May 172013
 
NiteFlirt Awards

NiteFlirt started doing awards recently for top earners. Gold = above 99th percentile, Silver = 96th-99th percentile, Bronze = 91st – 95th percentile. I was full-time on NiteFlirt for about 19.5 months, from July 15, 2010 through about the end of February 2012, and I earned all my awards during that time. Awards are based on semi-monthly periods, so two awards equals one month. Here are my awards. That means: I was in the top 9% for 15.5 months (79% of the time, during which I moved twice) I was in the top 4% for 11.5 months (58% of the time) I was in the top 1% for 4.5 months (23% of the time) The “Rising Star” award means that I was one of the [read more...]

Jun 182012
 
ExtraLunchMoney texting

I finally have a way to offer texting-for-pay now! I’m so excited! Short Version: Go here, sign up, text me! http://www.extralunchmoney.com/user/Galiana/#phone/?ref_user=Galiana Longer Version: I got a very sweet note from Eric, the tech guy at ExtraLunchMoney.com (hereafter possibly referred to as ELM), complimenting me on the quality of my blog, and inviting me to sign up to offer texts if I want a new way to earn money between calls. I was suspicious, because all the text-for-pay setups I’ve seen have seemed like either they put the buyer or the provider in a horrible position to encourage abusing the other. But not this one – the way I understand it, it’s super clever! The buyer pays 3 credits (about 3 dollars, depending on how many [read more...]

May 282012
 
PSO FAQ

I’ve been asked a lot of questions about being a Phone Sex Operator, so I thought I’d pull together a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Enjoy! What does PSO stand for? Phone Sex Operator, which I’ve been since July 2010. Why did you become a Phone Sex Operator? I was a theater major (1988-1992), who became a self-taught learn-on-the-job programmer/data analyst/tech consultant/business analyst/IT manager (1995-2009), then I came down with a mysterious neurological vertigo that makes me feel drunk all the time and prevents me from managing geeks (2009-present). When I found a medicine that balanced my brain chemistry enough to allow me to talk on the phone, answer emails, and write blog entries now and then, I realized I had the skills to try being [read more...]

Jan 252012
 
Galiana and Devant

So, remember how I told you that my roommate (aka my husband’s lover, aka my pixie playmate) wants to be a phone sex operator? Well, you know how starting a new thing can be scary until you know for sure you can do it? Apparently Devant needs a kick in the ass to get her solo career started. Soooooo…. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve started a “couples” listing on NiteFlirt where Devant and I will take calls together! Here’s the link to the listing: http://www.niteflirt.com/listings/show/9661193 It’s gonna cost ya to call. We’re going to experiment with rates, but I’m not gonna lie, it’ll be pricey. Why would we charge more than double to spend time with both of us? Well, as it turns out, [read more...]

Aug 202011
 
1K Visitors! (Again. Sort of.)

I just hit 1,000 unique visitors in a month! (Again. Sort of.) My Inner Data Analyst was so happy to see a lovely round number that she is getting her own blog post today. It’s been a while since she got to come out and play. Here’s what made her happy: Google Analytics showed 1,000 unique visitors in a month time span. Confession time: I checked in the middle of the day – it was serendipitous to hit the exact number when I did, but that wasn’t the final number in the day. The final number for that month-span was 1,010, but I was so happy to see the exact 1,000 that I screen-captured it. Now Data Girl gets to have her nerdy moments in [read more...]

Aug 182011
 
Domination Landing Page

I am pretty darn pleased with myself for completing a new page: Domination by Galiana: An Introduction. This will be my landing / “where to start” page for advertisements and top list banner sites emphasizing my dominant side. It’s still a bit wordy, of course, but then, so am I. I’m sure I’ll revise it a cajillion times. I think it gives enough of an overview of my toppy ways, with some switchy balance, to be enough preparation for someone to call. Of course, it’s still linked to my full site, so someone could also land, get lost in my blog, jack off, and go to sleep. It’s a known problem when you have a big blog full of dirty stories for free. I’m okay [read more...]

Aug 102011
 
Switches Get It...

Now that I have rewritten my Mistress / Dominant / Domme / Domina / FemDom / Toppy / insert your term of choice to indicate “the partner in charge of leading the activities” phone sex listings, and I am happy enough with them for the time being (to refresh your memory, they look like this: http://www.niteflirt.com/ms+galiana), it’s time to start advertising. As I researched options, I found myself posing this question to the owner of a very well-trafficked Domme site (http://dommedose.com/): My “unique spin” – if you will – is that I am not a princess-ey bitch; instead, I am a nice, empathetic human being who genuinely enjoys focusing sexual attention on submissive males. I truly enjoy directing them to distraction. Do you think there [read more...]

Aug 052011
 
Two Roads Diverged in a Wood

I am diverging my web presence between those which are NiteFlirt-compliant and those which are not as of… now. The blog I’ve been linking to, GalianaChance.com, and my new Twitter account (@GalianaNF) will remain compliant with NiteFlirt rules, which means that I can link to it from my listings, and it will not link to any NiteFlirt competitors. But everything else will not be NF-compliant, and may contain links to other places. So my new blog location, GalianaChance.net, which I am essentially launching right now (/partyhorn /streamers), and my original blog location, GalianaChance.blogspot.com, will have more a complete “contacts and links” page than the compliant blog. I spent the better part of two days scrubbing GC.com completely free of all links to my twitter, blogspot, [read more...]

Aug 052011
 
Thoughts on Rates

I did not follow one of the best pieces of advice I ever got when I was first starting out: you’re new, so you can afford to play with your rates, so keep raising them by $0.10/min every two weeks or so until you find your sweet spot. Instead, after a month at $0.99/min ($0.55/min to me) to build feedback, I jumped to $1.49/min ($0.90/min to me). It was a smashing success. The 63% raise more than compensated for the callers who quit me. I felt justified at having bypassed the slow, painful rate creep. Perhaps counter-intuitively, I lost many of my very short callers (under-10-minute average), fewer people insisted that I send them free minutes before they’d try me out, and I found more [read more...]

Dec 302010
 

In general, I try to live by the concept, “Don’t ask the question if you don’t want to know the answer.” But today, ignoring the nagging warning in the back of my mind, I answered my lingering question, “What percentage of my income has been from very short calls (less than 5 minutes)?” I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised by a high number like 10% — some number I wouldn’t want to lose. And I expected that pleasant surprise to fuel my motivation to give my best for new callers who seem to be on a short-call pace. The answer, unfortunately, was “about 2%”. Rats. That answer does not motivate me. And being less motivated for new, fast callers makes it more likely for [read more...]