The 5 Biggest Challenges Facing My OnlyFans Agency Right Now (And How I Plan To Overcome Them)

 

When I started this OnlyFans journey back in September, I had a much different idea of how it would all turn out.

I had no plans of starting a magazine, podcast, model marketplace, or taking the role of “connector” in the community.

But over time, my plan morphed into what it is today: combining talents of recruiters, traffic providers, and chatters to build a fully-outsourced agency.

My original plan wasn’t even to focus on OnlyFans – I wanted to start a webcam studio.

That didn’t work so well, so I chose to start over – this time focusing on OnlyFans.

This came with its own set of challenges.

For one thing, I wasn’t able to get any traffic for my models and couldn’t get any subs for her OF – even though it was free!

As luck would have it, I became friends with someone who was doing well with a model and offered to teach me how to drive traffic with Reddit in exchange for sending him a model.

You guys know the story by now – but this eventually lead to my partnership with @accountstealth and the development of my Superstar.

This gave me my first taste of what it would be like to make partnerships with other service providers and let them work their magic.

But as with all strategies, this one has its flaws.

In this article, I’m going to talk about the 5 biggest challenges I’m currently facing in my own OnlyFans agency and how I plan to overcome them.

#1 – A Smaller Piece Of A Smaller Pie Will Only Get You So Far

 

After switching from webcam studio to OnlyFans agency, my results were awful right off the bat.

As little as I knew about webcamming, I knew even less about creating a successful OnlyFans page.

And as you can imagine,

I spent a very frustrated week trying to get some results for my most communicative model – a 37 year old MILF who responded to my texts within 5 minutes.

She was the most serious worker I’d had, so I genuinely wanted her to make money.

But try as I might, I couldn’t get her any results.

After a week of spamming her content on Reddit, she was sitting at a measly 26 fans.

Even on a free account, I couldn’t get her any traction.

Sure, part of that was because her content was awful and she refused to take my feedback.

But I mean come on… 26 fans?! I should have been able to do better than that.

Fortunately, this was when I met my first partner: the “Reddit Genius.”

Before partnering up, we would chat here and there about Reddit strategies and he was one of the OGs in my Telegram agency owner group.

He knew about my frustrations, so one day he came to me with a deal: find him a new model and he would teach me his Reddit method and we would split the profits.

I figured I had nothing to lose, so I took him up on his deal.

Long story slightly less long, he got great results right off the bat. And true to his word, he taught me his methods.

But nothing lasts forever.

Our models bailed, things slowed down, and I was forced to start over… again.

@accountstealth has since expanded his operation to sell Reddit accounts, mentorship, and traffic services.

He also has at least one very attractive model of his own.

We still have one model we’re working on together, but her content is not performing as well as we thought it would.

Put yourself in his position for a moment:

What would you rather focus your energy on:

1. Promoting your expanding Reddit services business and full-time stunner model who’s crushing it, or
2. Promoting a less successful model where you have to split the pie with additional people

It’s not a hard choice to make. And if I were in his situation, I’m sure I’d do the same thing.

But here’s the point I’m trying to make:

When you partner with people, their investment is directly proportional to the value they are getting from the partnership.

In our case, the majority of the value derived from our partnership is from the profit split.

Sure, you could say there’s some peripheral benefit from being my friend, but that’s minor by comparison.

And don’t think that I’m saying that he’s dropped me like a hot potato.

We still talk every day and have other collaborations in the works – like a premium model recruiting framework that may be released to certain online communities.

But if we’re strictly talking about the operator-model engagement, it’s not like it was with the superstar.

I’m having similar issues with my other operators.

It’s not a huge jump in logic to assume that if I was working on their accounts personally and taking 70%, I’d put more time and effort into them than if I was working on someone else’s models for half of that. 

An operators engagement is not directly related to the % they receive, but to the overall amount of money they are earning.

Sounds like common sense.

Having a LOWER percentage of profits from managing a successful model is MORE attractive than a HIGHER percentage of profits from a LESS successful model.

So maybe the lesson here doesn’t have to do with operators, but with the quality of the models themselves.

