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From the start of this topic I want to inform the reader about:
- the topic created is just my own opinion and must be threaded as pure informational and not as "guide lines"
- the following content is also posted on my website so don't get to rough if it's duplicate.
- my native language is not English so bare with me if my typing is off or my grammar skills are way way off.


This material is meant to be a response and (maybe) a solution to one of the most frequently asked questions.

The information written here is not complete, because there is much more left to tell when it comes to this activity, but I promise I’ll get back on what’s missing some other time.

There are loads of articles about being a webcammodel, people wrote about it and they will probably never stop, but what I couldn't find is some useful info about average or low income that comes out of being a model on a niche website.

The studio owners have a very effective marketing strategy: they all promise high income, sometimes obscene amounts of money are in discussion, and they make you believe that camming (as models name it) is an activity you can do part time and you’ll just earn shitloads of money. I’m not saying it can’t happen; it’s just not applicable for all the models.

So here I am, writing this article, willing to offer you the transparence you won’t find at a daily basis (if at all) on other websites, blogs, forums, flyers, magazines and so on.

Most of the studios, and I’d dare to say ‘all’, only offer half truths when it comes to advertising their services of employment. They are talking about working way less than you usually do for (let’s say) 5 times your current salary. Well, when your earnings as a webcam performer are not high enough to buy that new house you dreamed of, it’s pretty disappointing.

It’s obvious that without a mere experience in this industry the first paychecks are going to be really small, but finding solutions is the first step to start climbing the big bucks ladder.

Now let’s assume you’re really new when it comes to being a cam model, you heard people mentioning some crazy amounts of money that can be earned, you got a pretty good picture of what it is all about but do you really know how much more you have to learn and the amount of information you need to posses in order to get those nice, big, juicy payouts?

Do you think you know what ‘visual impact’ and ‘custom target’ means? These are just two terms out of many that every model should know.

I don’t want to lengthen this article more than needed so I’m just going to ask some questions you should consider and find an answer to:

- how do you prepare yourself/ what’s your ritual before going online?

- what kind of outfits are you wearing?

- what’s the ambiance in your ‘work space’?

- what words and expressions are you using while chatting with the members in your chat room?

- what’s the quality of your video-audio stream?

- what does ‘visual impact’ mean and how can you fully benefit from it?

- if you are already a model and your earnings are not as high as expected, what would you change?

- how much does your look matter to you and how much time do you spend taking care of yourself?

This is a series of questions that even though might seem familiar, they might have never been answered by many models.

Why is it necessary to have a ritual and get prepared before going online? Name it whatever you like: mood, attitude, motivation and so on. All these elements are easily observed by the user and interpreted.

I strongly suggest that you do whatever lifts your spirit each and every time you get ready to broadcast. The impact will be huge and totally in your advantage.

The mental obstacles an average earning model are huge and mostly they sound like “how come that model’s earnings are so high and mine aren’t?” .

There are many answers to that and one of them is called ‘experience’. A model with experience on board, not as good looking as you are and not tearing her body parts apart each session can and will earn way more than you do.

That’s why getting mentally prepared before going online is a must.

The next question is crucial: what should you do to earn more out of this activity?

There are a few steps I recommend. Your online activity matters but it’s only half of what completes your success, the rest of 50% is your image, visual impact and marketing.

Anything if nicely and professionally packed is going to have way more success than the alternative.

Like any product, the image can be ‘packed’ and sold, it can be advertised and it can have its own marketing campaign.

From my point of view, web camming gives the models the opportunity to sell their image.

One can even sell his/her image without broadcasting. A quick example is as follows: I’m sure you’ve heard of videos and/or images being sold online. Did you ever do that? Did you use this resource to increase your earning and popularity? That is just one segment of the branding process that can use marketing and publicity techniques.

Unfortunately giving away this kind of information for free is in no one’s best interest, that’s the reason why you can’t find many articles about this particular subject. Nowadays information costs so yes, there might be some willing to ‘coach’ you on becoming a great model for a fee (but not for free).

