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Webcam modeling tips

We don’t run our own webcam studio nor working as a webcam model, but we see many live feeds of camgirl practice every day and I would be happy to share some webcam modeling tips for beginners:

Make sure your home or studio environment is looking nice. You can see in webcam preview screen what can see your visitors and you have to make sure there is no dirt, no mess of a dress, no garbage around. If you want to show some of your wardrobes - make sure it is looking nice, clean and sexy.

Remember you are selling your body and it is very important to keep your body in a top quality. You must have a great mockup, hairs, nails and don’t forget about the most important part of a camgirl. Don’t try to come online when you are not ready or take mockup while customers are there.

Always keep smiling and be positive even when some rude customers come in. Keep in mind if you argue with one client your conflict is visible to others and this is not something they want to see. If you think one person of your chat is bad just kick him our or ban and stay happy. Never be rude, people prefer to stay with happy people as well. You are doing webcam modeling to tease visitors and to let them start paying you tips or use paid chat option.

Lightning of your room is very important by few reasons:

• You have spent time to make your room and yourself looking good and once it is done you have to show it as good as possible
• A software which takes video from your webcam requires a light. It is very important to keep bright light in a room to keep a speed of video fast and smooth. If your room is dark your camera device would spend more time to take each frame of video, your FPS (frame per second) rate would get down and quality of video would be bad.
• Colors of your room and yourself would be more natural with good lighting
• Bright light makes colors smooth and dark color make them “noisy”. Video encoding of smooth colors is faster and takes less Internet bandwidth

Once you get online with a webcam pay attention to your video quality in a software you use. Make sure there is no flickering. Very often your room lamps could have different frequency and if you see flickering try to switch between 50Hz and 60Hz frequency. Check from customer end and see if your video is good enough and pay attention to your customers feedback.

Remember to find something to attract customers while you do webcam modeling, find something interesting to talk about and don’t forget to make a memorable show and your clients would return again and again.

One of the most exciting features of WebVideo is released and become live! We don’t have many cam models yet I would say about 10 usually online but it works and those models available for all website based on WebVideo chat platform.

After 2 weeks since starting ModelNet, we have up to 10-15 models online which could be shared with other websites. and our plan to get up to 50-100 girls to work as a model within a year. Now we would utilize our resources to join as many webcam sites as possible to help everyone growth, increase an amount of online models and get more traffic for them. I know this task is a difficult one, but we have a plan, experience and many clients who were waiting for it!

There are few limitations we have realized since starting it up:

We are inviting affiliates to join ModelNet with own chat website, out benefits:
1) you don’t send traffic to sponsor website but sending it to your own domain name which is live cam site
2) each webmaster could have his own skin, domain name, it could be customized and it has its own database with information stored in
3) webmaster can send traffic to his website with models from ModelNet and the same time recruit own models
4) main difference from a co-branded website is now each webmaster build his own customers database which is far more important than sending traffic to 3rd party resource.

We also invite individual models:
1) models can get own customers base on own website and the same time build webcam site
2) each chat model could be published into ModelNet and become visible on all webcam sites based on WebVideo at the same time.
3) No need to use SplitCamera/CamSplitter anymore, you broadcast only one stream and become visible on multiple websites at the same time!
4) No need to switch between different webcam application, you would have one common chat of all websites and one place for Tips and Private/Group/Voyeur options.

And inviting studios as well, same benefits as for models + your commission.

ModelNet is load balanced by its nature because each website is installed separately and chat model shared using Internet connections!

Who does not want to run a business? If you do so you would get freedom of time planning, high income and potential of growing up is incredible. All you need is a successful business plan and investment. The most interesting business is the one which could run remotely in the Internet, in this case, you are not tied with geo-location and could travel around the World still keeping business under control! Your own website is one of best examples with great profitable possibilities. There are many examples of successful startups available on the market and every year we see more, just search in Google and you would easily find many examples. Could you get a piece of pie? Yes, you can, but if that would be too easy there would be too many people in this market.

We are software development team and for more than 10 years we are working on the development of webcam websites. It is hard to say exact amount of websites we have made, but there are definitely more than 500 and believe me, each startup website is trying to become a popular, but only a few growed up and become successful. While we were working on those project I learned few things and in this article would give some tips to webcam starters.

