Gold Party, Gold Show, oh hell whatever it is …
When I finally had the new feature working, through a troublesome sign-in process, things started to run much smoother and at last, I began to start seeing the kind of traffic I had been missing for a good month now. I selected my settings for the first show with a 30 minute deadline to reach my goal. Failing miserably this first time around, I made up for it pretty good on the second attempt. It wasn’t without its glitches though, as most beta versions are, but overall, I’d have to say it’s a pretty brilliant idea, whoever thought it up. I just hope the success rate on this doesn’t reach cruising altitude, or start to dip, too soon.
For this to be a success with the individual host, we’d need to maintain a good volume of traffic. As the promo hits mainstream, its volume dispurses widely. The only thing that worries me is how they plan to sell this once it’s hit the mainstream. Does the site plan to buy new traffic to maintain this volume now or will they only work to retain existing traffic with this? I’m optimistic about this, but realistic, too. I think it has good potential for both members and hosts, allowing members to pay less for our shows, while, based on volume, the host earns more. A definite win-win situation for all.
Messi are discussing. 
amanda36c 
Messi 1:40 am on June 19, 2011 Permalink |
I am not really sure if it is a very good idea. It might seem to be good initially but then private shows would lose their charm. People would only want the party chat and not go for the usual “Boobs for Gold” thing you know. And you would have to perform the private thing for so many people together. And that might get you sore and if you do not do it, people would go to other shows which are equally affordable and are doing the party chat thing. It is good until it’s done once in a while. If it’s done on a regular basis, it might not be very good? Just saying what I think about it, maybe I am wrong.
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amanda36c 7:08 pm on June 19, 2011 Permalink |
Good point, about it overtaking the other forms of videochat and becoming more the norm on the site. While I can definitely see it taking that direction, I’m equally confident that the site thought it through before deciding to implement the idea.
My personal opinion is if the site is able to keep up a certain volume of traffic, enough to ensure even the hosts on pages 3,4,5 are seeing a minimum of 20 members in their room at any given time, then it might be worth their time to do this.
Any less than that could present a problem. Here’s why: For example: If I elect the Partychat option, I must lump the calculation of time spent in my free room with time in Partychat, to obtain an hourly earnings average. I like to know, time for money, how I’m doing.
So, is it worth my 20 minutes if less than 7 members (out of 10) contribute to the Partychat? Negative. I would need 7 minimum. I’d love to host the show anyway, to follow through with the members that are interested, but not at the expense of losing revenues and time. I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t though, aren’t I? I’ll need a lot of members in my room just to be able to reach that quota, making the Partychat worth it. Indeed I can host the free show and suck up my losses, but keep the members, or I can cancel the show, losing the gold but with that, I also run the risk of losing members. If I set my time limit to 10 minutes, but receive only 2 participants within that timeslot, I’m screwed and faced with that awful dilemma. A window pops up when the time has elapsed, telling me I have the option to either cancel the Partychat (returning all the gold back to the members), or host the show anyway. This happened once already. The day before yesterday, I had to cancel a Partychat, due to lack of members. Though I did have 3 successful sessions yesterday using Partychat. Much like the ups and downs of this business, there will be days that go your way and days you just wish would hurry up and end.
All this to explain why, for this Partychat to be a success, we must rely heavily on a good, consistent flow of traffic volume in our rooms. It is the ONLY way this can work. I just hope the site understands this because this can make or break the deal right here, especially with their good hosts. There has to be sufficient traffic.
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joylovewell 8:09 am on June 20, 2011 Permalink |
Amanda, I enjoy reading your insights and opinions within your blog.
With regard to Party shows, what I’ve observed is that the extremely popular hosts who have 60-150 people in their lobby can, without much selling, reach their goals or get pretty damned close. Can’t say I’m not a bit envious of their youthful sex-appeal, huge toys and fucking machines are perfect for this new Party option. I realize my day for that sort of thing has past *sigh*. What I have casually observed is models who generally have under 20 in their lobby area tend to miss their mark….often by a lot. You’re right about ratios and I realize mine aren’t where they need to be for a successful party show.
I’m a ‘mature’ model who performs shows which cater to role play, fetish and kink. I was offered the opportunity to try out the Party thing but I’ve deduced that due to both my kinky clientele, and low numbers in my lobby at any given time, I’ll continue my regular shows rather than spending 15 minutes or so begging and cajoling guys to join my Party. This is fine because my favorite is to work one-on-one with guys in exclusive, so I can cater to their fetishes or role play, which of course doesn’t fit the Party formula.
Personally I’d rather spend my time chatting and enjoying myself & getting to know my guys, rather than pushing a hard sell to get 3 guys to go in for a 10 minute show, of which of course I’ll make $12. For me anyway, doing so would make for a painfully long day and IMHO not much of an increase in my revenues.
I did attempt to use the new platform in ‘Classic’ mode but had major chatbox issues, so I guess I’ll wait until either I hear that the issues are fixed and offering it to everyone.
While Party may not be the fit for me (maybe if I think of some brilliant way to use it I’ll give it a try), I appreciate that management is trying new things, attempting to send more business our way. PS: Just because MY room only has 12 guys in it at any given time, obviously if the top party girls are getting 120 guys in their lobby prior to a show it means there are plenty of guys on the site, it just means they’re not interested in me. Another *sigh*
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amanda36c 6:18 pm on June 20, 2011 Permalink |
Hi Joy! I understand what you’re saying. Wasn’t aware that anyone had that many members in their room at one time though. I’m lucky to have 30, would be ecstatic to reach 120! Some girls like to exaggerate though, so really, who knows? I would take anything told to me with a few grains of salt, where anything business-related was concerned, even from ‘friends’. I remember the old forums where people would discuss revenues. I was always suspicious of how anyone over there could have earned even close to what they claimed they did, in some cases! I suppose it’s not impossible, just perhaps a bit of a stretch to assume I could do that. Competing with 21 year olds is quite the challenge but just the fact that we’ve got the confidence, the determination, says a lot!
I saw it the same way you did but tried it and you know what? It’s not so bad. You can open your ‘normal room’, allowing people to click private or exclusive, as usual, but if you see that scrollbar over on the right getting smaller and think you may want to get members interested in trying PartyChat, it’s well worth it. You can opt never to click the Gold button, and not ever start the timer if the room doesn’t fill up. It’s great for when you want to propmote it to your regs, offering them a fabulous rate for a ‘group’ show. It does take away from the personal, one-on-one feeling but once in awhile, like you said, as a treat to members, it can work. I like the choice though. The more choices we have on this site, as far as features go, the better. Not interested in you? Girl, don’t be silly. You’re one of the most interesting, fun, witty, fun, smart, kinky, sexy chicas out there! 😉
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joylovewell 6:42 am on June 30, 2011 Permalink |
Amanda, thanks for such a long reply and the sweet comments. There’s a wee chance I may summon the courage to try a party chat one of these days. I’m rather slow to make changes, always have been.
As for the number of members in ‘the lobby’ of party chat rooms I was giving the figures I an see the actually see on the gizmo which displays the public tally (and I don’t like guys being able to tell how many or few others are in my room with me, but that’s another story). One extremely popular model who is sparkly, funny, charming & sweet as peaches in June, had a counter showing 155 guys in her room!!! Well no wonder my room wasn’t busy. Yikes!
PS: When questioned, “S” said that not everyone will get party chat. We need to be encoder users w/4-5 star ratings and maybe other things too. So I’m optimistic we’re not going to see a deluge of more PC’s. Well we can hope anyway =)
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