All posts by Ashley Maule

Pole Dancing On Cam (Video)

Pole dancing is sexy, fun, and a great workout – not to mention a great visual addition to your room – so we’ve created some easy to follow instructions to get you strutting around that pole .

How To Spin On The Pole

The first tip to perfecting your spin is to think of it as spinning around your own body, as opposed to the pole. This will allow for maximum movement.

Here is how it’s done:

Place your hand on the opposite side of the pole, with your palm resting flat and your fingers pointed at the ceiling. Think of this as position 1 – you should return your hand to this position after doing a spin.

 

While walking around the pole, turn your hand into a gripping position so your hand will now be on the same side of the pole as you, your elbow will naturally start to raise so you can walk under it.

 

As you walk under your arm to do your spin, your hand will comfortably move to the other side of the pole and keep you stable as you complete your turn.

 

Once you have completed your turn and feel stable take your hand off the pole so you can return it to position 1.

And just like that, you’re a pole star!


Practicing Your Stripper Strut

This is a super sexy walk that you can do while you dance across the room, or while you are dancing on the pole.

 

Here is how it’s done:

  • Keep your weight on the balls of your feet as you walk across the floor.
  • As you are walking you will add a little ‘shuffle’ by taking a little half step with a hop in between every few full steps.

Every one of your viewers will be impressed with these new moves. Good luck on the floor!


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

How To Create A Fancy Bio

Having a Fancy Bio helps nearly every aspect of your camming career – promoting yourself, selling videos, advertising your tip menu, and more – here’s how you can get make that bio fancy!

Creating A Fancy Bio – The Basics

1. In My Account, click on “Customize Profile”.

2. Host your pics in your CAM4 Gallery or on sites like imageshack, Tumblr, Flickr, Twitter, or pbs.twimg.com first, then drop in the link by clicking on the photo icon.

Pro Tip: Set your width to 1080 to make sure your image fills the profile correctly.

3. Now you are ready to add your text with colors, fonts, or symbols!

Ready for the advanced class?

Make The Most Of Your Fancy Bio

Here’s some tips to go beyond the basics and make your Fancy Bio work for you!

1. Show off your assets. Leave your visitors a sexy reminder of what they’re missing, they’ll subscribe to you and come back for more.

2. Promote your Show dates! Schedule your shows in advance and make it super easy for any viewer to know when to find you in your calendar AND on your profile.

3. Make a tip menu. Make sure that each action on your menu costs a different tip amount, so you know exactly what your viewers are tipping to see!

4. Tell us about yourself. Cheesy, but we wanna know! A picture is worth a thousand words so here’s how to quickly and effectively make a winning first impression.

5. Brand yourself. If you have design skills or a couple hours to learn (or a friend with skills), this will make you look professional and intriguing, not just a pretty face. You can use free software like Canva to make some amazing designs.

6. Give us a take-home. It’s a good idea to put all of your info plus some sexy pics into one image that people can save and share, and it’s cute too.

7. Are you from the United Kingdom or Australia? Contact anna@cam4.com to see if you can get a free profile design!


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love your CAM4 Coaching Team

Sexy Games For Your Cam

There is no better way to break the ice when meeting new people than to play a fun game – it will get the viewers in your room talking and involved in your show (and everyone loves to win prizes).

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Peel and Reveal
Hang the Twister board on your wall for your viewers to see and have your viewers tip to spin the wheel to play your game.

What You’ll Need:
  • A Twister Boardgame
  • Post-its
  • Permanent Marker
How To Play:

Step One: Hang your board on the wall (visible in your cam!)

Step Two: Place numbered post-its on each dot with different actions or prizes written on the back. You can also use balloons for this – write the actions or prizes on pieces of paper inside the balloons and then pop when your viewer tips for that balloon.

Step Three: There are 3 ways of playing this game, so pick whichever way works best for you:

  • Option #1 – Number the spaces on each row from lowest to highest, starting at the top and getting higher as you go down. The viewer tips an amount that matches a number on the board and you spin the wheel to see what color row to take the number from. 
  • Option #2 – You put your numbered spaces randomly all over the board and have a pre-set amount your viewers tip to be able to spin the wheel. You spin the wheel and the color you land on is the row the viewer has to pick from, the viewer can pick any number from that color row.
  • Option #3 – You don’t use the spinner for this one, the viewer just tips the number written on the board to reveal the action or prize.

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Balloon Butt Pop

This is a very fun, cheap show idea that will have your viewers (and you) laughing out loud.

The idea of this game is to have your tippers tip you to write their username on a balloon – then you have to sit on the balloon and pop it with your butt.

