Become Independent Web Cam Model

This guest post was written by independent web cam model Dynamite. She gives a nice advice on how to keep your fans updated on your current appearance.

This is the most common question I hear daily and I am sure you do as well. Describing your outfit each day via text chat can be tedious and your message may not come across as enticing when you have answered the same question over and over again.

Let’s say today your wearing a red laced lingerie piece, black bra and panties, a garter, black thigh highs and PVC stiletto thigh high boots. A guest looking for a web cam show then asks you the infamous question “What are you wearing today?”. The first time you answer the question, you may describe it in detail like above but let’s say you have had answered that question 5 times prior to this guest. Your text will grow shorter by mid day to something like this “I’m wearing Red lingerie and stockings”. Now that you have condensed this your outift might not sound so appealing and convincing anymore.

Instead, offer your guests a picture of what you are wearing each day and simply send them the link! Place your link in your messengers status, twitter, and other various networking sites you use. Doing so not only gives your guests a better sense of what to expect but also a great traffic driving tool. My fans love it and so will yours!

Check out my example http://dynamitexxxcam.com/shows

Happy Camming!
Dee

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In this article webcam model Niki talks about niche markets and shares her experience with breaking into BDSM community as professional submissive.

For me, one of the most rewarding things about being a cam model is having virtual strangers entrust so much of themselves in my confidence. Never is this more evident than in the fetish communities, where discretion can understandably be of the utmost important to people who, sadly, are sometimes not out to their loved ones about their often unpopular—alrthough in no way less valid—desires.

True, catering to people’s specific fetishes is not everyone’s cup of tea—although I would argue that every area of sex work caters to fetishes; it’s just that the fetishes of the BDSM communities are more frequently considered outside of the mainstram than, say, the fetishes of the Maxim-loving, big-breast-rubbing set. The all-too-common social marginalization of such niche markets, though, makes focusing on them all the more fulfilling—and, it should be said, often all the more lucrative.

I, for one, have never been shy about being a submissive. Perhaps it is this knowledge of myself (and passion therein) that makes me care so much about serving others. Perhaps it is the more cynical fact that there is a market, often under-served, often under-whelmed—and often, to be quite frank, with wallets as deep as their desires—and where there is desire, there is demand. And lots of it.

Since beginning to market myself as a professional submissive, I have felt fulfilled like never before. Like porn queen Nina Hartley, I truly feel as if I’m performing a social service—and, as someone who gets off, copiously, to the idea of serving, this is the best of all possible worlds.

What more, then, can I say? Focusing on BDSM is certainly not for the faint of heart. It is not a get-rich-quick scheme—but neither is camming, or any adult work for that matter. Working in pornography, however peripherally, requires far too much emotional investment, if you’re at all serious about your work, to be considered lucrative simply for financial gain. But if you have any inkling of enjoying the darker side of sex; if you like being entrusted with the fantasies, fears, and feelings of interesting and often kind people; if you get off on playing with power, with gender, with roles in general—then fetish work mght very well be for you. It has certainly been quite the journey for me, thus far, and I very much look forward to turning the next dark corner and seeing what lies beyond.

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In this post webcam model
Raven Skye shares her tips on how newbie cam girls can prevent burn-out from camming.

Working as a webcam model can be a fun and lucrative experience.You get to work from home, make good money, and you can have a lot of fun. However, there are some drawbacks.

Burnout is one of the potential negative experiences. Burnout happens when you work too many hours or for too long and you start to get sick of camming. This happens a lot with models who have been camming for many years. When you get burnt out you might experience depression, not wanting to go on cam, and you might be sick of dealing with customers and men in general. If you support yourself solely on camming, this is a big problem.

There are some things you can do to prevent becoming burnt out on webcamming. Make sure to get plenty of sleep every night. Try to set and stick to a work schedule and enjoy your downtime. Go out for a walk, read a book, go out with friends, etc. Have fun on your time off from work. Too much work and not enough fun time can definitely lead to burnout.

One final tip is to register and spend time on industry forums. Talking to and sharing stories and thoughts with other cam models can be very therapeutic and fun. Most people would not understand the fetishes you have to deal with, the thoughts you have, or the other negatives to the job of camming. But you can talk and share openly with other cam models on forums. It is very fun to laugh at the interesting conversations you have on a daily basis and share tips with other models. There are many of these types of forums and you can find them by asking other webcam models or doing an internet search.

These things can help you enjoy camming more and prevent burnout so you can have a long and lucrative camming career.

