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    i did my first day on sm and i made 100 dollars in 3 hours which is not bad but not great. I know I need to get higher placement to make more because I used the encoder and was still on the middle of the 3rd page. How much should I be making a day to make it to the first page? And also when do our stars and our placement update?

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    Quote Originally Posted by h0ttie View Post
    i did my first day on sm and i made 100 dollars in 3 hours which is not bad but not great. I know I need to get higher placement to make more because I used the encoder and was still on the middle of the 3rd page. How much should I be making a day to make it to the first page? And also when do our stars and our placement update?
    I made that ratio (around 100 for 3 hours) my first couple of days on and I was on the middle of the first page and have stayed there since. (I've only worked less than 25 hours over the course of the past month.)

    I don't think it's just based on amount earned vs. time, although that seems to be a big part of it. I don't offer phone so that wasn't a factor either. HD and audio...

    I think a big thing is getting 5 star ratings and reviews too. I tell everyone who comes in "don't forget to rate me 5 stars if you like my show", so maybe getting rated regularly makes a difference. Try encouraging guys to rate you. Hope that helps. I can't think of anything else that might be a factor, maybe other girls will chime in too.

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    This is my first week on stream . I have my hd encoder working it makes a huge difference . r. The only problem is it's soo much work that I get tired and come offline faster ! Are you sure you have the encoder working properly ? When I first started I thought I was broadcasting in hd but it turns out I wasn't .

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    sm will place you on the first page if you maintain a rating of 4.5 stars or high and how much time you spend in private. Plus audio and HD

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    You have to spend most of your time online in private to get higher in rank - SM says at least 3% but of course a lot more to move up. If you have everything else, you just have to reel those guys in.

    edit: opps, already stated, just seen ms.lacy's post

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    Quote Originally Posted by tashataboo View Post
    I made that ratio (around 100 for 3 hours) my first couple of days on and I was on the middle of the first page and have stayed there since. (I've only worked less than 25 hours over the course of the past month.)

    I don't think it's just based on amount earned vs. time, although that seems to be a big part of it. I don't offer phone so that wasn't a factor either. HD and audio...

    I think a big thing is getting 5 star ratings and reviews too. I tell everyone who comes in "don't forget to rate me 5 stars if you like my show", so maybe getting rated regularly makes a difference. Try encouraging guys to rate you. Hope that helps. I can't think of anything else that might be a factor, maybe other girls will chime in too.
    thanks so much this is really good news, i'm just going to make 100 a day there till I get higher placement because I can average more on other sites for now, but I'm sure when I get higher placement I will be making more.
    Also I'm not offering phone but I was thinking I was gonna have to since my placement was so low. Good to know I don't need it to make it to the first page.
    I will start asking guys to rate me..I got 4 ratings yesterday that average to 4.75 but it shows I still have 4 stars. I would think that should at least bump me to 4.5 stars but whatever I'm sure it will go up!
    thanks again!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by seductive crystal View Post
    This is my first week on stream . I have my hd encoder working it makes a huge difference . r. The only problem is it's soo much work that I get tired and come offline faster ! Are you sure you have the encoder working properly ? When I first started I thought I was broadcasting in hd but it turns out I wasn't .
    pretty sure i have it working properly, how did u find out u weren't really broadcasting in hd?

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    Gooood!!
    I cant wait to start working on SM.
    I just gotta get a scanner

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    Quote Originally Posted by h0ttie View Post
    pretty sure i have it working properly, how did u find out u weren't really broadcasting in hd?
    When you look yourself up under your category it will say if you boradcast in hd have audio etc.
    Whats 6 inches long, 2 inches wide, and drives women wild?...... Money

