Where to start when you flat out can't be bothered?
I had such a big overhaul planned - launch website re-do cam site profiles, all new pics and videos, really streamline my focus. I spent a whole weekend taking pics and videos, very pleased with those they came out GREAT! Then i got lost down the rabbit hole doing bits to my website... then i ran out of steam. Noticed the new twitter pic and bio pic i added and bio info change made NO difference, absolutely nobody commented. I know it's cause i don't do much with my twitter these days, plus I'm prob shadowbanned, so i can't just expect an overnight change, but man! The whole losing 3 days on my website then the lack of twitter interest kinda put a dampener on the whole thing. Really missing the days when it didn't take much to bring in new custies!
I am grateful I'm making money, grateful for how easy camming is compared to anything else, literally all i have to do is put makeup on and walk down the hall to my cam room!
I know i need this overhaul. I have my new pics, i have copy for my sites already written up, I'm just a bit overwhelmed and also bored, bored, bored of the whole thing already!! Am posting in the hopes your replies might give me a bit of get up and go and/or some ideas. Should i focus on niteflirt (literally not done much with my profile since 2012), AW where i make the bulk of my income, SM where I'm just starting out again, or my site which in the long run will be my biggest asset re passive (ish) income?
I usually keep this stuff to myself but i literally have no one else to talk to about work stuff so am reaching out x
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Are you me?! I honestly could have written this, I'm in exactly the same position. Trying to really get my shit together, sort out all my websites, all my photos, all my videos, all my copy, social media etc. I keep fantasising about how awesome it'll be when it's all done, how streamlined it'll be, how easy it'll be to direct customers to exactly what they want etc. And I'll get short bursts of motivation but when it comes to the admin I just can't be arsed! It really is so bloody tedious, and the fact that I know it's going to take forever keeps putting me off starting (even though that's exactly the reason I should start as soon as possible). Like you said, I'm grateful to continue making money, I keep plugging away and making the cash, but it would be SO much better if everything else was sorted.
I, too, have no-one to talk to about work stuff and I'm also British so if you ever want to chat, my proverbial door is always open! x
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Oh god what i wouldn't give for that! I have a few ladies i chat to about us being self employed etc, but I don't share exactly what i do so i do miss having people to talk to who know what it is to earn really good money, to be working on your passive income, and to have months where if you don't physically get on cam boom, zero income! Sorry you're feeling the same way. It just seems such a lot doesn't it? And you can't really avoid it nowadays if you want to progress or even just stay where you're at.
Do you know what you want to do first?
My other half said look, you need the income right now so start with your AW profile. He is talking sense i know, but then i think oooh it's so nice to get indie clients, so maybe i should do my site first? But that always seems to send me down a time suck rabbit hole lol. I want an assistant!!
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I also soon start to get overwhelmed if I try to do too much all at once, Susie.
It's a lot of work that we have to do & half the battle is being in the right frame of mind to do it. It's hard sometimes having to do everything all by ourselves.
I'm in the same place as you are this week, I've been editing photo's tonight & I just can't get motivated at all & then I tried to create another listing for TTM & as soon as I go to writing my listing out, my mind just went blank as it usually does :)
I'd just focus on whichever site makes you the most money for now & then work on your own website when your platform profiles are how you want them.
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If it were me I'd focus on Niteflirt and also funnel traffic from your website there and to Streamate with your affiliate links. For me Twitter is a major fail, nearly all losers who just want free interaction and free wanking material.
Niteflirt can be either a really good side egg or your main money maker, depending on how much time you put in and finding a popular niche that you are good at. (Speaking of which I really need to take my own advice and stop focusing so much on Streamate and put more energy and time into Niteflirt, seems I'm stuck on how Streamate used to be for me, definitely not working as well as it used to for me).
I know it's hard to spend time off cam working on profiles when you know you could be making money there. I'm trying to devote one day a week to promotion/profile work and affiliate marketing and the rest to camming.
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Maybe you overwhelmed yourself and brought yourself too much on the plate, wanting to have EVERYTHING ready in time for the big change reveal?
My oppinion is to focus on working on tiny bits and have everything ready, step by step, rather that all at once, because that's how the custies you want to atract will come. One by one.
I wouldn't rely on twitter so bad for new clients. I only use it to switch my members between the camsites I am on. Twitter is filled with window shoppers.
When you're trying to do a change and redo all your profiles, pics and videos, sometimes it doesn't happen overnight. I had a professional fetish photoshoot in May and it still took it a few months to have my new pics seen and noticed by everyone.
Is like a big store opening where... nobody comes. At first, at least. It's dissapointing, but the competition is big and just focus on the relief of having everything on point, when the custies are starting to come.
Meanwhile, focus on camming sites, because the main traffic is still there. This is the real deal, the bread& butter. Fuck twitter and indy.
There are girls who are succesfully converting twitter users into custies, but the majority of us, still rely on camsites.
Also, we have to understand that the indy market is bigger (adn cheaper) than we think. Only I have seen, popping out, overnight, lots of "insta-dommes", who are using paypal, circle, amazon giftcards and atract custies that way, selling themselves for a few dollars. Speaking of that, asking for a reimburse of your Taco Bell meal for you and your "alpha- brokeass", won't make you a findomme. But broke subs will bite it, because that's what they afford. We don't need them anyway.