I first got in touch with this industry back in 2007. I’m not saying I hold the absolute truth about it, nor that I have all the info there is, I’m just writing from my own experience and you can feel free to draw your own conclusions after reading this article.

In this article I’m going to write about those 90% of the models who don’t make enough to buy an apartment each month, about how you can increase your earnings by using some marketing techniques, how to build your brand and how important your attitude is while being online.

A big part about being a webcam model means selling your image online. As a model you do something while being in front of the camera, you get paid for it (whatever that is) which means you’re selling your image.

One of the most important aspects you should really care about is your attitude.

I’m sure from time to time you are watching various models too, I’m sure you notice their attitude and the number of members in the room.

Did you ever ask yourself how come a model with half your looks and efforts can have more than 2k users in the room and gets tips for… doing nothing?

Did you ever ask yourself what’s wrong with you? Why people tend to like and tip more a model whose face can’t even be seen (completely) on camera?

Did you ever ask yourself how come a model sending texts and ignoring her members can have more users on camera than you, the hard working girl doing shows almost for free?

These cases are just a few of the many a regular model encounters during a working session.

The answer to all these questions is not a simple one but one answer is ‘attitude’.

If I were a user and once I get to your room I’m ‘welcomed’ by a bitter, bored, tired face, I will keep on clicking on other rooms, anything but stay in that room.

Most of the users on adult webcam websites don’t want to see bitter faces on camera. They probably have one at home. These kinds of websites are trying to offer the users a different experience, an escape from reality if you want a distraction from their daily routine and problems.

Some users just want to talk, not necessarily satisfy their hormonal needs in front of a webcam performer.

This is why the attitude should inspire trust and comfort.

Another very important skill a model should possess is being able to read between the lines and adapt to each user. There are a few categories of users and it matters a lot to tell who fits where.

All models know that in a chat room there won’t be gentlemen solely, just like users know not all models are nice and welcoming.

Oh and about those models who try to con some members into sending them money, that will be a fruitful strategy on short term but on long term it can be devastating for the model.

Ok so how you interact with the users in your chat room is a very important aspect you should consider.

If there is anything I would suggest is this: smile, use every user’s name when talking to them, and don’t display your problems unless invited to.

Another thing a model shouldn’t have/do is called ‘inhibitions’. If you feel good being yourself, others will feel it and they will be drawn to you.

Inhibitions and mentality can pull a model back.

Change your mentality, get rid of misconceptions, think positive and you’ll do yourself a huge favor. Things will start to change in front of your eyes but first you must change yourself.

If needed, even if it’s a big step, change your friends, let go of everyone who is trying to control your life and pull you down.

As long as your mind will be relaxed, your self esteem will keep growing and everything will start to bloom in your life. It’s not just a theory; all I’m saying has been proved over and over again.

Now let’s talk about your public profile, what users see when they’re checking you out. Your business card, as I like to call it.

Personally this is what I do. I create profiles and I build brands for webcam performers, starting from scratch.

It’s not easy but the outcome is always a success and it’d always worth it.

As a model you must build your image, as better as it gets but not too far from the truth.

What does it involve to build a brand? In the adult industry it’s very important to have your own brand, to have exposure and a strong name.

If you don’t expose yourself, you can’t have a major success, at least not in the adult industry.

To build a brand first you need to invest in it from money to vision and experience.

What do you have to do to increase your earnings as a webcam model?

- work, collaborate with people that contribute in a way or another to your growth and evolution

- invest in your image, build a brand

- invest in always learning more, use others experience but always let yourself guided by your own experience

- change your mentality, set a goal and fight for it

- find out what kind of flaws you have and turn them into advantages and strong points

- learn how to communicate and what kinds of expressions have a strong impact in your chat room

- get rid of stress and inhibitions, once you go online shake it all off and embrace your character

I’m not going to end this article now but I will do a follow up really soon.

To prove you all I said so far has a strong base and I spoke from experience, let me tell you a few things about me.

In 2007 I started working in this industry but on various niches. I collaborate with studios from USA, UK, Germany, France, Russia and Italy, on both marketing and web design.

