Nowadays, camgirl jobs are in trend. And, it's understandable why. They provide the freedom of working from home, flexibility of work hours, independence, safety (no physical contact), relatively good income and can be performed as a side gig of another occupation such as studying, parenting or even another part-time job.
Before anything, make sure you have the legal age required in your jurisdiction to perform the job (usually 18y.o minimum). You will also need a small business to declare your taxes. We are not going to talk about the technical parts of being a camgirl in this article but more the psychological traits needed.
Not every model manage to get successful as fast as they wished. We can at least tell that we have seen some frustration along our experience as an adult webcam and social network provider.
In this article, we want to tackle what we think are the most misunderstood and idealized opinions about webcamming jobs. Alongside, we'll share you our best tips to become the model that you wish to be.
Knowing yourself
Before starting an online modelling career, you should take stock on yourself. You should ask yourself the following questions:
- What are the reasons you want to become a model? Is it for the perks? The idea of making a great income?
- How much time you plan to allocate to the job? Do you have enough of it or are you drowning from your current daily tasks?
- What are your strength regarding the masculine gender which you could use when webcamming? People tend to consider you pretty, you have great affinity and conversational skills with the masculine gender? Or is that you want to expand and discover your sexuality?
- What type of content are you willing to share? You only want to focus on live streamming or intend to also produce offline content (such as recorded videos, photo shoot etc.) to your fan base?
- How comfortable are you with your own sexuality? Do you want to be a nude or a non nude model?
- Do you have a strategy or just want to give it a try and see how it goes?
Remember that there is no good or bad answers to these questions. These are just trying to guide you in what kind of model you want to become and how to achieve it.
Chosing the right platform
We could not insist more on the importance of this choice. Chosing the right platform is deeply intricated in your success or not.
There are plenty of adult platforms available today and they all have a different audience and a different purpose.
- Chaturbate is highly targeted on public live sex performances (single, duo, trio and more). The time span of visitors passing by is very short (~10min) and mostly with one goal (which we let you guess). It's also one of the platform with the most daily visit and which can generate really great incomes for its models.
- Myfreecams targets more conversational and long term relationship with your visitors, through single live stream performance. Its audience is mostly american and the website is packed. Even though MFC is definitely a good platform it tends to generate great incomes for a few handpicked models, letting the other ones in the despair. Some models are streaming on this platform for years and it's hard for the new comers to step out from the crowd.
- Camsoda, livejasmin and similar are often working with studio to get their pool of models. It's great for beginner and can help you start your career, but it comes with cons, losing the freedom from working from home, having your own schedule and giving a take of your incomes. These platforms are also highly live sex oriented, so you need to be comfortable with doing public sex live streams.
- Onlyfans has a different approach and was firstly working only with offline content. It was only intended to sell monthly subscription to model feeds before but now allows its model to engage via live stream with their fan base. Onlyfans is probably the platform that provides the most flexibility and freedom in term of working hours (because you can publish your content whenever you want and earn on the long run from it). Though, it's also really hard to get visible on it as there is no landing page of existing models and you have to play with the algorithm or your own adversitement to make people aware of your profile.
As you can see there are already plenty of offers on the market to start an online modelling career. Though, all these websites are already packed and stepping from the crowd can be challenging.
That's why, here, at Online Companions, we believed there was room for another platform! And we took what we thought were all the pros from the previous ones to make a new all-in-one European adult social network!
At Online Companions you can perform from your own home, without the intermediary of a studio. You perform as a nude or a non nude model. You also get access to your personal store to sell your offline content and can even gather monthly subscriptions via your personal feed! If you want to know more, you can read our article detailing why we are different.
Be wary of false ideas
Being an adult content creator is not only a job, it's a freelancer job and requires to be considered like it. When seeing successful online models, sometimes generating 6 figures incomes, you sure can bet that they have invested time, patience and diligence in their own business. They did not become such succesful without gaining experience and adapting to their audiences.
They have built a strategy (the one that fits them the best) and built their own business around it. That is exactly the point that we are going to discuss in the next section.
Having a strategy
Before starting any business (yes, because that's what this is about), you need to develop your strategy. This doesn't mean it won't evolve over time, but the point is not to embark on the adventure empty-handed, otherwise, you risk encountering frustrations.
As you can imagine, men on the internet are not always the brightest, especially when it comes to sex. By launching without a strategy, you risk facing an audience you won't be able to control. Define your limits, know what you want to sell, and stick to it!
Also, know that sex as a profession has never been just about sex. Men often seek companionship as well.
Come up with your own strategy. Do not try to reproduce other people working strategies. The best strategy for you is the one that suits you (and we are all different individuals).
Know your strength and use them at your profit. If you are a really good looking person and enjoy photo shoots, publish your holidays pictures. If you enjoy the company of men and like deep conversations with them then live stream and start building a fan base. If you are into exploring your sexuality and get horny from publicly displaying yourself, do both.
There is no good strategy but the one that suits you the best and here at Online Companions you can be yourself. And, it belongs to you to get creative and start your new journey with us.
We are waiting for you!