smaller ones, two indy cam listings, and I have accounts on Niteflirt and MPS. I have also been working on my indy website, have been tinkering with ELM, and I'm trying to get a C4S store in the works. On top of that I have two dispatch PSO gigs, which I was doing really well on, until I bit of more than I could chew with camming/content, and now even that is tanking. Trying to juggle it all is just ridiculous, because I've always got a little money everywhere, but usually not enough for pay out, and can't set a consistent camming schedule because I have too many irons in the fire. I need to just focus on one or two camsites to build up regulars, cut the efforts on NF and MPS out for a bit, leave the C4S store alone until I make enough content for ELM to open a clip/pic store with recycled content, and pay more attention to my PSO regulars.
So I guess the moral of my newb story is that having more than one (two, three, four) egg(s) is a great idea, but be careful not load your basket so full that the bottom falls out.
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^Oh my gosh I got tired just reading all that! I would Never be able to keep up! And you make an excellent point about making good money but not being able to reach payout minimums because it's all spread into smaller chunks over lots of sites.
My computer can't handle split camming so I like to run MGF in the background all day and also work my non-adult gig while waiting in free chat for shows on naked. It is daunting to think of adding a fourth thing to the mix but I think I've figured out a schedule that works for me and fits everything in. Anything more than that would just be bananas. Although I'll be honest, I've been considering getting a cheap second computer so I can do free chat on another site while on naked. I'm really torn about it, though, because I am trying to slowly transition away from camming but the idea of more sites/more money sucks me in every time.
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CourtneyRaine
^Oh my gosh I got tired just reading all that! I would Never be able to keep up! And you make an excellent point about making good money but not being able to reach payout minimums because it's all spread into smaller chunks over lots of sites.
My computer can't handle split camming so I like to run MGF in the background all day and also work my non-adult gig while waiting in free chat for shows on naked. It is daunting to think of adding a fourth thing to the mix but I think I've figured out a schedule that works for me and fits everything in. Anything more than that would just be bananas. Although I'll be honest, I've been considering getting a cheap second computer so I can do free chat on another site while on naked. I'm really torn about it, though, because I am trying to slowly transition away from camming but the idea of more sites/more money sucks me in every time.
That was my problem when I was new I was trying out all these different cam sites being on an hour here an hour there and all these different sites eventually what i decided to do was get payouts on the ones that weren't worth it to me to keep up on (the bbw sites and xhamster) because i wasnt getting anywhere really with them. since i have my hustle down now and know what im doing and know when a site isnt gonna work for me and its easier for me to work multiple sites im looking into adding more sites and extra things into my basket but knowing what doesn't work and stopping and cutting my loses when so because im more financially stable now i can do that. I still have 20 bucks on my livejasmine account but i really should just ask them shut it off and load it up my payoneer card it was the first camsite i signed up on and its how i got my payonneer account
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I very recently decided to start doing this as well. I did decently on imlive back in the day (like 2-3 years ago) but camming was different back then... My main site is SM right now, but I don't even cam there enough to make regulars because every time I get on, it's so frustrating. The last time I was on, I spent two hours with $0 and logged off. I have been wanting to try Chaturbate, but I spent about an hour on the first time I broadcasted, and since I wasn't naked, all I got were people with money chatting my ear off in PMs. So I'm TRYING, but thinking maybe going back to imlive instead of trying CB out for a while would be more lucrative, as I feel imlive is more fetish-based, which I'm more comfortable with than trying to entertain a room full of people who only want to PM me and ignore my chatroom while I'm talking to myself on CB. I also want to try Cam4 just for that hourly thing, but man. I keep going back to SM because there are days where I make bank, but the $0 days are starting to become more and more frequent, especially because I need the money SO bad right now. ><; I also have a C4S store i've been neglecting, and I definitely plan to get back into that, because I have made decent money off of there before.
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jac got in my way again -_- lol
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I think the important thing when splitcamming ladies Is dont work to many sites at once that needs free chat.The non free chat site that i work are AW,IMLIVE,AND NITEFLIRT.While waiting for privates there i work on SM .Since streamate requires free chat i try to give it all my attention.But if its a slow day.Ill throw MFC in the mix.I know a lot of you hate MFC but MFC was the first sites that i ever worked for a year before branching.but let me tell you this if your busy on sm please dont try to work both mfc and Streamte.I basically ignore all the freeloaders except for a greeting them when they come in on sm to focus on MFC. If i don't hear the pvt noise on SM i dont give them to much attention.I also sign up for naked ,chaturbate,cam4,cams.com.So far those aren't paying the bills just a few dollars here and there.
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I feel like there's only so many viable cam/content sites based on my personal exp. and also what I've heard from other camgirls. I'm signed up on MFC and chaturbate which can be good earners, but I really don't do well on token based sites. I'm also on cams but that's really not viable as a main source of income, imo. I'm getting into indie camming now/doing skype shows. But SM is my main earner, so if that failed I'd realistically have to stop camming. Or if I hustled/uploaded often on C4S I think I could support myself there too.
