As I mentioned earlier, some time ago I ran a small camgirl website. Not one of the adult ones - I was 17 or so, and it was just my daily blog that happened to have a sporadically-updated webcam snapshot on the front page. My severe lack of dedication to the webcam game & my general aversion to getting lots of “post your boobs” IMs from random strangers (I rarely, if ever, signed onto my site-specific AIM name because of this) caused me to never really make it to the big leagues. I did make some awesome nerd-style internet friends that I still keep in touch with to this day (the lovely Jaimee being one of them - and holy shit, she IMed me right as I typed her name, how mind-meld-ish).
I still read other girls’ websites and posted in a few forums and kept up with internetgossip.net and other such fun stuff. I was marginally informed, and it always seemed to be that Nay (currently going by Ashton Von) was the pint-sized princess of camgirls. Chick was like 14 or something when she got on the web and started prancing around on cam at mija.nu - and considering how insanely popular she was, how much attention she got, the amount of wishlist items she had purchased for her - I wasn’t terribly surprised to find out that she’d gone the softcore camgirl route recently. I mean, you can’t really blame her. If you have a fan/stalkerbase (and judging from Haloscan, she most definitely does… but we’ll get to that in a bit), a decent face and body, and enough web design know-how to create your own amateur website… well then, by all means, rake in that paper, booboo.
Anyhow, the inspiration for this post: I recently made a gallery of Sweet Natural Girl’s Jaimy for Cherry Delish, and noticed a few hundred hits coming from a random Haloscan comment board. Apparently, the place is basically a forum for all Renee hater/fans to sit around and alternately bitch about, pick apart, and make fun of every aspect of Renee’s life. Her family, dogs, friends, website, etc etc… nothing is too inane for these people to bicker about endlessly. It seems that someone thought that Jaimy resembled Renee before she was this Ashton Von character and had posted a link to my gallery there, thus explaining the mysterious outpouring of hits to my website.
I haven’t read the entire comment board yet (um, there are 26 pages? Not gonna happen anytime soon), but it’s been entertaining as hell so far. It’s definitely funny to read the constant comments about how the Ashton Von paysite doesn’t update enough and thus must have no members, when I myself have sold around 10-15 memberships to the site and many of them rebilled monthly. Considering that I’m small-time, that’s a really good conversion/retention rate for a solo girl, so are the haters just hating or do they actually have a case against her? I’d be interested to hear her response, as well as the justification for why her members keep paying every month if her website is so terrible.
I will say, though, that from my affiliate’s perspective… Renee could handle her webmaster program much better. Honey, four promotional galleries? Seriously? Come on, we need more to work with, here. Or at least give out promo passes to the affiliates that are making sales for you so that we can get content from the member’s area to make new galleries with, and thus make MORE sales. Also, her POTD sizes don’t work properly, so…there. Honestly, I think that Renee needs a friend or affiliate manager to help her out a bit - someone to make sure the website gets updated on a regular schedule, do some PR for her at webmaster forums to recruit more affiliates, make sure her webmasters have enough content to promote her regularly, etc, etc. The girl sells well as it is, imagine what could happen if she got her act together.
In closing: there should be a new breed of internetgossip.net - one that covers the reincarnated-as-xxx camgirl crowd and solo girl gossip. Hmmm.
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