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If you are going to do it with the bulk payment or membership method, it's usually not worth your while to track minutes all that obsessively. You want your customers to feel happy and to come back and buy more time. So, usually, in that model of the webcam business, the girls just use simple mechanical timers, like kitchen timers. In that model, usually girls are paid by the hour, not by the minute, and usually not that much per hour either.
Ultravid sells, or used to sell, a per minute charging direct one on one show software- but I haven't been keeping up on the software for this, so I don't really know what the state of the art in per-minute is these days.
If you have good-looking talent that is ready to go, you can often sell a cam show with one-on-one time to the bigger paysites, and start making money faster, but your initial outlay will be between $4k-$8k per station, counting the hardware, plus a bunch for designing and branding a camshow interface, a central server, workspace, etc. Again, we're talking quite a few thousands to start.
Probably much wiser to start with a simple membership site, a webcam show, and some system for one-on-one shows, with all the accounting for minutes done by hand, using paper notes and kitchen timers.
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2004-07-01, 10:01 PM
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