What You’ll Need:
  • Balloons
  • Permanent marker
  • Paper
How To Play:

Step One: Blow up a bunch of balloons and have them all over your room with nothing written on them.

Step Two: Decide what tip amount you would like, then type it in your broadcast window text box for your viewers to see. Hint: Make the tip amount an unusual one so you instantly know when a viewer tips for the balloon.

Step Three: Once your viewers tip write their username on the balloon and pop it with your butt.

Strip Dice

The point of this game is obviously to get naked, but there is a wildcard to this one: Viewers tip to reveal post it notes with different articles of clothing for you to take off or actions for you to perform (lose stocking, take off pants, flash, etc). However, on the back of one of the post it notes is the hated GET DRESSED action!

What You’ll Need:
  • A set of dice
  • A game board (twister board hung up on your wall)
  • Or post its stuck to a wall
  • Marker
How To Play:

Step One: Write different actions on the back of post-its. Make sure one is the GET DRESSED wildcard.

Step Two: Put the post-its up on the wall and number them with possible combinations you can achieve by rolling your dice. You may have to lose one of the dice for the smaller numbers, let your viewer choose if they want to roll for a small number.

Step Three: Choose a pre-set token amount for your viewers tip to roll the dice, then write this in your broadcast window text box for your viewers to see.

Step Four: When they tip, roll the dice and play!


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Couple’s Dice

This one is fun for your viewers because they don’t have to think of things for you to do with your partner, they just roll the dice and enjoy the show.

What You’ll Need:
  • A set of novelty sex dice
  • OR a regular set of dice and a board. Write numbers on the board that could be achieved by rolling your die. Beside each number write an action that will be performed.
How To Play:

Step One: Choose a set token amount your viewers can tip to roll the dice and write it in the text box in your broadcast window.

Step Two: When a viewer tips roll your die. You can either roll both die at the same time or 1 at a time to add to the excitement of the game

Step Three: Enjoy!


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

Save Your Shows With A Superhero Costume

Putting on a great show is about having fun with confidence – and what better way to feel sexy and powerful than to dress up as a superhero?

Tips For Putting On A Super Show

Create a costume

Every superhero needs a costume (except maybe Thor – he’s hot enough as is). Your costume says a lot about you and what kind of hero you are, but that doesn’t mean it can’t still be super sexy!

Here are a few tips for making a costume you’ll keep saving cam shows with:

  • Use leggings or tights for your legs, or even your upper body by putting your arms through the legs and cutting out the crotch for your head.
  • Add a bandana to your head, arms or legs as an accent.
  • Make a cape from either a blanket, pillow case or old fabric you have around the house.
  • Add a futuristic look to your character by wrapping parts of your body with LED cord lights, plastic tubing, old wires or cords you are not using (make sure they are not wrapped around your neck for safety).
  • Use cardboard to build a bodysuit or headpiece.
  • Glue old lightbulbs to your costume.
  • Use an old Halloween mask or make one out of fabric or cardboard.

PRO TIP: Halloween is a great time to stock up on cheap costume times that you can use all through the year.


Backstory

It is always fun to have a story about your characters on cam – having a backstory will help you get into the character easier… and your fans will love to hear and add to the story!

Here are some tips to help you create your super backstory:

  • Have a fun sexy name. Captain Spank, The Amazing Vibro-Girl.
  • Create super powers for your character. A dildo that makes enemies tell the truth. A vibrator made of adamantium. Super-boobs!
  • Create a cute story about how you came to be. You were radiated by a gamma-powered webcam!
  • Have a tip amount that activates one of your superpowers. If you are a robot 10 tokens will make you show off your robot dance moves.
  • Dress up one of your toys as your side kick for the show.
  • Give your toys or room a name that is on theme with your character.
  • Doing a couple show? Turn your partner a fun sidekick or villain to really kick the story into high gear. “I’ve caught the dastardly evil CFNM-Man. What should I do with him?”

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~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love your CAM4 Coaching Team

 

CAM4 And Your Taxes

It is important to remember that earning money on CAM4 does not mean you are a CAM4 employee, and you are responsible for taking care of your own taxes – here’s a few tips to make sure you know what to do when tax time comes. 

How Are You Categorized

As a performer, you are a business unto yourself – this is known as a sole proprietorship. This means that you are responsible for filing your own taxes according to the laws of your country.

Tax laws differ from country to country, but you are considered ‘self-employed’ or an ‘independent contractor’ no matter where you are.

It is important to keep track of how much money you cash out from  in a year, so that you aren’t surprised by the amount you owe at tax time!


