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    Default $500 and under webcam earners thread

    Everyone talks about trying to make as much as possible on webcam but what about the ones who only need to make a little like under $500 how do you do it

    Is it easy to maintain this amount or do you feel like your working twice a hard to earn very little.
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    This may become a nifty thread, good idea. I am full time cammer and make a substantial amount of income. When I saw this, I thought , dont qualify.. next thread...hold on... been there and so I can speak on it.
    When I first started camming I made just enough for payout on the site I was working. I worked every night to earn that frigging 100 bucks for the week. I put in long hours and had a day job. Camming made it so I had enough money for extras like shopping, a movie, GAS lol
    I have mad respect for ladies that put in long hours for 500 or less.

    I do remember those days and YES I felt like I worked/cammed twice as hard for that amount. I still did it.

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    The only time I make less then $500/wk is when I don't put in the hours and effort. And yes there are plenty of weeks (more then I care to think about) where I have only worked 2 days and made $250 or less.

    That said I have a reasonably good internet speed (100 mbps down and 2 mbps up) and very good equipment. I think that goes a long way in making money on the top sites. I am also experienced in ways to get customers from outside the sites to get a referral bonus.

    When I first started on streamate I made $492 my first week working with a crappy computer and shitty internet speed. I was not even able to run the encoder. I worked my ass off for about 8 weeks to buy a new computer and then get a better internet service. I worked twice as hard as I do now.




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    I haven't cracked more than 250 a week since starting. On the other hand, my computer has been plagued with sound issues and I'm honestly lazy. I haven't done more than 6 hours a week because of my low tolerance for stupid men. If I were only making that amount and working 12 hours I would think it was a waste a time though.

    I think it's easy and doable for a totally expendable income, but if it were my living coming from it, I would have to put forth more effort and actually make a lot more money for it to be worth it. I've lurked in some rooms where the girls have tons of viewers, and I don't know how they do it. I'll take my waiting with a few viewers for an hour or 2 and getting a couple of privates then logging off, over a room full of jackholes anyday...

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    Because of my day job and the fact that my fiance does quite well, I only NEED to make 300 a week, although I usuually do 500, its nice because between my day job and school, I don't have the time to put in more than 10-15 hours a week.
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    Default Re: $500 and under webcam earners thread

    I have health problems that prevent me from working more than 3 hours a day so even though I am on the first page of Streamate I am still a $500 and under webcam earner.


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    This where I am right now! Hoping to move past it though. And I don't feel like I work particularly EXTRA hard for my $350 a week, but it's hard work nonetheless! I hope I'm able to move up from here soon, but, between being sick and now switching sites I'm down to about $50 a week...

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    I barely make above $500/weekly if that and it's mostly due to health issues. Also the site that I am/was on is very limiting to what you can make (ImLive) as barely any customer will pay above the 3.80/min rate. You are pretty much stuck with $500/week being average on that site which is what left me to try other avenues. Also, keep in mind, I was working 20/hr weeks as my health couldn't handle it but I started pushing myself to do 6 hr shifts.

    Being that I can't work full time hours, I was sick of the limited amount I could make on Imlive so I'm trying out SM again and really giving it a chance this time and it might work.

    For a while I did feel like I was working twice as hard to make very little because of being on a site where going above a certain price was impossible. Setting my own prices I don't have to bust my ass and feel exhausted. I also feel that when I get creative I do better. I make enough to survive at this point and when I can get insurance and afford doctors, I can work more.

    But really, I'm camming to save up for the tattoo/piercing apprenticeship I so dearly want.

    It's my regulars that keep me afloat. I treat my regulars amazingly and they return for a more steady cashflow/income.
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    I'm sort of in this category. Started off working >10 hours a week and making around $300. Have increased my hours to 15-20 week and am now making just over $500-600 a week. Ran some numbers to figure out what my hourly take has been per pay period (2weeks) and I started averaging $20/hr and am up to $34/hr now. In just 3 pay periods my earnings have been going up but I have also been working more.
    It would be great if we did some sort of challenge or sub group for us girls trying to get to the next level. Maybe with an experienced leader. I'm new but it's just a thought... I've been on the lazy side with camming. Trying to treat it more like a job, but I procrastinate and record videos but don't edit them. Also lagging finishing my c4s and ebanned accounts. I'm pretty sure the passive income will help, but it's so tedious getting the videos ready and taking pictures with signs. LOL Anyway, I'm working on those things and trying get better at twitter. I also am gonna need a fake job to tell people as my cover for all the $$$ I'm gonna make this year...


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    When I first started camming I busted my ass working 8hrs. I usually worked m-f and only made like $20-$40 per shift. I didn't know about SW back then or how much the average camgirl made. I seriously thought that I was making something back then lol. My average payout was like $100-$250 a week. If I ever hit $300 it was because I got 3 checks from spiltcamming on 3 camsites. I never hit $400, $500, or anything above.

    Now these days when the traffic is good or when my regulars come through I can make what I use to make in a week or more in a single shift of 4-8hrs. Looking back and knowing what I know now I do feel like I was working twice as hard to make very little. I've learned to work smarter not harder over the years. I feel like I've came a really long way over the years. I don't feel or think that I'm even the same person that I was back then.