1. Don’t make a copy of any existing websites
   Each video chat script available on the market is unique and trying to change it to fit certain popular website is not easy. Very often we are asked by our clients to make a website which would look and function very similar to existing website. This is understandable – when we see a popular website we are trying to make a copy of such website to be successful as well but it would not work. Why a client should visit a cloned website if he can visit original? Same with models, they would keep working on the original website. Find a unique idea, make a website better than others. Figure out what is wrong and give more to your models, clients, studios and webmasters. Make something fresh – it would work better and more memorable.
2. Do not pay too much attention to graphics and look of your website
   You have to make sure your website is nice and looking good, but don’t try to make best graphics. You sell a content of models, live content and you have to make sure customers see what they want to see and they are happy with it. Check photos and videos uploaded into a profile of model account and be sure they are looking professional. Check dimensions of photos/video and make sure it fits an area of thumbnail image perfectly. Help your models, and you may need to edit photos they upload to make corrections. You could also work with a photographer and give a present of a professional photo set to certain models as a bonus for their good work, make sure you own that photos and use it for marketing needs.
3. Make sure your website is clean and clear.
   A time where a good website is the one with many features had passed away. Now the good website is a one which clear, easy to understand and to use. Webcam business is complex and you have to deal with customers, models, studio managers, and webmasters. Make sure to pay part of your time for each type of users only when they are all happy the ball would keep rolling.
4. Avoid making mirrored websites
   In some cases, it is good to set up a mirrored website. For example in case you would like to split models for girls and guys and it is reasonable to keep them separated. But if you are trying to make one more website just using another domain name that would not increase traffic in overall. You would make one website with duplicate content which would not get great positions in search engines. Better to concentrate on marketing of main domain name. Although it is a good idea to split registration/entrance area for clients, models/studio managers, webmasters.
5. Don’t try to save payment processing costs
   There are many payment processing companies and they charge a different fee for their services. Sure you can save pretty much with a lower commission but an amount is not critical from the beginning and you better work on other tasks more important while your project is a startup. Later you would be able to get a better deal with your existing payment processor or switch to another one with a good commission – it is up to your choice.
6. Keep your plans realistic
   When we start a new project we are not planning to fail and the goal is to establish a successful business. That is absolutely fine but we have to understand reality and it is not possible to become a real competitor on the market within a couple of weeks. You would need to spend months or even years for marketing of your website to become popular and successful. Based on that make you estimate of traffic to your website properly. Often our clients planning to have hundreds of models online with thousands of customers in each room. You can find such volume of activity on big webcams sites but if you do an accurate analysis you would find out there are only a few models with so many users in a room at once. And if you check  models online you would find out half of those who online available only for paid chat and there are no users at all. Pay attention for such details when you measure traffic on big sites and be sure your website would not hit high traffic right after starting it. It could take years to get your webcam site on a level comparable with other big players. That being said do not plan a network of servers from the beginning, save cost on that and spend this budget for traffic – this is the most important part of any online business.
7. Grow up your team with partners
   Partners would help to grow up on a first step and if your website is successful you would have enough work for everyone. The most important for startup webcam chat system is traffic and if you lucky to get great SEO specialist or webmaster it might help very much. Share your profit or planned profit with partners, make sure they are motivated to get a business successful. You can even work with your own profit and give everything to partners this is a pretty good plan because money earned is not the key to success.
8. Check activity of your customers and models
   I am sure in a perfect world all users of your system would be fair but unfortunately we are living a real world which is not perfect. Your website could be visited by couple of swindlers: models and customer. Customer would spend money from fraudulent cards and you would pay commission earned by model directly to your bank account. Then after 2-3 weeks you would start getting chargebacks and payment processing company would request back your money and you should be ready to get this money back from model. Often such couple of model and customer is not really a couple but one person who plays video on as model using webcam emulator. Make sure you have reserve of funds (for example 10%) not paid to model and check carefully go customer’s activity. Make sure to check documents provided by models, if you think something is not fair communicate with them in a friendly manner but clarify questions and concerns you have. In WebVideo we have internal features to find out fraudulent activity and to help owners of webcam site to find it out on time but automated methods are not as effective as manual review. Make sure to communicate with customers as well, if they feel something is taking care of their website experience they would return back more frequently.
   Remember in webcam business from 100 paying customers there are only 1-2 clients who could make 50% of your profit and you can afford loosing them!
9. Choose right video chat script
   Right choice of cam site software is one of most important point to successful website and we as software developers doing our best to solve technical side of business. You don’t really need to get in-house software engineer and try to remake system and fix bugs. If you see problems in script you should avoid using it. Sure all scripts made by human and there is a risk of problems but in case developer who made can’t fix it you could get into real problems trying sorting out issues. When you choose script for your future video chat website you should check live websites based on that script. Make sure those websites really made with that script and not co-branded websites. If you can’t find live websites on such problem it is better to look for something else – problems would definitely come up and if you get them while your website become popular it could become a fail. Based on our experience with WebVideo I could say how many tests we have passed: high http traffic, many connections in a chat room at the same time, flexibility of system at points of integration with different graphics design, payment gateways and 3rd party website features. Some of websites are running with our system for more than 10 years and this also important because we support their websites and improve our system which is really important to keep system up to date and often to be better than others!
10. Be ready for marketing
    Your first task would be puzzle how to keep models and customer on website at the same time? Customers would not stay on your website if they don’t see models and the same time models would not keep working and they don’t see traffic and paying customers. You have to find out a way to keep at least 8-10 models online and the same time get traffic right away to start ball rolling and to initiate business. That’s why I recommend to figure out marketing plan from the beginning and better to have someone constantly working on it. Leave technical support and programming tasks to developers of software platform and work on marketing. Thought-out marketing is the key to success.

