More than fifty million people are using OnlyFans right now, and a million people are contributing material. More than $200 million is paid out each month to authors on the site, and the company was valued at $1 billion in 2021.
It’s easy to see the potential for financial success with this method. Users have complete creative control and can earn money in a variety of ways. While the network itself may not be overly restrictive in terms of the content you can share, keep in mind that your photos and videos are likely to remain online indefinitely.
The father in me has to say this, but if you’re thinking about making a profile with an adult theme, you should probably look into blogging, YouTube, or some other business strategy first.
To be Clear, OnlyFans is not a Pornographic Service.
Many internet personalities play the part of models without actually baring all. There are also a great deal of non-adult-industry-related creators working in a wide variety of fields. When compared to other social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, OnlyFans’ lax content rules were appealing to the adult business.
While sexual content does make up the bulk of OnlyFans’ content, there are many other accounts maintained by producers who are successfully monetizing their work in other genres.
Here are a Few of the Most Common Ones:
- Instructional Fitness Coaching and Exercise Videos
- Modeling
- Style Advice
- Blogs About Daily Life And Vacations
- Food Networks
- How-To’s for Hair and Makeup
- Meditation and Complementary Medicine
- Project Guides
- Affective Video Games
- Cosplaying
- How-To’s and Recipes
- Comedic Films
- Celebrity video blogs
- In addition to those specific areas, we also cover many others.
For the time being, let’s put prejudice aside and look at OnlyFans from a commercial viewpoint to learn how to monetize your account.
Is It Possible to Make a Living Off of OnlyFans?
Joining OnlyFans is a great way to show your support for your favourite artists and producers on social media. Those who make videos or other forms of material can make money off of “fans” who subscribe to their accounts on a regular basis.
Subscribing fans of an artist can view premium material on their feed. OnlyFans collects 20% of all earnings from a creator’s account and gives the remaining 80% to the creator.
Recent data suggests that the top 1% of accounts generate 33% of total revenue. 73% of all income is earned by the top 10% of accounts. Popular accounts are projected to earn almost $100,000 each month, whereas average accounts make only around $180.
Profitable Strategies for Using OnlyFans
The platform supports a wide variety of revenue streams, including direct messages, the sale of courses, affiliate programmes, sponsored material, contributions, and more. Common ways to make money off of your material on OnlyFans are:
Subscribers: Put a monthly price on access to your material.
Donations: Make a Patreon appeal to your audience for financial support.
Amazon Wish List: Make a wish list on Amazon and send it to your friends.
Tips: Suggestions for future posts can be sent to you through direct messages.
Created Just for You & Pay Per View: Custom movies or PPV (pay-per-view) shows can be requested by viewers.
To maximise your revenue on OnlyFans, it’s advisable to employ all five of the strategies listed above, as well as any of the alternatives.
1: Subscriptions
One of the most prevalent ways to make money on OnlyFans is through subscriptions. Creators have the option of charging a subscription fee to their audience on a monthly or yearly basis.
The corporation keeps 20% of the earnings while the creators keep 80%. Pricing for individual subscriptions begins at $4.99 per month and goes up to $49.99 per month. Most producers choose to charge $9.99 each piece.
Promoting loyalty and driving users to take action, limited offers and subscription packages can provide customers with temporary discounts for a set period of time.
2: Contacting Fans Via Direct Message
One of the best ways to make money off of your OnlyFans subscribers is through private messaging. Many prominent users and artists regularly employ this strategy. It guarantees that you won’t have to rely just on subscriptions, which won’t generate millions on their own.
By providing the following, you can increase your earnings from the same base of subscribers:
- PPV Messages for OnlyFans
- Messages for a Price
- Secured Forums
- Secured Comms
- And so forth.
This kind of monetization is straightforward and effective. In exchange for a one-time or per-message payment, your devoted followers will receive exclusive content from you. PPV messages can be sent to subscribers and locked at a certain fee, limiting access to those who have subscribed to the service.
In addition, PPV messages can be sent to certain customers who have asked for individualised material. Include whatever media you like in your messages (pictures, movies, audio tracks, etc.) and set your own prices.
This has proven to be the most lucrative way to generate money on OnlyFans for the vast majority of users, so if you’re looking to diversify your income, give it some thought. It’s worth noting that despite its potential profitability, this revenue stream can be very time-consuming.
