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    Quote Originally Posted by goddessgalore View Post
    Does anyone stream regularly from their phone? I had a look through the forums and didn't find much on this, although I did see some things about an external encoder being necessary to stream from mobile, and that maybe iPhones (which I have) don't work for this? If anyone has any experience or insight on mobile streaming, I'd appreciate it.

    Basically, I need the most low key approach to camming as possible rn. If I can stream from my phone it would be great bc I could also do other work on my laptop while waiting for privates.

    Yes, I've streamed from my phone.
    Android.
    It's very easy.
    Just log into your account and hit broadcast.
    Just make sure to have your phone camera on rotate, or portrait mode I think it's called.
    I've always made more money while on my phone. Not sure if placement is better or what.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreamqueen View Post
    Yes, I've streamed from my phone.
    Android.
    It's very easy.
    Just log into your account and hit broadcast.
    Just make sure to have your phone camera on rotate, or portrait mode I think it's called.
    I've always made more money while on my phone. Not sure if placement is better or what.
    Thank you! I'm going to give it a try.

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    Also, does anyone else have issues with their biopic constantly being flagged for copyright infringement? I mean, I know my photography skills are off the chain, but damn. It prevents me from being able to get on and stream at the times I set for myself.

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    well contest started, and traffic died ......... great

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    Quote Originally Posted by littleprincessbella View Post
    well contest started, and traffic died ......... great
    Lmao fr. Monday and Tuesday were pretty good for me.

    Its almost like if they didn't do these bs contests, EVERYONE would be making money and EVERYONE would be happy and thriving. But why would SM want that?? No no, a dead site and bored models is SO much better! /s

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    So just how bad is gonna get on Thanksgiving, I wonder? Between the contest, guys busy with their families, football, and World Cup... I'm dreading it! It's been a few years since I last worked Thanksgiving and I can't really remember whether it was slow or not but I think it was

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    I'm wondering how Thanksgiving is gonna be as well. We'll find out tomorrow!

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    I personally am going to choose to enjoy my thanksgiving cooking and spending time with my hubby and dog.

    Its funny because they do these contests as a way to incentivize models to work, but lately the opposite happens. I see more models choosing NOT to work contests because they know it doesn't benefit 99% of us. If they just didn't do contests at all I'm willing to bet more models would get online and everyone would probably make more money in the process. When I'm watching the "top" models struggle to make even 30 bucks on a gold show maybe something just isn't working. but what do I know, I'm not in the top 1% of models so why should my opinion matter

    edit: sorry if I sound salty, I'm not trying to be negative. just being realistic. I've been doing this long enough to know that a website where everyone is thriving and making good money is a positive thing. These contests just kill the vibe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by emkato View Post
    I personally am going to choose to enjoy my thanksgiving cooking and spending time with my hubby and dog.

    Its funny because they do these contests as a way to incentivize models to work, but lately the opposite happens. I see more models choosing NOT to work contests because they know it doesn't benefit 99% of us. If they just didn't do contests at all I'm willing to bet more models would get online and everyone would probably make more money in the process. When I'm watching the "top" models struggle to make even 30 bucks on a gold show maybe something just isn't working. but what do I know, I'm not in the top 1% of models so why should my opinion matter

    edit: sorry if I sound salty, I'm not trying to be negative. just being realistic. I've been doing this long enough to know that a website where everyone is thriving and making good money is a positive thing. These contests just kill the vibe.
    yeah honestly, I have gotten to where if skipping contests is an option I will. It incentivizes girls to drop their rates, and offer huge video bundles. It also makes a lot of us crappy, and can't be good for the guy's moral to see 800 fed up grumpy camgirls.

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    Quote Originally Posted by emkato View Post
    I personally am going to choose to enjoy my thanksgiving cooking and spending time with my hubby and dog.

    Its funny because they do these contests as a way to incentivize models to work, but lately the opposite happens.
    It not being salty when its just the fact for you. I thought of doing the last bonus, but judging by average of all previous contests worked, which was not many I would be making at least $150 less than a normal week guaranteed, which the bonus does not cover so I take a break from SM those days, it been helping me with my burnout to rotate sites more instead pf splitting ALL of them at once

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smurfette View Post
    So just how bad is gonna get on Thanksgiving, I wonder? Between the contest, guys busy with their families, football, and World Cup... I'm dreading it! It's been a few years since I last worked Thanksgiving and I can't really remember whether it was slow or not but I think it was
    You can look back on your earnings reports from prior Thanksgiving weeks to get an idea. I didn't work those weeks during 2020-2021 but I checked my 2016-2019 reports which had contest weeks for all of them. Three out of four years it looks like I put in a good chunk of hours and my hourly average was slightly higher than usual.