Better models will bring more money and be easier to place with an operator.

#2 – Hiring Operators Means You Are Limited To Junior Partners

 

It’s no secret: I’m looking for operators to run my models’ accounts.

I don’t even remember how many agency owners I’ve talked to in the past few months.

I’ve successfully recruited some of them to work as operators whil others tell me “no thanks.”

Interestingly, the ones who decline my offer do so for the same reason:

The % isn’t worth their time.

Also interesting is that I hear some version of the following when they decline:

“You’ll never get someone to run an account like that for you. If they could, they’d just do it for themselves.”

In certain cases, that’s true.

If someone was already super experienced and established and had a bona fide system for generating $20k/mo from a new model, they wouldn’t need my help.

I’ve noticed that many of my operators fit the same criteria:

• They’ve had success with 1 or 2 models
• They don’t like recruiting
• They’re looking for more models and an ongoing arrangement

These operators are more the “freelancer” type and less of the “entrepreneur” type.

They are more hustlers than entrepreneurs.

• An entrepreneur is going to be more shrewd, count more coins, and think: why would I pay them so much when I can pay less?
• A hustler is going to look to minimize the amount of work he has to do that he doesn’t enjoy.

The approach you have to take with entrepreneurs is different than the approach you take with hustlers.

• Hustlers are more short-sighted and think, “How can I get what I want now? I’ll deal with any problems later.”
• Entrepreneurs think more long term. “If I do this now, sure it may solve a short-term problem. But long term, it will hurt me.”

I don’t think I’m “hurting” my operators. I’m not forcing anyone to do anything.

If the deal works for them, great. If not, all good.

I make the same judgment for myself when considering a deal – although I do pretty much take all deals, as we’ll see in the next section…

#3 – Saying “Yes” To All New Business Can Sometimes Be A Problem

 

In my last article, I talked about how I never say no to money.

I make it a habit of ALWAYS saying yes to whatever opportunity someone dumps in my lap.

There’s a simple reason for this: I want to be the first person people think of when they ask,

“Wow, I just got access to this awesome resource that I have no idea how to leverage. Who can I ask about it for help?”

Then someone else will be like, “Oh just ask Yalla Papi – he’s got his fingers in all the pies.”

If I don’t have the tools to make money from it at that moment, I’ll dig around until I find someone who has the tools.

Then it’s just a matter of negotiating a deal and connecting everyone together.

Here’s how I imagined it working in my head:

1. Someone hits me up with an opportunity or need
2. I say yes
3. I tap the appropriate person in my network
4. I negotiate between the three of us
5. I connect everyone
6. They go do their thing and I move onto the next thing

Sounds great on paper, doesn’t it?

In reality, it’s more like this:

1. Someone hits me up with an opportunity or need
2. I say yes
3. I look for someone who might be able to help
4. Sometimes I don’t find them
5. I ping the void
6. Nobody answers
7. I string the requestor along until I find something or they forget

Other times, I’m faced with another problem: low quality deals.

From what I can tell, the successful people in this industry run their operations in small teams.

More specifically, successful agencies don’t sign EVERY model, they sign THE BEST models.

I don’t know what it is, but the mass approach has always appealed to me.

I’ll sign (almost) anyone with a pulse.

Why?

If I have an operator who is eager, motivated, and willing to take on a new model, then who am I to deny him that opportunity?

I always phrase it like, “Hey I have this new model, are you interested?”

Sometimes they say yes, sometimes they say no.

If they say no, MAYBE I’ll try to lean on them a little bit to change their mind.

But at the end of the day, these operators are not my employees.

They are contractors who have agreed to do business with me because the deal looks good enough to them.

Another issue that I run into is the quality of models that I agree to work with.

“Quality” is a loaded word that can mean “attractiveness,” “motivation,” “responsiveness,” “existing social media following,” or a dozen other things.

But if I give you the choice between:

1. A 36 year old Brazilian model with an average body and no experience, or
2. A lip-filler-addicted 23 year old Romanian strumpet with DDs

I think we know which one is considered “higher quality.”

