Kchrpm said:
There is, and always has been, a simple solution for that: group and private shows. Show the freeloaders nothing, allow the people who are willing to pay to be directly rewarded for it.
The explosion of notoriety and revenue involved with public shows makes this less and less popular, though.
JoleneBrody said:
Yeah, that's not the simple solution everyone thinks it is. I used to be a group and private only model, who did soft core in public chat. I know from experience that if j can't get people to tip for a countdown that night, a group show def isn't worth it. I'll end up doing a show for 600 tokens and feeling icky about it. Luckily I have a member site so if I really want to punish the freeloaders I can just take it to a members only show on my site.
It's a balancing act, I guess.
Some models make 90%+ of their earnings, even on MFC, in privates or groups. Some are the opposite, and make the vast majority in public. Obviously, this would only account for sites that allow public chat things, like MFC or CB; SM and other sites are all about the private shows.
For instance, one model I know doesn't do much more than get nude in public, but makes a good deal of tokens on MFC doing it. But the once or twice a month she decides to go group, she'll be in there for a good half hour with no less than 20 people for at least the first 15 minutes of those groups. I've seen her get as high as 60 people for a good few minutes. She'll also do true privates, but normally only after the majority of her shift is done (and mostly just with people on her friends list); but even in those she'll be a good half hour per true private. She makes a lot in public, but those rare groups/true privates are also big earners for her.
Another model I know doesn't normally do more than show her boobs in public, but tends to do a lot of groups and privates. She's been consistently top 250 for the past 2 years, every month, sometimes breaking top 200, some months. On the extremely rare occasion she decides to go full nude in public, her room count can jump to over 1500 people... but that doesn't necessarily means tips flow in. She makes the majority of her money doing groups and privates, and still breaks top 250 each month. However, going from experience, I can also pretty confidently say she has a
lot of returning private and group customers. I know I've taken her private the most of any model, and I've gone group with her more times than I can count.
Then there are the models that do (almost) no groups or privates, and make the vast majority of their earnings in public chat. They can get high room counts, but also realize that going group or private can decimate those room count numbers, so they generally avoid them. Pretty much everything they make is done solely in public chat.
Then there's the models that do a mix of public, group, private and skype to get their earnings.
It really depends on the model, her personality, and what she is willing to do in public vs. private or group, I suppose.