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    Quote Originally Posted by h0ttie View Post
    thanks so much this is really good news, i'm just going to make 100 a day there till I get higher placement because I can average more on other sites for now, but I'm sure when I get higher placement I will be making more.
    Also I'm not offering phone but I was thinking I was gonna have to since my placement was so low. Good to know I don't need it to make it to the first page.
    I will start asking guys to rate me..I got 4 ratings yesterday that average to 4.75 but it shows I still have 4 stars. I would think that should at least bump me to 4.5 stars but whatever I'm sure it will go up!
    thanks again!!
    I always ask them to rate me. Most of the time they dont though. It takes a while for customer comments and updates stars to appear. Usually for me it is about 4 days to a week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SpeedDial View Post
    Gooood!!
    I cant wait to start working on SM.
    I just gotta get a scanner
    You know my scanner has been acting crazy lately and I can't figure out why Anyway I had to create a new account recently on SM(oh the aggravation!) which meant re-uploading everything! I had to take pics of the documents using my logitech,then upload them. Apparently they couldn't see all the text,then they claimed that they need to see the whole pieces of paper(I took the pics really close up,thought they only needed my sig). I ended up snapping pics and uploading three times before they FINALLY accepted the documents. Yeah that whole process was a real bi*ch but it was worth it so yeah. You should try that...if you have the patience

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    SM also has a "new performer" listing so you're getting pretty good placement right now. Love that fresh meat sign
    Yes, I'm real.

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    I know... it s just like i said , there s too many bad people out there, trying to fuck people over all they can...
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    if you have a hd cam, do you still need the encoder to transmit in HD? just wanting to know

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    I personally hate this HD thing and to me the quality does not make a huge difference. I hate it because I like to work several sites at one time (using manycams) and that HD encoder really slows down my manycams. I don't make enough money on streamate to dedicate 100% of my time to them. I don't make enough on any site to consider dedicating 100% of my time.

    What's really bad is that not having HD brings my ranking down on all the sites.

    I do use the HD encoder sometimes, however to me it does not make *that* much of a difference.

    If it means anything I have a high resolution camera-isight built into my macbook pro that runs snow leopard. My computer is only 3 years old so I don't think its time for an upgrade, I certainly hope it isn't!



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    I did my second day and made 115 in 2 hours so happy!! I got two 5 star ratings and then a 1 star rating!! I was so mad, I know exactly who it was because I checked my earnings page right before they came in and right after they left and they only stayed a minute, I have 4 1/2 stars now though so it didn't hurt me too bad. I was still on the 3rd page today but I did notice I moved up a bunch on the new models page. I can't wait to make it to the first page!! If I can average over 50 on the 3rd page I'm sure I can do amazing on the first page.
    Also I don't see that the encoder improves my video quality much at all and it does make my cam run on a little bit of a delay, but whatever I'll keep using it for the placement.
    By the way I'm charging 3.99 and 4.99 for exclusive, I thought about starting at a lower price but I was getting back to back shows today so I think I will keep this for awhile and then possibly raise it.

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    Holy Crap! I love your SM story! It really gives me motivation to go try it out again. I already make 100+ an hour at MFC but usually that taps out after 6 hours.

    I would love to have a "second" job at SM and do that well. I tried out SM a few times and only made 20 dollars each time! Crazy how you can differ from site to site, but this thread is telling me that I shouldn't give up on it just yet!

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    HD encoder is a nightmare. Time consuming, lagging. What is the use of having more people in my room if it cuts out and runs all the paying custies off.

    Love SM though. Have many custies I brought in through my links. Love the extra 40% & 20%. Have had several times where I made $300 an hour on there. Then it died out. Usually average $50 to $100 per hour, but after 2 hours is dies out. When it slows down where it takes more than 5 minutes to 10 minutes before someone takes me prvt. I log off and do something else. Let the crowd change out a bit.

    Major problem with HD is that they are not hosting the bandwidth for it themselves. Hence all the extra work to get it up and online.

    Other cam sites allow my HD cam to work without all that nonsense.

    Soooo don't get it.

    Make that money, honey.
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    $100 in 3 hours is good but not great?? Wow, I make the same on Streamate and I think that's really good.

