Top 5 mistakes to avoid as a Camgirl
My regular readers know my background. To put it simply, I’ve been a Camgirl for over 5 years already and I’ve been working in the X industry for even longer. The difference between you and me is that I didn’t have anyone to guide me and advise me in the beginning of my career. If I had ever had the chance to read an article like the one I am writing, I think I would have saved a lot of time and made a lot more money quickly. Before you get started, I think it’s important to know the mistakes I made in the beginning, so you can avoid making them too. I wish I could send this article to all the models who are starting out in this industry… I want you to know that all the information I’m sharing with you can save your career as a Camgirl. This is an article to be taken very seriously and read carefully. I strongly encourage you to share this with all of your model girlfriends both new and experienced. Just because you’re already making money online doesn’t mean you’re blameless and I’m sure you’re still making some of the mistakes I’m going to go over with you.
I’ve noticed that every chick starting a Camgirl career makes the same mistakes on a regular basis. I’m here to help you avoid making them again in turn. If you haven’t started broadcasting yet, you’ll leave with a large advantage compared to those who haven’t read this article.
Enough discussion, read on if you want to get trained quickly and get your career off to a great start.
5 – Giving up too quickly
This kind of behavior tends to annoy me. Girls, if you only knew what my first few days of broadcasting were like … In a few words: demotivating, chaotic, unrewarding. If I had given up, I would never have had the success I have today. This is what separates the future rich from those who will remain poor all their lives. Analyze the commonality of all the successful Camgirls in this industry. Do you honestly believe that they became rich overnight, without working? If that’s what you think, I’d rather destroy that false belief directly. All my girlfriends who are now earning tens of thousands of euros a month worked very hard and never gave up, they always kept their goals in mind. A lot of girls are tricked by internet gurus who promise them wealth and freedom without effort. The reality is really different. To succeed in the webcam business, you need to train or at least be interested in the subject. You can’t just show up and think that the money will fall from the sky. There are methods and techniques that work and have proven themselves before, you have to follow them to the letter and work, work tirelessly.
To sum up this first point: don’t give up, and if you do then don’t complain about your current life. You are responsible for your success and your actions. So don’t give up, even if you only earn a few hundred euros the first week. This is completely normal and all the camgirls who are rich today have experienced this period of floating. Don’t throw in the towel, keep learning, testing different shows, interacting with your community and improving.
Spoiler Alert: If you never give up, you are bound to be successful. Fortune favors the bold, and it’s not by complaining and not working that you’ll get a huge amount of money. You will have to work hard in the first days and weeks to reach your goal. But once you get the ball rolling, you won’t believe your eyes.
4 – Disable or charge for private messages
As my regular readers know, I started my career on MFC. You should know that on this platform, Camgirls are inundated with private messages, especially when you are new. The problem is that most of these guys are freeloaders and just want to talk with you to pass the time, but will never send you tips. They just want you to turn them on by message, they’ll make you do sex stuff without paying you etc… This kind of guys, you’ll get to know them quickly after a few weeks. The problem with this kind of pests is that because of them, a lot of models prefer to cut everything off. They turn off private messages or bills. On most camming platforms, you have the option to turn on private messages only for the guys in your friend list. So while I completely understand this decision, it’s true that getting interrupted during your show every 10 seconds by guys who just want to make small talk is pretty limiting and not productive. However, it can seriously damage your launch on the platform. Be aware that when you arrive on a camming platform, the regular users don’t know you. And before sending you money, they will want to get to know you and chat with you. You have to understand that in order to make money and build a solid fan-base, you’ll have to make “friends” or at least talk to different users to convince them to send you tokens or join you in a private room. It’s human psychology, you have to get them to like you to establish some trust between you and them before they start sending you tips. And guess what? That trust is built with the help of private messages! Many of these guys are shy and a little ashamed to chat with you directly in your public chat room, for fear of others’ judgment. Giving them the opportunity to chat with you privately is a great strategy to get them to spend their money on your lounge. Most of these guys find it much more intimate and that is what they are looking for. Remember, the reason these guys are there is because they want to have some sort of relationship with their favorite camgirl. They are not just looking for sex and they will not give you money if you have not convinced them. Remember this anecdote well: during my first weeks of broadcasting, I decide to activate my private messages. I’m chatting with a very ordinary man, without a profile picture and with a relatively new account. In short, at first I thought I was dealing with another profiteer. We had a long discussion, the feeling went well and guess what? I’m still in contact with this guy. He sent me a lot of money, since the beginning of my career, I think he spent more than 30.000€ just for me. Keep this anecdote in mind when you broadcast your next show. Because you don’t know who is behind a nickname, it could be someone very rich, a businessman or even a company director who earns hundreds of thousands of euros a year and who would be delighted to please you.
Basically, by turning off private messages you will miss out on a lot of potential earnings. This is not an urban legend, I’m telling you this based on my experience. When I decided to put the human relationship at the center of my preoccupations during my shows, my income completely exploded. So I know it’s painful to receive messages and have to answer them for free, but think medium, long term. If you can build an unbreakable bond with your fans, know that they will always be there for you. And if one day you’re in financial trouble, these guys will be the first to want to get you out of that situation.