    I do think that it's still hard to maintain a $500 or more week though. But that's because the novelty of camming and the adult online world has worn off for me. I've become lazy and don't work the hours I should. I basically force myself to work these days. I seem to work less and less as the years go by as well. First it was 8hr shifts and even 10-12hr shifts when I wanted to reach high goals. But I've slowly declined to 4hr shifts and now its 2hrs in the morning/afternoon and 2hrs at evening/night. I don't even work weekly anymore smh. I use to work all the time and always had money in my pocket. Now I work whenever I need money. I need to get my passion back for this shit dam'it all.
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    My goal is $400-500 a week but I have doubled that on some weeks. Camming isn't my main source of income so I only cam for some extra money to not live on paycheck after paycheck. It's always nice to have some extra money to go shopping when you're a high maintenance bitch. I know I can make more if I put in the hours but I do what works for me and for my well being.

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    I am under $500/week income from camming & this because that's what is working for me given the situation. When i started camming 11 years ago it was at a studio, we had 12 hrs shifts, 5 days a week, it almost killed me simply, i never had too much work power anyway but that was haaard task for me, i also have an eyes condition, after 3 hrs in front of the screen i get tired (is visible on cam) and if i push more i am getting headache.

    Before i was forced to work the 12 hrs shift and it felt soo bad, after a while i could not see anymore, it was like a fog over my eyes, i had to force myself blinking to clear my vision having in mind i had make up on and could not touch my eyes. I hated that situation and the energy i had to put on to be there, when i had the chance to work at home for myself i decided i'll never push myself like before so now if i feel i get tired i sign off simply and get rest.

    I am a single mom and cant afford to get burned out cause here is nobody to look after me or provide for me and my child if i am not able to work.
    Of course i wish i could earn more but not with the price of my well being therefore i do what i can and feel comfortable with.
    Health and safety will always come first for me.

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    Good thread. It's nice to see others in similar position.

    I'm part of the club. I have other sources of income to get me by, and ideally I would like to be making more from this, but right now the only hours I can work are pretty shitty ones when traffic is pretty slow so making even $300-500 is a struggle. I'm also a month back in the game, still building up my fan base and coming into my own as a character.

    Here's to hoping for more someday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AliceFun View Post
    I am under $500/week income from camming & this because that's what is working for me given the situation. When i started camming 11 years ago it was at a studio, we had 12 hrs shifts, 5 days a week, it almost killed me simply, i never had too much work power anyway but that was haaard task for me, i also have an eyes condition, after 3 hrs in front of the screen i get tired (is visible on cam) and if i push more i am getting headache.

    Before i was forced to work the 12 hrs shift and it felt soo bad, after a while i could not see anymore, it was like a fog over my eyes, i had to force myself blinking to clear my vision having in mind i had make up on and could not touch my eyes. I hated that situation and the energy i had to put on to be there, when i had the chance to work at home for myself i decided i'll never push myself like before so now if i feel i get tired i sign off simply and get rest.

    I am a single mom and cant afford to get burned out cause here is nobody to look after me or provide for me and my child if i am not able to work.
    Of course i wish i could earn more but not with the price of my well being therefore i do what i can and feel comfortable with.
    Health and safety will always come first for me.

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    Less than $500 is easy to maintain!

    I'm a mother and housewife first so I cam in the limited time I have, it's not my only source of income and provides for the extras.
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    I just wanted to give you girls a reminder on what it would be like if we made minimum wage working 40 hours a week. In my state minimum wage is $8.50 an hour. After working 40 hours (and having an hour lunch everyday) I would gross $340. Roughly %18 goes to misc taxes and %7 goes to 401k leaving me with a whopping $255 per week!

    My point here is that even if we are in the under $500 club for the time being, we're still better off than minimum wage! Heck even if you are making minimum wage I'd say it's a better position just for the flexibility to work around your daily life and not have to scheule your life around your job. A lot of us in this thread fit in one of 3 categories: 1)medical limitations 2)new and still learning to hustle 3)don't work a ton of hours for whatever reason.

    So lift your heads up ladies and rejoice because you are taking care of your shit in your own way! You get to put yourself first. I know I'll go ahead and be a sex worker for 10 hours a week to avoid being on welfare!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurora14 View Post
    I just wanted to give you girls a reminder on what it would be like if we made minimum wage working 40 hours a week. In my state minimum wage is $8.50 an hour. After working 40 hours (and having an hour lunch everyday) I would gross $340. Roughly %18 goes to misc taxes and %7 goes to 401k leaving me with a whopping $255 per week!

    My point here is that even if we are in the under $500 club for the time being, we're still better off than minimum wage! Heck even if you are making minimum wage I'd say it's a better position just for the flexibility to work around your daily life and not have to scheule your life around your job. A lot of us in this thread fit in one of 3 categories: 1)medical limitations 2)new and still learning to hustle 3)don't work a ton of hours for whatever reason.

    So lift your heads up ladies and rejoice because you are taking care of your shit in your own way! You get to put yourself first. I know I'll go ahead and be a sex worker for 10 hours a week to avoid being on welfare!

