Jessi Needs Feedback!

[Jessi]

Ive asked this before but I need to take it more seriously and actually put it into motion instead of being scared of it.

Guys: If I were to open a "VIP" club for MFC members, which kind of perks would you guys like to see?

Models: How do you manage memberships? Are they for x amount of time from join date, or do you take all the tips and apply them for the next month so that everyone is lined up (IE people who tip throughout October are the November club). If it works for the month, I would feel bad about someone getting less time than someone else.

Some notes:
I'm not a content-heavy model but I wouldn't mind releasing an exclusive photoset or video for members.

Id consider offering a texting number, but I'm wary since I don't want just anyone to be able to message me.

I don't do skype/pvt but I'd consider having that available as well.

 

[Anonymous]

Id consider offering a texting number, but I'm wary since I don't want just anyone to be able to message me.

There are a few options for texting without people knowing your real cell number:

*You can use Google Voice to text, but I only know how to do it on the computer. I don't think GV allows you to text on your phone without revealing your real cell number. I think you'd have to keep your computer logged into GV and read/send texts from there.
https://support.google.com/voice/

*Tracfone (but you'd have to pay for a Tracfone and for airtime)
http://www.tracfone.com/

*ExtraLunchMoney sellers can earn money using the text messaging feature. Both ELM sellers and buyers' phone numbers remain private.
http://extralunchmoney.com/wiki/index.p ... or_Sellers
http://extralunchmoney.com/texting

 

[Jessi]

Id consider offering a texting number, but I'm wary since I don't want just anyone to be able to message me.

There are a few options for texting without people knowing your real cell number:

*You can use Google Voice to text, but I only know how to do it on the computer. I don't think GV allows you to text on your phone without revealing your real cell number. I think you'd have to keep your computer logged into GV and read/send texts from there.
https://support.google.com/voice/

*Tracfone (but you'd have to pay for a Tracfone and for airtime)
http://www.tracfone.com/

*ExtraLunchMoney sellers can earn money using the text messaging feature. Both ELM sellers and buyers' phone numbers remain private.
http://extralunchmoney.com/wiki/index.p ... or_Sellers
http://extralunchmoney.com/texting

Thanks Fox I use another free service I just meant more so that I wanted to make it very exclusive because I dont want anyone to be able to have it.

 

[mynameisbob84]

I'm probably not the best person to answer as I don't really go in for content, but here be some things that might be worth considering:

Exclusive videos/pic sets/custom videos - I would think a large part of the appeal of becoming a "VIP" is the chance to get some content that's not available to the masses, be it videos, pic sets or whatever. A lot of doods seem to dig custom videos as well, so you could potentially benefit from making custom videos (if you do them) available only to VIP members. That way, the custom video doods will have to join your club in order to take advantage of that perk (of course, it might also lose you money from lost custom video orders... I don't know how well that would work out but food for thought, yo!)

Exclusive fan signs - Maybe you could make a fan sign for each new member for them to use as avatars or whatever.

Care packages - Depending on how far you wanna push the boat out and how much you're gonna be charging for membership (maybe you could have different tiers of member?) you could maybe make a care package and send it out - a CD with some of your favourite songs on; some of your favourite foods; a homemade certificate with the member's name on, signed by you, to make their membership "official"; a pair of your panties, a handwritten note, whatever.

Discount - Discount on current/future videos and pic sets, raffle tickets, whatever else you might sell.

Phone number for texting/games console tag/Skype/Kik/whatever - I've never been all that fussed about model's phone numbers. It's just another method of contacting them to add to the half dozen or so that most models make readily available. I guess maybe guys like to feel that they have additional ways to contact their favourite models that the average member doesn't have. Maybe you could make a few of those available to your VIP members. Whatever you're comfortable with sharing, I guess. I'm sure there are ways of getting around giving your real/everyday phone number to people and still be able to send/recieve texts with them. Even if it meant buying a cheap pay as you go phone that you only use for camming purposes.

 

[Crumb]

if i were to join a 'VIP' club/thing the kind of perks I would look for are the ones that you mentioned already.

speaking for myself since I don't really join these things for the sake of joining and having my name on a white board.

vids & pics - yeah, an exclusive vid/pic set would be great, and rest of your vids/pics at a discount (if I didn't already have them but regs would be buying this and presumably already have your current offerings of vids and pics)
texting - if I were a texter and didn't feel like I was making a bother of myself, this would be a nice perk in and of itself - snapchat could be included in this
pvts/skypes - seeing as you don't normally offer these, it is a good one, making yourself available if you don't want to make a lot of vids

 

[JerryBoBerry]

*You can use Google Voice to text, but I only know how to do it on the computer. I don't think GV allows you to text on your phone without revealing your real cell number. I think you'd have to keep your computer logged into GV and read/send texts from there.
https://support.google.com/voice/

A little side bent on this...

The key is when you're setting up your google voice make sure you check the option for getting a google voice number by itself and NOT registering it to an existing number. That way you have a separate phone number from voice that is shown on all calls whether you're on the computer, or using the apps on cell phone and tablets. Your voice number will show on all caller ID, not your cell.

There is one hurdle to consider for Jessi if she ever wanted to set up a google voice for this. She's Canadian. Google voice currently still does not allow new customers to set up a number in Canada. There's way's around this though. Once they are set up they can be used in Canada though. So people there simply need someone in America to set it up for them. Offer a video or something to anyone willing to set it up for you. Have them create a free Gmail address and buy a $15 tracphone. Don't add minutes, it comes with 10 to set it up. That's all you'll need. When you create a new google voice number it asks for a cell phone to call and verify your setup (that's how they know if it's an American using it). They call the cell and you have to enter a two digit number to verify. But once that's done you don't have to verify it again for two years. So you can use it from Canada all that time.

Once the person does that set up process he emails you with the password to the gmail account, which you immediately change so no one else has access to it. And voila, you now have free calling from your computer from Canada. Then you can do anonymous calling, texting, whatever.

Oh and the major benefit google voice is you can do two things. First you can either block anyone so their calls go directly to trash without ringing you. Or you can set it to ONLY accept calls from people on your contact list and ignore all other calls. So only people in your vip list can get through.

The other thing that is really cool for a model is you don't actually have to give out the number at all. In the settings area you can create a widget for a webpage. People can click the widget and it pops up a box asking them to enter their number. Voice calls them and when they pick up then it dials you. They never see your number. So simply delete the widget off the web page and they have no way of calling you.

And specifically to yummybrownfox. I'm not sure how to do it on iPhone. But if you have android install an app called 'GrooVe IP Lite' (free app). It links with your google voice account to do dialing, answering, TEXTING, everything. And it pulls in your google contacts so their all their for easy calling. It's the main app I use even after google finally came out with the voice app. It's much better.