Here’s the bottom line:

If I say yes to every model my scouts send me, then I am effectively limited by the amount of operators I have that can run their accounts.

And any of you who have ever onboarded a model know that the first 1-2 weeks are the most crucial time.

I’ll dedicate an article to it later (maybe my next one), but the onboarding process is an EXTREMELY delicate time which sets the tone for how your working relationship with a model will go.

When working with multiple operators – each of them with a different communication style, management method, and onboarding system – things can get chaotic very quickly. 

Which brings me to my next point…

#4 – There Is No Uniformity In Operator Land

 

At the moment, I have 4 operators – each of them with a different strategy for managing accounts.

Here are some of the variations in how the accounts are managed:

• I act as a waypoint between the model and operator
• I communicate with the model and operator separately
• I create a Telegram group and invite the model, operator, and scout (if applicable)
• Some operators are ESLers and their communication can come off as rough
• Some operators are smooth (no pun intended), some are less tactful
• Some operators require TikToks, others require Reddit verifications
• Some operators are around every day, some are gone on the weekends
• Some operators add their VA to the group, some have behind the scenes workers

As if that wasn’t enough, just imagine how complicated things can get once you combine that with the variations that MODELS can have:

• Models are in different time zones
• Some models are responsive, some aren’t
• Some have computer skills, some don’t
• Some are quick to deliver content, some are slow
• Some speak English, some don’t

The real issue here isn’t with any single one of these attributes.

The issue is that I do not have a uniform system for managing their accounts.

And look – I don’t want you to think I’m complaining about my operators or models.

For the most part, things ARE moving in the right direction.

My teams are communicating, work is getting done, accounts are growing, and routines are being formed.

But everyone is constantly in a state of making things up as they go along.

I used to laugh at corporate culture, SOPs, and company doctrine.

But now I legitimately see the value in having rules and common procedures in your workplace.

You start out trying different things, f*ck up, and then make a rule that prevents the same f*ck up from happening again.

If I was actually as intelligent as I pretend to be in these articles, then I would provide my operators and models with SOPs that tell them exactly what to do to be successful.

I’ve already done this with my recruiting and onboarding processes which is why they run so smoothly.

I don’t have to have the same conversations over and over, because I can just send a sales letter or an email template.

My problem is that I STOPPED building my model development life cycle halfway through the onboarding step.

Let’s look at the full process of developing a new model:

1. Initial outreach
2. Sell the opportunity
3. Zoom call
4. Onboarding
5. Content creation
6. Verifications
7. Promotion of account
8. Chatter installation
9. Custom content creation
10. Add more revenue streams

I have parts 1, 2, and 3 locked down.

Parts 4, 5, and 6 are halfway finished.

I have a rudimentary understanding of part 7 and minimal [hands on] experience.

I know nothing about parts 8, 9, and 10.

Now that I’ve written it out, I think I know what the answer is:

Instead of adding more operators – which is a temporary fix – I need to take a model through all 10 steps MYSELF so I can create SOPs for each of those steps.

THEN instead of being limited to operators, I can write SOPs and hire VAs to execute them on their own.

This is how an agency SHOULD be run:

1. You figure it out first
2. Then you write SOPs and hand them off to workers
3. If you have overflow, you can look for operators

I’ve been skipping steps 1 and 2 and just going to step 3, which I believe is what’s led to my frustration.

#5 – Use Partnerships As A Hedge Against Failure, Not A Crutch

 

Before we go any further, please don’t think that I’m saying for a second you shouldn’t try to network as hard as you can.

Focusing on partnerships is still an amazing strategy.

And to be clear: just because there are some minor issues doesn’t mean I am going to fire all my operators and manage all these models myself.

Like I said, progress is still being made, income is being generated, and I am free to work on expanding the brand.