How To File Your Taxes

To file your earnings from performing on cam you can use an online tax software compatible with your country (such as TurboTax in the US). These types of software make it very easy to follow the steps and get your taxes completed quickly and cheaply.

If you’re worried about filing on your own, you can also go to an accountant to have them filed for you.


What You Need When Filing

When you’re getting ready to file your taxes (at an accountant, or by yourself with software) you need to organize a few things:

A Record Of Your Earnings

Keep a record of all the money you’ve earned from CAM4 in the past year.

Note: This does not mean all the tokens you’ve been tipped, only the total amount of money you’ve cashed out from CAM4.

Receipts!

As a small business, you may wish to claim certain things that helped your business as tax write-offs!

Keep the receipts for your internet bill, toys you use on cam, clothes & makeup that help your shows – even a portion of your rent as an ‘office’!

Make sure to do some research on what you are able to write off in your country.


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

 

What’s The Difference Between Gifts, Tips and Tokens?

Learn how Gifts, Tips and Tokens each work differently to accomplish the same thing – earning you money!

Tokens

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What Are Tokens? 

Tokens are the currency used on CAM4. Your viewers may tip you tokens while you’re on cam.  You can cash out the tokens you earn in your Broadcaster Dashboard for your local currency.

10 Tokens = $1 USD.

Viewers often tip to make requests, help reach a goal you’ve set, or show appreciation for your awesome broadcast! Viewers can also use tokens to buy CAM4 Gifts, play Interactive Games or pay for your Private and Group shows.


Gifts

What Are Gifts?

CAM4 Gifts are virtual presents designed by CAM4 that hold a specific token value. Anyone on CAM4 has the ability to send or receive a gift, but your account has to be approved to cash out the tokens attached – the tokens will be sent to your Broadcaster Dashboard total as soon as someone sends you a gift. 

What Happens When You Receive A Gift?

You will see your gift (and who sent it) on the Display Case on your profile for 30 days. (Holiday and CAM4’s birthday gifts do not expire)

When you receive a gift, a notification is sent to your CAM4 inbox. This notification message will start a mail thread between you and the sender so you can write them back to say thank you!

You will also get an email letting you know that you received a new gift if you have opted-in to email notifications from CAM4.  You can turn on or change your notifications in your account settings.


How To See Your Gifts In Broadcaster Dashboard

You can get a report of the tokens you’ve received from gifts in your ‘Tip History’ within your Broadcaster Dashboard.


Tips

What is a tip?

A tip is sent to a broadcaster during their broadcast in the form of tokens in an amount determined by the sender. Tips are a way for viewers to show appreciation, or to pay for a show or request.

What Happens When You Receive A Tip?

Once someone has sent you a tip:

  • You will see a white bar appear over your broadcast window that will display the number of tokens, and who sent it.

  • You will hear a ‘Beep, Beep, Beep’ sound (unless you turn it off by pressing the music note at the top right of your broadcast window)
  • The tip amount will be added to your tip bar, as you get closer to your goal, your tip bar becomes more of a rainbow.

  • The tip amount will also be added to ‘Your Earnings’ that is located under your tip bar. This will show your total tokens earned for that broadcast.

How To See Your Tips In The Broadcaster Dashboard

You can see your tips in your ‘Tip History” which will give you a breakdown of all your tips by year, month, and day. 


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

 

 

 

How To Best Use Group, Private and Password Shows

CAM4 offers a wide variety of show options to give you complete creative control over the type of show you want to offer your fans – read on for tips on how to best use each of the options available.

Private Shows

This is a full 1 on 1 experience where fans get you all to themselves, perfect for living out either of your fantasies. I recommend doing private shows either before or after your public show – this way you can give the viewer in your private show your full attention, without upsetting fans who were tipping to reach your public show goal. No one likes to be left hanging bb.

Private Show Tips

  • When you are accepting private shows, change the scenery by either moving to a different room, turning on different coloured lights or simply changing your cam angle. This will let your fans know it is private time and may entice more fans to take you private. 
  • Have specific costumes, toys, and roll play scenarios that you do only when in a private show with your fans. Sexy show exclusives will heighten the excitement and pleasure for both of you.
  • Cam2Cam is a private show exclusive feature where you get to see and hear your fan in real time. This makes it so much easier for the both of you to communicate your desires during your show. (Don’t worry, spies are not able to hear anything in a private show and they can only see the performer)
  • If your fan wants to get more personal in the private show, call them by a name they choose. You can even record the show and send it as a gift by uploading the video to your Google Drive and sending the URL link in a private message. Even better, send the video as a surprise 😉

 Group Shows 

Group Shows are special show that requires a number of viewers to purchase tickets (for tokens). These are great for hosting groups of fans that want to see you pleasing yourself and others without having a huge crowd around. 

