Great question Pad!
Before I forget, please let me know the "different avenues" of making money you are referring to just so we are on the same page...
Here are my thoughts based on my experiences:
First of all, you are right mopek1, I haven't been working that much the month of July. My results thus far are based on hours I worked in May and June -- probably 20 hours a week avg so ~200 total work hours thus far.
Second, no matter what you choose to promote online, it takes time to learn the tricks and strategies that will make you successful and give you great ROI on your efforts. Patience is required when promoting online.
Here are my results thus far in 2016:
May - 73 signups - $20.99 token sales - $4.20 earned
June - 111 signups - $20.99 token sales - $4.20 earned
July - 128 signups - $353.81 token sales - $70.76 earned
The key for me is that I am seeing improvement and growth each month with cams. Reliable monthly growth and improvement is not easy to find in this day and age in the adult business. One experienced GFY member who does well with chaturbate mentioned it took him 6 months to earn his first chaturbate check. I did it in 3.
To summarize, I now have:
- a couple regular buyers who are buying consistently.
- 300+ registrations which will probably produce a couple more regular buyers in the future.
- good search engine traffic coming in resulting in averaging over 4 signups a day pretty much on autopilot. Worth $$$.
- I've done the gritty API & database work with chaturbate and have laid the groundwork to launch additional promotional sites a lot faster. That code is worth $$$.
- i have done tons of research on the cam business and other camsites that I didn't know when I began promoting cams on May 1st. Everything I am doing to promote chaturbate I will then extend to other camsites. That knowledge is worth $$$.
The alternative product I can promote are standard paysites on PPS or Revshare. Promoting paysites would require just as much effort to promote but I don't see the future upside of paysites being as great as cams.
In addition, I have seen multiple of my paysite sponsors sales literally dry up overnight. Same amount of search engine traffic just less sales coming through. That has soured me on the paysite model. I see cams as being the better vehicle in which to invest my time.
So I have 128 signups so far in July, my 3rd month promoting... below is someone's stats that got
164 signups in January 2016 & made $3k for the month after 3 years of promoting...
...of course everyone's results & timelines vary when it comes to promoting cams but these are the type of stats screenshots that motivate me and remind me to be patient:
Ok I gotta jet but I hope I answered your question!
PornHero