Advice for new models

[Puffin]

Will there be a tutorial on getting unbanned?

No, because no known method is reliable

 

[DezDemancy]

Ugh, so I know this is mentioned, but I spent a year- a YEAR cruising this site before I started broadcasting on CB and I still got duped by a fake tipper, and everyone in the room watched it happen, then after were like "oh yeah, you know that was fake, right?". Luckily it was a tip for showing my feet,but still, these feets aren't free! Check to see if tips are going through, especially if it's a V high number. Don't be a chump like me lol

 

[FAonline]

Maybe a note for new models:
the premium sweetloverman is a liar, so don't believe anything he says
he also says i'm a faggot, and he uses the name FAGonline instead of FAonline
He says I never tip while i tipped quite a lot of models in the time i spend online
this guy must really be sad

 

[Deleted member 29250]

Thank you for this informative and insightful post! This is the most I have ever learned about being a MFC girl or a cam girl in general -- and I've done it before! Excuse my stupidity, but I can't seem to access the following threads. Do they no longer exist? Or do we have to be verified in order to access them?

New Model Mistakes (a thread where models share their past mistakes)
Camgirl Success Troubleshooting (help with everything from getting members to come to your room to pre-cam anxiety, earning tokens, doing better privates, and more; a great place to start)
MFC Camscore Info (if you want to cam on MFC, you need to read this)
Coming up with show ideas

 

[LenaSexton]

This is page is worth it's weight in gold!!!! This in of itself is a webcam girl's book of life regardless of how long you have been doing it. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

 

[AmberCutie]

Thank you for this informative and insightful post! This is the most I have ever learned about being a MFC girl or a cam girl in general -- and I've done it before! Excuse my stupidity, but I can't seem to access the following threads. Do they no longer exist? Or do we have to be verified in order to access them?

New Model Mistakes (a thread where models share their past mistakes)
Camgirl Success Troubleshooting (help with everything from getting members to come to your room to pre-cam anxiety, earning tokens, doing better privates, and more; a great place to start)
MFC Camscore Info (if you want to cam on MFC, you need to read this)
Coming up with show ideas

The last one is a broken link, I'll have to look into that one, but the first 3 are in the Models Only section.

 

[Miss_Pixie]

Thank you so much for all this tips!! Very helpful.

 

[Miss_Pixie]

Just applied all this tips today. Made $200. GOLD TIPS, THESE ARE GOLD.

 

[Deleted member 29869]

These are great tips! Thank you!!!!

 

[Violet Thorne]

Best advice ever

 

[thebatzmeow]

Thank you so incredibly much for this post. Extraordinarily informative~

 

[Bimbombastic]

Wow I just can't believe I read all the pages of this thread

So much knowledge that I wish I read it last year when I first gave a try to it! I'm now counting the days to start camming again since I am taking the next couple of weeks to set things up and learn more.

Thanks to everyone who gave an input in this thread. I bookmarked it.

 

[Submissivemaid]

Thank you so much for this tips, they're incredible usefull!
I have been camming for 3 months and I love it, best job I ever had but I have my ups and downs. Some days in CB I just make like 100 tks in one hour and that can be really discouraging.
My only advice for newbies like is: if you do public show keep in mind that you're being recorded. Don't do anything that makes you uncomfortable or say anything that can commit you because some bot in Russia or Ukraine is recording all your material and uploading it to sites like camwhores, webcamrecordings or shit like that. I didn't knew about that when I started (I had a vague idea about mean guys uploading your private videos to pornhub but nothing like this). Be safe.

 

[Kate Smiles]

Thank you so much! I'm starting soon and I feel so smart because of all the tips I've read in this site, haha

 

[lilystmary]

Hi!
I just started camming (Chaturbate) & for the moment I have people emailing me to set up privates. I had kind of assumed that people would email with some info as to what they're looking for, but I'm finding that these emails really just ask if we can set up a private.
I know it probably depends on the person, but I'm wondering if there's an expectation to talk about what someone wants (length/specific clothes/acts/etc) ahead of time or is that more something that's established during the private?

 

[Pandora Luxe]

This is really helpful! I just had my first show on mfc and thought that a cam score of 944 meant I was doing horrible. I was on for 3 hours with the first hour spent with just peepers (stay for 5 seconds then leave) and started to get discouraged. I took a minute off cam to take my dog out and think. I regained my composure and told myself. That if I continued to be flirty and fun I would do well and it worked! I'll be taking these tips to heart

 

[Rivka Rey Scott]

Thank you for the tips! They're extremely helpful. I'll definitely make sure to implement them in my room.

