Exactly and if something happens its because I made the mistake whether by an error of judgement or lack of knowledge.. Either way I eat it and move on , learn from that mistake and you can bet it doesnt happen again.

Sounds like you know what you are doing, good luck with SM :) Hit me up on ICQ too once you get it, would love to chat will be opening studio here in a few weeks :)

good advice. He's right.

You gotta be the cool, fun guy...that chicks could make fun of...but at the same time they respect you, and will listen. That's how u get them to stick around.

But chicks like to work from home, so you'll have to get a program up eventually so they could do this from home. There's always gonna be an 'awkwarrrrd' factor if they gotta do this in a work environment.

If they must work from your studio...then TAKE CARE of them...get them what they want and be their b*tch. (but not too much of a b*tch.) otherwise they'll play u like their gay friend.

Atleast I sound like I know what I am doing!!! We will see as the year progresses if that turns out to be true. I will shoot you a message in a few minutes.

My attitude with the models is friendly but the boss. I am treating it like any other company but taking into account the type of employees I am looking for.

I am implementing a work from home program this next week. Had a lot of requests (20+) for this. The thing is that I am trying to keep as much control, both for quality and learning, as I can at this point. One of the benefits of the mexican culture and latino culture in general is that most children, especially woman live with there parents until atleast 30 years old. So most of the models that are attracted to this kind of work are not able to work from home and the cost of high speed internet and equipment with the economy here is crazy. I am paying about 300 bucks a month for 10mbps dedicated internet. Waiting for the fiber optic to reach my area, then its like $100 for 100mbps. This makes the studio even more attractive to potential models.

If that's the case, it seems stable. Medellin studios (who pay tax) told me that the police (who got office near studio anyway) at times come to the door, ask if and how they can fuck the girls, and boss replied "only online with credit card", and that's all: police not even enter studio (they can't legally perhaps). An issue in colombian studios it is the drug, some studios are full of coca, out of control really (studio boss is ok because girls work better and longer if under cocaine), but then some girl take it live (I seen in MFC one "this is my coca" with her nose white lol), and police can raid it cause "drugs".

So if you're stable regarding girl scams, competing studios and laws, just the issue it is profitability... your girls should do good and stable money in sites, or it does pay back the investment and ongong rent, bills. You say you tried MFC and discovered not all the new registered girls make money. In fact, only 1% of new registered girls are happy of MFC sales, and 99% say it sucks or quit. This is for most cam sites anyway, the turnover of girls it is impressive. Thousands of new girls register, do no money and quit in weeks... still there's always so many new to replace the old, so sites are full (of models who don't make money).

How to solve the issue of models who don't make money... I could tell, register to my cam sites, but it would be false advertising, because the 1% - 99% rule applies to mine sites too. I have no idea who, if the 100 girls I register, will be the 1 who does so much money she can't believe it. Rest 99 will have hard time. There's the "whale user" to consider, who fishes him, it is not guessable in advance.

As an advice I can tell you, I work with some studios who are in business with no interruptions or failure from 10+ years, with 20+ models (in part replaced, in part longstanding), all of them does this: registers one or more models in every (I mean, dozens, all of) sites. I not mean every model goes online in 12 sites with splitcam. It is more like: they register the new girls at a base list of sites, then add accounts for them, and keep them login only in sites they like or have success with. This way, after some time, you have model1 uses site1,2,3; model2 uses site1,4,6; model3 uses site3,5,9; model4 uses site 4,9,10, and so on. Some model is success in a site, and fail in another, it depends by model. Putting all models in a same only site, will cause some model to make no money, but she could in another place. You should find it.