If you have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of admirers, replying their messages may take up a significant portion of your day, and you may want to consider hiring ghostwriting freelancers or agencies to do it for you.
3: Solicit Advice
If you want to make money off of your OnlyFans account, you may ask your followers to tip you by clicking the “$” icon that appears under your postings. They can also send you messages to help you out.
If your audience enjoys your work, you can simply ask them to tip you whenever you upload something of high quality. Tip functionality can also be used to monetize PPV messages and specialised content. Anything, digital or tangible, can be offered for sale in exchange for tips.
- Meal plan PDFs
- Exercise demonstrations on video
- Books, especially printed ones like cookbooks
- Visual and auditory media
- Name-brand products
- …and whatever else you have that you’d like to offer your devoted followers.
To streamline the process of selling many items, consider making a “tip menu” that includes both the prices of the products and the expected gratuity. Stick this selection to your profile and encourage your fans to specify their donations in the comments so you can deliver them the correct items.
4: Link out to Different Services
Most of the highest-earning users on OnlyFans make their money by redirecting their viewership to other platforms. Despite common misconceptions, OnlyFans is not a porn site; instead, its most popular material is similar to that of other prominent social media platforms like YouTube and Instagram (each of which may be a lucrative business on its own).
In fact, you can send your devotees directly to your own website if you so like. To achieve even greater success on the site, you should make use of its advanced features, such as personalised content, direct messaging, etc.
Followers can follow you for free on other platforms, and they can pay to access your premium material on OnlyFans. If you check at Bella Thorne’s bio, you’ll discover that she uses OnlyFans to gain exposure and subscribers, but she also sends them to Amazon, Spotify, and other sites to make money.
This enables her to capitalise on her fame through various projects and promotions, just as you can with your OnlyFans account bio. Of course, when you’re just beginning going, the simplest approach is usually the finest. You can make money off of your YouTube, Vimeo, and other social media accounts after you have a sizable following.
5: Join Your Subscribers in Real Time Live:
Earning money with live broadcasting is an additional way to do so on OnlyFans. Just decide on a time and date to interact in real time with your followers. There are two ways in which you might profit from this strategy.
Start by making a request for donations during your OnlyFans broadcast. If a viewer is moved to generosity or enjoyment, they are free to contribute whatever amount. This is a fantastic method for making money on the site, and you can even go it further by setting goals, such as a set amount that you’re hoping to attain with your stream, which is very useful when soliciting donations for a good cause.
Second, a gated payment stream is available. It will allow you to charge a subscription fee to view your live stream and restrict access to just those who pay the fee.
6: Market Affiliate
There are a lot of affiliate marketing chances for content creators like you. It’s easy to make money as an affiliate marketer; all you have to do is discover a programme to advertise in your field, and you’ll get a cut of the sale.
The versatility of affiliate marketing networks like Amazon Associates, Share-a-Sale, etc. means you can sell almost anything. The products you sell will vary greatly depending on your target market and specialisation.
- Distance learning
- Servers that host emails
- Accounts for web hosting
- Inn reservations
- Signups for Virtual Private Networks
- Books of recipes
- Anything else that may be of interest to them.
Consider commissions (the share of revenue you’ll receive from each sale or promotion) if you want to use this to monetize your OnlyFans account. If you sell a product for $100 and the commission is 10%, you will earn $10.
Think about how long cookies will last as well. If a product has a 30-day cookie duration, it means that you’ll only get a commission if a customer makes a purchase within 30 days after clicking your affiliate link.
7: Ad-Supported Material
Your popularity on OnlyFans will attract the attention of marketers eager to reach your dedicated fanbase. Sponsorship is a fantastic method to raise awareness of brands that are relevant to your audience while also generating revenue.
As soon as you have a sizable following, rather than sitting back and hoping that businesses will come to you, take the initiative and contact them to offer mutually beneficial collaborations.
Remember that this strategy for making money requires a lot of time and effort. These days, everyone and everything is focused on making money, so if you want to deal with major brands, you’d better come up with a plan before you start.
Offering a product or service through an affiliate programme is a terrific approach to gauge interest among your fan base before fully committing to this technique of income.