    It's a toss up for the winter holidays. I find some guys are reeeally generous, either because they are lonely and are appreciative to have someone to hang out with, or because they are plastered drunk and just having a good time throwing money around. On the flip side, holidays can also bring out troll behavior pretty hard, drunk or otherwise. I always prepare for the possibility of rude questions on Thanksgiving and Christmas, like "why are you here and not with your family? did they disown you for being a stupid dirty whore?" lol.

    I set myself an hour-based goal for the week just because I honestly have nothing better to do and would rather try to make some money than completely bail and accept a $0 paycheck. If I stay on for 5-6 hours I almost always end up getting some whales or long shows. So it'd be nice to score at least one night with a decent rank/prize (though I don't *actually* care about the contest... especially considering most of the prizes for reasonable/achievable ranks are crap.)

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    I don’t really work them. They are de-motivating to me, the prizes simply are not enough to put my mental and physical health at risk by staying on a zillion hours. Life is too short! They are very stressful and give me feelings of anxiety . I work lots of hours when contests are not on then when one pops up I do life stuff, or concentrate on other eggs .




    Quote Originally Posted by emkato View Post
    I personally am going to choose to enjoy my thanksgiving cooking and spending time with my hubby and dog.

    Its funny because they do these contests as a way to incentivize models to work, but lately the opposite happens. I see more models choosing NOT to work contests because they know it doesn't benefit 99% of us. If they just didn't do contests at all I'm willing to bet more models would get online and everyone would probably make more money in the process. When I'm watching the "top" models struggle to make even 30 bucks on a gold show maybe something just isn't working. but what do I know, I'm not in the top 1% of models so why should my opinion matter

    edit: sorry if I sound salty, I'm not trying to be negative. just being realistic. I've been doing this long enough to know that a website where everyone is thriving and making good money is a positive thing. These contests just kill the vibe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angela888 View Post
    I work lots of hours when contests are not on then when one pops up I do life stuff, or concentrate on other eggs .
    This is what I'll likely start doing. Streamate clearly doesn't care to improve or take constructive feedback, so there's no point in complaining.

    I'll just move on to other channels during contest weeks if the traffic is bad, or keep myself in Gold Shows studying and recording content.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smurfette View Post
    So just how bad is gonna get on Thanksgiving, I wonder? Between the contest, guys busy with their families, football, and World Cup... I'm dreading it! It's been a few years since I last worked Thanksgiving and I can't really remember whether it was slow or not but I think it was
    I have worked it before multiple times and I can't remember how it ever went lol, but big holidays tend to either be extremely dead or extremely busy IME. I might hop on for 2 hours later to see, we do Thanksgiving dinner early and I ain't staying over all damn day so I'll probably be home by actual dinner time.

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    I guess the only way they would change is if enough models did not take part and it hit their profits. For some they love contests and I wouldn’t want to take it away from those models. It’s difficult to say if us contest haters are in the minority or not .



    Quote Originally Posted by MelanieJ View Post
    This is what I'll likely start doing. Streamate clearly doesn't care to improve or take constructive feedback, so there's no point in complaining.

    I'll just move on to other channels during contest weeks if the traffic is bad, or keep myself in Gold Shows studying and recording content.

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    I'm working Wed through next Tuesday morning my regular hours and don't give a fuk if it's the holidays or not. I'll just the normal bit for me. SM is a go or no go most days. I've been split camming with stripchat and usually I make equal amounts on both sites which is weird. Some days more or less...but averages out. Plus all indy and PSO sites. I'm moving next week so I don't care. Hope you ladies get that $$$$$$$$$$

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    Quote Originally Posted by MelanieJ View Post
    This is what I'll likely start doing. Streamate clearly doesn't care to improve or take constructive feedback, so there's no point in complaining.

    I'll just move on to other channels during contest weeks if the traffic is bad, or keep myself in Gold Shows studying and recording content.

    Speaking of Gold Shows... why can't I start one? I haven't done one in at least 5 years but I remember it was easier? I am in Party Mode allright, I edited the Gold Show requirements, saved them.. but it appears as "Gold Show - OFF" and no toggle button to get it to ON. I even tried turning it to ON while offline...still no go. Is this a glitch these days or am I missing someting? (I wanna do one with the same purpose you mentioned, lol). Way to slow to deserve my active attention...
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    Does opting out of the logged-out traffic option make a big difference on income?

