A few days ago, I was taking questions from fiercely aspirational audiences on a popular adult forum. A big chunk of audience was interested in knowing answers to the following questions:

- How to start a webcam business?

- How to setup a webcam site?

- What are the highest paying webcam sites?

I shared my two cents with them. They were elated. On a personal note, I was excited too as my technical and business expertise proved beneficial. It is in this spirit, I’m writing this brief on how to start a cam site. This article also throws light on the 5 highest paying webcam sites to follow in 2018.

Read on.

Whitelabeling

There are many ways to start a webcam site.

You may rebrand an existing adult webcam network. This process is called whitelabeling.

The webcam network takes care of almost every technical and business aspect. Right from site maintenance and development to recruitment of models, the adult webcam network covers everything.

You have to focus on driving traffic to your webcam site.

However, the level of control is bad. Sometimes, it’s terrible. Not many whitelabel webcam networks let you change your site theme, color, logo, etc. Moreover, white-label webcam sites often operate on a revenue-sharing model. This isn’t sustainable in the long run as adult webcam networks can be exacting at times.

Webcam CMS

The best strategy is to purchase a webcam turnkey script or CMS (Content Management System). Webcam scripts have loads of features such as pre-installed dashboards, payment gateways, and responsive templates, geo-blocking and re-brandable layouts, paid video & photo galleries, multiple monetization channels, etc.

You need not share your revenue with anybody. However, you need to invest in a good web camera, turnkey software and a microphone. Internet bandwidth costs are recurring expenses.

Highest Paying Webcam Sites: Parameters

There are many webcam sites. A few of them are good. A few of them are great. A few of them are terrible. Truth be told, a few of them are created only to extract your details and spam your mailbox.

Let me ask you this question - What’s the priority for most cam girls? Payout is the answer. Unfortunately, more payout doesn’t necessarily imply enhanced earnings.

There are many factors worth considering such as the amount of traffic a site gets, competition, percentage of revenue cam models receive, etc. Let’s delve deep into the details.

Percentage of Revenue

Let’s say a webcam site makes huge loads of money. Unfortunately, it pays only 5% of its revenue to its webcam models. Average earning of cam models on every dollar spent by customer is insignificant. In conclusion, it’s a bad idea to do business with those webcam sites that are too closefisted.

Website Traffic & Competition

Website traffic can be monitored by using Alexa. Website traffic is directly proportional to your earning potential. Here’s a caveat – More often than not, webcam sites with a lot of internet traffic tend to be highly competitive.

It becomes difficult for cam models to carve a niche for themselves. To compete with their competition, cam models should focus on marketing and promotions.

No doubt, website traffic is an important parameter. But quality of website traffic cannot be ignored.

Consider this scenario – Webcam site ‘A’ has at-least 100 quality tippers for every 100,000 internet visitors. Another webcam site ‘B’ has the same number of quality tippers for every 10, 00,000 internet visitors.

Free loaders in the latter webcam site are more than those in the former webcam site. Freeloaders seldom shell out any money to purchase tokens. Clearly, the site ‘A’ is receiving more quality traffic than the site ‘B’.

Chargebacks

To be upfront, this industry dances to the tunes of customers. It caters to their whims and fancies. Lamentably, customers often dispute credit card transactions.

A few webcam sites pass the chargebacks on to their models. A few webcam sites don’t. Chargebacks can take a toll on your earnings. It’s therefore recommended to not work with those webcam sites that pass chargebacks on to their models.

Profitable Affiliate Programs

Cam affiliate programs can be insanely profitable. Having been in this industry for a decade, I can assert with significant certitude that many webcam models leverage popular cam affiliate programs and double their profits.

So, how do cam affiliate programs work?

When you join an affiliate program, you are given a special link. For all intents and purposes, the special link should be used to promote your shows and webcam site. It then boils down to the conversion of referral traffic into paying customers. You will then get a commission or a share of their revenue.

Payout Structure & Payout Processing Fee

A few webcam sites charge a fee to process your earnings / payouts. Before you seal any business contracts with them, acquaint yourself with payout processing fee, modes of payment etc.

Payout structure should be consistent. It shouldn’t change every now and then. Otherwise, your earnings will be paltry.

Promotional Tools

Models should promote their shows. They should keep their audiences informed about their upcoming broadcasts and events. Basic promotional tools such as social media accounts, chatrooms and other web properties should be duly integrated.

Built-in promotional tools will enable models to focus more on delivering quality content.

Based on the aforementioned parameters, here’s a table on the 5 highest paying webcam sites to follow in 2018:

Now that you know how to setup a webcam site and which webcam sites to follow, what’s stopping you from taking the plunge and making BIG money?

Found this post informative? Let us know your thoughts. We look forward to feedback from you. If you still have question / doubts on how to start a cam site, don’t hesitate to shoot them in the comments. I shall reply in a day or two. Keep watching this space for reviews on popular cam affiliate programs. Cheers!