Group Show Tips

This is also a great option if you have a few very loyal fans in your room and you want to offer them a more intimate show.

  • If you are a couple and offer this fantasy, you can have your partner watch in the background of the cam while you please the fans who are in your group.
  • If you have slaves, you can tell them to get tickets –so they have to watch you get  pleasure from other fans while they can only watch and tip.
  • If you enjoy the fantasy of being watched by multiple people while you are doing a show, tell your fans that this turns you on and create a group show. To really heighten this fantasy, tell the fans in your group show to say or do certain things while you are performing, they will absolutely love to be a part of your fantasy.
  • If you have a gangbang or multiple partner fantasy, tell your fans how much you want them to have their way with you. You then have the option of letting them take control of dirty talk, etc… or telling them how you want them to act towards you while the group show is taking place.

Password Protected Shows

All approved CAM4 broadcasters can start a password protected show. You can charge whatever you like and use password protected shows in such a huge variety of ways.

Password Show Tips

  • Fan Club broadcasters can use their exclusive galleries to post a time, date, and password to inform subscribers of an exclusive fan club show.
  • If you are a fetish broadcaster, you can have a list of role play and fetish shows that you will only do in a password protected room
  • If you are concerned about showing your face on cam, a password show is perfect because no one can spy on you if you do decide to show your face.
  • Create set token amounts that fans can tip to have true private time with you in a password protected room. For example, instead of leaving the site to do a show on a 3rd party service, you can offer fans the same amount of time you would spend there for a set token cost.
  • Password protected shows are a lot safer than using 3rd party sites like Skype – mainly because you’re not sharing any personal information and still have the protection of CAM4 support team! With our Cam2cam feature you ther is no need to ever go off site to engae with your fans.

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

Exposing Yourself On Social Media

Social media is a powerful marketing tool that gives you the tools you need to get more viewers (and turn those viewers into loyal fans).

Good Social Media Practices

Constant Content!

The more you post, the more people see you. Don’t limit yourself to just words! Post pictures and videos if you really want to grab attention.



A Strong Bio

Write a profile that lets people know who you are and what you are about. I know it can be weird writing about yourself, but it makes a big difference.

PRO TIP: When writing about yourself think about your favorite celebrity and ask yourself “What would I want to know about them?”



Start Linking Yourself

Let people know where they can find you. Include your CAM4 URL in every bio and put it in every possible tweet. This makes it easy for viewers to join your room, all they have to do is click on the link!

Eg. cam4.com/cam4coach_en

#Hashtag

Whenever possible, use hashtags (#) on ALL your social media platforms (not just Twitter). Make sure you use the same hashtags on all of your profiles – this connects all your profiles together and makes them easier to search. Use relevant hashtags that have to do with your personality and show.

You should start your own hashtag as well – when you click on a hashtagged word on any social media platform, a list of every post containing that hashtag is pulled up. This will let you see who is using your hashtag and what they are saying. The more its used, the easier it is to find in a search – so use it often!  #CAM4    #livetouch    #hashtagsareawesome!

Promote Your Mentions!

Retweet or Reblog almost everything that is said about you on social media. If you have a blog, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter, or a Facebook fanpage you need to make sure to share all your profiles on each – you want people to be following you everywhere possible.

When you see you have a new follower, send them a message saying thank you and ask them if they could go through your pics and like the ones that are their favorite. You can get a program that will do this for you to save you work.


Social Media Platforms 

                    Snapchat
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  • Downloaded app for your phone only
  • Find and add friends by username (no phone # shared)
  • Send individual snaps or make stories that all your friends can see
  • No full nudity in your Snapchat story, PVT snaps nudity is 100% allowed
  • Individual snaps self-destruct instantly after viewing them
  • Snapchat stories last for 24hrs then disappear   

 

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  •    Sign up on website and download app for phone
  •   People find you by username or a shareable link
  •   Allows ALL nudity
  •   It’s like having your own sex blog
  •   Post pictures and videos with hashtags
  •   Option of having private galleries of pics and videos

                  Facebook

  Facebook

  • Sign up on website and download app for phone
  • Find friends by username or sharable link
  • Does not allow nudity
  • You can make a full profile or a fan page
  • Post pictures and videos with hashtags
  • Use separate email with fake name to make a new account for privacy            
           
             
                  Instagram                     
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  • Download for app for IPhone or Android only
  • Find people with username (no phone # shared)
  • Does not allow nudity
  • Post pictures and videos with hashtags
  • Only allows one account per phone

 

                 Twitter
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  • Sign up on website and download app for phone
  • Find people with username
  • Allows ALL nudity
  • Post pictures and videos with hashtags
  • Can lock account for added privacy

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

 

 

Personal Info Security (Video)

We know that it can be stressful using your personal information on any site, so we sat down with the CAM4 Customer Service pros to ask some questions about how secure the site really is.