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This funny post was written by web cam model Solar. She explains how you can stalker a guy you met on a cam site (if you need to )

Every camsite has “no personal contact” thing in its rules. It’s not because they are so evil and don’t allow poor camgirls share contact info with their favorite members. It’s for your own safe, girls. But, well, rules are made up to break them! For example, you are single and suddenly you meet online a cute guy who claims himself single as well. You like each other and make plans to meet in real, but still you have a slight feeling – what if he is not what I think..? Calm down, girls, no need to waste you nerves guessing. I will tell you how to stalk members! 😉

First of all you need to find out your honey’s last name. Do it carefully- tell him something like this: ” What is your last name, my love? I wanna know if it fits well with my first name..hehee!” No man can resist it lol. But you must look the most innocent saying that so your prey doesn’t figure the terrible truth! Now you know his last name and first name of course, also you will need state he lives in. Ok now all you need is to go to whitepages.com enter his full name and state and VOILA! Now you know his home address, landline number and people he lives with! Note: members are also not idiots, so do not share your last name with them, or else you are risking to run into a maniac and a stalker!

Ok, so now you know home addy and that he isn’t married but still have no idea about his personal life, what if he has a girlfriend!? Not a problem, girls! There are social networks for finding that out! I suppose you already know his email and full name. Put them into search box of every social network site! Sooner or later you will track his ass down. If your love’s name is John Doe, but he might have registered under some J.D. MonsterCock on Facebook for example, make a next search by his email.

So you found him. Now you can make conclusions and see how he acts out of chat with you. What if you found out he had a girlfriend but was claiming himself single in chats with you? No need to arrange a scandal to him, just revenge him in an elegant manner! You already know the home addy where he lives with his not knowing anything girlfriend, right? Now it’s time to go to Ebay.com and order him a blown up doll, a buttplug, advanced gay sex toys kit, giant rubber fist or anything else that comes up to your mind! Use imagination, girls! Do not forget to register account under his name so that his girlfriend can see his name on a package with giant rubber fist and can make correct conclusions about his real orientation!

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One of the most popular categories on my blog is Beginner Cam Model Tips. It’s been a while since I published any articles with the tips for beginner cam girls so I thought it might be a good idea to bring it to live again. Hence I came up with the idea for this contest:

First 7 cam models who write an article with the tips for beginner cam girls will receive $15 cash price!

Every cam girl faces some challenges at the beginning of her web cam modeling career. And once you overcome the challenge you might have that feeling “I wish I knew this before”. So if this happened to you why not to share it with other beginner cam girls so they don’t deal with the challenges you faced?

If you have the original idea for the article please contact me here to discuss. Once I approve your idea you can write an article and send it to me. I’ll pay you $15 right away via PayPal, check, money order or however you prefer. In addition I’ll give you the credit for the article by linking to your site, cam network profile or to whatever you want. The only requirement that I have is that the article has to be at least 300 words long (which is not that much at all).

It shouldn’t take more than 30-40 minutes to write an article with the beginner cam model tips if you have an idea what you are going to write about. Considering the value that it will bring to beginner cam girls and $15 compensation for your time (and link to your site/profile) this is a win-win situation for everyone! So contact me with your ideas now. This contest is open to the first 7 participants.

P.S. Although my site targets cam girls I know that it’s been useful resource for cam boys as well. So if you are male cam model and would like to participate in the contest hit me up as well.

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The reason why many cam models have their own web sites is to sell their content directly to fans without paying commission to third party web sites such as Clip4Sale, Netflirt, etc. In most cases they sell picture sets and video content. But when it comes to selling cam shows there are very few options that independent cam girls have. In most cases they perform cam shows via Skype and other instant messengers which has its pros and cons as described in this article. But there is another great solution that independent cam models can use and take advantage of. It’s been adopted by many successful cam models and porn stars.

Imagine having your own web site where you can perform members only cam shows similar to how you do it on cam sites and at the same time you don’t pay any commission collecting 100% of the profit. You can spend few thousands to have this nice feature implemented on your web site, plus your hosting costs will increase up to $100 a month because video chat eats a lot of bandwidth. So it looks like very expensive solution that cam models just can’t afford. Well, there is another solution that is absolutely FREE.

When you sign up with Streamate, OnHerCam and some other top cam sites they will provide you with videochat solution for your own web site for FREE. Here is how it works:

1. You have to sign up with cam site and be active model on it

2. You need to have your own membership site, i.e. web site where you charge fans for accessing your protected content (pics, videos, etc)

3. Once you have it, cam site will provide you with a special code that you can place on any page of your site that is protected (i.e. member have to be logged in in order to see this page).

4. Now you can announce to your site members that at certain day and time you are going to perform your members only cam show.

5. All you need to do is log in to your cam site’s account at the predefined date/time and start private cam show. Your site members will be able to see it on your site as so it belongs to it and will never guess that it actually comes from the cam site. They have already paid for the membership to access your private content (and to watch your cam shows) so you don’t have to share any profit with cam site.

You might be wondering what’s the catch here and why cam sites give this all up for free. Here is the catch (which is not really the catch). While you perform members only cam show for your site members, cam site’s members can buy access to it as well. They will pay per minute to watch your cam show and you have a chance to make even more money! This is the win-win for you and for the cam site – you have a powerful tool to provide regular cam shows for your site members; cam site gets additional content in the form of your cam shows that they have a chance to sell.