I have my own studio and I collaborate with models of all types, from beginners to couples, individual performers and porn stars.

I personally prefer working with MFC and therefore I concentrated most of my attention and resources towards this website.

I constantly work with well known models from MFC. Some of the names you might know if you have the slightest experience in web camming.

The first impression counts!

The first 5 seconds are crucial. As a visitor, if in those first 5 seconds I’m not impressed and determined to stay in your room I’ll just click ‘next’.

What should you do about that? Greet your visitors with a personal message. That will have a strong impact. It’s a psychological thing. The visitor will feel important and sometimes even flattered. The chances of having him in your room for a longer time will increase.

If as a visitor in your chat room I feel excluded and left behind, ignored and not wanted, I’ll just go to another room. One of the mistakes models tend to make is ignore everyone who doesn’t seem to have money.

For example on MyFreeCams the models tend to mute basics and guests all the time. All their attention goes to the potential tippers, the premium members. They totally forget that the guests and basics can become premium members too. And a member who upgrades to premium thanks to you will tip big and he will be loyal to you.

So don’t ignore other users just because they seem not to have money. You can ignore or ban those who beg or have demands without paying for what they ask. Agree. But keep in mind that those anonymous guests might already have some premium accounts or they can just upgrade at any time.


Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

Or “don’t give all your attention to a single member”. He might be the one tipping you all the time but try not to force his hand. Try to spread that attention and focus on more members, even if they don’t all tip big constantly. You never know when one of them will surprise you. Focusing on a single member can ruin you both. He will feel the pressure of making you happy every day and you will hope he will be there for you all the time, no matter what, and at some point be disappointed.


More baskets, more relaxed smiles

Broadcasting daily will increase the number of your loyal members, you popularity and earnings.

But why limit yourself at just broadcasting when you can thrive by using other means too?

You can have much more exposure than when you are broadcasting if you’ll use a marketing strategy to attract more members.

The best way to attract more users is organize a raffle. It’s the most spread way of publicity and the easiest one. You set the prizes and the rules of the raffle and then encourage your members to spread the word about it. It’s fun, interactive and it’s an all win situation for you.


Don’t think of it as a ‘Job’

Why? No matter if you are an individual model or working at a studio, don’t think about being a webcam model as having a job.

A ‘job’ means stiffness, routine, boredom, stress, fixed rules and the most annoying thing is that you feel like you’re working for someone else and not for yourself.

You are the one in charge; you are the one making the rules!

It might sound a bit weird but repeat the following words to yourself daily:

I’m beautiful, I’m confident, I can do whatever I want and there’s no one who can stop me!

Even if you don’t feel that way and it might sound like a lie to your brain, one day you will say it with all your heart. What most people don’t know is that our brain will believe whatever the heck we say. If you repeat something over and over again, your brain will start to believe it and act like that thing is true.

Try it! It’s working!

The way you look like

It’s very important to take care of your image. But you already know that, right?

What you must remember is that in the adult entertainment industry, the way you look like matters a lot. A whole lot than you could think of.

Of course, not everyone is a porn start or looks like one but what a model should do is look flawless. No matter what type of features you have, make sure you’re always the best version of yourself.

Before people can hear you talk and see if there are some brains in that pretty little head of yours, the first impression is based on visual so… I think you got the point.

So in this industry what you sell is your image. Now that we all agreed, let’s see what a model can do about selling her/his image properly.

First make sure you use high quality pictures for your profile.

No bathroom pictures taken with a 2px phone camera. No images with pixels as big as my thumb, no blurred, smudgy, dark, non clear pictures.

If you pretend to be treated like a professional model (as in non mediocre) you must act like one and look like one.

Even if you look amazing, a poorly taken picture will ruin it all.

So make sure your profile pictures are crystal clear, preferably taken by a photographer.

One more aspect image related is the makeup. There are so many negative examples everywhere,

One rule about the makeup: sometimes less is more. A ton of foundation, bright eyeliner, bad shaped eyebrows and the list goes on. If you don’t really know how to put your makeup on, there’s no shame in asking someone or watch tutorials.

