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I lower my rates doing wonderful
I have lower my rates to 0.99, I have been doing great better now then before when my rates where higher. The lower rates was just going to be for 1mon I then I was going to raise them as I loss weight I am BBW I was using my rates as motivator , the more weight I loss the higher my rates are going to be.Now I am thinking I should just keep them at 0.99 I am still going to loss weight.My placement has been way higher,I am in shows 66-75% of the time. less trolls and no one seems to care about me beening a BBW.;D
I was thinking what guy is going to pay higher rates but I know some do pay 3.99- 8.99min the average guy that is making 10hr or even minimum wage are not going to pay those guy are the ones that are just sitting the room and not going for a show if it was me I would just go to a free porn site then pay 5.99min
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how much r u making weekly may i ask? I am interested !!
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You'd rather do a show at 0.99 for 10 minutes and make $10....than do a show at $3.00 for 10 minutes and make $30?
Why make yourself do more shows @ 0.99 cents, and have to work harder just to make the same amount of money, hypothetically at $3/min?
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Originally Posted by
CanadianRuby
You'd rather do a show at 0.99 for 10 minutes and make $10....than do a show at $3.00 for 10 minutes and make $30?
Why make yourself do more shows @ 0.99 cents, and have to work harder just to make the same amount of money, hypothetically at $3/min?
I would be setting in my room forever not making nothing. I dont have time to just to be sitting. I have a kid and time is money, the time I would be just sitting I could be making money I am a BBW so I have to wait and wait and wait for a show I am not hot girl or the best looking girl I do my best on my looks make up and hair
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Sweetheart, don't ever say you aren't hot. I've peeked into your room before and I think you're beautiful!
Bbw is not a bad thing !!! I charge $3.59/$5.99 and I get shows constantly! Just flirt flirt flirt, project a sense of confidence and you'll rock it! It sounds to me like you might be lacking in confidence. I started camming in May of this year and I had no confidence in myself and was sucking so I quit.. Came back at the beginning of October and now I get privates all the time, multiple guys in at once etc... You're worth so much more than .99 cents a minute. If it's working for you then by all means but our cut is so small of that .99 cents and I think if maybe you kept your rate higher and increased your hustle you'd be making a lot more in a lot less time.
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Thats good bby i was just wondering how much u mad if it was alot more now cause thats great :)
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I can only add one thing:
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mimiboo69
I am a BBW so I have to wait and wait and wait for a show I am not hot girl
Get this out of your head! You are a hot girl! BBW is hot, BBW has a great market! BBW is a fetish on its own! Honestly, every now and then I secretly think about gaining weight to be a BBW...
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brittany_bitch
Thats good bby i was just wondering how much u mad if it was alot more now cause thats great :)
The other day when I was on I was only on for 2hrs and 30mins and made 80.00 that I think that is good
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I'm curious--do you find that you get more guys in pvt at the same time? I charge 4.99 for premium on SM but I almost never get more than one guy in pvt for more than a few minutes at a time... I'm too much of a chicken to lower my rates but I'd be very interested to know how this has affected the number of guys in pvt.
Also, you say that guys are less rude/demanding? That's the opposite of my experience with lower rates (the more I raise them the more polite/patient/generous my customers are) so I'm wondering if maybe the rudeness peaks around lower-mid-range?
Aside from all that, congratulations on finding what works best for you. :)
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Glasses
I can only add one thing:
Get this out of your head! You are a hot girl! BBW is hot, BBW has a great market! BBW is a fetish on its own! Honestly, every now and then I secretly think about gaining weight to be a BBW...
I am not saying that beening bbw is a bad thing you have to wait for a for that guy that are into bbws and maybe he the will get a show or maybe not
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Congrats for finding something that works for you. I play with my prices. Sometimes, if it's really slow I will lower them drastically to get people in shows and then after an hour I will raise them back up to my normal $4.99 rate. Good luck on the weight loss and I hope to see your prices even higher than mine soon!
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Mini, I lowered my rates as well, (not 99 cents, but lower than my usual 5.99/7.99 per minute. I LOVE it! back to back privates, and many guys at once in premium, stay in. I now don't have to talk in free chat, because they just pop in.
'Necessity is the mother of all invention.' I also have unblocked all of the 800 custies I had blocked. That helps too.