If after reading you are not afraid of tasks and difficulties you would have every day you should start yout own video chat website! You can get many skeptical opinions but keep in mind every year there is one more successful webcam site is born on the market and it is made by a people like you.

Have questions? Contact me and I would be happy to help!

1. Set email address of administrator at admin -> Profile. This email address is used for notification of system events, pending registrations of performers and to receive requests from Contact Us form
2. Navigate into admin -> System Config and review all settings, the most important adjustments are:
   • Set Mail-from address for outgoing email
   • Set default commission for Performers, Studio Managers and Affiliate
   • Fill in information at SEO Optimization section
   • Review other settings on this page and set preferred configuration value
3. Visit  Domains -> choose your domain name
   • Set Site name and Slogan, make sure it is relevant your SEO.
   • Fill in SEO Optimization values
   • Insert Google Analytics (or any other) code inside
4. Integrate payment gateway or contact our support to help with payment system integration.
5. Check payout options for Performers, Studio Managers, Webmasters and request adjustments in our team if you want to make changes there.
6. We supply generic texts for Privacy Policy, Refunds Policy, Terms of Use and USC 2257 and it is highly recommend to read and modify text of those pages. If your website is in multiple languages then text should be edited for each language manually. We are not using automated translation services because translation there is not really good especially for legal documents.
7. If you have USC 2257 turned on then your model should accept Release Form and text of it should be edited as well. Location of this text depends on web template used with web site but you can always send updated text to our support team using email support@softservice.org and we will update it – this is free services

Once points listed above are competed your website is ready to get live. You can work on marketing, start singing up new performers.

Have a great business and contact our support with any questions!

There are many offers available on the market and I want to point out the most important checklist:

Check examples based on that software

Check out websites based on software you are going to buy, this is very critical to be able to see live example based on it because any software or script being made by human could contain bugs. Only those companies which were able to test their software under real usage are experienced. Adult webcam software is pretty complicated system which combines together models, customers, webmasters, studio managers and administrator/owner of the websites. Those users have financial transactions and there are many possible combinations of possible usage and money flow.

Only real users would be able to test it on real webcam sites.

Get it working on mobile devices

If you are planning to make new webcam site you should be ready for competition with other website

Test it as model, as customer, as studio manager, webmaster and admin

If you are going into adult webcam business you already know how it works and understand what to check. Imagine you are a model and check if her user interface is easy to use. Make sure it is clear from each user type how system works, where funds come from, how to pay out earnings.

Transactions

Pay attention to financial part of script. It is very important for administrator of the system to be able to make cancelation of chat session and refund of funds paid by customer. It should be possible to add credits/tokens into any account or remove them, you might need to be able to do partial refund and cancelation. Check if software supports payment method of your choice and billing.

Multi-language

Market is getting global and worldwide – your website should be able to speak in a different languages. Don’t trust automated online translation it is not really good.

SEO friendly

Users and models is your income, it is important to keep website optimized for user search engines with properly formatted URLs and content on the pages

Camazee service is a video chat option designed specially for individual models:

• easy to add into existing website;
• option to create website with own domain name
• embedded billing option based on Tips
• HTML based text chat.
• mobile users support

Cost of Camazee:

• Free profile page with personal information, gallery of photos and videos
• Free online video chat
• 25% payment processing fee

For more information visit Camazee home page