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Originally Posted by AVN Theo
What most webcam startups fail to understand is the importance of the performers.
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Most webcam startups fail to understand is the complexity of webcam start ups period.
They don't understand that EVERY piece is VITALLY important and has to come together at the exact same moment. Some may have great software but no traffic or chathosts. Others may have a bunch of chathosts ready to work and good software but no traffic.
What makes webcam sites so much harder to start is that you need to have everything in balance. No chathosts and a lot of traffic, you just pissing money away. A lot of chathosts and small amount of traffic, the chathost will quit because there isn't enough money on the site and they are wasting their time. A lot of chathost and a lot of traffic and then you have shitty software that keeps breaking, everyone leaves the site.
When you make a picture and video membership site you simply build it then focus on traffic, and if you get a little or a lot of traffic it doesn't matter you still make sales. When you do a dating site, you make thousands of fake profiles and then you just focus on traffic. Almost all Cam startups, especially those where the person has no money or invests less than 100K and needs other people for help will fail 99% of the time because they fail to understand the complexities of cam sites and thinking it wont be that much harder than launching a pic and video or dating membership site.
If you want to do a successful cam startup and you don't have software or traffic then you shouldn't try it unless you have a million dollars to invest. Most of your money will go into traffic to feed the site once the software / site is built. If you want to increase your odds of success you really should find a cam guru from DAY 1 to help you. Funny how many people want to hire a cam guru right before the launch the site, little late there. If you don't know what you doing, and in most cases you don't, then hire someone that does or you will end up pissing away a lot of money.
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Originally Posted by AVN Theo
What most webcam startups fail to understand is the importance of the performers.
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To your point, I think a lot of small to med size existing cam sites fail to understand the importance of performers. I've seen more than a few cam sites that actually made it and was doing ok with traffic / chat hosts / software but their chat hosts were total SHIT. They employed 3rd world country studios where the girls were happy making .50 an hour. These girls barely knew english much less were they the top performers that could build regulars and create whales.
While a cam site might need to use the cheap studios/girls to help get lunched they should move off of them as fast as possible and recruit pros. Every cam site is going to have some good and some bad girls but you need to have more of the good then bad. If you want to grow beyond a small cam site making a couple bucks you need to get the girls who can retain your members and make them regulars, that is where the money is at and what will bump you up to being a big, successful cam site.