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    Dizzy My Two Adult Personas...Should I drop one?

    Sorry in advanced for the LONG explanation

    I have been camming now for about 3-4 years and love love love everything about the online adult world. My original persona is vanilla pornish and that is where I started my journey. I started doing really well and have explored many different ways to make the most of marketing myself. I sell clips, cam, do customs, ect. After doing this for a couple of years I discovered findom. At first I made ok money and I have been playing both personas up until now. At one time my adult vanilla role made me significantly more money and the domme persona was more like great extra side money. Now I have found the opposite has happened. When it comes to my vanilla camming, I feel like there are a lot of girls that have my generic look. I feel that my niche is so over saturated that it has made it harder and harder for me to stand out. I have also come to find that I love being a findom much more than being the "porny sexy" girl. I have been logging online less and less and find myself working more and more on the domination side of my business. I feel that I have finally come to a place where I need to choose. Each side suffers when I spend time on the other. If I do my vanilla camming my domination income suffers and vice versa. I have just spent so much time and effort into promoting the original persona that its hard for me to just leave it behind. Leave my fans, and my good placement..... It took me years to build it up. Lastly I think about the lifespan of my career. I see myself being able to do domination a lot longer in my life and enjoying it. While I see nothing wrong with much older adult vanilla stars (go Nina Hartley) I don't see myself personally doing it much longer and enjoying it like I used to. Maybe I've burnt myself out idk. I also do not have the time to juggle both anymore successfully. I just feel that I put a lot more effort into camming and while I make good money its nothing like what I've made from domination. My only fear is that this last year just happened to be a good year for me and is not an actual trend. My domination requires more indy work so its more iffy and scary to me. When I started camming I had a backup job before I took the leap to do it full time. Now I'm scared to take the leap into domination. I have had a month or two where my domme business didnt do well and I would just cam nonstop and make up for it. Domination isnt really the same. I cant just hop on and do a cam a thon like I would be able to on Streamate. Because I am the only source of income in my home I can't just try it and fail then start back up again =/ My first year as a cam model started here with you ladies. You have gotten me through everything. From my first day on streamate to now. I would love to hear from my true friends. I love you all so much and thank you in advanced for your advice!
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    Default Re: My Two Adult Personas...Should I drop one?

    I'm actually on the cusp of making some very similar choices. My main/camming work brings me a consistent income, but I have some extremely promising leads in the indy/fetish/Domme world and just haven't put in the time to see the same consistency like I have with camming. It's been my plan to transition into doing largely the latter, but find myself falling back on camming because it's reliable money for today, this week, this month, etc, whereas I would anticipate some initial ups and downs towards the beginning of really investing myself fulling into the indy/Domme work.

    As you've also hinted at, even though transitioning seems feasible based on my experience with it, without having devoted myself primarily to indy/Domme over an extended period of time it's difficult to estimate how it would all pan out over a period of 2-6 months, whereas camming feels "safer" because I've invested so much time in it over the past two years. Basically it becomes a self perpetuating cycle because camming on the big box sites can give a lot of instant gratification, even though it's not necessarily what we want for the long term.

    It sounds like you're more or less at the point though where you've invested enough time in the Domme work to have a decent jumping off point, should you decide to go down that route. That's what I'm inferring from your post anyway...I can't really say that for sure without knowing the specifics, but it sounds like that's how you're feeling. I'm at a very similar point myself, though I'm waiting a bit longer to go really deep into indy/Domme because I have big expenses coming up and need to make consistent money in the mean time. My plan is to also save up money while doing this and then go deeper into my transition, if that's what I want to do at the time (in 1-3 months), with even more of a safety net behind me.

    Once that point is reached, it doesn't need to be all or nothing. We can gradually transition; for example, spend half our time on camming and half on Domme work at first, then a third camming and two thirds Domme, then a 1/4 camming and 3/4 Domme, and so forth, and adjust as needed but still work towards our goals. Personally, at this point I wouldn't want to give up my main persona completely because like you, I don't want to let something that I worked for fade away, at least not so soon, both out of principle and as a solid money source and backup should I ever need it. So at that point, even if I spent most of my time doing indy/Domme, I would still invest some amount of time each week into my "main" (or at that point, old) persona so that everything is still active, but more as a side or backup income. I would only leave it behind when I felt completely comfortable and felt that it didn't suit me anymore.

    You have to decide what's right for you, though...if you enjoy where you're heading then I say continue down that path. I think we'll be better off for it!

    It sounds like we're basically going through the exact same thing, and I'd love to chat through pm more if you're interested

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    Default Re: My Two Adult Personas...Should I drop one?

    Thank you so much for the advice! Feel free to PM anytime :-) it always helps to have a friend with these tough decisions

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    Default Re: My Two Adult Personas...Should I drop one?

    I think it will ultimately depend on how much time you spend/want to spend on camming work. If you're only putting in a few hours per day, doing "maintenance" work on one persona (e.g. keeping up with regulars and social media marketing) will definitely fill out your time. If you're treating it more like a day job, it should be doable (and probably more profitable) to manage two personas.

    If I were you, I'd be asking myself "What will the six-months-from-now version of me want?" and "What will the five-years-from-now version of me want?" These are very speculative questions for which you might not have solid answers, but it's a useful exercise. I'd also sketch out a quick pros/cons list. Mine would look something like this:

    Pros of two personas
    - Daily flexibility to play whichever persona best fits my mood
    - Long-term flexibility as the market/supply changes
    - Ability to practice and improve on my ability to meet the needs of two different markets
    - Ability to catch more "whales" by casting a wider net

    Cons of two personas
    - Twice the time spent maintaining regulars (or, if I have less time, both might suffer)
    - Twice the time spent maintaining social media accounts (or, if I have less time, both accounts suffer)
    - Spending time playing a persona I don't enjoy as much
    - Spending more money on equipment/outfits






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    Default Re: My Two Adult Personas...Should I drop one?

    I'm so glad this thread came up! I'm kind of in a position where I am about to go full force with 2 personas. MFC is my main go to site with actual regulars ans such. I'm too godammned happy and talkative on there to have many dom-kind of shows there. If I get one dude wanted to be degraded in public, it is a surefire way to clear out the room. And....it's not always consistent with my mood in general.
    However, Stremamate pisses me the fuck off and I am a total bitch to dudes there. So! now I am going to capitalize on that if/when I sign on to SM. If it works out, cool, if not, I'm just giving up on SM as I do after every attempted shift.
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