Here’s a quick list of the incredible benefits partnerships have provided for me in the past few months:

• Introduced me to scouts who send me models nearly every day
• Helped promote my model marketplace to nearly 250 members
• Spread the articles on my blog to thousands of people
• Established me as an authority in the industry as someone who knows his stuff
• Made me a trustworthy figure in the OF agency owner community
• Helped me recruit talented operators to run accounts for my models
• Allowed me to partner with an UNBELIEVABLY successful agency to create a spinoff agency for foreign markets
• Introduced me to bigtime agency owners making $100,000/month or more
• Enabled me to receive unique opportunities delivered to my Telegram on a near-daily basis

Don’t get me wrong – partnerships are the bomb.

Sometimes, people just give me free stuff and don’t want anything in return.

The other day I had someone give me a Drive folder with IG ads that he used to recruit girls for $0.10 a lead.

I didn’t even have to ask for it. They just offered to send it to me.

And when I asked what they wanted in return, they said “nothing.”

However, forming partnerships has failed to do one very important thing: put lots of money in my bank account on a regular basis.

(The one notable exception here being the now-defunct superstar that @accountstealth managed for me.)

Yes, all of the things on that list are great.

I feel like one of the cool kids on the playground.

However, I’m in this business primarily to make money.

I don’t want to work trade shows or sell roofing anymore.

I want to pimp girls, twinks, and passable post-op trannies on the internet to desperate men who make poor decisions with their money.

What’s really frustrating is that I KNOW I have all the pieces – I’m just having trouble putting them together.

And if I’m being 100% honest, I’d have to admit that the reason is actually very embarrassing:

I’m afraid of failure.

I know it sounds stupid. In fact, as I wrote that, I realized just how stupid it sounds.

I’ve failed a ton already. I got to where I am by failing. I built my reputation on failing.

So who cares if I fail some more?

It’s not like I’ll never fail again. I definitely will.

And truthfully, I learn the most when I fail.

Now that people look to me for answers, it feels like I can’t admit that I don’t know what I’m doing.

Which is ironic considering that I’ve done that like a dozen times in this post and pretty much every other post I’ve ever made.

Shoot, I even made a post with 60 Lessons I Learned In 60 Days – most of which are things I learned from making mistakes.

If I had to get more specific, I would say this fear can be further defined as:

• Wasting time promoting models with an ineffective strategy
• Wasting money paying someone to promote models with an ineffective strategy

This is also why I’ve never really gotten into paid ads – I hate feeling like I’m flushing money down the toilet.

That said, recruiting models via IG ads is something I’ve had in the back of my mind for months now.

I even have the ads ready to go – I just haven’t pulled the trigger.

And it’s not like anyone would point and laugh at me for fucking up, either. I would probably write an article admitting all that myself.

It’s really strange and illogical when you think about it.

So the solution seems pretty obvious:

I have to shift back into working on model accounts on my own until I develop a system that I can clearly define and pay a VA $4/hr to do for me.

When I think about it, this is how all the big time agency owners I know run their operation.

The Plan Moving Forward (+3 Launches)

“If you want the gold, you have to face the dragon.”

Even though I consider myself a hard worker, there are certain areas that I resist working on.

My natural inclination is to give in to my internal resistance, avoid whatever task is causing it, and focus on something that I find more enjoyable.

That’s why I have written 50,000 words of delightful articles and still don’t have a reliable traffic strategy.

I love writing articles. I hate spamming posts and trying to figure out traffic.

But it’s specifically these areas where I feel resistance (aka “dragons”) that I need to focus on.

If, for example, I were to take two weeks off from writing articles and focus 100% on nailing a traffic strategy, I would start making retarded amounts of money.

We all have different dragons.

My dragons are:

1. Spending money on IG ads until I have a proven funnel for recruiting
2. Figuring out an efficient way to drive traffic to my models that can be outsourced to VAs
3. Hiring and training chatters to run models accounts
4. Increasing revenue implementing additional revenue streams

What’s funny is that there are many people who have already conquered these dragons.

It’s not like I’m trying to invent a nuclear fission reactor or put a man on Mars.

I just need to learn something that other people already know.