Thanks for taking the time to write that.. loaded with good advice and luckily goes right with my plan. I am moving slowly, adding of additional website as i learn. I will check out your sites (probably already have) I think mexico city is alittle different than Medellin but as far as studios to use as a model and example thats all there is to compare to. There are studios all over the world but they dont match the business model for mexico as well as the colombia studios do. Thanks again

make the 'keepers' feel special. (the sweet, giggly, sexy types) But if you do 1 thing to disrespect them, it'll turn against you. You know how women are...

also, their minds will eventually wander....thinking about other sites out there...so give them reasons why YOUR program is better than the others out there. (offer more commission, give them goodies, etc)

and don't forget to take out the garbage when needed. (models with emotional baggage...that ruin the chemistry)

I think that is true for anyone not just woman, disrespect them and they turn against you! And you are right , the carrot for the good ones and the boot for the bad ones. I have a bonus system but not using it until i see some better revenue. Top girl gets iphone, top tip received gets spa day. etc.

I give u props for having the ballz to start one up on your own and without much experience.

I push my luck relying on live cam affiliate programs everyday....never knowing if their jippin us or not. Maybe one day you'll be big enough so we could promote you.

honestly though....if there's an idea for affiliate program managers out there....give us 100% friggin control over our signups....to know we're not being jipped...and then that particular affiliate program would probably be the most popular one out there.

Because.....there's ALWAYS that small amount of not knowing the truth....paranoia or whatever....in the back of every webmaster's head.

fiddy failed studios

New camgirls don't make money if they have no fans or following. Yup it's still important for a girl to actually have a site these days! It's the only way to build a fan base. Good luck building one when you're dropped in a tiny thumbnail against 4000 other girls around. Lol. No way. If the girls / studio owners were smart they would also encourage building a solo site for the girl. That would result in more cam clients.

Thanks for the props. Its a calculated risk. I have 3 other mainstream companies that I split my time with. For someone that was putting all the money they had or something like that it would be a scary situation.

I doubt I will have anything like an affiliate program for atleast a year. I doubt I will make enough money in that time to support something worthwhile. But its on the idea list. The thing with this is that I catch myself dreaming of an adult empire but lets be realistic, I need years of experience and good people before anything like that can happen, atleast something that I can be proud of.. I have all the possible angles for expansion on a board on a wall in my office but for now I am just trying to get this studio to produce the revenue i believe it can make. One step at a time.

Hope you find something that satisfies you.

No clue what you are talking about or making reference to. Am i missing something?

Yep, you are exactly right. Once a model works for me for one month they will get a solo site built for them, setup for ecommerce (videos, pics, panties, wishlist, etc). Loaded with affiliate links. I think that this will be vital to my bottom line. "Stars" obviously getting more promotion. I am new to the studio game but marketing and sales are similar no matter what market you are in. thanks

:2 cents::thumbsup

I agree with about 1/2 of this. I know cam models who I would bet a ton of cash earn more than Ann Angel does on cam who don't have a website.

Could be true, i wouldn´t know ( Dont know her) but my point of view is that a solo site for a model that is good is a no brainer. The cost is minimal, especially if i rotate like 3 designs for all the models with just color changes, etc. Couple hundred bucks and I would be good to go. I think the ROI for that would definately make it worth it.

The other thing is the help it would give to morale. They all want to be a STAR, and what better way to say it than telling them that they are so hot and important that I want to create a website just to promote them.

if you end up like tubcamgirl then yes you will know what im talking about

Still not sure what you are talking about, how about speaking clearly or directly. New guy here. Just was hoping for some clarification on your fiddy failed studios. Is that a forum reference that i am missing.

maybe someone else can clue me in to what he is referring to with the fiddy failed studios. I seen another fiddy reference on another post.

No olvides abrir tu estudio en Livejasmin - Awempire, el sitio más grande del mundo y el más popular para el sexo por webcam. :pimp

Don't forget to open your studio at livejasmin - awempire, the biggest and most popular site of the world for webcam sex! :pimp

Livejasmin is obviously on the list of sites to test girls on. (I am american and don't wear glasses so the giant spanish post was wow) and I have a studio account with them already so I cant hook you up and let you profit off my work , by ACCIDENTLY using your affiliate link.

yeah, I fed him without looking him up. Quick search solved that. Question though, whats the comment about fiddy failed studios about?

good luck to your studio :)

MFC and other token based sites are basically beggar training camps. I put my new models on MFC only and I mean ONLY to let them loose up and break the ice.

