Have any of you been tracking the quality of traffic since mid November last year?
Streamate launched a new landing page promo campaign on the site FreeCamSecrets.com.
The site already has a US Alexa ranking of 540 which is very good in such little time.
Not surprisingly most of the traffic comes from tube sites, torrents, and file lockers...
Check out the thread on GFY if you are interested in the marketing side of things.
Anyway just wanted to check if any of you have noticed a huge spike in traffic lately and if it's working out for you $$$$$ wise![]()










I think if anything this would cause a spike in freeloader traffic. After all the entire point is to tell guys how to get FREE live cam shows and not spend any money. And yah, I've definitely noticed a big increase in those kind of guys.
I hate that they have made it out to be like SM is the same as MFC. It's not. If you want MFC, go to MFC and let us SM models do things the way we want. I don't WANT to work like an MFC model, that's why I'm on SM and it really just irritates me how much SM customers expect it to be MFC v2.0. Sorry I'm NOT going to sit in my guest chat and talk to you FOR FREE. I'm not going to put on a show DURING a gold count down, I actually require that you PAY ME to see me perform. If you want to get something for free, go to MFC.
Sorry for the mini rant but yah, I've seen nothing but an influx of douche bag freeloaders, not quality paying traffic.
xoxo ~ Sarah
That thread is hilarious. They're talking about how gold shows are just the SMARTEST, GREATEST idea ever! How every girl could made $300 per gold show and that the best thing for them is to get totally naked before the show. Great theory, but I highly doubt they'd feel the same if they put it to practice for themselves everyday.





Exactly. It WAS a great idea, it WAS amazing.
Until they ruined it for us. Until sites like THIS advertising site RUINED it. It used to be where you could EASILY get a guy to put in $5-10 for a show, $1/min was "a good deal" and guys threw the money in like nothing! Now? No way. 100+ guys in the room who have credit cards on file and could easily chip in, they would rather sit there with a $3 buy in being "too expensive" and beg for stuff, demand things, wait wait wait because they think you will get naked before the show starts. Now getting what used to be considered a reasonable goal with a "good deal" of a buy in, is like impossible.
So, thanks. Thanks for ruining it for us.
xoxo ~ Sarah





Yep, you are very right.
I think this has to do with the fact that the traffic we are getting just is not paying into our shows unless we give it away at dirt cheap or basically free. Girls are getting desperate to get pledges for shows, so they show more and more, lower their price less and less. Then what happens is that's what they expect.
So advertising us as "free" and girls becoming desperate and giving away more for less.... pretty much sucks.
xoxo ~ Sarah
The fact that guys WON'T pay $1/min for a gold show makes me shake my damn head. And you're completely right SarahTime, it's advertisements like this that have completely ruined it. Yeah, it gets the guy "in the door" but it doesn't get them to open the wallet up. Advertise the hot women and the good deals (gold shows) NOT that they will get everything for FREE!
If you advertise for idiots, you're going to get idiots, but that doesn't mean they have money.
Hmmm...I just looked at my charts. I did have a huge spike in mid November where there shouldn't have been one. Other than that one spike, my income is increasing at a steady rate. I have noticed more guys complaining about models who aren't 'friendly enough'. It could be linked or we northerners could just be grumpy from cabin fever. Who knows?





My income is going up and up too.... but not from gold shows or giving things away for free.
Basically, it's not THIS ad and the traffic it brings that is making income go up. And if your income is going up on Streamate, you're lucky because from the sounds of it around here anyway, that's not the case for many models.
xoxo ~ Sarah





I remember reading in the AC forum about how guys will wait out girls who don't make goals because they know she'll go lower. That was more related to public shows, but I think it's an interesting point for GS as well. A lot of times if a girl doesn't make her goal, she'll go lower it. I really think it's that a lot of women need to stick to their guns and NOT lower themselves; but that's a large collection of women.










Hmm.... I have to think about this more in depth but my initial answer is this....
The camming veterans will stick to their guns and not give in to the lower prices and free shows, and will continue to make money.
The new cammers will give in because they don't know any better, charge less and give away more. Thus, make way less, and quit camming because it becomes not worth it.
I'm already seeing a huge gap between those of us that demand what we charge, and those who give it all away for free and are left at the end of the day not making very much. There doesn't seem to be much of a "middle ground".
I whole heartily believe that if you are going to "make it" camming, you absolutely cannot give in to "slow times" or freeloaders and lower your rates or start giving away more for less.
So what can you do about it? You can choose to remain one of the models that acknowledges that camming is a LUXURY and if you cannot afford even a measly $1/min you should not be on a cam site! You should be WORKING. I also know however, that times are tough for customers AND models, and so models get desperate and lower their standards. Again, this is a LUXURY industry, and those who cannot afford to buy the shows at decent rates, and models who are desperate and therefore lowering to rock bottom prices, probably do not belong in this industry. I apologize if that is harsh.
xoxo ~ Sarah










Exactly. She will lower either the buy in, the total goal, or LENGTHEN the show time to make it "more attractive". Many, many guys wait it out because they know the model will do this. Or, they will restart over and over.
I've gotten to the point where I'm like look.... if you want a show with me this is it. This is the price, the goal, the length. No restarting. No second tries, no lowering the amount. And I have found that over time it has become sort of "known" that I am not a model who will give in to this stuff. If they can't make the goal, TOO BAD, they can do private if they want a show.
And yah, it's hard to do that and get to that point, especially if you NEED the money. But over the long haul I really believe you can make it part of your "brand" for lack of a better description. Eventually the guys will get it that if they want a show with you, they need to pony up and pony up fast before the timer runs out.
xoxo ~ Sarah
^^^^^ This is what I say in my room ALL the time. Guys come in and say I'm "too expensive" (actually, no) so I tell them my company and my body are not a necessity to their survival; I am a luxury and I will not lower myself to the prices that they beg me to. In fact, I need to RAISE it lol





Depends on where you look. If you look on Alexa for the last year, it shows a huge drop in traffic, which is pretty scary. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/streamate.com





Yes, I will start a gold countdown one time. If we don't get what I feel is "close enough" to the goal I will not take the show. I will thank the guys for their effort and remain in free chat. Usually what happens is there will be that one guy who REALLY wanted a show and "gives in" and takes me private. Then others will follow, sure there will be several 30 second peepers in the beginning of the private, but lately I have found that I make MORE money by not restarting a count down.
After I've spent time doing privates I'll try a gold show again. If we make it, great. If not, repeat the above.
xoxo ~ Sarah
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