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Also remember ladies that many cam sites will allow you to sign up and actually never delete your account, some site send out a reminder (cams.com) or just delete a "dead" account sitting there. Be aware of this, maybe work these sites that may delete you out, once in a while to keep it active.
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I agree, too many eggs could be a bad thing. I don't really do enough though. Lol. My main source of income (and by main I mean like 97% of my income) is SM which is scary to me but the thought of starting over on another cam site just to have a back up just seems overwhelming to me.
I also have a site on Southern Charms which does well if I update consistently but I usually use cam any time I can so I let it slide too often.
I've been seriously thinking of opening up a C4S store also but have been procrastinating. I keep thinking "I can't even keep up with SC, what makes me think I can do pictures and videos." But then again maybe I can get into the habit of taking one day a week and doing nothing but content for SC and C4S. Sorry, just talking things out with myself. Lol.
But the point is if something ever happened with SM, I'd be screwed. I do have a profile on MFC but just don't see that working for me at all.
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I'm with a lot of you guys on the if anything ever happened to SM I'd be screwed. Although realistically if something did another site would most likely take it's place as the traffic from there would have to move somewhere.
I usually just cam on SM but lately I've been paying attention to my C4S store and it is actually starting to pay off. I have gained some "regulars" on there in certain categories who will buy anything I put up in thier fetish so it's a start and gaurenteed money when I post vids in thier fetish. Actually when I calculate it I usually make the same or more per an "hour" on vids there than I do live camming.. A 5 min video with $3 profit my cut takes 10 mins to film edit and upload, after it sells 5 times over a month or two I've made $15 for 10 minutes of work or $15/10 minutes * 6 = $90/hr... Not bad when it's thought about that way
I also need to start using my never used elm account and maybe sign up on cams and MFC.
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Same as Solo I'm signed up to every site mentioned (positively) on here, 2 European ones, a shitty site that you could barely call a cam site, 5 content sites, and 2 phone chat platforms.
I make actual money on 4 of those!
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I agree, too many eggs could be a bad thing. I don't really do enough though. Lol. My main source of income (and by main I mean like 97% of my income) is SM which is scary to me but the thought of starting over on another cam site just to have a back up just seems overwhelming to me.
Sm was my one and only site for a very long time. It really is good to branch out, though. When I decided to do so what worked for me was working my regular morning shift on SM and then putting in 3-4 hours in the evening on another site on top of that. It is a lot of hours, but I'm one who can be in free chat 12+ hours straight so... Yeah. If you're doing that great on SM I definitely wouldn't cut your hours there down, but maybe just add a few more elsewhere on top of that?
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two many eggs could end up as a disaster. I say have one site and have a back up. so you dont have a ton of different audiences.... and do not have to worry about regulars disappearing because you're off experimenting on different sites but it if one site isnt working for you look for another one. simple as that.
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well I "cracked" one egg in my basket exchanged a few emails with live jasmin support and got it shut down and a whole $19 is going to be spent to me by the 25th why the hell would it take them almost a month? :/ .
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I just wanted to thank everyone who chimed in on this thread! There's so much good advice and info, I really appreciate everyone contributing. To everyone who said to not have too many eggs, I totally agree, especially when you are starting out. I made this mistake when I started camming a year ago, and one of the reasons it can hurt you, besides causing overwhelm, is that you can fail to utilize your new girl status that is crucial (most say) to getting established at some sites.
Now that I have more experience under my belt I feel a lot better about branching out in a more considered way, but even though I got started with a couple new applications before last weekend (Cams.com and Cam4), I am already putting them on the backburner because I am just so focused on SM. I also had to devote some work hours to an issue that came up with my website, so now I am really looking to streamline what I spend my time on.
Now I think my ideal situation would be to keep up with my content (which I also sell on SM) for CS4, which actually asks that you upload a clip at least once every 30 days, just FYI (not sure if they enforce that). Then I would focus on splitting SM with AW. I have wanted to get onto AW for a long time (esp for fetish and UK guys love me). They only thing stopping me is getting my passport, so maybe that will be my next point of order (ugh time to leave the house, LOL!).
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Would anyone happen to have a list of all the places that a camgirl can sell her video clips?,
I know of C4S, ELM and AW but I was just wondering if any recommended any other sites too.
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@JAC this thread has a lot of great info https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sh...ll-your-videos
Also if you go towards the end of the thread there is an awesome chart with sites/traffic/payout percent side by side
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Would anyone happen to have a list of all the places that a camgirl can sell her video clips?,
I know of C4S, ELM and AW but I was just wondering if any recommended any other sites too.
kinkbomb
eclipstore and
XGIGSMART - https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sh...es-Custom-Jobs!