I do not wish to taint their promotional period on "pay to play" sites like SM. I use MFC as my "break in" site because people on MFC are relatively friendly.

Once the model is "relaxed" about camming and knows the ropes, I wait for the 1-st in the moth to come before opening a new account. You do not want to put a new girl on a new site at the end of the month where everybody is broke, and she does not have regular customers yet. Keep this detail in mind it will help you a lot with new models.

Install minimum work hours, mine is 1800 minutes/week. To get paid the must work 1800 min/week. If she works 1799 and does not have a good excuse I do not pay her. Models respect me for this because I made it all to clear to them that this is a business and not fucking around.

Do not open a big studio. Forget 100girls +. Your internet connection does not support it. I have optical 1GB upload and it sounds nice only on paper...Theoretically it should be able to support 100+ girls but with splitcamming and added stress from music and facebook (good luck making them just work and not screw around) its about 20 girls top....if you do not have optical but just cable then you are really fucked!!!

no wireless, no ISDN, no mobile net just cable or optic...nothing else will work and optic is your best bet naturally...if you use wireless at all you will lose a ton of money...

Do not go for quantity of girls this leads nowhere. Try to minimize the # of girls you employ and go for quality only.

100 random girls bring 100 problems but not all of them make bank

10 select girls bring less problems but ALL make bank

as for private or indy shows if you do not drive your own traffic in a serious way, just forget it...if you do traffic then fire away its good $$$ but takes time and not all girls are worth promoting...

also if you think this is one of them "plug and play" type of businesses you are very wrong...lots of work to be done and 90% of it is brainwashing the girls in to adopting a work ethic and not relying on their looks to get along in life...be prepared to become a motivational speaker, guru, cam boss and pimp at the same time...:thumbsup

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AWE - LJ are the biggest but the most low life cam site out there, we have discussed this shit several times, their practices are just not right

thanks :thumbsup

thanks for all your advice. Yeah, i have no beliefs that this is a plug and play business, I have been working 16 hour days 7 days a week for acouple months to get to the point i am now, and and i have only been live for a week or so. Im not some loser that has a big dream and no business knowledge or work ethic. I do my homework and continue to learn in everything i do. I like the challenge, as long as i can see a payout. They models are obviously the most complicated factor but i have a solid team, policy, and a pretty large pool of potential models. I can be relatively choosy about which models i work worth.

yeah I read a ton on the forum about there practices but ofcourse their size requires that i test them with my models. If i make money there cool, if not there are tons of other options.

I sent you a message ICQ, you said you had news about mexico? Did you get it?

I am not at the office today is Sunday
I sent u a skype invitation, accept it please :thumbsup

can you send it again nikki, I had to update and its not there

What is the URL for your cam site?

http://doblelol.com/thumbs/take-funn...3602056859.jpg

http://www.ohmagif.com/wp-content/up...girls-fail.gif

Buena Suerte... :)

:stoned

ADG

some random pics of the studio for the curious
 

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Thanks, No camsite, just a cam studio at this point

You better tell your models to be silent because with that set up the sound is going to bleed over to many of the other rooms and moaning/pleasure sounds from only the model they are paying to chat with are what many customers wish to hear. :2 cents:

Riiiiiiight. No way in hell ALL of your models are live on cam for 30 hours a week.

lol wut

I thought the same thing but surprisingly there isnt much bleed over, almost nothing. Maybe its the mics, or the background music but i havent heard another model bleed over. I was really worried about it. might be an issue when I expand. I built a few free standing foam eggcrate partitions but havent needed to put them in the booths.

i had one model do 2586 live minutes in her first 7 days but she is a fucking grinder. the rest have done a a between 1000-1500