3 – You don’t have a release schedule
So here we come to a very important point. Girls read the following lines carefully, this is a very simple method that will simply multiply your income on the medium and long term. Personally, I was not aware of this method of work and this is what ruined my early career. Honestly, I think the fact that I didn’t follow this 3rd tip made me lose several months of work … That’s why I’m sharing it with you today and that you really need to take it seriously. Actually, when I started my career I didn’t schedule my shows. So I could turn on my cam on Monday at 10pm as well as in the morning in the middle of the weekend or even some Wednesdays when I was motivated. In short, it was a mess in terms of organization. And beyond losing myself, I realized that I was also losing my fans. It’s quite normal, imagine watching the first season of a series on Netflix and you have no release date for the next episodes. Worse, the following seasons will be broadcasted live but the producers don’t communicate on the airing times. This example is much more telling than a simple tip. You don’t want your fans to suffer this kind of mishap. Otherwise you’ll never see the same people in your living room and you won’t be able to create that all-important relationship between a camgirl and her community. In the beginning, I was second guessing myself thinking that my shows weren’t good enough and that people who watched me once didn’t want to come back. However, I was wrong. When I set up an airing schedule with specific times and days, I realized that I was running into more and more regulars on my shows.
Put yourself in the users’ shoes. They are generally habits and schedules. Most guys come to sexy cam sites always at the same times. In France, a large majority of men connect in the evening or late at night. When they are single, they join you in order to calm their sexual urges. When they are in couples, they usually connect in the evening but can also join you in the afternoon. They choose the perfect time to come in discreetly and not be disturbed by their wife. You will notice that many users are actually in a relationship. But they are not happy with their girlfriend and come to watch your shows to fill an emotional void and Flirt with another woman. In the future, try to pick a certain time of day to stream. Also, make sure you log on to the platform all the time on the same days. If you chose to dedicate 10 hours of camming per week, split into 3 shows: you could do 3.5 hours on Wednesday night, 3.5 hours on Friday night and 3 hours on Sunday for example. If you don’t make the same mistake I did, you’ll see that you’ll attract a lot more users and often the same regulars who know you and will send you a lot more money than some lamba guy who has never heard of you.
2 – You work for a bad sexy streaming platform
There are a huge number of cam sites available on the net. Every day, several companies are trying to nibble away at market share by launching their own camming site. Listen to me, three quarters of these platforms are crap and you won’t make money with beginners. Believe me, if you have been approached by a camgirl platform you should start by being wary and not listening to the promises of income that the commercials can make you. In this particular industry, you should not trust anyone. I have heard too many stories of scams during my camgirl career. Fortunately, I am a suspicious person by nature so I have never been fooled. This is not the case with some of my girlfriends who are a bit too naive and gullible. I think of one of her who was recruited by a new caming platform, she worked several months for them and never got paid. The owners of the site vanished with her money and over 50 other models. In all, this scam would have brought them close to a million euros. That’s why you have to be very careful. I have written a blog post on this subject. I want your good and I especially want you to start your camgirl career in the best possible circumstances. My selection is based on my experience. After 5 years of intensive shooting as a Camgirl, I have had time to test different platforms (over 60). I don’t regret spreading myself thin because today I am quite legitimate to establish a Neutre and above all realistic ranking.
When you are a new model you need visibility. Forget about small cam sites with a few thousand visitors a month. It won’t be interesting for you, unless you already have a community ready to join you on the site in question. Currently, Chaturbate and LiveJasmin are for me the best camming platforms to start with. I’m on it, I also have a lot of girlfriends on it and everyone I know makes a very good living from these platforms which accumulate hundreds of millions of visitors per month.
1 – Take vacations too often or take long breaks
Warning: I want my message to be understood. Of course you can give yourself a vacation every now and then. Of course, you can also skip a broadcast day if you have an imperative or if you are sick or not in the mood. Just be careful not to be away too often and for too long. In this industry, you are easily forgotten. I don’t want to upset you, but it’s like any other “artistic” job. Apart from rare exceptions, when a singer doesn’t release any more albums for several years, he ends up not being listened to as much as he was during the first days. It’s the same for us camgirls and online models. I’ve seen so many girlfriends disappear for a whole week or more. And when she would log back on the platform it would be panic.
“Maria! No one is following me anymore… I had very few viewers tonight” blah blah blah. Hey yeah sweetie, show some respect for your fanbase, they care about you and if you don’t give them any sign of life, they’ll be disappointed and think you’ve abandoned them.
Let’s take a concrete example, you signed up on a platform, you charbonned for several weeks and now wow you just earned your first 5.000€ net. You’ve worked hard to build up a community and you’re happy to see the same nicknames and regulars in your chat rooms. But you start to rest on your laurels, you don’t do a show for a few days, then a few weeks, until you drop your broadcast schedule and disappear for a month. And when you get your ass back in front of the camera you’re surprised to find that you’re only dealing with new users and that your original fans aren’t there. All that work for nothing… When you take a long break, it’s like you have to start all over again. So be disciplined, take a vacation and learn to breathe but don’t get lazy. I’m telling you about something concrete that I experienced. Believe me, it’s the worst feeling in the world to realize that it’s possible to lose everything due to lack of diligence.
Unfortunately, you’re not going to escape that. Sometimes life isn’t all rosy and you may have down moments. Accept these feelings as they come, if you feel you need a rest. Don’t hesitate to take some, it’s important to stay in the long run. I also know a few girlfriends who have taken the plunge and streamed every day, every night. Really, hats off to them, they gave it their all. Yes, they gave it all, but only the first few weeks. After a lot of effort, they got tired and they didn’t have the same energy as in the first days.
Conclusion
We’re coming to the end of this article, thank you so much for reading me to the end. I sincerely hope that I have been able to help you by sharing my experience or anecdotes that I have heard during my camgirl career. I really advise you to take into account each of the points I have listed in this article and NEVER apply them. It’s a bit counter-intuitive, usually I ask you to read me and do to the letter what I tell you. I think it’s important to know the wrong direction to find the right path. Failure is important for a future business owner like you, if you can avoid making as many as possible that’s ideal and I’m here to help you make as few as possible.