Quote: (10-18-2011 03:17 AM)joehoya Wrote:
I've got no problem explaining the business model. I used to promote webcams as an affiliate. I didn't have a studio or anything. Basically, I sent traffic to the major webcam companies and got a commission for every person that signed up.
I think the $5/hour model would only work in S America. I dated a girl that did webcam modeling in the Czech Republic. It's actually quite popular out there as well, with a lot of university girls doing it to make extra cash. However she was getting paid by the minute. The studio would split the money with her, I think she said she ended up making $1 per minute. Of course, she wasn't busy the whole time either. But, it worked out at quite a bit more than $5/hour.
If you are promoting yourself directly, how do you do the billing? Is there off the shelf billing software that permits tracking by the minute? Also, you require a payment processor. Paypal won't cut it. Adult payment processors take a huge chunk, I think it's something like 15%. Their setup fees are also quite high, $1000 I think.