
Originally Posted by
tinydancer23
i mainly work streamate. i'm a bbw, though on the smaller end (i'm 5'4" and 220, and most of it is t&a). i'm a lightskinned mixed redhead, 42g rack, blue eyes, tattoos, shaved, hood piercing. sometimes i do henna tattoos on my hands, which the guys seem to like (i do henna personally for fun).
i'm wondering if i've hit some sort of bbw profit ceiling on streamate. i'm usually on the first page (within the first 3-6 rows) on the main page, and in the first or second spot on the bbw page. i stream with the encoder and sound and offer phone in exclusive. i have toys (though not a large collection), and though i don't have a ton of different outfits, i do have nylons, high heels, etc.
i interact a lot and talk in free, don't cave to a ton of requests but will tease guys and do requests for gold (although i very rarely get gold), i am pretty up front about the fact that i only take requests in private. i do just about everything mainstream in private (blowjob, toys, cumshow, anal with fingers, double penetration, oil show), and special requests/fetishes as well as phone and dom/sub in exclusive. most of my privates and exclusives are 3-10 minutes long, sometimes the fetish guys last a little longer. i usually give all my attention to the chat and am not playing with my phone or surfing the internet at the same time.
i use daily pay so i only make 30% instead of 35% of profits.
for the longest time on streamate i charged around 3.99/min and averaged about $10-$20 an hour. i would go forty minutes without anyone taking me private. etc. right now i'm at 2.89/3.49 for private/exclusive and i'm averaging $20-$30 normally, $35-$40 once in a blue moon. i've experimented with pricing as high as 3.99 or 4.49 pvt/4.99 excl.
i feel like i've hit a wall with regards to hourly average. i'm hoping if i spend a lot more time on cam this week that will help somewhat...but...for the most part, it just feels impossible to make $40+ for me. i'm afraid to raise my prices because i don't want to go back to the land of $20/hr and spending an hour with no privates.
i'm wondering if this has to do with my body type/niche? not to be a narcissist but i think i am one of the more attractive bbws on streamate, and i tend to have better cam quality/outfits/lighting, etc. compared to the other bbws i see online there. a lot of my customers just want a curvy girl and are not all about ssbbws, so i don't think i'm being totally pigeonholed into that niche, although it seems like so few of us actually make it to the front page.
okay, sorry for the novel/overshare...i just wanted to describe all the conditions that i think may be affecting this. i'm really hoping someone has tips for how to increase your hourly average. i don't know what else i can possibly do, other than splitcam (which, considering how intense the encoder is, probably won't work until i get a new computer). but it seems like there are girls who make much more hourly just working streamate. i'm up for tips or suggestions.
thanks loves!
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