Does anyone else use Instagram for promotion?
So when I started doing this last year, my gf had been selling clips through Instagram and email. I joined her page and we began our joint venture. After a while, selling the clips through there just became too much to handle. Even though it was 100% our money, we were answering emails all day and night long. So now we use c4s. And I cam too.
We do have traffic that comes from ig, but my question is, does anyone else on here use it to promote themselves? Do you find its even worth it still? I'm so tired of guys sending me messages asking for free stuff. It's a hassle, and I'm debating on whether or not to even keep the page up. There are tons of girls on there who do the same things and we've made kind of a network of friends there, but I'm so discouraged. It's very time consuming and I just don't feel like the return is there. I mean I'm spending probably 8+hours a day trying to answer questions on ig or get more followers to get us out there.
Comments? Does anyone have other suggestions for advertising that seem to work better and aren't as time consuming
Edit: Okay so I found a thread about promoting yourself on social media, and found that to be somewhat helpful. I promise I'm not a complete idiot, I just can never find what I'm looking for with the search feature. :) But I'm still kind of interested to know how many people actually find INSTAGRAM helpful, vs. twitter or facebooking. I'm not down with the facebook. Too risky on there. And twitter didn't work out for me.
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Read this thread on promoting https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sh...re-Traffic-101
It has a ton of information filled with helpful threads. Including the one in my signature about twitter. I use IG. I use twitter. I use Tumblr. Facebook,Youtube,Dailymotion and just about every Youtube alternative for several different countries. C4S has amazing traffic that crosses over into skype shows for me. Instagram is great but unless you have a platform/website where money is mentioned then you will get a bunch of freeloaders. I have payment mentioned all over my web pages but I still get guys trying to act dumb.
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PhatGirlDynomite!!!
Read this thread on promoting
https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sh...re-Traffic-101
It has a ton of information filled with helpful threads. Including the one in my signature about twitter. I use IG. I use twitter. I use Tumblr. Facebook,Youtube,Dailymotion and just about every Youtube alternative for several different countries. C4S has amazing traffic that crosses over into skype shows for me. Instagram is great but unless you have a platform/website where money is mentioned then you will get a bunch of freeloaders. I have payment mentioned all over my web pages but I still get guys trying to act dumb.
That's the one I just found that I was talking about in my edit. Thank you. I sure am reading over that all right now.
I feel like people on IG can't read. I have in our bio about pay services. I post at least once a day something talking about pay services. But yet, this morning, I got a guy on there asking me why I wouldn't send him free nudes.... because I won't dude... lol. I'm not sending you a pic of myself or my gf. I don't do this to make you happy, or me happy. I do it for the money. And I'm sure there's plenty of girls out there who do it just for fun, and that's cool, but not my style. And he kept on and then started calling me not so nice names. Normally I just ignore them and block them, but today I was feeling particularly feisty, so I went off on him.
Then I started questioning whether or not I even want to do IG. I had shut it down while me and my gf took a break from everything a few months ago. I set it back up a few weeks ago, and am back to almost 1500 followers. It's just people like that that make me not want to do social media. I could have blocked him and saved myself the trouble, but honestly I've just been in a bad mood lately and he seemed like the perfect outlet until it made me more mad. If that makes any sense.
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You should keep using IG just put the link to your webpage or c4s page in your bio. That's all you have to do. Don't bother responding to those emails. You send them to the page where they can shop and buy. Done. That's it. You just use social media to gain interest and stay visible. The consumer will find you. You just have to cast a very large net. Be everywhere. IG,Twitter,Tumblr, all over the place. Honestly if all you want to do is make money from clips then you don't have to answer emails or questions at all. Just make the clip. Upload it. Tweet about it. Post a blog about it and google will take care of the rest. Sometimes they may email you in regards to custom request. But many of them will be timewasters. But you don't have to do customs if you don't want to.
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PhatGirlDynomite!!!
You should keep using IG just put the link to your webpage or c4s page in your bio. That's all you have to do. Don't bother responding to those emails. You send them to the page where they can shop and buy. Done. That's it. You just use social media to gain interest and stay visible. The consumer will find you. You just have to cast a very large net. Be everywhere. IG,Twitter,Tumblr, all over the place. Honestly if all you want to do is make money from clips then you don't have to answer emails or questions at all. Just make the clip. Upload it. Tweet about it. Post a blog about it and google will take care of the rest. Sometimes they may email you in regards to custom request. But many of them will be timewasters. But you don't have to do customs if you don't want to.
