Many thanks both, I really do appreciate the time taken to comment for me. Since July, I've chatted to many models as market research and I got to this point from their comments and what they considered would be worthwhile, Whilst I agree with Isabella that the activities I’ve mention can appear quite basic, to a lot of models it appears not to be. The common comments I received during my research were "I don’t know what to do" "I don’t really understand computers, can just about switch it on and come on here" "I am no good with words so could never write a blog" "I can’t sell videos as have no idea how to send them". That was the most common and formed the basis. £20 an hour based on 5 hours was again from the research with most models feeling £90 a month would be worthwhile as it would take the grunt away from them and let them get on with things. I found by the research that the models that were taking it seriously, told me that they aim (using MFC as an example) to take 2000 tokens in a 3 hour session, as they find that shorter sessions increase their viewer fan base and allows them to perform to 70-100 viewers for a shorter time than 5-10 viewers if they stay on all day/night. Using $0.05c a token this meant a minimum target of $100 (c£75) in a session with an average of 10 sessions performed per week. If these figures are wrong, I can only apologise as they were supplied by a base of 57 models that helped me. It was therefore felt that £90 / £120 a month was value, and I believe it is sustainable within my business plan alongside my other work.
As for experience,
www.abs.wales explains a lot and I would be more than happy to go into more detail if anyone wanted to know.
Totally appreciate that the things I’ve advertised may seem kids play for some and easy, but of the models that helped me it was not.
I made a promise that I would research and come back, and I wanted to be true to my word.
Many thanks again and best wishes to everyone for the future - Gareth
I'm going to address each of these issues individually and explain why they're not really worth paying someone constantly for it:
"I don’t know what to do" - I'm not really sure what this is regarding, but not knowing does not mean they cannot learn, it just means they haven't yet. Most models start without having a clue, same with anything. Learning is better than paying someone constantly unless what you are offering needs a 3+ year degree to learn.
"I don’t really understand computers, can just about switch it on and come on here"
Something that is surprising seeing as many new camgirls are of a generation where they have learned to use computers as they learn to read and write. In fact, most of us carry a computer in our pockets every single day. But I can understand not knowing software, but what is it with computers they are needing? If you are talking about building say an MFC profile, then this would be great, but are you an expert in HTML and CSS, or are you a web designer? I would love to see examples of where your expertise lies.
There are many people who are offering custom profiles for a price so this is not unique.
"I am no good with words so could never write a blog"
- Blogging is not necessary for being a cam model. Some clip sites have a blog section which can be useful, but I have cammed for 6 years now and have never blogged, even though I'm a decent writer, it's just not worth my time in terms of time versus financial income. It could be a nice touch, but I would not part with money for someone else to write one if I have deemed it not worth it. My advice is to models who cannot write, don't even bother. Just focus on what you are good at. Members enjoy reading blogs because they are written by the model, not some random dude she has paid. Also, most members are not idiots, many will notice if you speak in a totally different way on a blog to when she's on cam, or if you say she likes things which she doesn't like.
"I can’t sell videos as have no idea how to send them"
- This would take like 5 minutes to teach a model, and if you know how to do this I am appalled that you did not simply tell a model where to go to send videos but instead tried to get her to pay you a ridiculous fee for something a monkey could do. If she's an MFC model, MFC has even created a way to upload and send videos on site. There are also plenty of places to send links. No model walked into the world knowing this, they all learned.
I cannot see anything that you have stated which would be worth a model spending so much on your services, except for the website, which really should be a flat quoted fee for the website or profile page and then extra if they want edits.
With your figures, I think you over estimate how often most models work. Yes there are models who work two sessions a day every day, but I see many more who cam one session a day, and sometimes not in a 5 day working week but actually only a few days per week. Let's put it this way, on my mega top 100 month I needed to put in two 3-4 hour sessions per day 5 days per week roughly. That was knackering and I would not do that every month. Also if you aim for 2k per session, you will still have many which you will not earn that. Different times are also different in traffic. You just cannot look at what you think a model might be earning and then discern how much your services are worth. For one you are missing out on taxes, national insurance, clothing, costs of toys, costs of high speed internet, cost of a high quality computer and keeping it all up to date, cost of a good phone which can support selfie taking and snapchat, cameras, other equipment, props, make up, an apartment with a spare room to have set up for camming, lighting, all these things which models need to spend on their business. Our "earnings" are not all profit, just like any other self-employed person. The more you earn, often the more you end up spending on your business.
Also, if a model is earning 2k tokens for a 3 hour session, they are only earning £20 per hour themselves (assuming they manage to make their goal). As there is tax, national insurance and all the other camming costs on top of that, they're actually earning less. Meaning they are actually paying you more than they're being paid for this service.... Yet this whole business plan is surely set up that cam girls earn enough money that it is not worth their time to do some of the other jobs when they could be earning more on cam.
The problem with your business plan, is that most of the more established models who are earning enough to pay someone for the extra work, can already do all of the things you say you can do. This means you are primarily going to the girls who are having trouble, usually the beginner models, who will likely not be earning enough to pay you, but might because they think it will increase their income.
Sadly what worries me is that you will end up running a scam, even if with the best intentions. You are speaking to girls who are clearly overwhelmed and don't know what they're doing, and rather than forwarding them to this site where they could get all of this information, you are saying they can pay you a premium wage to do it for them. But really what you are offering is peanuts, things that they just don't need or could easily learn themselves. It is no different to the guys who get girls to do free shows for them in return for "camming tips", except you're actually trying to turn this into a business venture. Yet it is also a common scam.
You will have trouble finding ways to help more established models, but these women are where you want to be if you have any hope in forming a genuine business rather than a scam. Most new models never continue, even if they find success. And those who do continue will quickly realise that you are scamming them on things they can either pay someone to do for cheaper, or can do themselves easily. Therefore your whole business will rely on finding inexperienced models who have the money to part with their cash, and are willing to give it to a member on a camsite. This will take hours and hours of your time in persuading girls to trust you. And as no experienced models will likely use your service, you won't have a good reputation. In fact, many models may see you as scum for taking advantage of inexperienced girls to make a profit. They may not see it as you being helpful when there is a free site right here for models to use and get this information from.
My advice is not to listen to the girls who don't have a clue. Listen to the women who do, and listen to what they would pay you for. If I was told by an established model on here "I got help on my profile or something else from this professional guy and he was well worth the money as it saved me loads of time!" I would listen. And we really do talk. Then you can have a few long term, serious models as clients while helping out the new girls. But you've got to think of things which would actually help an established model, and blogging or sending videos for them is not going to cut it.