But, we have the advantage of the cam sites. And paying content sites. Where we are certain 100% if a member is gonna spend, we are certain 100% he has the dollars. We are way ahead of those twitter hustlers and I still believe the camming customers are having a higher importance than those we struggle to atract from twitter. Because, in the end, we invested in the tech shit, to be able to stream, to show we are real and show the paying customer the attention he needs (that one who pays, of course). If everyone would go on twitter, camming sites would colapse. But no, the members still prefer this way, as well and don't wanna risk to be scammed by an insta domme, who, sometimes, is just a dude behind a few pics stolen from internet.
So, take a deep breath and relax. Everything is under control, just focus on camming/ texting/ pso/ clip uploading on clip sites and just make a to do list, to upgrade your indy content/ platforms/ etc, step by step.
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sexysusie
...I know i need this overhaul. I have my new pics, i have copy for my sites already written up.
My other half said look, you need the income right now so start with your AW profile. He is talking sense i know, but then i think oooh it's so nice to get indie clients, so maybe i should do my site first? But that always seems to send me down a time suck rabbit hole lol. I want an assistant!!
You may need to hire someone to build the website for you instead of trying to do it all by yourself. Or start with getting someone to re-design your NF profiles then work on other things. In my opinion starting a re-boot..right now at the beginning of December is a bad move. Next year start in October to build momentum that parallels with the Holiday Season. Right now you should be focusing your time on what you already have and work on being visible. When you do log on talk about all the exciting things you have planned and then make the big reveal in January. If you're getting overwhelmed with conceptual ideas you may miss out on seasonal money.
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It's hard sometimes having to do everything all by ourselves.
Isn't it just! We are all things at once, like a one woman band ha.
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laurielegs
I'm trying to devote one day a week to promotion/profile work and affiliate marketing and the rest to camming.
Such a great idea, thank you!
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Cutie101
Everything is under control, just focus on camming/ texting/ pso/ clip uploading on clip sites and just make a to do list, to upgrade your indy content/ platforms/ etc, step by step.
Thanks hun I needed that. You know when everything just gets to you and sometimes it's nice when somebody outside of it all goes "relax, take a breath..." :) I actually get quite a few new indie customers via twitter, although i get them from elsewhere too. I was mentioning twitter though as it just was the easiest thing to update with my new content first.
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PhatGirlDynomite!!!
You may need to hire someone to build the website for you instead of trying to do it all by yourself. Or start with getting someone to re-design your NF profiles then work on other things. In my opinion starting a re-boot..right now at the beginning of December is a bad move. Next year start in October to build momentum that parallels with the Holiday Season. Right now you should be focusing your time on what you already have and work on being visible. When you do log on talk about all the exciting things you have planned and then make the big reveal in January. If you're getting overwhelmed with conceptual ideas you may miss out on seasonal money.
You talk total sense, i hadn't thought about the fact that it's currently holiday season. For eg i spent all this weekend focusing on this stuff instead of camming and it's pay weekend!!
I actually already have someone working on my niteflirt for me, however because i haven't had the content or copy for it (due to not really knowing what direction to go in until now) it's been on hold for nearly 6 months. My own site isn't a problem really, i already have a paid theme and all the infrastructure set up, it's just finishing up writing the pages and adding pics and links to various things. I guess i just need to put this on hold for now.
Most of you ladies seem in consensus that the focus needs to be on the income making sites for now and I kinda thought that already. I'm going to get in touch with my NF profile maker tomorrow and get that underway and meanwhile just GTF on cam on AW and make some cash outta those boys!
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Not really much to add to what's already been said; but some great tips here!
I get how you feel, Susie. I think this is the case when you tire of any job, however well-paid. I'm in a headspace where I'd rather cam currently than work my vanilla job but I know that'll change again, and I'll be back to feeling like I just cannot be arsed with camming - ha! Cheap men are what put me off, I can't tolerat them and hate performing for them even when I do get them to pay.
I digress..push good traffic to your best-paying sites where you get the biggest cut or indie, if that's best for you and you're able to accept payments with ease. Make the changes step by step, I would. Don't give yourself a mountain to climb at the expense of time online. Slow and steady wins the race etc etc. I've always found when I work too hard on marketing at the expense of time online, I get resentful and end up making less. I seem to do really well when I make a moderate effort to promote, but not doing so obsessively. I don't know whether that's just Sod's Law at play or whether it's an overexposure type thing. I really couldn't say.
I'm always here if you want to chat about it or just have a moan. I know this can be a lonely business and people can go nuts on you and let you down. I've been lucky enough to make a life-long friend camming but it's so hard to get comfortable enough to be in a position to do that. :) Take care and keep smashing it. x
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( I should take my own advice I’m about to give you)
Maybe your fucking around with stuff that doesn’t matter/non money generating stuff?
I’m notorious for this and I’m impatient so this kinda stuff gives me the ump when I don’t see instant results. Often I can sit there messing about with some really pointless crap that is never going to contribute to my income or not much.
Remember the 20/80 rule, work smarter and not harder and get back to reading Tim Ferris 4 hour work week. This will reign you into focusing on stuff that’s money generating rather than minor details that don’t matter.
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