Hey, girl - I get suuuuuuuuuuuuuppppeeerr anxious, and honestly the, "What's going to happen when I push this button?" anxiousness was ridic! Especially because if you're logged into your main page, your dashboard, and click the green "Start My Show" button - NOTHING happens, really, haha. It takes you to another screen where you set up your chatroom, etc, and THEN you can hit to broadcast.
Here, I took a screenshot and thought I could lay out some stuff - NOT because I don't think you're smart and can figure it out alone, but I just know that seeing something like this might have helped assuage A LOT of my own anxiety. I hope it helps! And I'm sorry if this is not exactly what you were talking about! Haha.
A) Recent Earnings - click this and another window will pop up listing your earnings, by day, for that pay period/week. You can click each day and then get a breakdown of who you received payments from (an Exclusive session from JoeShmoe earned you $43.17; TallywackerTerry tipped $X gold giving you $1.75). So this is a good place to check if you were ACTUALLY tipped (like the girls mentioned above). And not just some drive by wackadoodle trying to pretend he tipped you to get something for free from you in public chat.
B) Your Live Show tab will be the only one that will work when you are actually broadcasting. So if you want to fiddle with the other two you need to do it before hitting that other/second green "Start My Show" button. Settings is where you can determine your defaults for chat - either Party or Classic - or if you allow Free accounts to chat at all, etc. You cannot change these settings while you're live broadcasting. You would need to end your show to adjust them, then restart.
C) These are your chat windows! Yay! The middle grey-barred one labeled "Guest Chat - All" is all of your potentials in public chat. Below this chat box there's another grey bar for Free Chat (but I never use that, and I couldn't get it in the screen shot anyway, so sorry). Right above Guest Chat you'll see the gorgeous, red-barred Paid Chat. Whenever a client takes you into Paid Chat or Exclusive Chat, you screen SHOULD maximize the Paid Chat window (if you click the bars it will minimize or maximize them as well). If you have dudes in Paid Chat - congratulations! You're making money per minute!
D) This is basically your preview screen. Mine's black right now 'cause I shoved my finger over it so you can't see my ugly ass right now, lol. But I like to check my lightning, make-up, etc., before diving in; this screen will continue to stream your broadcast even while you're live, so you'll be able to see if you have like a booger coming out of your nose - or your eyeliner smudged - or, my most common, need to reapply lipstick!
E) Show Control Buttons: Green "Start My Show" is self-explanatory, really. If you click that button you will REALLY actually start streaming live to the website and can receive customers in your room. That blue pause button I had to ask Support for; if you click it a 10 minute countdown starts with your webcam no longer streaming (but your room stays open), to give you the chance to finish getting dressed, clean up a bit, go pee, grab something from the UPS man, etc. The next is the Microphone button - if it has a red circle and a line through it, it means your mic is muted and you are not broadcasting sound to your room. And last but not least, that little Bell icon lets you choose with notification sounds you'd like to hear. You can change those at any time during your broadcast, even while you're live.
F) Room Control Tabs: The left-most chat bubble gives you that little text box in which you can type your room topic. Yay! You only get 140 characters (and only 5 lines), though, so I hope you've been Twitter-practicing! The next tab has that telephone with the line through it. You can choose to accept phone calls from your guys in either Premium or Exclusive Chat - you cannot fully activate this feature until you have started your show and are broadcasting. The last, right-most tab lets you control whether or not you will Cam2Cam with you customers in either Premium or Exclusive.
Hope that helps some and I didn't muck it up too badly.

Good luck!
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