Today's blog is inspired by a post I read on fellow camgirl Caitlin's (@Scotty_Hottie_) blog earlier this morning. The "Shiny Object Syndrome" is common among new webcam models and entrepreneurs in general, myself included, and it usually goes something like this.... you join one cam site, you work it for a week, then you hear about another cam site that from MsLilyTits and she tells you it's all the rave, she's making all this money and so you join that one too, and three more while you're at it. Then you decide you want a clip store, so you set up a profile (or three) on Clips4Sale and two other adult video clip sites. Not to mention you also have a personal Facebook page, a cam girl Facebook page, a Twitter page, a MyPornProfile page, an ItsMyURLs page AND you're a member of StripperWeb, WeCamGirls and ExperienceProject.
Here's the lesson, if you chase too many rabbits, you catch none.
I'm all about multiple streams of income, this is after all the name of the game, more paychecks coming in that there are days in the month. However, and this is a HUGE however, what so many webcam models fail to realize is that this doesn't mean creating more work for yourself! It means learning to work smarter, not harder, and do more in less time. Every time you add a new site, you are depleting your focus and energy. Instead of doing one cam site at 100% with 100% focus, you're now trying to do 10 with 10% focus....and how's that working out for ya?
Now with that said, do I still support split-camming or simulcasting to different sites at one time? YES! I absolutely do, however, still you start with one cam site and you learn it inside and out and then add the next. Trying to work two cam sites when you are brand new to both is only going to result in confusion for you and your audience and a confused audience never buys!
For example, when I first started webcam modeling, I started on Naked.com and I only did Naked for a good almost four months, then I went to Rude. I pretty much abandoned Naked.com altogether after that because Rude was a much better deal (at least it was at that time). Then I learned how to split cam and I began split-camming on both because Naked paid weekly and Rude was every two weeks. Eventually I was simulcasting to Naked.com, Rude.com, and ImLive.com all at the same time and doing independent shows on the side. It was super intense and required that I be fully into what I was doing. I had to understand how each site worked, which site had a faster moving chat room, which site had bells or whistles to alert me someone was entering my chat, which site was more active at a certain time, I had to know exactly how to keep all three plates spinning. As a result, I could get online for three hours and pretty much guarantee that I would bring in $150 - $300 in those three hours AND I was getting a paycheck every few days...but I had to start with one site and build from there.
Start with ONE. ONLY ONE. One cam site, one clip store, one social media platform, one support community. Invest 100% of your time and energy on that and that only. Once you get that one set up and rolling on a predictable level (keyword: predictable, meaning you know exactly how to keep this one plate spinning, ideally with little effort on your part) OR you decide it's not working for you and you scrap it, then and only then do you move on to something else. I know we all love to multi-tasking and thinking we can do more at one time, however what has been proven is that if you commit to focusing 100% on one thing at a time, you will end up with a far better quality result for your efforts.
"Your focus, needs more focus."
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