    I have been on Streamate for over a year now and I cam about 15 hours a week. I stop after I make $100. Sometimes I'm able to make $50 an hour but usually it averages out to $100 in 3 hours. I still think that's really good though.

    I have never gotten less than 5 stars in my whole 1.5 years I've been with SM. I always have 5 stars and I offer: HD, Phone and Sound. I am also in the Pornstar category. I also spend about 90% of my time in PVT. I know if I jacked up the price I'd probably make more money, but my privates completely stop when I move the price around. I do have my exclusive rate a lot more. My exclusive is a lot more than other girls do and my premium is a lot less than most girls.

    I'm not concerned about making more money. If I made more, that would be awesome. But I'm content with $100 in 3 hours. That is really good to me. I am just puzzled on why I'm not on the first page with all the details I gave you. I mean seriously, with all what I offer, I should really be not only on the first page but also the first row. Usually I'm on the 3rd page. Often I can't even find myself whatsoever. I wonder why my placement isn't any higher. I know one time I had beef with sm staff in an e-mail since they're so difficult to communicate with sometimes, so maybe they tweaked my profile so it never goes on the first page? not sure. Anyway, congrats on everyone's success. I feel more motivated to do something and gain more success. But one other thing, that link to directly send people to your profile, no longer works for me. If I sent you to my link which is 'myname.cammodels.com', the profile doesn't exist anymore that way. Oh well, I never had success sending people to that link anyway. Every time I ever recruited a custie with that link, they click it when I'm Off Line and since I'm 'off line', everyone would click on "Browse Other Models" and sign up through the actual site. I've had over 50 people sign up through my link, but they ALL ended up browsing the other models and accidentally signed up through the main site. So that doesn't work for me. Anyway, enough with the ramble. Im more motivated to beat streamates 'system' and get on the main page. ;-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by KushKandi View Post
    I wonder why my placement isn't any higher. I know one time I had beef with sm staff in an e-mail since they're so difficult to communicate with sometimes, so maybe they tweaked my profile so it never goes on the first page? not sure.
    I hope they wouldn't do anything like that to any of the models. They're full of sh*t if they do!! We work our a**es off to get where we want/need to be!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sam38g View Post
    HD encoder is a nightmare. Time consuming, lagging. What is the use of having more people in my room if it cuts out and runs all the paying custies off.

    Love SM though. Have many custies I brought in through my links. Love the extra 40% & 20%. Have had several times where I made $300 an hour on there. Then it died out. Usually average $50 to $100 per hour, but after 2 hours is dies out. When it slows down where it takes more than 5 minutes to 10 minutes before someone takes me prvt. I log off and do something else. Let the crowd change out a bit.

    Major problem with HD is that they are not hosting the bandwidth for it themselves. Hence all the extra work to get it up and online.

    Other cam sites allow my HD cam to work without all that nonsense.

    Soooo don't get it.

    Make that money, honey.
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    Exactly. It's a fuckin headache. I don't even mess with that HD Encoder shit anymore...fuck that.
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    ^^I hate it as well,but am kind of concerned. Support keeps sending me these emails asking why I don't use it. They also asks why I don't use the new streaming page,why I continuously go back to the old. I'm concerned because in both emails they keep stating that one day the old streaming page won't be available. Also one day we won't be able to stream live WITHOUT using the encoder! I know SM support can be sneaky though. Anyone else getting these emails? Or are they just trying to make me use the new features,to make more money for them?!!

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    Well the encoder isn't even working for me today, so I'm just using the highest T1 cable setting and I"m rocking! Already hit over $115 in less than 2 hours. That's way better than last week WITH the HD encoder. That thing is hit or miss and it is easier to use without it. No one complaining of freezing or lags, easier to stop the session and restart it, etc... Just because other sites all have the HD thing as a selling point doesn't mean it's going to work all great. In fact, for most sites I've worked that offer it, it barely works! I'll give SM credit for it working better than the others but it's still a hassle.

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