 

[Katherina]

I am seeing more and more often lately that ladies who do not have verified model status are coming to ACF looking for help. While there are guides and resources in the model's section totalling hundreds of thousands of words, this isn't very useful for someone who has to wait a few days to see them. In an industry where many newcomers are hoping to make cash in just a day or two, this is hardly helpful. So I thought I would put together a new guide in the public section with some handy info!

There are a lot of links in this post to model's only posts for further reference, but hopefully it will still be helpful to people without MO status.

If any of you ladies ever get verified model status, there is a lot of new info to comb through. If you want to expand your cam knowledge, I believe these are the best threads to start with, in order of importance:

New Model Mistakes (a thread where models share their past mistakes)
Camgirl Success Troubleshooting (help with everything from getting members to come to your room to pre-cam anxiety, earning tokens, doing better privates, and more; a great place to start)
MFC Camscore Info (if you want to cam on MFC, you need to read this)
Coming up with show ideas (a crash-course guide in thinking up show ideas, mostly for ladies on MFC but useful on any site)

As this is a public forum, I am going to predict that in the comments, there will be a lot of people who disagree with a lot of what I share. From the rules that are enforced to how hard a model has to work to make good money, people are going to disagree and cite proof to the contrary (whether or not they have cammed a day in their lives ). However, it would be silly to try and write a guide to the exceptions of commonality. I believe that this guide is accurate for the majority of new models.

For new MFC models:

If you are planning on camming on MFC, you NEED to understand how the camscore system works. I do not believe MFC is a good site for beginner models, which I argue in this post. If you are interested in camming as a career and want to take a more serious approach, I would highly recommend you get experience on a website like Chaturbate before you make the switch to MFC.

MyFreeCams FAQ:

What is the camscore and why is it important?
Camscore is the default ranking system for all models on MFC. In the webcam sex industry, default ranking is extremely important. It does not guarantee minimum earnings, but it is a great predictor of how much traffic a model will get - which she can then translate in to earnings (read the model's only stickied post on "being realistic about what a high camscore will get you"). Basically, camscore is how many you tokens you earn per hour, over a sixty day average. The more tokens you earn per hour, the higher your camscore will be. What other models on the website make influences how many tokens per hour you need to maintain a camscore of 1000. Nothing else contributes to your camscore. Ratings/admires do not count. Friends list adds do not count. Small tips do not lower your camscore. Offline tips do not help your camscore "more" except by improving your token/hour ratio.

How long does New Model status last and why is it important?
New Model status (NMS) is a short period of time where new models on MFC are listed with a bright yellow tag on their avatars. Typically, new models receive a great deal more traffic than they normally would. It is commonly considered that NMS is critical to make or break your camming career, and if you waste that time, you will have a more difficult experience on MFC. Many models are surprised and upset when their NMS wears off and suddenly, instead of 100 people in their room they are seeing 5.

New Model status on MFC used to last for ten broadcasting hours. Now, members choose how long they see models as being new (3, 7, 14, 30, 60, and 90 days). At the time of this post, members being able to rank new models as they choose is a new feature and it is yet unseen if this will make new model status less important or not.

Which rules are okay to break?
MFC very infamously does not enforce the majority of its rules. This can lead to confusion about which rules are "okay" to break and which are not. I started a thread in the MO section to get input from other models, and this is the culmination of those thoughts [link to that thread: here].

In general, these rules are fairly strictly enforced and breaking them will most likely result in getting a warning or your account being banned:
♥ Men on camera for any reason.
♥ Sexual relations with men, even off-camera (in the same room while camming).
♥ Minors, children, babies; may not be on camera or in the same room.
♥ Bestiality, or animals/pets on camera in a sexual or provocative context.
♥ Illegal drugs, or drugs that may be perceived as illegal in other locations. (Pot does not seem to be a bannable offense)
♥ Rape (most host websites like MFC, C4S, and others, will not allow simulation of rape to be displayed)
♥ Incest (sexual relations involving family members). [This includes incest role-play and fetish grey areas such as Daddy dynamics]
♥ Violence, blood, torture, pain, erotic asphyxiation, or any actions associated with bringing harm to yourself in any way (many models engage in, and totally get away with, mild to moderate sadomasochism, without blood play)

