WHO ARE YOUR CLIENTS?

CREATING YOUR IMAGE

You are a model who chooses to value your body and personality enough that you are selling glimpses of your image to clients for payment.

But who is buying your pictures?

A lot of girls who sell their pics online don’t like to think about their clients. It’s one thing to think that a chiseled actor is out there looking at
their nude bodies but they don’t want to go much further than that.

You need to get comfortable with the idea that men are buying your image because they are aroused by it. They are probably responding
sexually to it. Masturbating, or at least getting horny.

And that’s why they are coming back.

This is where some people peace out. They don’t want to think about that part. It seems gross.

Really it’s just human. The fact is your clients aren’t as lucky as you. Many of them don’t have fulfilling relationships. You’re giving them some
human contact that they need and want. You are sharing yourself in a way that is safe for you.

Why does it matter? Can’t you just post naughty pictures and forget about who is looking at them?

Sure, you can.

But you want to make money at this, right? Serious money not just a dollar here and there?

Do you think that big companies sell products without understanding their customers? They spend millions of dollars on research, hire people to
come in and test their products, send observers to stores. They learn everything they can about who is buying their products. This is called
marketing.

Some people would say you are marketing yourself, but it’s healthier to remember that you are marketing your image.

Think of it this way: Nobody says that novelists or actresses are bad people because their readers fall in love with the characters in their books.
Often those characters are very much like themselves. But generally they are flatter, less three dimensional.
You’re a three dimensional person. But your image is flat. You portray a certain girl in pictures or video, a girl your clients, your audience, wants
to see. It’s a creative process like coming up with a character for a novel who is based on you, but different. You are selling that character. It’s
okay if she is cooler than you, more perfect than you, more fearless than you.

What novelist ever wrote an adventurous lead character who was less cool than themselves?

You don’t need to feel guilt or conflict about the image you are creating. It’s not phony, it’s a work of art.

And to create your image, you need to understand what your clients want.

THE BOY NEXT DOOR

If you’ve ever looked at the Internet, there is a lot of porn. You can find images of almost anything, no matter how little you’d want to imagine
it.

And there are models. Very beautiful models. Shot by expert videographers using 4k equipment under four thousand dollar studio lights.

Why does any guy want to pay for your pics when he can see them for free on a hundred tube sites?

Because you are marketing more than your looks. You are marketing an image and an illusion. If you craft that illusion well and carefully men
will come to you before they go to the most perfectly tanned and toned girls in mainstream porn. Even if your figure isn’t perfect. Even if your
studio is a bedroom with a couple of lamps.

The first thing you need to understand is that men are just like you, only they won’t admit it.

You may like the idea of sex. But you probably want other things too. You want to be cared for, loved, to share secrets and feel valued. Those
things are important to men too.

The problem is that both men and women believe that men “only want sex.”

It’s true men are more driven by sexual images than women. That’s why there is such a big market for porn showing women having sex. But all
the porn in the world doesn’t meet the need for intimacy.

You are marketing to that need.

Sound creepy or phony? Since the 1930s housewives and retirees who didn’t have partners at home tuned in to soap operas like General
Hospital, where they got involved in the intimate lives or “stories” of actors and actresses.

In the 1990s reality TV replaced much of that market. Reality TV is sculpted to make people feel intimacy and relationship with people on a
screen.

In the primitive past we lived in big tribes and there were always other people around. Nowadays due to modern life, employment issues, and
school that lasts into what would have been middle age in the middle ages, we are often alone.

Intimacy through entertainment helps us feel less alone. Even if we know it’s not real, seeing and feeling close to other human beings, even
actors on a screen helps our brain keep making the chemicals we need to be social.

And you help with that.

Who is your client? What is he like?

He’s probably more like you than you imagine.

Most men who even know about snapchat are young or middle aged. Many or most of them have been in relationships but are between
relationships right now. Maybe they have a job that gives them lousy hours, maybe they are in school and trying not to get into a deep
relationship two thousand miles from home. Maybe they have a career and aren’t ready to settle down.

Maybe they aren’t very socially smart and can’t easily talk to girls in person. A few clients are elderly and alone…the proverbial dirty old man
and a few are failed to launch gamer geeks living in mom’s basement.

Research by Saint Vincent’s College in Latrobe Pennsylvania suggests that almost seventy percent of 18-24 year old men look at porn at least
once a month, and other studies show that the men who look for pictures on snapchat or similar sites are mostly younger.

Your client isn’t looking for perfect pictures. He has grown up with smartphones and associates them with communication with other human
beings. He is driven by two desires.

THINKING HE COULD DA TE YOU

There are a lot of studies showing that men may want perfect beauties but tend to actually seek people to date that are pretty much like
themselves. If they don’t think of themselves as Brad Pitt, they don’t approach supermodels for a date.

In fact images of perfect women that a man knows he could never date can be offputting, might actually make them feel less sexual.

He wants the girl next door, in the sense that he wants a girl who he can imagine if he was lucky and got a better car and a better paycheck, he
might actually be able to date.

That’s you, because you don’t have studio lighting worth more than his car.

Is your body a little less than magazine-model perfect? That’s okay because it tells him that you’re not a magazine model. You’re like a
thousand other girls he’s seen, met, maybe even dated. Or just a little hotter. You’re accessible.

THINKING HE ALREADY IS DATING YOU

A model who spent several years in the pic and cam business in the early 2000s said “the perfect client is one who thinks he’s a little bit in love
with you.”

Men who are buying pictures off Snapchat and similar sites grew up around phones. They grew up with the idea that a phone is how they
contact people close to them, from mom to their girlfriend. One some level when they get intimate pictures of a girl on their phone, it’s forming
a connection.

That goes double if they get text messages, or personal comments.

They feel they are having a relationship with you. That fulfills the need to feel intimacy, and does it a lot better than reality television.

On one level they know it’s not real, but the brain soaks it up anyway, and they feel rewarded and happy.

Another type of service that has become popular in the past few years, starting with Birchbox, sends you a gift through the mail. People know
they sent the gift themselves, but they still feel all the positive things associated with getting a present. Having you as a camera and phone
girlfriend makes men feel the same way.

Sure some men can take that too far and get creepy. But 9999 out of 10,000 get the idea and work to help the illusion on their end. Not
thinking too much about the money they are paying, or reminding themselves that they pay money on dates too.
For the occasional creeper? There are mute and unfriend buttons. And some safety warnings we’ll get to in a later section to make sure that
this business stays safe and profitable for you and healthy for yourself and your clients.

For the occasional hater? We’ll talk later about how to maintain your self-respect, feel good and not let them get you down.

How can you help the illusion? When money comes up, remind them that there are good reasons to pay for it. “Hey if you were dating me, you’d take me out
for a drink wouldn’t you? “ Help them buy into the illusion by helping the illusion of a relationship.