If you have your own membership site or thinking about having one, the solution described here will power your site with nice video chat platform and it’s FREE. The only drawback is that your cam shows become not exclusive to your site members only. But this is the only price you pay.

Does anyone use this solution for your own independent cam girl web sites? Please share your experience in comments if you do.

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Last night Bella Bellini posted a fans sign for me on her blog and let me know about this on Twitter. It was a “thank you” for my vote for her in MissFreeOnes contest.

It was a nice surprise that left me with warm feelings and I thought how important it is when cam girls show such little signs of appreciation to their fans. It takes only few minutes to produce such a fan sign and it will make your fans 10 times loyal. After seeing fan sign with his name, the fan feels personally connected to the model and will be willing to spend more buying a cam show, something from the wish list or vote for the model in the contest.

To produce a fan sign all you need is:

1. Dry Erase Board – 8.5 x 11 inches should be enough. You can get it on Amazon.com for just $6
2. Dry Erase Markers – although dry erase board will come with a marker, you want to have markers of different colors
3. Digital cam or web cam to take a picture

So if you want to have loyal fan base spoil your fans with personal fan signs and they will be spending $$$ for their favorite model in return

P.S. If you don’t mind, vote for Bella Bellini here! You see how her fan sign worked on me? 😉

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Congratulations to Mari Love for winning FREE Web Cam contest sponsored by OnHerCam.com. She won Logitech C910 HD web cam and seems to be happy with OnHerCam. Here is the video review she gives about her experience working on OnHerCam.com network:

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I have already wrote the post on how cam models can make money with affiliate links. But that was the theory. Today I’m going to show you the real example of how I made $346.99 in 15 days with affiliate links that I placed on my blog. It took me only few minutes to put those links and I’ve already made $346.99. The good think is that I’ll continue earning money through these links for the long run.

Now my blog is not the same as real cam girl blog. I mean cam girls write posts that tease their fans to buy a cam show or picture/video content. My posts are targeted for cam models instead with useful tips and tricks (like this post). But Google doesn’t know the difference. It sees that I use key phrase like “independent cam girl” in my blog posts a lot so it shows my site in search results when somebody types this phrase in Google search:

So when I was checking my site stats with Google Analytics I’ve noticed that I got a lot of visitors to my site who have actually searched for cam girls rather than for how to become independent cam model. Obviously those visitors were leaving my site once they figured out that this is not what they were looking for.

So I thought why should I give up these visitors? Why wouldn’t I point them to what they were looking for in first place?. I.e they wanted to hook up with cam girls so why not to point them to the place where cam girls hang out.

So I signed up with OnHerCam affiliate program. They pay 20% of what customers referred through your affiliate link spend on their site. No matter if they spend money today or in a year you still get your 20%.

Then I did 2 things:

1. I’ve put a nice banner at the top right of my site that says “Came here for cam models?”:

This way when somebody searches “independent cam girl” in Google, gets to my site and figures out that there are no cam models in there he would see this banner with intrigue question and most likely clicks on it. As soon as he clicks it he will be tagged as being referred to OnHerCam by me. And whatever he spends on OHC from this moment on, I will get 20% out of it.

Note that there is a good chance that he’ll spend some money because remember, he was looking for cam girls at the very beginning when he typed “independent cam girl” in Google

2. Whenever I mention OnHerCam in my blog posts I link to to it using my affiliate link. You may be wondering why would I do this if I’ve already put the banner. Well, the thing is that many Internet users were so annoyed with all different banners for the last few years that they just don’t pay attention to it anymore. It’s called “banner blindness”. That’s why text links are so effective these days.

So going back to my example, when somebody types “independent cam girl” in Google, gets to my site and sees the article about OnHerCam there is a good chance that he’ll click on one of the text links. This may be because he’ll be intrigued by the OnHerCam site’s name (that’s why it’s so important to pick the right domain name for your own site) or may be he’s already heard about this site before and decided to check it out. You got the idea.

Results

It was a pleasant feeling to see how money started coming in just in few days after I made the changes above (which took me about 15 minutes to do). Here is the screenshot of my earnings for time period September 15 – September 30, 2010:

It shows that 4 new members signed up through my affiliate links and I earned $346.99 which means that these members spent $1734.95 in total.

Note that in most cases member referred by me was coming back to OnHerCam and was spending money on different dates and not all at once (it’s called “rebills”). And I was still getting my 20% cut each time they purchased cam show. If it happens he comes back in a year from now because he misses his favorite model I will still get 20% of what he spends.

Conclusion

As you can see affiliate links is the very effective way to generate passive income for cam girls. You may be slipping or you may be out for vacation and they will still bring you the money. You do need to have your own site or blog though to use this method of making money.

If you already have your independent cam girl site or blog then use any opportunity to put affiliate links and you’ll be surprised how easy it could be to make money this way.

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