My Blog. Camming (by Miss Anna Phylaxis)
I’m Miss Anna Phylaxis, Lifestyle Mistress, Owner of a sissy boi and Professional Dominatrix.
I’ve been in the Kink scene for about 20 years, I have gained a huge wealth of knowledge, but I am always learning and will be till the day I hang up my boots. Believe it or not, I was a submissive, myself for over a decade, so I feel I have a very good empathy and knowledge of how it feels to be in the bottom position. It helps hugely. I am not a switch and closed the door on submitting 7 years ago. I’ve been a fetish seller for 15 years and a Professional Dominatrix for nearly 5 years.
This blog is based on Camming and what I do, how I do it and hope it will be of some use to you :o)
I primarily use Adultwork and Skype for Camming sessions. I’ll talk a little about each respectively.
Adultwork – This is a huge site with a good presence in the realm of the internet. It is a stable, widely used, and familiar site with access to many useful tools in order to increase your reach. I find their cam platform easy to use, and they will offer you promo when you sign in. You can also pair up your twitter account with the site and it will auto post when you’re online. Of course, the fact that they have such a useful platform will come with a cost. These are:
They take about 33% commission.
You need £150 before their cut in the account before you can “cash out” (this will give you approx. £105 afterwards).
Money takes approximately 2 weeks to land in your account.
Some performers join a “daily pay” group within Adultwork and then can get whatever is in the account paid at midnight or 8am each day. The daily pay groups take a commission on top of Adultwork (as much as 10%) for this ability.
For me, I wait. I prefer the 10% in my pocket. I also prefer knowing I have that coming in two weeks and it helps me plan cash flow! It is good to note here that some of the daily pay groups do not allow you to leave… so choose wisely. Plus, I like to leave something in the fund for featuring and positioning (which I will get to shortly)
So, you sign up to the account and you will need to go through a verification process, so don’t think you can just sign up tonight and get going. You will need to verify.
Once all that is done and you can cam, you follow the screens and get yourself a room you prefer to be in (you can chop and change rooms as an when you prefer, you will need to log off cam in order to make changes and re login) – I am always in Doms (the title annoys me, as Dom is the male, but we can’t have everything!)
Then you will show up in the room with your profile image and fees. Some days you’ll be on with as little as 10 other performers and sometimes you’re in there with up to 100 other performers so you will need to learn to stand out. Two of the main things you can do is feature and position. There are ways of featuring cheaply as it can become pricey is you leave things to last minute. Planning is essential to get the best rates for featuring. A month in advance is best. And always do it at midnight, like as soon as the clock ticks 00:00 Selecting webcam at midnight means you can feature for as little as £3.00 for a date one month in the future, but leave it till 8am the next day and you’re paying £7.00…
Positioning is paying to be higher up the page when you’re online. You bid for your spot. It’s approx. £3-4 per hour to do this. You’ll notice if you type £1 in the box, it will be red, then a higher amount will be amber and the highest amount will be Green for when you’ll be on top row. Personally, I wouldn’t pay a lot for positioning. It is helpful sometimes, but you will get a feel for it.
One big thing to note with adultwork, is promoting any platform outside of it whilst on it is a BIG no no. You can mention twitter because they’re paired, but only in the context “have you checked out my twitter? If you follow me on there and hotlist me on here, you will be notified as soon as I am on Cam again”. That is about as much as you can say.
If you said, “Go over to My twitter and you can link to sites I sell on, then you can my panties on EDUK” you’re liable to be kicked out. So be VERY wary.
And that is about it for AW on a very basic level. I hope this is helpful. Should you have any questions, or want more information on certain things, let me know!
Skype.
Well I’m sure you all know how to use it on a functional level.
Advantages of Skype
You get all your fee
you get to talk freely and mention your platforms, where you sell offer custom stuff etc.
You can schedule times for bookings and not have to be on call as it were.
Disadvantages
You have to do more promo
A client can eek out their time a little more and you can end up giving more for free (choose your rates higher in order to combat this or be very clear on time.)
So there you have it. Basic introduction and tips on Camming.
As I say – any questions or help needed. Just shout. Though I’m not up for being your IT tutor, just putting that out there! Haha!! I work in the field for the hours my job dictates… home time is my time! :o)