The following rules are sometimes enforced and sometimes not enforced, but you should probably play it on the safe side:
♥ Menstrual bleeding.
♥ Breastfeeding or lactation.
♥ Unauthorized persons (persons for whom we do not have proper name and ID on file.) - I have had female friends on cam with me for hours with no issue; other models have had their accounts suspended almost immediately for someone briefly coming on screen.
♥ Sleeping, "passing out". (I can't remember the last time I heard of someone getting in trouble for this)
Hypnosis (lol wut?)
♥ Discussing or arranging prostitution or escort services. (you can probably get away with it)
♥ Urination, defecation, "going to the bathroom", enema play, vomiting. (on the riskier side)
♥ Penetration of the vagina or anus with items not meant for sexual stimulation (e.g. bottles, baseball bats).
♥ Fisting.

The following rules are almost never enforced or are literally never enforced:
♥ Excessive consumption of alcohol or other legal or prescribed medicines or narcotics.
♥ Illegal or unsafe activity of any kind.
♥ Actions that may be deemed obscene in your community.
♥ Masturbation, penetration, using sexual toys or devices, cunnilingus, or other hardcore sexually explicit activity (in public chat).

A grey area:
♥ Public shows (shows where you are in a public location such as a library). Even though they involve illegal activity and often have strangers, including men, on cam, they do not seem to be in the red zone.



MFC requires a lot of personal legal info to sign up. Can I trust them?
In short, yes, you can. Hundreds of thousands of models have signed up with MFC and I have never even heard a rumor of MFC leaking or spreading the info of models. It may make you uncomfortable, but remember that if MFC was not a legit site, they would not require so much information to verify you

How much are tokens worth?
Every token is worth $0.05 USD. If you earn 20 tokens, you earn $1 USD. If you earn 2000 tokens, you earn $100 USD.

Members pay at least $0.0675 per token, and usually as much as $0.08 cents.

How much money can I expect to earn on MFC?
This entirely depends on you. Some models make very good money from the get-go ($100+ a day), while many others never seem to do well. It has been estimated that the highest earners on MFC make at least five digits (USD, not tokens) a month. There is more discussion about actual number amounts on this thread.

I have estimated, and never heard an argument to the contrary, that the majority of webcam models earn around $10 or less per hour. On MFC, the vast majority of models make less than $20 per hour. For many women, this is not enough to offset the inherent dangers of the job.

WHERE IS MY MONEY?!
♥ If you get paid by check: It can take up for 3 weeks for your check to arrive in the mail. This is, IMO, the worst payment option to select.
♥ If you get paid by direct deposit: It takes 2-4 days (usually 3) for most models to receive direct deposit payment. Remember that if the 1st or the 16th of the month lands on a weekend or holiday, your bank will take extra time to process the payment. Therefore, sometimes it can take up to 5-6 days for your entire payment to process.


Making money: why should anyone give you money?

This may sound a little mean, but don't take it personally.

Why should anyone give you money?

Women are not deserving of money just because they have tits and a vagina.

You are not going to be the hottest woman on whatever site you join. You are not going to be the most interesting or have the best body. You are not going to fill a niche market that nobody has thought of before. There are going to be twenty models online at any given time who are better looking than you and who will give it away more cheaply than you.

If you think you are going to join a camsite and succeed just because you were the prettiest girl in high school, I'll see you when you quit three months from now.

Models who are the most successful and make the most money are the ones that work the hardest. They work hard to make it look like what they are doing on cam is effortless. On MFC, they are the ones who have 14 hour work days and never take days off or have vacations. (Although I know of more than one model who works so many hours a day, it is interesting that many members do not believe this is true)

If your plan is to join a camsite and earn $50 or so a day; yes. You can do that with not a whole lot of effort, and probably not a lot of hours! But if you are hoping to make hundreds a day, then get ready for long months of tears and sweat. The simple fact is that the only thing which will differentiate you from the crowd is how hard you are willing to work. I have only heard of one model, ever, who made very good money without putting hard work in - and this was a second hand story Here is another way to look at it: I have been part of ACF for about 18 months at the time of this post. I have spent many hours of my life reading the stories and daily thoughts of other models. I have never ever in that time ever heard any model ever say, "it is so great that I make so much money with so little effort!". Ever. Yes, models who work hard do often enjoy periods of ease where their online shifts seem to flow easily and they don't have to "hustle" as hard, but that is always broken up by periods of hard work and difficulty. It may not be the hardest job in the world (I certainly do not believe it is), but you still have to work hard at it.

