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Originally posted by Kiko_Wu
Well, I'm not really qualified to speak on this but an ex-girlfriend of mine had rheumatoid arthritis. Some days were a lot worse than others. My suggestion would be to automate as much of the site as you can and stockpile as much content as possible- whenever you are up for it. If you fall into the habit of last minute updates like a lot of amateurs the first time you have a really bad week you won't be able to update and you'll start having cancellations. Try to have updates ready two months or more in advance, automated if possible. That way you can coast a bit if the going gets rough. You also might want to have a script to rotate the galleries every week- keep only 80% of your content or so active at a time. That way if things do get really bad and you can't shoot the site will still have have a "live" appearance that should get a second month out of the fresh sign-ups.
Regular cam shows are really hard on a girl even if don't have RA, they have been gospel in the Amateur niche but remember they are generally non-recurring income- once you have spent the time on a show it has generated all the income it ever will. If you spend the same time shooting content it will continue to add value to your site indefinitely. Cam shows are a good tool but they are replaceable with other kinds of content if your health can't take it.
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Wow -- thanks for all the info, Kiko! I've been looking into setting up some kind of MySQL database for my site, so that the updates can be automated, and I had decided to do the stockpiling content thing, too. I'm kind of pissed about that right now, though -- due to Christmas holidays, my daughter's been out of school and will be out until the 5th, so there's been no shooting of any kind since her vacation started.
I'm hoping to get my doctor to give me some cortisone shots in the most painful joints (left shoulder and left knee) and that should give me some pain-free days coming up where I can shoot as much content as possible. I don't really want to get started on prednisone (my gf takes it, and she has some horror stories about the side effects
) but if that's what it takes, I guess I'll have to do it.
I have seriously been considering structuring my site without camshows, and relying more on doing very member-driven/request-driven content. Basically, I'll be pitching toward the fetish niche of the greater BBW niche, and fulfilling as many requests as I can for more specialized content. Someone on the board posted about sneaker fetish a few days ago, and I've been thinking about incorporating that into my spectrum of fetishes -- t'would certainly be easier on me than posing in high heels all the time.
I just don't see how I'm going to be able to be smiling and sexy and responsive during camshows when all I want to do is curl up with a heating pad and veg. And I really don't want to wear myself out for camshows that might not be up to members' expectations, anyway.
And everyone's suggestions about finding an assistant are good -- the trouble is I haven't the faintest idea where to look around here. And for the time being, I couldn't pay anyone, anyway. The automation/stockpile of content seems to be my best bet at the moment. My husband also wants to learn enough HTML to be able to build galleries of the shoots after I've edited the images, so that would help a lot, too.
As for automating my site, anyone have any suggestions on the best ways/handy scripts/software packages for that? I have MySQL access on my site, so I could set it up that way. (I have a bulletin board script running on there now, in fact.)
Thanks for all the support, y'all. I appreciate it.