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Originally Posted by
CanadianRuby
You'd rather do a show at 0.99 for 10 minutes and make $10....than do a show at $3.00 for 10 minutes and make $30?
Why make yourself do more shows @ 0.99 cents, and have to work harder just to make the same amount of money, hypothetically at $3/min?
Its $3.49 of $9.99 if your rates are .99 x 10 minutes. vs $12.25 of $30.00 if your rates are $3.00 x 10 minutes. Just to give some perspective. You get 35% on Streamate
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Procrasturbator
I'm curious--do you find that you get more guys in pvt at the same time? I charge 4.99 for premium on SM but I almost never get more than one guy in pvt for more than a few minutes at a time... I'm too much of a chicken to lower my rates but I'd be very interested to know how this has affected the number of guys in pvt.
Also, you say that guys are less rude/demanding? That's the opposite of my experience with lower rates (the more I raise them the more polite/patient/generous my customers are) so I'm wondering if maybe the rudeness peaks around lower-mid-range?
Aside from all that, congratulations on finding what works best for you. :)
YES I get more then one guy in my PVT room.Some are demanding but I remind them" this a .99 show and if you wanted one on one time you have to take me exclusive, there are other guys in the room so you have to clam down", most the times they do and some just leave.They are less rude about calling me fat. But do not get me wrong I have some things only in exclusive like cam2cam and roll play or to play with my Big toys,if I feel like it that day anal if I am not feeling like doing anal I say "anal exclusive with a 40 gold tip", if they want me to undress all the that have to take me exclusive. My exclusive rate is 3.99 NOT LESS THEN THAT
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Build up your regulars then slowly start raising them again by ten to twenty cents. FYI bbw is one of the top selling niches in porn. I laugh my fat ass all the way to the bank to put my checks in. You are doing good at a lower price because you believe in it, that is the power of the secret.
If a drag queen can go from being the uglyist man into a hot female impersonator then make up can do wonders with the natural beauty of a female.
Attitude & confidence sell no matter what a person looks like, look at lady gaga. :)
Smooches,
Sam
www.twitter.com/sam38g
http://Samantha38g.cammodels.com
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I will periodically lower my rates to $1.99 as a "special" in my room. No matter what my rates are, I spend about 6-7 hours on cam per shift. When my rates are higher I spend less time in private and more time sitting there. When I lower my rates I make roughly the same amount sometimes a little bit more BUT because my percentage of time spent in paid goes up so does my placement which is good for traffic. The last time I was at $1.99 I had 6 guys spend 10 minutes in my premium all at the same time so I was making 12 bucks a minute (well, 35% of that) which was cool! I personally will never put my exclusive lower than $4.79 a minute and I plan to slowly raise that. But sometimes if it's a slow night I definitely lower my rates for premium and boost traffic because some money is better than no money.
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Originally Posted by
Sam38g
Build up your regulars then slowly start raising them again by ten to twenty cents. FYI bbw is one of the top selling niches in porn. I laugh my fat ass all the way to the bank to put my checks in. You are doing good at a lower price because you believe in it, that is the power of the secret.
If a drag queen can go from being the uglyist man into a hot female impersonator then make up can do wonders with the natural beauty of a female.
Attitude & confidence sell no matter what a person looks like, look at lady gaga. :)
Smooches,
Sam
www.twitter.com/sam38g
http://Samantha38g.cammodels.com
That was my plan at first,But then I was like wow I was getting more people in more and making money unlike with a higher rate so I was like why go back to a higher rate BUT you have given me a idea. My thing is, if I put my rate higher will the same guys be willing to do a show with a higher rate,That is where I was stuck
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mimiboo69
That was my plan at first,But then I was like wow I was getting more people in more and making money unlike with a higher rate so I was like why go back to a higher rate BUT you have given me a idea. My thing is, if I put my rate higher will the same guys be willing to do a show with a higher rate,That is where I was stuck
Do it gradually & slowly, trust they still will be there. Make them crave you so much they have no choice but to spend the money.
I'm not saying you are doing it the wrong way, you are doing what works for you. But next week raise it to say $1.05 it is not enough to upset them. They will get used to that price, mean while you are building up even more regulars. Never be afraid to ask for a thank you tip if they enjoyed the show. You will be surprised how many chip in $5 to $20 more for being satisfied. Not in a demanding way, but like "hey, if you enjoyed the show any gold tips would be greatly appreciated."