If you don't want to work hard, you can still make money. But you won't be making amazing money or even especially good money.

Advice to new career cam models:

I started another thread in the model's only section and got a lot of responses for the top advice veteran models would give to newbies. Before I put in their responses, here is my best advice:

Think about how you want to cam when you are successful. What do you want to be doing?
Do that starting on your first day on cam.

If you envision yourself as being the perfect non-nude model, then don't start off doing public cumshows because you don't know how else to increase your room counts. Likewise, if you envision yourself being a posh and exclusive model, don't sell your shows and content for ultracheap. If you want to be an easy-going low-key model, don't build up a posh and exclusive room and then expect everyone to be okay with it when you suddenly change your style.

Start camming with your eyes on your endgame. It's the best way to avoid big mistakes and to not get in the way of yourself.

Now, other the advice of other ladies!































Three common MFC scams

♥ "I'm an MFC admin and I need to speak to you on Skype." He's lying; report him.
♥ "I'm very experienced at watching other models be successful, and if you Skype with me I'll share their secrets with you." The best he will do is share common info with you that anybody could figure out. There are no "secrets" to being successful at camming.
♥ Fake tips: On MFC, when someone actually tips tokens, a ringing sound plays and the color behind the member's name changes to be yellow. It is common to scam new models by typing "has tipped 100 tokens!" or by posting an image which appears to be a legitimate tip.

How can I be successful on MFC?

♥ Price yourself according to what you are worth. This may sound mean, but be realistic about it - few models are worth 2000 tokens for a shot of vodka, and few models are worth $100 to take their shirt off (with a bra underneath, of course!). Don't worry with your prices being cheap if you are making an overall amount of money that satisfies you.

♥ Get on cam at the same time every day for 3 hours. Do not take days off. Do not get on late. If you get on early, stay till the end of your shift. Granted, very few models actually do this... and very few models are at the level of success they really want.

♥ Don't freak out. Any camscore above 1000 is great. When I started on MFC, I was happy as long as my camscore stayed above 1k, and I was able to put in more hours and make more money overall because of it. Don't stress out over a bad shift or two.

♥ Make and sell videos. Get online with a goal; get online to work. Keep in mind what members want to see - just because something is fun for you does not mean it is fun for the men who pay your bills. When you get online, you should be ready to work and geared up with things to sell for members who are interested. Getting online just to hang out because it's fun (and it totally is fun!) is not going to help your career any. Hang out in a member's room, work in your model's room.

♥ Smile and be happy. It is amazing how long you sometimes have to look on MFC to find a chick who looks like she wants to be there. Be the woman that looks like she wants to have a good time.

Alternatively, read this thread to learn success skills for MFC!

(Readers et all: I unfortunately did not have as much time to work on this guide as I would have liked. I hope future readers will add their two cents and extra help in the comments!)

Really helped me. thank u

 

[sadi_sparkle]

This is honestly the best post ever, replies included. Haven't even tried to get verified so no models only forums (need to be more active first), so this is a great encyclopedia to start with.

I'm on CF, so no camscore, but I tried it out last Oct-Nov, then work got too crazy until now, so im pretty much starting from scratch but without new model status. I have 1500 followers from before, but still only manage like 4-5 ppl and tipping very very little. It's disheartening but hoping with patience it will improve.

 

[VixenMinx]

Just finished reading through this entire thread and thank you everyone for the great tips! I have just started uploading pictures to my MFC profile and am waiting on ID to be approved, I will be applying for Model status on these forums soon, I just want to start interacting more so that I will hopefully be active enough to be approved straight away.

I am a stripper at an 'exclusive' gentlemens club where the aim is to build a sort of relationship with the men and these are generally the best paying customers, so I think I will be okay in socialising and being true to myself as well as seeming like I want to be there and that I am having fun. I am also excited to work on my profile, my housemate (also going to start on MFC) is really good with HTML and already said that we can work on our profiles together.

I am pretty psyched to play games and work by a planned out schedule for my shows, I think for my first few times I will just make conversation, offer privates and play some games, like hangman. I am sure there are some really great threads for planning out sessions in the Models Only section, so hopefully I end up verified on here soon.

