Reality of Online Adult Work
This is for people thinking about trying to make easy money on OnlyFans and other platforms.
It’s not easy.
You’re a hot girl, surely people will jump at the chance to see you nekkid, tits out, fanny open, stuffed full of fingers, toys or real live cock?
Nope.
There are literally MILLIONS of girls on OnlyFans etc. But the market of “guys willing to pay”, hasn’t increased in the same way.
So, most OF make little or no money. Some do well. The difference isn’t their hotness. It’s their work ethic and their marketing. It’s taking the trouble to actually learn how the BUSINESS works, and that being in front of the camera is just a part of it.
I’ve seen figures that suggest 75% of ALL the OF revenue goes to the top 10% performers, and about 30% goes to the top 1%. It’s like sports. The top people get almost all the money in the game.
You could do a lot of shagging, and have it all over the Internet, for little or no return. So, be sure that you enjoy the work, as well as wanting to enjoy the rewards you hope for.
Work Ethic
Decide how much time you can invest, and do it. You get to choose how much time and effort you put in, but not to complain about the rewards if you don’t.
A lot of girls start strong, but get lazy. Which is fine – the industry isn’t for you, you leave. What you cannot do, honestly, is complain that you aren’t making money, if also, you aren’t doing the work.
Content – you can make this as and when you like, so long as you PUBLISH it at a consistent rate. Some people shoot most days, others set aside a intensive weekend a month. Do what works, but the more complex your content, the more planning it takes.
Camming – you need to put the hours in. Camming is like rolling dice which are 1,1,1,2,2,6 – a lot of poor sessions but a few really good ones. If you’re not doing the hours, you’re toast
Marketing
It’s about OWNING THE CLIENT
A story…
Imagine that you make jewelry 10 years ago, to sell them you had to invest in opening a shop. Expensive. Not many people did, those who did, tended to do Ok, because they made good jewelry. (If they didn’t, they sort of knew it and didn’t take the risk).
You didn’t market, you knew that when people wanted jewelry they’d browse the shops, including yours. You just had to make good stuff.
Then a company set up OnlyJewelry – a huge warehouse where anyone could have a stand, for free, but just paid commission on sales.
You get a stand. ALSO, every hobbycraft maker grabs a stand. Most of them make rubbish jewelry. The buyers all visit – it’s all in one place! – but they can’t find the stuff they like. OnlyJewelry makes a fortune. You, don’t. You are no longer 1 of 5 shops. You are 1 of 1 MILLION shops. So, what to do?
YOU invest in building a fan base on social media. So when YOUR fans visit, they come to YOUR stall and buy YOUR stuff.
Let the silly little crafters go home crying about how tough it is. Don’t be one of them.
The key to making money is to OWN THE CLIENT. And these days, that means Social Media. And, as soon as you decide to be serious about the industry, YOUR OWN WEB SITE.
The PLAN, – new girl, standing start.
First up, this stuff takes longer than most people would like. All the platforms are mature, so you can’t rock up tens of thousands of real fans without months of work.
Quick Money – camming. Lots and lots of camming.
ABC – Always Be Camming
That’s basically it. Ideally, cam regular hours. This is even more important if you are part time. Cam LOTS of hours if you can. OVERSHOOT TARGETS. You might want to make £400pw, but if you stop each time you hit your target, the weeks you miss it will drag you down. If you make £400 by Thursday, push on and aim for more through to Saturday night.
To start with, you’ll be camming on platforms, getting (after costs), about half the money paid by the client.
Those platforms don’t allow you self promote. If you say “Guys, I’m moving to X platform”, you will be booted and banned. The platform has provided the client, the platform OWNS the client, and like fuck will they let you take them away.
Longer Term Money while you sleep
Content – quality content turned out on a regular basis, but, a scene a week. A well organised day can produce 3-8 scenes, so it’s just planning.
Your need a good content library from asap. You need something for your fans to buy as soon as you start getting fans.
Network and make content with other performers. Even you are solo, you can film them and they can film you. If you are full porn, 3-4 performers together for a day fucking and filming, can provide 2-4 weeks content.
OWNING THE CLIENT, explained
Your fan, who YOU recruited, and communicate with direct – usually over Social Media, but also, get their email, get them on a newsletter. (You get YOU OWN WEB SITE with a newsletter built in, and all the right email tech underneath it. I do this stuff, just ask me).
Your fan who YOU can contact direct.
It’s a long slog – every day, for months – and MOST people just don’t do it. It’s boring business admin shit, but it really is the difference between “some money” and a proper income.
When you own the client, you have more control. And that means MORE MONEY FOR YOU, from the same spend by them.
Example : Client buys content via your OJ stand.
£10 earrings. But they pay £12. And you get £8.
Tax takes £2 for VAT (because OJ are a big company) and OJ takes £2.
Client buys via your own web site.
You can price at £12. And keep £12.
50% more money. For nothing other than getting your fans to buy from you direct. (In reality you’d keep at £10, so you make more and they pay less, which is their incentive to buy direct, esp if you want payment by cash app etc rather than credit cards).
Client buys a cam show direct
They book a time and send you your money direct for say 15 min cam show. You charge £35 for something they’d usually pay £45 for, of which you’d see maybe £25.
Direct Sales from DAY 1
Have a website, know how to get paid, how to use direct camming, and be working social media. Always be pointing people at direct purchase options.
You’ll have an OF and be on cam sites, but always make it easy for clients who trust you, to buy direct, for more £££.
Social Media
It’s showbiz – you need to play a character.
IMO fans want interaction with a woman who enjoys her work. It should be banter and chatting shit, with enough promo and announcements to generate sales.
A screed of promo posts won’t work, nor does “life is shit, men are bastards, I’m depressed”. You can do that, but do it on a second account under a different name.
Only Twitter accepts us. The rest, have such a broad interpretation of adult that any of their accounts are on loan and can be cancelled at any time. They look at posts that get flagged, and then TL and I suspect they also Google and if anything turns up a porn/SW item, they bin you.
Also, join natterish.com – social media for us, and a liferaft when US law changes (it will), and even Twitter bans us all.
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