Always work 2 or 3 cam sites, when one is dead the other usually isn't. That way you are always making money. If by rare chance both are dead, make clips to put on sites like extralunchmoney, clips4sale.com, mypornprofile, pornsync & such. This way you will be making money even when not online. Always have a clip or two to give away to big tippers as a reward. I love doing this for my big tippers plus it builds a good camming relationship. One of my regulars took me exclusive for 20 minutes at $9 & then ended up tipping me $400 on top of it. Sending him many sexy clips as a reward was my pleasure. :)
If you have any questions, I will be more than happy to help.
Good Luck,
Sam
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My advice would be to start the way you want to finish. Think about your endgame for a moment, but get started on the first impression. How do you want your customers to see you? You are worth a million bucks. Act like it. Be friendly but assertive. Lower rates can send out the wrong message and can take a long time to increase. But if you do start low going too high can send them into "shock" and turn them off.
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I don't know why girls on here always talk about how raising your rates is the key to making money. And those same people do gold shows, so that makes no sense. Gold shows are pennies per minute.
The key is just finding the rate that gets people spending the most. I doubt many people will enter private (group) mode at the same time at $14.99, but several will probably enter at a lower rate.
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Originally Posted by
GlamourRouge
I don't know why girls on here always talk about how raising your rates is the key to making money. And those same people do gold shows, so that makes no sense. Gold shows are pennies per minute.
The key is just finding the rate that gets people spending the most. I doubt many people will enter private (group) mode at the same time at $14.99, but several will probably enter at a lower rate.
I do one to gold shows a day, it isn't an all day thing for me. But mainly as a reward for a fan Jelani Jones who has bought most of the gifts off of my wishlist for the past 2 years, bought every clip I had on c4s & a member of my site for over 2 years. That gold show leads to many privates & exclusive shows afterwards. Which does give a cheap opportunity for a guy to get a show to see what you are all about & then many do become regulars who do take me private. Gold shows do have their place for me as a tool.
Now there are girls who do back to back sold out gold shows & props to them. Cause they are still raking it in, but that is how many models on SM 3 to 4. Rarely is a model no matter how cheap the gold show is can sell it out each & every time. But make no mistake SM is still mainly a go private kind of site, not gold show cheap heaven for all the men. Which I was scared of happening, thankfully it didn't. :)
You do have a point though glamour.
Smooches,
Sam
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Mimiboo I am very happy to hear that you have found a rate that works for you! I don't care if people say that you'll make more per minute at a higher rate; if no one is actually buying shows at a high rate it really isn't helping you, is it? My site sets the models' rates automatically but if I could change my rate I would lower it too just to get more shows because it has been so slow the past few months!
"You'd rather do a show at 0.99 for 10 minutes and make $10....than do a show at $3.00 for 10 minutes and make $30?" <--- This analogy works in theory, but it doesn't necessarily work in real time. It goes on the assumption that a member will stay in a show for the exact same amount of minutes regardless of the per minute rate. If every single customer was going to spend a set amount of time in private chat then of course, charge higher! But there are a lot of guys who can't afford to spend a lot on shows, unfortunately. Maybe if a model charged $3/min she will only be in private chat for 10 minutes out of the hour. Maybe if she drops her rate to $0.99/min she will be in private chat for 55 minutes out of the hour. If that's the case, she's going to net much more at a lower rate. Also someone upthread brought up a very good point about increased % in private chat leading to higher placement, which is an Excellent point! So now you're netting more money AND getting more visibility on the site? Rock on, girl, rock on!
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I think it is possible that it's all in your head. When your prices were higher, you were unsure of yourself, possibly even subconsciously doubting yourself "I'm a BBW, I'm not hot enough for this rate." (BTW I think that's complete bullshit when BBWs feel that way) and it showed through the camera. When you lowered your rates, you felt more at ease.
It is amazing- AMAZING to me the things you can pick up watching someone via webcam. People can read you like a book- read things that are not even said or done. Men don't even know it theirselves but they have a serious 6th, 7th and 8th sense for stuff like this.
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I offered 2.99 private once. Not one guy took me at that price, but as soon as I upped it back to 4.99/5.99....I got shows. Honestly, I don't know how these guys think....lol...It's different for every performer. But it doesn't hurt to offer a special every now and then..Just don't let them get so used to it that they start asking for it all the time. Maybe you could pick your slowest day of the week to run a special on, same day, every week...