 

CAM4 Coach: Hello! Thank you for taking the time to answer all my security questions.  The first thing I want to ask why performers need to upload their ID to the Performer Dashboard?

 

Customer Service: We have an obligation to make sure anyone we will be paying is of legal age to be on the site. We also use the Model Release and ID check in the case of cams with multiple people, to make sure that everyone is aware they are part of the broadcast. 


 

CAM4 Coach: Makes sense! What do you do with the ID once it is uploaded? 

 

Customer Service: Your ID is reviewed by a member of our approval team. Once it’s approved, a copy is kept offline by our Keeper of Records and the digital copy is deleted.


 

CAM4 Coach: If someone did a google search on my real name would CAM4 come up?

 

Customer Service: CAM4 would only appear on searches of your real name if you personally associated the two in some way. For example, if you used your real name as your username, or published an email address/Facebook/Twitter/Skype account that is connected to your real name.

Anything you type on your own public profile or on the comment wall of other profiles can be indexed by the search engines. (You can find advice on keeping your privacy here.)


 

CAM4 Coach: Can my account be “hacked”?

 

Customer Service: Technically anything is possible… but it is HIGHLY unlikely that this will occur. The bigger risk is social engineering – where you pass your account information to someone else without realizing it.

Typically this would be achieved by someone claiming to work for CAM4 giving you a link (in Skype or another 3rd party service) to a page that looks like a CAM4 page with a login box – as soon as you “log in” they get your information.

Alternatively, someone may send you a file in Skype that is supposed to be an image, but is in reality a key-logger that lets them see whatever you type.


 

 CAM4 Coach: What can I do to keep my account safe from people like that?

 

Customer Service: Make sure you keep your account information to yourself, be cautious when accepting files from anyone, and do not accept people in Skype claiming to work for CAM4. We will not approach you in this way, ever.

If you receive anything claiming to be from CAM4 asking for your account information please contact support@cam4.com – we can verify it for you or let you know that it’s fake.


 

CAM4 Coach: So the best advice is to keep your camming on CAM4 and never give out your password! Speaking of giving out information, does CAM4 share any of my personal information with 3rd parties?

 

Customer Service: No. We never share any of your personal info.


 

CAM4 Coach: One more question, how effective is a country block?

 

Customer Service: A country block will block people within that country – however, it will not block users of that nationality residing in another country, or using a proxy/VPN to give them a different location. As a whole, though, it will block the vast majority of that country’s users.


 

CAM4 Coach: Thanks so much for the interview! This has been very helpful.

 

Customer Service: No problem. Stay safe!


~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

 

 

Fraud Awareness (Video)

There is no way to tell if someone tipping is fraudulent but there are things you can look for to protect yourself that will help keep it to a minimum and also benefit your fellow performers.
 

New Members

You can see when someone became a member of CAM4 by checking their profile. Brand new users tipping large amounts may be an indicator of fraud.

Please keep in mind that not all new members are fraudulent. Someone with a longer history at CAM4 does tend to be safer but there is always a possibility of a member contacting their bank and stating they did not make the purchases (chargeback).


Tipping Behavior

There are things you can look for during your show that should be a red flag as possible fraud. Here are a few:

  • If you are chatting while clothed (not performing) and someone tips you – especially large amounts and they are not a regular.
  • Someone tipping you more than requested.
  • Someone tips without chatting or making a request – especially if “requests” is one of your goals.
  • Someone tips and then immediately leaves the room.

Most tippers, especially new ones, will tip in small numbers to see if a performer will follow through with goals or requests.

Rule of thumb: someone spending money wildly may not be spending their own.


Track Your Fraud

If you have repeat fraud from a particular country it may be time to add that country to your block list.

What Do I Do If I Suspect Fraud?
If at any time you feel someone is fraudulent and wish to refuse their tip, please notify us at tipping@cam4.com and we will take care of that for you.

Please keep in mind that all tokens tipped are purchased through one of our processors. Voids are tokens that were purchased with a stolen credit card or the tipper contacted their bank stating they did not make the purchase.

There is no such thing as ‘fake tokens’.
Token adders are .exe files that are designed to steal your log-in and compromise your account and should never be clicked on. If you find a link to a token adder please report it to us at: technical@cam4.com so we can have it removed.

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!