The life of a cam model is not only fun — it’s also a great way to make money from the comfort of your home, office or favorite sex club.
Finding your niche and knowing what your fans enjoy will help greatly in building your cam life, which inevitably leads to tips and income growth.
Reaching a goal can take anywhere from 30 minutes to hours (and beyond) depending on the value of the goal.
In this article, I outline ways to engage your audience, create a safe and fun space, drive traffic to your room, and create a unique show each and every time.
Gamification
A great tip when creating interactive cam shows is to incorporate games or activate gaming features from the platform. Gaming allows your viewers to play while you perform and gives them exciting features and actions to look forward to. It helps camming become super fun and more spontaneous.
Attracting Viewers in Your Room or Location
There’s nothing more thrilling to your audience than watching you do your shows from creative, unique places. This doesn’t mean you need to go somewhere extreme. Interesting places to broadcast from are everywhere, so you’ll rarely need to look much further than your own house, apartment or car.
Sex Toy Interactivity
One feature that seems to be popular is enabling sex toy interactivity on platforms, allowing you to get even closer to your fans by giving them the ability to control your toys through tips. As a fan watches you get off, they can increase the intensity of the toy, making you scream with utter joy.
Setting Tip Goals
Reaching a goal can take anywhere from 30 minutes to hours (and beyond) depending on the value of the goal, so it is a good idea to do your goals in stages. As fans and viewers reach milestones, the build-up to your end goal creates excitement and eagerness. Imagine goal-setting as a way to “edge out” your partner.
Private & Group Shows
Private and group shows are great ways to generate an additional experience for your viewers. A private show (1-on-1 experience) allows fans to connect with you directly and get you all to themselves. This will allow you to live out your fantasies as well as theirs. Group shows are special shows that require a number of viewers to purchase tickets (for tokens). These are great for hosting groups of fans that want to see you pleasing yourself and others without having a huge crowd around. This is also a great option if you have a few very loyal fans in your room and you want to offer them a more intimate show.
Below are some great tips for these types of shows:
Private Shows
- When you are accepting private shows, change the scenery by either moving to a different room, turning on different colored lights or simply changing your cam angle. This will let your fans know it is private time and may entice more fans to take you private.
- Have specific costumes, toys and roleplay scenarios that you do only in private shows with your fans. Sexy show exclusives will heighten the excitement and pleasure for both of you.
- Going cam-to-cam is a private show exclusive feature where you get to see and hear your fan in real time, which most platforms offer. This makes it so much easier for the both of you to communicate your desires during your show. Don’t worry, spies are not able to hear anything in a private show and they can only see the performer.
- If your fan wants to get more personal in the private show, call them by a name they choose. You can even record the show and send it as a gift by uploading the video to your Google Drive and sending the URL link in a private message. Even better, send the video as a surprise!
Group Show Tips:
- If you are a couple and offer this fantasy, you can have your partner watch in the background of the cam while you please the fans in your group.
- If you have slaves, you can tell them to get tickets — so they have to watch you get pleasure from other fans while they can only watch and tip.
- If you enjoy the fantasy of being watched by multiple people while you are doing a show, tell your fans that this turns you on and create a group show. To really heighten this fantasy, tell the fans in your group show to say or do certain things while you are performing. They will absolutely love to be a part of your fantasy.
- If you have a gangbang or multiple partner fantasy, tell your fans how much you want them to have their way with you. You then have the option of letting them take control of dirty talk, etc.… or telling them how you want them to act towards you while the group show is taking place.
Selling Your Videos
Selling video clips in the store section of a site allows you to make money even when you’re not camming. It’s always a good idea to have a full library of videos you can tweet and promote, even when you’re not online. Just recording a cam show now and then can be helpful, if you don’t have the time or energy to make a special clip.
Using Social Media to Promote Your Shows
By connecting your Twitter, Instagram or Tumbler account to strategic hashtags, you can write customized auto-tweets that will go out 15 minutes before your scheduled shows, five minutes after you’ve actually started your broadcast and you can even tweet directly from your broadcast window. Promoting your show online allows viewers or new potential viewers to simply click and join your room directly from your tweet. One added value is to tweet a referral link, which is possible on some sites, and earn $2 or so for each new sign-up. And tweets that include pictures get more attention on Twitter!
I hope these tips help you become the most successful performer you can be. I know they have helped me greatly over the years and helped me create some of the most exciting shows. Feel free to tweet me and let me know how they work for you. Happy camming my fellow cammers!
Nikki Night is the performer coach for CAM4, offering tips, tricks and best practices for a long-term career in cam modeling. Follow her on Twitter @Nikki_Night.
