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My question is mainly designated towards members:
How many times did you visit the camsite you're using before becoming a member?
I'm not asking about spending your first Dollar, or why you signed up to one and not to another. I'm simply trying to get an insight here.
Becoming a member or providing an e-mail address+ a username is a conversion I check with paysites, online stores, and landing pages, and I think that if affiliates, and models would have a data based insight into it, we'll all have a better experience.

My main work is in vanilla e-commerce and paid digital marketing campaigns. I still however, dwell in both realms and try to implement knowledge of them both. What I recently found out in other communities is that many adult affiliates, VOD store owners, merchants, and even a few webcam industry veteran media buyers, stayed away from every Google tool that is not search engine optimization related.

Many are choosing to be unaware of the customer journey, and what is the experience of becoming a member from a big-data perspective.
It's logical and I'm not being cynical about it. Think about it, if you started to get paid for traffic back in 2002, why the hell would you toil yourself with tools like Google Analytics and check what happens to it? The reality of online customer behavior however, is changing, and I humbly believe that data based insight is also relevant for an affiliate, for a model, and for any content creator in our industry.

I've tried to gather some views from other colleagues on other communities, and their responses had mixed feelings, so I decided to zero in on something very basic, that analytics should be giving a peek into. In a standard vanilla online store I monitor before a campaign for instance, 96% of the buyers have at least 4 visits and interactions with the website before making an actual purchase. Many adult affiliates sneered at me by saying that the only conversion they see of value, is the Dollar they make, or the Dollar a new member spends. I disagree with that approach because it fails to understand what is the value someone finds in our content and experiencing it. I would however love to hear a feedback, and to double check that I don't spread a gospel of crazy ideas that just rattle the cage of old time traffic whales:) Thank you so much for letting me interact with this question :h:
 
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Is that really a valuable figure though? I assume most people don't really get the appeal of a live cam show vs porn until they actually get the right popup shoved in their face xD.

For me I had plenty of those cam popups show up and each time I closed it because I wasn't interested but then one day kittiesauce popped up and she caught my interest but I caught the end of a show so I registered and put her on follow so I could catch her again next time.
 
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Is that really a valuable figure though? I assume most people don't really get the appeal of a live cam show vs porn until they actually get the right popup shoved in their face xD.

For me I had plenty of those cam popups show up and each time I closed it because I wasn't interested but then one day kittiesauce popped up and she caught my interest but I caught the end of a show so I registered and put her on follow so I could catch her again next time.
That's extremely helpful. It means there were micro interactions before you signed up, you're a person not just traffic.
 
I signed up the first time I visited MFC, but I was looking for tips on how to do webcam lighting and I found ACF first so I know what MFC was before visiting the site.
That's also an important example. Even the most intent driven fast signing up new members, probably have a former interaction, in this case with the brand's name, and not with the website.
 
I had checked out the live cams on xhamster for just under a week, but I didn't really understand much about cam sites at the time. I think it probably had a lot to do with how cam sites are often promoted as free porn, which I quickly learned wasn't the case lol. Eventually I ended up signing up for chaturbate as I was specifically looking for a place to spend some of my leftover crypto and this was the only porn sites that I found that accepted crypto.
 
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How I found MFC was through a model I was following elsewhere. I think I ran across her pictures on a random site (sorry, don't recall which one) where various women are posted, and took an instant liking to her. I think it was about a month or so before I found her name, and website. There was a link on her website to her MFC room. Saw part of a show, and I think I signed up a day or two after and became a premium member.

Little more than you asked for, Dan. But, more probably more relevant data. ;)
 
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First time ever? Would have been LJ many many many years ago. I just watched as a lurker for about 7-8 months before signing up and started to actually tip. I did not trust any camsite at first because I thought they would scam/steal my credit card info.
But lost interest in LJ. Chat was boring.

I found Streamate, CAM4 and CB after and just jumped right in. Only went to MFC because someone I followed on another site quit and went there.
 
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Do we count viewing on someone else's computer while sitting next to them on the couch, or while you're managing the device yourself? Because it's either idfk or 1 (I visited for the first time to get a member account).
 
Do we count viewing on someone else's computer while sitting next to them on the couch, or while you're managing the device yourself? Because it's either idfk or 1 (I visited for the first time to get a member account).
It all counts, from exposure to becoming a paying member. I agree that a 2008 affiliate wouldn’t give a sugar honey ice tea, but a 2020 marketer would. At least in my humble opinion.
 
I was pretty sure I became an MFC member only when I needed to buy tokens, since I didn't use the chat or any of the technical benefits of being member (like mail notifications or friends/favorites) in my first years of membership.

But I checked and I found out I registered in january 2014 and bought/spent the first tokens in december 2014!

So I guess I became a member as soon I discovered MFC

and I discovered MFC like this:

How I found MFC was through a model I was following elsewhere. [...] There was a link on her website to her MFC room.
 
I signed up for MFC because a model from another site (not a camsite) decided to start camming and I wanted to be there. Never visited MFC before that and I became premium within 10 minutes.
 
For multiple reasons I'm not chatty and never considered signing up, I was only lurking occasionally (with long pauses) on 2 sites for more than a year. At some point I found a third site and a particular model, she streamed (and still does) while I work but I was able to peek from time to time, also she played recordings later and I was hooked. Clever girl, she made me(and many others) sign up when she did a free password show, no other way to see it without a username. About a month later I found a way (I had no CC back then) to buy tokens for her.
 
I think that we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg here. Cam platforms are still reluctant to share big data insights, and it results in us shooting as many arrows as we can, hoping we hit something.
There are conversions with value before cash is made, like in any e-commerce or a digital sales funnel, and I really hope we can study them for everyone’s benefit. Keep those experiences coming please:)
 
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