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    Default Looking to get started camming!!!

    I'm interested in camming & I've been browsing through this message board but it's like a foreign language to me! I know absolutely nothing about camming! Any help is greatly appreciated!

    How does camming work? People pay to watch you over the internet?
    Can I cam from a desktop computer or does it have to be a laptop?
    What equipment/software do I need to get started?
    What are some good sites to get started on?
    Do you get paid by the website, or by the people who watch you?

    I guess I just need to know the basics of camming! Sorry if these questions have already been answered, but I couldn't find them! If so, just post a link to the thread! Thanks

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    Okay, the first thing I would recommend you do, is take an evening or two, to sit down with a hot drink and read a bunch of the threads on this forum that are dedicated to camming. There is so much good stuff on here that will answer all of your questions and more. Of course at first it seems like a foreign language but that is how everyone felt when they first encountered camming. The research is time consuming but if you take note of all the brilliant info people have posted here, it can be a goldmine.

    Second thing I would recommend, go on some of the top sites like streamate and Myfreecams and watch some of the girls in free chat. This can really help you get the idea of what camming is about.

    To answer your questions...heres camming 101!

    How does camming work? People pay to watch you over the internet?
    Yes. Generally naked, although there are some non nude girls but this is a harder market.
    Can I cam from a desktop computer or does it have to be a laptop?
    It can be either.
    What equipment/software do I need to get started?
    A computer with a good RAM so that you can stream video and work with different programs simultaneously, a good webcam (logitech pro 9000 seems to get the best reviews from girls) a good internet connection.
    What are some good sites to get started on?
    It depends. People 's experience with sites differ, one girl may love a site and make lots of $$ but another may do really badly on it and hate it. Do your research and visit a couple of sites and see which works best for you.
    Do you get paid by the website, or by the people who watch you?
    It's pretty much 100% commission. Meaning you make all your money from the people watching you, I think there are a few sites that offer hourly pay, but the ones that do don't seem to be worth it.
    It varies from site to site but it's all basically the same.
    Some sites have free chat and some dont. So if the site has free chat, you sign on and people will come into your chat room. You will flirt and chat with the guys and convince them (without seeming desperate) to take you 'private'. This means that they are buying time with you and spending exclusive one on one virtual time with you. They will ask you to do things like strip/masturbate/kinky stuff and if you are happy doing it then you will do it. Never do anything you are not comfortable with. You will try and draw the show out for as long as possible so that they don't immediately jizz in their pants and end the private session, meaning less $$ for you!
    If the site does not offer free chat then you just upload sexy photos to your profile, make your profile as interesting, eye catching and titillating as possible and sign on and wait for people to request to take you private.

    The customers pay the site to take you private, and the site takes a cut of this (which is generally quite high) to pay for your listing on the site and the promotion and traffic you receive from being on the site. Then the site pays you, usually weekly or fortnightly. The site will not tax you, you will be a self employed contractor so you must be in charge of paying your own tax.

    Most money is made from people taking you private, apart from sites like MFC where some of the successful girls rely mostly on being given 'tips' in free chat. So some might say "tip me x amount and I will do a striptease" and they will make their money this way.

    I don't know whether you have ever danced before, but it is all a bit like a virtual strip club really. In a club, you hustle guys to buy a dance or go to the champagne room, and you dance on stage and get tips. Online you huslle guys to take you private and sometimes dance around in free chat and get tips.

    Bottom line if you don't hustle, and just sit there you don't make anything.

    SO. I hope this has answered some of your questions, seriously though read up. Before I started camming I lurked here for about 3 months reading EVERYTHING, and also reading up on different fetishes, learning how to promote myself, and visiting all the main cam sites to see how they worked.

    Good luck if you decide to try camming, I hope this helped.

    There are millions on threads dedicated to helping girls get started camming, here is just one of them.

    http://forum.stripperweb.com/showthread.php?t=137369

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    Default Re: Looking to get started camming!!!

    ok so this is done through typing? i mean are there microphones involved or just optional? do you see them?


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    Default Re: Looking to get started camming!!!

    Read through this whole forum!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreamofluxie View Post
    Okay, the first thing I would recommend you do, is take an evening or two, to sit down with a hot drink and read a bunch of the threads on this forum that are dedicated to camming. There is so much good stuff on here that will answer all of your questions and more.
    +1

    This forum has been incredibly helpful to me, for the sole reason that girls who post here are those who actually do this job and are exchanging experiences selflessly, and there's no marketing propaganda involved. Take some time and read, read, read, almost all you can think of has been talked about and if it isn't, these lovely girls are always out to help.

    Kisses to all my SW girls!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreamofluxie View Post
    What are some good sites to get started on?
    It depends. People 's experience with sites differ, one girl may love a site and make lots of $$ but another may do really badly on it and hate it. Do your research and visit a couple of sites and see which works best for you.
    Do you get paid by the website, or by the people who watch you?
    It's pretty much 100% commission. Meaning you make all your money from the people watching you, I think there are a few sites that offer hourly pay, but the ones that do don't seem to be worth it.

    http://forum.stripperweb.com/showthread.php?t=137369

    I agree with the answer to this first question, BUT.... doing this kind of trial and error research will take WAY too long. PM me for my email, and I will happily take a look at your pics, ask you a few questions about your personality, and make an educated recommendation of what *I* think would be a good place for you to start. I will also tell you what per minute price I think you can get away with charging. I wish someone had done that for ME back in the day! ;-)

    The answer to the second question is not exactly correct.... if you work for a site, you get paid BY THE SITE. Not by the customer. (Being paid by the customer would be, like... doing a show on skype and having him paypal you the money directly.) The customer pays the site, and you get a percentage of what the customer paid (usually 30% to 50%, but this varies greatly). The money the site keeps is basically for the 'service' of connecting the customer with you.

