
Originally Posted by
Sam38g
Yes, I think most of you are lazy when it comes to marketing. I will take that extra 40/20 percent all day long. Have much experience in online marketing my solo site since spamming the yahoo groups back in 2003 to get traffic for it. Having your own traffic make a performer more of a power player.
You twist my words, go ahead.... Yes, all contracts can be renegotiated by those who work hard & set themselves up as a power earner & traffic source for any cam site they work on. Do I think a petition or all the girls getting together & demanding it is the way to go? NO I don't.
Sooooooooooooo many of you assume that SM gets 65% . Where do you think all that traffic comes from? What does it cost? What would they have to pay out to affiliates over other cam sites to keep that traffic coming? Hence why they pay us competitively to get our own traffic.
Petitions are playing the game from a position of weakness. There is not enough of you on SW or in general that will make a major impact upon them to change the current contract most performers now have. I never have stated that it could be done as a group.
There are plenty of cam sites out there now that pay out 50% & some even more. SM is NOT the only game in town. I don't just cam on SM, I don't put all my eggs in one basket. I've seen major cam sites go down & others rise. I found SM contract to be the most fair & didn't even bother negotiating it. I signed it with no problem at all.
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Better work conditions? Treatment? WTF are you talking about. SM is NOT a hostile work environment. They can NOT control what people say in free chat anymore than any cam site. All sites have beggars, all sites have mean trolls, we have the ability to kick or ban without any consequence what-so-ever with SM. We are independent contractors, we don't have to work on a schedule, it isn't slavery & we are forced to cam on SM. We have the ability to change our rates as it fits our mood or what we think we are worth.
Any of you have the ability to get your own billing, traffic & make 100% of the money. NONE of you have to do SM & make 35%. There are many performers on this site who do just that, I have dear friends not on SW who do it all themselves. In fact, I think more of you should to see how hard it is to do everything it takes involved to be a success. We have several ladies on this site who have written much advise & started sites to do this, why not give them a try?
Currently I have a solo site on Model Centro that converts at 365:1... Everyday for the past 12 years or so, done my own marketing, without affiliates, without help, without others telling how to do it. Figured it out all on my own.
If many of you have decided that my advise is crap, then don't follow it. Marketing & traffic makes you a power player in this industry. Oh wait, in the world... Cause those who have large social media followings who don't do porn get paid lots of money to tweet & post products in their timelines. If we, cam girls, porn stars, keep building & getting ours there, we will with in a few years be able to cash in that way too. Keep thinking small & just logging onto cam is all you can do. I dream much bigger. Camming is my show, my platform. I just don't log onto much money but to build my brand.
Keep acting like an employee.. Cam sites already chase me & offer me deals to come back to them, I worked hard to put myself in that position. Turn them down because they are crap & don't deserve my traffic & me camming on them. Been offered jobs to consult for them too, but not enough money in it for me. I will keep building my brand, my cam presence & know they will pay what I want when it comes to going behind the scenes.
Sam
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