I recently had a wonderful chat with a model, in a private, that made me more aware(more so than before) of the issues models have with keeping track of their time so as to maintain some semblance of earnings versus effort spent.
I know from the many posts I've seen here on this forum that quite a few models maintain spreadsheets and whatnot to monitor what is more successful for them in terms of what they do during their actual "logged in" time while on a site like CB. But during this chat I had with this model she started talking about how many hours outside of the site that she spent actually preparing for her shows on CB, such as makeup, producing and uploading new content for her bio page...etc. Then she started talking about how much time she spent on creating and uploading content to 3rd party clip sites, as well as the time spent updating her social sites like Snap, Twitter and others. She told me that she treats her income from the clip sites differently and uses that income to offset her preparation time for making the clips and uploading them, as well as any time spent updating her social site(s) activity. She indicated that of the 6-8 hours she actually spends on CB, there is an additional 2-4 hours of time spent doing all of the stuff outside of her actual "logged in" time on CB. She said when she first started she basically only kept track of her actual "online time" while broadcasting on CB as a means to come up with a "dollar per hour" type of figure, but after a while she started noticing the demands that preparation time and all of her other activities actually had on her bottom line earnings. She said she even went down the rabbit hole for a bit, and started treating offline tips and video/pic sales from her CB bio page as "bonuses" that she could use to make herself feel better when she had a bad day online, but soon realized the folly of this and decided to keep track of ALL of her time spent in support of her earnings so as to not have to resort to such mental gymnastics.
The thing that surprised me, is that she is a studio model and not an independent model, and this is the thing that actually opened my eyes a bit, as all of her time spent outside of CB actually requires her to have a laptop, decent camera and internet connection for support of her non-CB activities.
Basically, before this chat, I viewed a model's activities while online at CB as pretty much run of the mill, in that if she was online on CB for 6 hours and made X amount of tokens, then she could easily say she earned X amount per hour. But after this chat....wow....I had no idea the amount of effort and time that went into this line of work. Now I question if I actually tip a model enough, in the grand scheme of things.
So I guess I wanted to ask the models who visit this site, how do you treat your time as it pertains to the support of ALL of your work activities? Do you keep track of your time for each different aspect of your work? Do most models just simply hop onto CB for X number of hours in the hopes they earn X amount of tokens? I realize there is a huge range of responses possible here based on what each and everyone of you do, so I guess I'm wondering how each of you treat your time as it pertains to the overall support of your earnings?
I know from the many posts I've seen here on this forum that quite a few models maintain spreadsheets and whatnot to monitor what is more successful for them in terms of what they do during their actual "logged in" time while on a site like CB. But during this chat I had with this model she started talking about how many hours outside of the site that she spent actually preparing for her shows on CB, such as makeup, producing and uploading new content for her bio page...etc. Then she started talking about how much time she spent on creating and uploading content to 3rd party clip sites, as well as the time spent updating her social sites like Snap, Twitter and others. She told me that she treats her income from the clip sites differently and uses that income to offset her preparation time for making the clips and uploading them, as well as any time spent updating her social site(s) activity. She indicated that of the 6-8 hours she actually spends on CB, there is an additional 2-4 hours of time spent doing all of the stuff outside of her actual "logged in" time on CB. She said when she first started she basically only kept track of her actual "online time" while broadcasting on CB as a means to come up with a "dollar per hour" type of figure, but after a while she started noticing the demands that preparation time and all of her other activities actually had on her bottom line earnings. She said she even went down the rabbit hole for a bit, and started treating offline tips and video/pic sales from her CB bio page as "bonuses" that she could use to make herself feel better when she had a bad day online, but soon realized the folly of this and decided to keep track of ALL of her time spent in support of her earnings so as to not have to resort to such mental gymnastics.
The thing that surprised me, is that she is a studio model and not an independent model, and this is the thing that actually opened my eyes a bit, as all of her time spent outside of CB actually requires her to have a laptop, decent camera and internet connection for support of her non-CB activities.
Basically, before this chat, I viewed a model's activities while online at CB as pretty much run of the mill, in that if she was online on CB for 6 hours and made X amount of tokens, then she could easily say she earned X amount per hour. But after this chat....wow....I had no idea the amount of effort and time that went into this line of work. Now I question if I actually tip a model enough, in the grand scheme of things.
So I guess I wanted to ask the models who visit this site, how do you treat your time as it pertains to the support of ALL of your work activities? Do you keep track of your time for each different aspect of your work? Do most models just simply hop onto CB for X number of hours in the hopes they earn X amount of tokens? I realize there is a huge range of responses possible here based on what each and everyone of you do, so I guess I'm wondering how each of you treat your time as it pertains to the overall support of your earnings?
I just don't want to look like I'm dead on cam. I look differently in real life (not as dead without makeup as camera makes me look). 
