Hi everyone! Sorry, this is going to be kind of a long post, but I want to give details so anybody who wants to offer advice can give it better informed. Thank you so much in advance for your time and consideration!
I just started streaming on CB yesterday. I have some previous experience on SM and managed to make pretty decent money without doing much research first, but I feel better suited to public shows because they're more about talking/teasing/keeping the room flow going and I did a lot of research before my first time going live. Yesterday, the most people I had in my room at any time was 20, but I managed to make 620 tokens in 4hrs. I stopped about an hour in and changed my goals by lowering the token amounts and added in the dice game with a 15tk buy-in. Based on what I've been reading here, that doesn't seem like much, but I wasn't bothered. Today I logged in and made 1 token in my first hour and the most people I had in my room at any given time was 10. Today and yesterday, even with such low numbers, most of the users in my room have been grays. Halfway through my first hour today, someone PMed me advice about not giving freebies to a begging gray (I already knew and was politely reminding the gray user that I had what he was asking for on my tip menu), so I asked the person who was offering advice why he thought my traffic was low. He suggested at least starting topless for my first week. I thanked him and skipped my first goal (Topless at 100tk), did a brief tease, and moved onto my next goal of panties off at 100tk. Basically nothing happened for the next half hour. About three people came and left, probably because they were bored and uninterested in the lack of activity.
I have good lighting (two lights behind my cam on either side and one soft light in the background), a pretty good camera and am streaming in HD (Logitech HD Pro C920), I'm conventionally attractive (not stunning, but passably pretty), and am bubbly and positive. My download speed tests at 24.7Mbps and my upload speed tests at 2.46Mbps. For both shows, I ran bots posting room rules, my tip menu, and UltraBot Ultra to automatically post certain reminders (follow on Twitter, thumbs up, etc), and the app for multi-tip goals.
My questions are, regardless of what I'm doing wrong, doesn't a peak of 20 users in my room on a Saturday night with a new model tag seem pretty low? Is there potentially something wrong with my computer? I've read on here to try logging in and out a few times, which I did to no avail. Also, am I maybe doing something wrong in my show? Last night, even though I didn't make many tokens, I had a lot of fun with my users and was excited and feeling good about how things were going. I know the first goal is to build community, but I don't know how to build a community if nobody comes into my room in the first place.
I'm feeling kind of bad because I was pumped to work hard my first week and make the best of my new model tag and I feel like it's running out without me getting a chance. I'm not easily discouraged so I'm going to stick it out either way until I have a good reason not too, but does it sound like I'm doing something wrong or something's technically wrong? Should I start my shows naked and work towards more enticing goals? If that's the case, does anyone have ideas on what those goals should me? My planned "big goals" have been POV BJ and cumshow with toy, intermediate goal of oil show, and smalls goals of removing clothing items. I made it to the oil show last night and everyone seemed to be really pleased with it; I even got a few encouraging emails to my work account. Other than the goals, I've had the dice game and I have a random chance draw on my tip menu that people thought was fun to keep the room moving. My big issue - as far as I can tell - is that nobody's coming into my room to hang out. Nobody's complained about my token goals or anything I've done; I've only gotten positive feedback so far.
Again, sorry for the super long post. I really appreciate any advice. I respond well to constructive criticism, so please don't hold back!
I just started streaming on CB yesterday. I have some previous experience on SM and managed to make pretty decent money without doing much research first, but I feel better suited to public shows because they're more about talking/teasing/keeping the room flow going and I did a lot of research before my first time going live. Yesterday, the most people I had in my room at any time was 20, but I managed to make 620 tokens in 4hrs. I stopped about an hour in and changed my goals by lowering the token amounts and added in the dice game with a 15tk buy-in. Based on what I've been reading here, that doesn't seem like much, but I wasn't bothered. Today I logged in and made 1 token in my first hour and the most people I had in my room at any given time was 10. Today and yesterday, even with such low numbers, most of the users in my room have been grays. Halfway through my first hour today, someone PMed me advice about not giving freebies to a begging gray (I already knew and was politely reminding the gray user that I had what he was asking for on my tip menu), so I asked the person who was offering advice why he thought my traffic was low. He suggested at least starting topless for my first week. I thanked him and skipped my first goal (Topless at 100tk), did a brief tease, and moved onto my next goal of panties off at 100tk. Basically nothing happened for the next half hour. About three people came and left, probably because they were bored and uninterested in the lack of activity.
I have good lighting (two lights behind my cam on either side and one soft light in the background), a pretty good camera and am streaming in HD (Logitech HD Pro C920), I'm conventionally attractive (not stunning, but passably pretty), and am bubbly and positive. My download speed tests at 24.7Mbps and my upload speed tests at 2.46Mbps. For both shows, I ran bots posting room rules, my tip menu, and UltraBot Ultra to automatically post certain reminders (follow on Twitter, thumbs up, etc), and the app for multi-tip goals.
My questions are, regardless of what I'm doing wrong, doesn't a peak of 20 users in my room on a Saturday night with a new model tag seem pretty low? Is there potentially something wrong with my computer? I've read on here to try logging in and out a few times, which I did to no avail. Also, am I maybe doing something wrong in my show? Last night, even though I didn't make many tokens, I had a lot of fun with my users and was excited and feeling good about how things were going. I know the first goal is to build community, but I don't know how to build a community if nobody comes into my room in the first place.
I'm feeling kind of bad because I was pumped to work hard my first week and make the best of my new model tag and I feel like it's running out without me getting a chance. I'm not easily discouraged so I'm going to stick it out either way until I have a good reason not too, but does it sound like I'm doing something wrong or something's technically wrong? Should I start my shows naked and work towards more enticing goals? If that's the case, does anyone have ideas on what those goals should me? My planned "big goals" have been POV BJ and cumshow with toy, intermediate goal of oil show, and smalls goals of removing clothing items. I made it to the oil show last night and everyone seemed to be really pleased with it; I even got a few encouraging emails to my work account. Other than the goals, I've had the dice game and I have a random chance draw on my tip menu that people thought was fun to keep the room moving. My big issue - as far as I can tell - is that nobody's coming into my room to hang out. Nobody's complained about my token goals or anything I've done; I've only gotten positive feedback so far.
Again, sorry for the super long post. I really appreciate any advice. I respond well to constructive criticism, so please don't hold back!