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    When I first got turned on to camming,I didn't have a working computer, so I drove an hour (each way) in mad city traffic to a studio.(which was in a ghetto neighborhood).Yikes!! Hated the company, and the way the pay scale was. The awesome part was that I met a cam model there who showed me what to do, how to get freeloaders to go prvt. and which computer to get,etc.so I could finally work at home. (she was a mom with kids at home, so the studio manager (being a friend of hers),got her into camming. She was my little angel who told me about SM.
    Coming from both the dancing world, and the corporate world,(where i worked my ASS off)(literally) (Luckily my ASS has grown back) Whew! That was a close one!. I started off with SM, thinking I needed to work 8-10 hours per day, 7 days a week! Horrible! I made almost NOTHING, and it wasn't until another model popped into my chat, and told me that i was way too pretty to only be charging $1.99, and $2.00 per minute! (I didn't know about SW then, (plus I never had a user acct. with SM,) so I thought that ALL the models must be charging that.(I never even had the time to go looking into other's room,anyway, with the hours I was doing camming.
    When I found out that I could not only ask for double per minute, but ask SM to raise my rate chart to whatever i wanted it to be, things turned around quickly.
    The bad part is I realized too late that camming for 8-10 hrs. everyday, is...well,....INSANE! MAJOR BURNOUT happens when one cams too long everyday(but SM(at that time),had that huge banner telling you that there was $5000 a week to be made! LOL!! (now i see it's up to $10,000 per week!)
    I have realized that pacing myself is the ONLY way to make weekly goals, and oddly enough, it seems (for me at least), that the LESS I'm available, the MORE I make!I NEVER keep a schedule, and yet custies ALWAYS seem to find me when I'm on. (There is no time zone thing with the daily time schedule, so what does that mean to anyone,anyway?)
    Also, it was a year into camming that the Gold shows started, and i noticed that the girls who were doing them were making more than i was in a few days put together.
    $500- Yeah, i remember that that number that was the 'SWEET SPOT", when I KNEW things were starting to turn around for me as far as my camming goals. plus, as much as I hate gold shows, they do add to your weekly goals quickly.
    Good luck and great thread! GLAM:-

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    Was looking at my numbers and I made $600 last week and I'm up to $550 this week with one more day left. I have been camming for 2 months and participating the the SW challenges is what has helped me make more $$. I'm working longer shifts and that's where the extra money is. Yesterday, I had just finished a long pvt and was going to log off but I stayed and ended up in a super long GROUP (which I normally don't do cuz they are so damn cheap), but I kept it going and had several guys going in and out of group for almost an hour and made an extra $70! I used the stalling tactics in that tread so it was less work. SW is def helping me graduate from the 500 club! Next stop- $1000wk club!

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    I tend to make little money on cam because I usually cam when I'm in a real economic bind (eg. emergencies, medical bills, etc).





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    I am in this group, averaging about 200 to 300 a week and I work 3 to 6 hours when I'm on. I still consider myself new (about 3 months new) but in 2013, I plan to reach for the highest that I can with camming and other adult income, so I hope to hop out of this $500 or less group soon :0)

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    I'm in this group most weeks, mostly because I'm still relatively new and because I don't put in the hours. But from this week on i'm planning to put in a lot more hours and never be under $500 again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurora14 View Post
    I just wanted to give you girls a reminder on what it would be like if we made minimum wage working 40 hours a week. In my state minimum wage is $8.50 an hour. After working 40 hours (and having an hour lunch everyday) I would gross $340. Roughly %18 goes to misc taxes and %7 goes to 401k leaving me with a whopping $255 per week!

    My point here is that even if we are in the under $500 club for the time being, we're still better off than minimum wage! Heck even if you are making minimum wage I'd say it's a better position just for the flexibility to work around your daily life and not have to scheule your life around your job. A lot of us in this thread fit in one of 3 categories: 1)medical limitations 2)new and still learning to hustle 3)don't work a ton of hours for whatever reason.

    So lift your heads up ladies and rejoice because you are taking care of your shit in your own way! You get to put yourself first. I know I'll go ahead and be a sex worker for 10 hours a week to avoid being on welfare!
    I am so glad you posted this. I was really just waiting for someone to come in and tell us to be ashamed of ourselves!

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    Thank you for this post!!! I was in the roughly $500-$700 a week club since I started camming a little over a year ago. Sometimes I'd make up to $1000/week, but that was always a rare fluke where a whale beached himself in my room for a very short time, then upon learning I wouldn't meet him in person rolled himself back out to sea. Due to pure laziness rather than circumstances I would only work three or four hours a night, maybe four or five days a week. But I still considered that damn good because I kept my living expenses low. But with the New Year I need more moolah. This week I cammed six days, six to seven hours a day (broken up into two shifts) and so far I've made $1150 (and I still haven't gone on cam yet today, so I'm expecting a minimum of $1250) I'm so pleased!!!! $500-$700 was great when that was all I needed. But I'm beyond thrilled to know that now that I need more, it's 100% DOABLE!!!!!! And oh yeah, I <3 Stripperweb and all you fantastic ladies.

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