Maybe in some other article a member of my team with experience in makeup will give you more details about what kind of makeup to use on camera up on your skin tone, hair color and so on.


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Well sir, I appreciate the effort you put into this. I was captivated (slack-jawed even) the entire time I was reading your post.

And as someone who is trying to learn another language, I can appreciate the struggles you may be having with English. But your English is very understandable, in spite of the occasional error. This may be a problem, as I think you have touched on a few hot button issues where it would have been better had you not been understood.

For example, you just wandered in to what may well be the premier camgirl community on the whole freaking internet and told the models that you are willing to help teach them how to put their makeup on. This may have been a mistake.

If this thread does not get locked down in short order, I suspect things may soon take an ugly turn. Just to be safe, it is probably best that you go ahead and start eyeballing the emergency exits. Good luck on getting out of here with your balls still attached. I am rooting for you.

Run. Run like the wind.
 
Argh.... so many words... :tmi:



Three tips for OP...

1. Perhaps try to use the forum search function... it would have shown you that pretty much all the topics which you have highlighted have already been discussed at length within the forum.

2. Brevity! Let the preview function be your friend. Preview your work before hitting "Post Reply"... that first post had just way too many words dude... jeez!!!

3. Never try and teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

On the positive side... at least you didn't mention Bitcoin :snooze:

Have a nice day

:)
 
emmm...thanks for input. I'm entitled to have my own opinion which I shared with the readers (not only the models) - on my youth I was a camboy on good-old CupidoCams ..seem so long ago :) Far from me to think to teach someone something ... take time and read the first 4 lines .
Regarding "bad feedback" - its ok... we all have the right to express our opinions and share from past experience. :wacky:
Have fun & b creative :)
 
Agree with you @Panda stated otherwise? Just opinions and not guide lines ... and yup I should use more >> "some of the models" and not "all models should..." :) just kidding.... You probably feel like the above topic covers all model activity and it should not; but from the title anyone can deduct the idea "what else..." - this forum is old and I believe 70% of the models have long-time accounts so I don't presume that I have the power to teach someone . Most of my "advice" is already known by experienced camgirls but who put those ideas on paper and shared with less experienced camgirls?! It's a rhetorical question.
Glad we agree :)
 
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I disagree on "don't treat it like a job".

To me, the routine part of a job means showing up on time, roughly the same time. Be professional and reliable, like if someone buys videos, send them right away, or if you agree to make a video for someone within a week, do it.

A lot of models (myself included) who don't treat it like a job wind up being like "but I'm not in the right headspace to do that" or whatever.

The beautiful thing about camming is it's completely up to you how to run your business, and we don't all have the same goals, but I think for maximum success, treating it like a job is a really good idea!
 
emmm...thanks for input. I'm entitled to have my own opinion which I shared with the readers (not only the models) - on my youth I was a camboy on good-old CupidoCams ..seem so long ago :) Far from me to think to teach someone something ... take time and read the first 4 lines .
Regarding "bad feedback" - its ok... we all have the right to express our opinions and share from past experience. :wacky:
Have fun & b creative :)
You also come off like "hey i know how to make every girl successful if they do all these things." It can be read as insulting and several parts of it go against completely some girls camming styles. Successful ones. Now while nice of you to try share your info the facts pointed out to you are true. Everything you said has already been said on this forum. Not trying to insult you but just true. I get you are trying to be helpful but you aren't. Nothing you said is new or helpful...just a repeat. So I would rethink about posting any more of your "helpful" hints cause I can guarantee it's been said and done already so why waste your time any further. Do you have any idea how often people come here and just start spouting off the same random and wrong stuff in a thread thinking they are helping...too many. So just stop and save your breathe.
 
My own opinion which I'm free to express it ... same as gay freedom. The main problem is not my attitude/tone which can not be felt from a plain text but the idea of "teaching the salesman to sale a pencil" .
I did not offended anyone (with the express purpose) and I do not make the infantile assumption of continuing to post something without getting some teeth on my neck. It's true, I'm not a model... how in the Lord's name I dare to write something about camming and adult videochat?! One question tho: how many models can see themselves from the client's point of view?
client can be replaced with: premium user, basic, viewer, fan ... so on
 
It is literally our job to hear their perspective. We host chat rooms where they offer it.