Thanks everyone

 

[PrincessAnathema]

So I started last week and it's very helpful!
My only problem is actually getting people to tip before my cam score drops.

If I'm not naked people won't stay, in fact they won't even tip to get me naked.

I changed my prices like crazy lol. Boob flashes are only 30, I smile and I engage and welcome everybody into my room, but geez they have such short attention spans.

My cam score is 1107 so I guess that's good, I'm going to try logging in for four hours a day, two in the afternoon and two at night I'll see if that helps!

 

[FreyaCinn]

I've been so discouraged.

I tend to cam late at night, and I get almost NO ONE in my rooms. I advertise games and other fun things, but I typically have a handful of guests, a few Basic users, and 1-3 Premium ones, and that's it. I've only cammed three times so far (the first time, while quiet, was actually the most fun because the 3 Premium users were really engaging and we had a good rapport), but I know my camscore is so low right now because the most tips I've gotten in a night was around 300. And I was on for three hours.

I just.. argh. Any advice? I'm planning on camming in the afternoon tomorrow to see how it goes at that time. It's just hard to get optimistic for it again when the last time I cammed I got around 150 tokens total and almost no one talking at all. I'm trying to be engaging and friendly and talkative, but there's only so much you can say or do when it's completely quiet and there are only a couple people viewing. I know I can get more people in if I start getting naked right away, but I don't want to do that for free.

 

[Gioseph]

Hi I am new, I want to know what should I do if I am getting zero traffic. I expected my self not to be successful as most guys but I never expected my self to fail this much and got zero views for hours. I smiled and all just to have the so called engaging personality but no one chatted with me.

 

[Eve_Hoover]

This is a great resource that I know i will keep coming back to. I'm not a new model by any means but its nice to know this it exists.

 

[madmolly]

Amazing resource, thank you!! Each time I go on camera it gets a little less unnerving, but I have yet to do a solo show (my partner and I do couples shows on chaturbate and we've had surprising success) but I want to do some shows during the day to make more money but I have no idea how to engage with customers when I'm the sole source of entertainment. I am definitely planning on getting verified cam girl status so I can explore the wealth of information here on AFC! Thanks again to everyone who shares their knowledge and experience here.

 

[Tori Savage]

This whole thread is super helpful. Thank you so much!

 

[sspacekittenn]

Hi!
I just started camming (Chaturbate) & for the moment I have people emailing me to set up privates. I had kind of assumed that people would email with some info as to what they're looking for, but I'm finding that these emails really just ask if we can set up a private.
I know it probably depends on the person, but I'm wondering if there's an expectation to talk about what someone wants (length/specific clothes/acts/etc) ahead of time or is that more something that's established during the private?

In my recent experience, which isn't a lot, but I figured I would weigh in, I've found on Chaturbate, people will want to PM me before taking me private. Usually at that point they ask "do you do ____ in private?" or other things. If they haven't brought anything else up, but still want to take me private, I try to ask something coy in PMs ("What would you like to do when we're alone?") or let them take me private and then they end up telling me what they want there. I usually try to just let them take me private, because those minutes count too! I don't try to overuse that, I be polite and give them some one-on-one attention while I feel out what they'd like to see me do. I hope I helped little!

 

[MrDarcy]

So much good advice! Super post!

 

[WendyElm]

This is so useful, even to non-newbies. Sometimes the more comfortable you get, the more you stray from the basics!

Even after a year and a half+ camming, I still consider myself a newbie. (post spree for model status, woohoo!) Mostly because I just didn't do my research in the beginning and was mostly doing it for pocket change. Just this past summer it's become my main source of income and I live comfortably on it.

1. Social media. I didn't get a twitter until last month, and I'm beating my past self for it! Now I'm working on a website/tumblr as well.

2. Don't settle for the first site you try. I worked mainly on MFC for almost a year before branching out to cammodeldirectory, which I found within the first day suited my style and schedule better, and I nearly doubled my weekly income. (I now split between the two!)

3. There will always be someone else who wants to pay you. Don't settle for doing a show with someone abusive or who wants something you're uncomfortable with just because you haven't hit your goal for the week. Sometimes your limits change, especially the longer you cam, or with 'regulars' if you get them, but whatever they are in the moment, stick to them. You're allowed to say no.

 

[Alexa69]

I like your advice ... Thanks