We also do the custom clips, we do paid snapchat subscriptions, and paid Kik. So I kind of have to talk to them & I always have a hard time distinguishing between time wasters and not-timewasters. I'd love to have website where I could sell EVERYTING, including orders for all that stuff, and make all the commission, instead of splitting it up with sites like c4s. Right now everything I make goes towards bills since I just lost my job though, so I really can't afford it at the moment. Ahhh dreams. One day.
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Starting a website is extremely cheap. Sounds like you have a very big catalog by now? People always think its gonna be difficult. It doesn't have to be. My main .com is mostly about my clips4sale and my Skype shows. I tried having a site with all my stuff and instant downloads like c4s but it did get kinda difficult. I dropped that one and turned it into something else. Check out this thread about model centro. https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sh...-makes-it-easy I think I read in their forum something about building a customs page for guys who are into more specialized clips. I need to ask about that and it's progress now that I think about it.
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Lunaxoxo
We also do the custom clips, we do paid snapchat subscriptions, and paid Kik. So I kind of have to talk to them & I always have a hard time distinguishing between time wasters and not-timewasters. I'd love to have website where I could sell EVERYTING, including orders for all that stuff, and make all the commission, instead of splitting it up with sites like c4s. Right now everything I make goes towards bills since I just lost my job though, so I really can't afford it at the moment. Ahhh dreams. One day.
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Originally Posted by
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
Starting a website is extremely cheap. Sounds like you have a very big catalog by now? People always think its gonna be difficult. It doesn't have to be. My main .com is mostly about my clips4sale and my Skype shows. I tried having a site with all my stuff and instant downloads like c4s but it did get kinda difficult. I dropped that one and turned it into something else. Check out this thread about model centro.
https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sh...-makes-it-easy I think I read in their forum something about building a customs page for guys who are into more specialized clips. I need to ask about that and it's progress now that I think about it.
Holy Jesus. I love this site. You guys are awesome. I will have to look into that site more but it seems right up my alley to get started on my own site. That could well be the answer to a lot of my issues.
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Ladies don't you find IG links everything up with your real contacts??!!! I signed up then notice they were owned by Google arrrgggh. The link to post pics is sooo close to the Facebook one, and Facebook is everywhere on there. I'm really afraid to use it!
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I don't have facebook on my phone. I only use it on my desktop in it's own browser. My personal facebook is on firefox and the adult is on chrome. I use firefox for non adult related stuff. But my adult fb doesn't have any pics. It mainly just has links to blog post on my website. When ever I blog I have an option to post it on fb as well. So far so good.
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You should join in my on #camblitz for social media marketing for cam models.
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sexysusie
Ladies don't you find IG links everything up with your real contacts??!!! I signed up then notice they were owned by Google arrrgggh. The link to post pics is sooo close to the Facebook one, and Facebook is everywhere on there. I'm really afraid to use it!
No you just have to be super careful. You can go into your settings on ig to make sure it doesn't link up.
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minniesoporno
You should join in my on #camblitz for social media marketing for cam models.
How does it work? Do you have a post about it somewhere? I couldn't find anything.
Never mind. Found it.
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[edit] Hurr durr I just reread your post and I guess this doesn't really pertain - still, it might make sense why you're getting so many time wasters - they're overwhelmingly young'uns and older guys who a) are insecure about their place in a rapidly changing world and b) have too much fucking time on their hands, both of which means that a large number of them will be a waste of your time. Still leaving the info below because it might be helpful to someone else. :)
1. IG is overwhelmingly more female than male. I just feel like your target audience (men who are old enough to have money to burn) won't be on it.
2. It is insanely hard to get two accounts on a single device. This means that very few custies will either a) have a separate phone just to have their sex-related account or b) be so incredibly stupid that they'll be following a 18+ IG account on their personal account. Nyeeeehhhhh.
3. IG is owned by FB. If y'all aren't aware, the NSA has been getting around the 4th amendment by collecting data that you've willingly given to 3rd parties (read: Facebook, Google, etc). FB is particularly egregious with this. And if you were ever concerned about facial recognition/future employment? Throwing a million photos on a FB owned company are probably not the best idea. They OWN those images. Forever. No shit, it's in their privacy policy and they already sell that info to 3rd parties for the purposes of background checking, etc. So... while Twitter isn't much better, it at least seems like you won't just be handing out potentially dangerous information in exchange for the almost nonexistent chance for conversions.
In short? It's not worth your time. I'd just get an account in your name - and NEVER touch it - just so you won't get someone else who tries to impersonate you.
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Personally,I feel that Instagram works for certain girls. However, I found tumblr worked much better if you into the fetish/ BDSM scene. For example, my Ebony submissive character into raceplay and other fetishes get clients off tumblr. T