    I'm thinking, if the guy isn't logged in he's just sniffing around for what he can see for free. Probably doesn't even have an account with funds. I mean, I know there is a possibility to convert logged-out viewers, but I also want to be as discreet as possible on SM. I wonder if this really hurts the bottom line, or if maybe it cuts a lot of the riff raff.

    Thoughts?

    *Also, I just spent time updating my profile information and when I go to "view on SM" it still has my old profile info. Any idea why this might be?

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    Quote Originally Posted by goddessgalore View Post
    Does opting out of the logged-out traffic option make a big difference on income?

    I'm thinking, if the guy isn't logged in he's just sniffing around for what he can see for free. Probably doesn't even have an account with funds. I mean, I know there is a possibility to convert logged-out viewers, but I also want to be as discreet as possible on SM. I wonder if this really hurts the bottom line, or if maybe it cuts a lot of the riff raff.

    Thoughts?

    *Also, I just spent time updating my profile information and when I go to "view on SM" it still has my old profile info. Any idea why this might be?
    are you referring to the option to see your "potential members"? i turn this off because seeing the number of literal no account freeloaders just makes me anxious, and i don't think directly addressing them leads to more conversions. in my mind, they will make an account if they find you attractive/interesting based on how you generally present yourself in free chat. it's not about you "selling yourself" to them specifically.

    if you are referring to geoblocking, that is a different story -- where yes, i do feel like if your geoblocking is turned on it can significantly affect your traffic in a negative way. you have to weigh this decision out in terms of your preferences with safety, security, etc. you are statistically far more likely to have your shows recorded if your geoblocking is off. but your traffic will increase if you aren't geoblocked. it's a risk worth weighing.

    as for your profile bio not updating, it's a holiday week and normally these things don't update very quickly anyway. so i wouldn't be surprised if new profile updates won't be approved/changed until next week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonamiss View Post
    are you referring to the option to see your "potential members"? i turn this off because seeing the number of literal no account freeloaders just makes me anxious, and i don't think directly addressing them leads to more conversions. in my mind, they will make an account if they find you attractive/interesting based on how you generally present yourself in free chat. it's not about you "selling yourself" to them specifically.

    if you are referring to geoblocking, that is a different story -- where yes, i do feel like if your geoblocking is turned on it can significantly affect your traffic in a negative way. you have to weigh this decision out in terms of your preferences with safety, security, etc. you are statistically far more likely to have your shows recorded if your geoblocking is off. but your traffic will increase if you aren't geoblocked. it's a risk worth weighing.

    as for your profile bio not updating, it's a holiday week and normally these things don't update very quickly anyway. so i wouldn't be surprised if new profile updates won't be approved/changed until next week.
    Thank you!

    I didn't even know about the "potential members" option! I'm going to look for that and turn it off. But yes, I was talking about geoblocking and the slider at the very bottom of that page.

    I really only do exclusives (both my private and exclusive are set at 9.99, lol, and I "encourage" exclusives by making my private shows super limited in what I do in them). Do you find that Exclusive shows get recorded and shared often as well?

    And good to know about the bio stuff. So weird that we can't just...change our bio. Lol.

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    ahah we all have that guy cheap that tip once, take a pvt and stay forever in your room, TILL i do not block him DAMNNNNN 3hrs in my room giving compliment. honestly i do not feel i should be grateful for these ones they are so heavy mentally. i feel them like a glueeeeeeee i try to kick him off politely some they understand others lol i lost my patience and i block. why i am like this???

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    I thought we could block the potentials?

    I noticed when I boot someone their name stays up there?


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    Quote Originally Posted by whirlerz View Post
    I thought we could block the potentials?

    I noticed when I boot someone their name stays up there?
    Not sure about blocking potentials but you can hide them so you can't see them, although I believe they're still there? I have now hidden them cause they do my head in when it's as dead as now.

    I think that their name staying there is because there is an option in the settings that enables you to see who has been in your room even after they leave. You can select how long they have to stay in for that to kick in. I guess it's so you can write notes/see their id, etc. after they leave in case it's useful? The names do stay there for a bit even after you block them or kick them I believe

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    can anyone chime in with earnings for contest ranks? curious what it takes for top 20 and 50. I made a little over $400 last night and am in the low 100s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonamiss View Post
    can anyone chime in with earnings for contest ranks? curious what it takes for top 20 and 50. I made a little over $400 last night and am in the low 100s.
    Hooowwww? I made $1.80 in 2 hours! I logged out and got onto MFC. lol.

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