    I think that the TREND of things is towards free-to-private type sites, so I don't think there is even a point of having you try a site where you just post pics and they have to pay the minute they enter videochat. By the time you got used to things there, they'd be changing the format on you, because there just isn't too much busine$$ on those kinds of sites nowadays. It would be nice if things still worked this way, but it aint 2004 anymore, and the customers are expecting to be able to 'try before they buy', in the form of free-to-private videochat. Adapt or die. This is semi-opinion, but I think I'm right. ;-)

    Visit a bunch of the sites, sign up for viewer accounts, even (actually, I highly recommend this), and see what things look like from the viewer's perspective.

    See what the girls who remind you of yourself are charging. How are they interacting with their customers. How are they showing off their best assets? WHat are they saying, what are they DOING? What do you think they could IMPROVE? What things are they doing that you are really impressed with? Can you picture yourself doing that?

    Hang out in a girl's room on mfc for 30 mins, and count how many tokens she is making. Translate that into dollars, and figure out what she's making per hour, roughly. Also... how much is the CUSTOMER PAYING, for her to be making that much (or that little....LOL!)? Are you ok with that? Make friends with girls on other sites.... ask how much THEY make. Ask how much their top-earning FRIENDS make. (The top girls won't usually post their earnings on a forum like this... they know that other girls get jealous and catty. You will either have to make friends with the right people, or get the info through rumours and word of mouth.)

    Many of the websites have lists of top earners for the week or the month... Figure out what these girls are making on a weekly or monthly basis. Figure out how many hrs they have to cam, to achieve that. Get to know THOSE girls... see what THEY are doing.

    Etc etc etc.....

    You are on the right track. ;-) PM me if you need more help... if *I* cant help you, I will probably at least be able to put you in touch with someone who can.

    MUAH!

    (I like to help... I was a total noob too, once.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by yogibear179 View Post
    ok so this is done through typing? i mean are there microphones involved or just optional? do you see them?
    Webcaming is done by either text or voice from microphone some camgirls do audio from phone. If they do it by phone, most of time they will hide access to real phone number using some type of block feature that won't reveal real phone number so camsites have this option. Some customers don't have sound enable it's good to do combination of typing for those with no audio sound. Some times the customer will have webcam in return and they may have audio or just typing.

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    Default Re: Looking to get started camming!!!

    To be brutally honest: working one site is generally not the best idea - even if it is a.... tailored recommendation. Its probably good idea to start your first week on one site before you figure out how to work several at a time , but beyond that, especially if you know you can handle it: not really. Your miles may vary from site to site, what one person tells you is the best site of all time may not actually be a match for you.

    The site should match you - not the other way around.

    Figure out what your preferences are, ie, do you want to be able to block areas, set your own private rate, work mainly for tips or work mainly in privates (one-on-one, group, or both), be 100% protected from chargebacks (when customers dispute paying you) or you'll use your discretion, want to have social networking obligations on a site or just have your profile posted, don't want to have to hustle your own traffic with a website & marketing, etc. Trying to determine what your preferences are will help you choose the sites you want to work on... and if those sites don't work out, you'll have enough know where to lean since you'll have some backups.

    Each site you're interested in probably has several threads written about the pros/cons from different people's perspective. You'll figure out where you want to fit from reading it. What works for one person may not work for the other. This is probably what is most valuable about this forum: varying perspectives... youll also pick up stuff you wouldnt expect to (when I started, I didn't intend to learn about split cam software here, but thank flipping pancakes I picked up on it in a thread by accident).

    Good luck.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Jessica1001 View Post
    The answer to the second question is not exactly correct.... if you work for a site, you get paid BY THE SITE. Not by the customer.
    Yup, if you read down I said "The customers pay the site to take you private, and the site takes a cut of this (which is generally quite high) to pay for your listing on the site and the promotion and traffic you receive from being on the site. Then the site pays you, usually weekly or fortnightly."
    I only answered in the affirmative of the customer paying to watch because the OP didn't seem that clear on the whole mechanics of camming and I wanted to confirm that the system was pretty much 100% commission, and very rarely hourly pay.

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    Sum it up .
    You need - Webcam, Mic , Good internet, High patients., and a paypal setup.
    You shouldnt - Expect 1billion bucks the first night.. you HAVE to work for it.
    Its Not - As simples as loging on , setting there , and getting money.
    If you- treat it like a job , it will pay out , witch means , dont set there for 1 hour and get pissed people just keep asking for free shows.
    If you dont - Stay atleast 5 hours 6 nights a week , it basicly wont work.
    Hehe hope this helped for the ones , who dont like to read that much =-P
    Americanmade18 on most sites.

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