Also, most of us models also have premium accounts. It's not hard to become a viewer...go to a camsite, watch some cams, and bam! Congrats you're now a cam viewer!

I think the best thing for models wanting to understand the customer perspective is to simply become one themselves.
 
It is literally our job to hear their perspective. We host chat rooms where they offer it.

Also, most of us models also have premium accounts. It's not hard to become a viewer...go to a camsite, watch some cams, and bam! Congrats you're now a cam viewer!

I think the best thing for models wanting to understand the customer perspective is to simply become one themselves.

And you can learn from everyone, the good and the bad ;) Why does a particular model have such a bad CS? And another one a good one? Generally it's quite obvious when you spend a few moments in her/ his room
 
The main problem is not my attitude/tone...
I did not offended anyone (with the express purpose)


Well really? In your initial post your wrote:
So here I am, writing this article, willing to offer you the transparence you won’t find at a daily basis (if at all) on other websites, blogs, forums, flyers, magazines and so on.

That is pretty much a put down to this forum and by extention Amber and all those that contribute to it.
 
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Where's the tl:dr; version?



TL;DR: To make lots of money as a camgirl/guy, always be smiling, happy, positive, pretty. Also, make sure to let all guests and basics talk, and welcome every member who enters your chat.


Oh, and let's never forget the wise words of KoolRay: wear pigtails!!



***Obviously, these things should come naturally to a GOOD camgirl/guy, but those of us who aren't naturally great have to change our personalities to fit. SO glad this type of advice is available, because I would never have thought such general ideas would be the answer to becoming a top model!***
 
The best way to attract more users is organize a raffle. It’s the most spread way of publicity and the easiest one. You set the prizes and the rules of the raffle and then encourage your members to spread the word about it. It’s fun, interactive and it’s an all win situation for you.

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wat.

It's so obvious that this was written by someone who has no clue what it's actually like be a cam model and actually do these things.

I can appreciate the fact that you run your own site to post ramblings like this, but I would suggest you keep them there instead of bring them to ACF. The combined experience and expertise among all of the models already here trump your stab at it any day.
 
It was too long for me to even read and get angry about, all the talk of studios in the beginning were a clear indication it wasn't really going to be relevant here.
 
What should you do about that? Greet your visitors with a personal message. That will have a strong impact. It’s a psychological thing. The visitor will feel important and sometimes even flattered. The chances of having him in your room for a longer time will increase.

No. No no no no.

Any model who has cammed for even a day will tell you that nothing makes new users to a room scatter faster than calling them out individually, whether verbally or in chat or PM. It makes them feel like they're being put on the spot and HAVE to talk, which is a very awkward position to be in. There are some members who enjoy this attention, but they're in the minority by far. Viewers will greet the model when they're ready to say hello or join the conversation. Even people who've been visiting the same model for ages can feel put on the spot and uncomfortable if greeted as soon as they enter the room.
 
I think this would have attracted a better response if it was just linked to for people to go read if they were interested, rather than copy & pasted without context by someone no one knows. Anyway, I've been a cam perv long enough that I know that there's no "one thing" that works for every model, or appeals to every perv, for that matter. The one thing that does work is consistency, and that wasn't mentioned at all. There are a lot of models who didn't do that great to start, but they kept being who they were and did whatever they do were long enough that eventually they attracted their following.

Also, L2paragraph.
 
Read about 1/5 of OP, then grabbed my popcorn and skipped to the replies. Was not disappointed... :haha:>:)
Anyone who read 20% of that deserves free popcorn. I made it like 10 words in before skipping to the comments.
 
:wait: I actually thought of something that really is a "what else you should know about being a webcam model"

Coconut oil... It's good for everything. Sure, use it in recipes. But also use it to relieve razor burn. Use it to remove tough eye makeup. Use it as backup lube. Pretty much, just buy a jar of it, keep it on your desk, and whenever you think, "Maybe I could use this," then use it!

;)
 
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