If I was the type of person to make plans, I would probably put it together like this:

First step:

• Create a funnel for IG ads to recruit models
  -Create landing page
  -Test ads and targeting
  -Test other regions

Second step:

• Implement a Reddit traffic strategy
  -Finding subreddits
  -Creating/buying an upvote bot
  -Testing headlines
  -Write SOPs for VAs to replicate

Third step:

• Hire and train chatters to run models’ accounts
  -Interview chatters
  -Provide training materials
  -Find messages/content that converts
  -Write SOPs for VAs to replicate

Fourth step:

• Add revenue streams
  -Find someone who has already mastered a revenue stream
  -Get them to show me how they did it
  -Copy their method
  -Write SOPs for VAs to replicate

Now it’s just time to roll up my sleeves and make it happen.

The Official Launch Of Simp Hunter Magazine

 

My OF agency owner magazine “Simp Hunter” is now live.

I am looking for contributors who are interested in providing a unique take on:

• Recruiting
• Running traffic
• Being a chatter
• Maximizing revenue
• Other platforms
• Automation tools
• Other software
• Hiring VAs
• Networking
• ..or something else

If you want to contribute something to this magazine and have knowledge on these topics, let me know.

Now I know what you’re thinking:

“I’m a bigshot agency owner, but there’s no way in hell I’m going to spend multiple hours of my day writing a 1000-5000 word article.”

Listen, I get it.

But what if we were “co-authors”?

Essentially what this means is that we have a call or two, you show me what you’ve got, we make an outline, and I write the article for you.

If you want to write it on your own, by all means go ahead.

I’ll edit it and make it pretty and we can slap it up here for everyone to read and see how smart and cool you are.

But if you want to co-author it with me, reach out to me and let me know at t.me/yallapapi.

The Upcoming Launch Of The Simp Hunter Podcast

 

After watching a few of OBH’s Zoom calls, I had an idea: what if I started a YouTube channel of my own?

At the end of the day, I decided to go with a podcast hosted on a YouTube channel.

I feel like podcasts are better for branding, better for networking, and more enjoyable for me to do.

But since it’s a podcast, I am going to need some guests to shoot the shit with.

Here’s a short list of the type of person I’m looking to have come on the show:

• Agency owners grossing $20k/mo+
• Traffic providers (any method is fine, unique ones are better)
• Chatter agencies/teams
• Alternate income stream experts
• Tube site operators
• Successful OF models who work with agencies
• Fashion modeling agency owners
• Adult film studios/producers
• Clothing brand owners
• Agency owners who specialize in gay/trans models
• …something else I haven’t thought of

If you or someone you know is interested in promoting your brand, getting interviewed, and letting the world hear your thoughts on this industry, then let me know and we’ll have you on.

The Tentative Launch Of My First Mentoring Cohort (And How To Apply)

 

I know it seems a little strange to talk about offering mentoring when I just spent this entire article complaining about problems in my operation, yet here we are.

In the past couple weeks, a lot of people have asked me if I offer mentoring services.

And back then, the answer was no for one simple reason: I didn’t feel like my results were good enough to offer mentoring.

After all, people aren’t buying mentoring per se, they’re buying a result.

I don’t think my results have been all too spectacular, however…

1. Who cares what I think?
2. People still want to be mentored by me
3. Compared to other people, I am doing ok

It’s like that joke about being a piano teacher: you don’t need to be an expert, you just need to be one lesson ahead of the kid.

Now I’ll be straight with you: my plan with this mentoring is to eventually charge retarded amounts of money for it.

But even if people were willing to pay me $20,000, $10,000, or even $5,000 now, I wouldn’t feel right charging that much because I can’t promise a result that I myself have not gotten consistently and reliably.

Have I failed to get these results because I don’t know WHAT to do? I don’t think so.

I think my failure has been because I KNOW what to do but DON’T do it (because of fear of failure).

I still have the knowledge. And the connections. And the ability to explain the methods clearly.

I just haven’t done it myself (consistently and reliably)… yet.

Excuses aside, I believe that if you have a successful business background already (and don’t share my mental blocks), then I think I could actually help you do quite well.

I already know WHAT to do, I just have trouble doing it myself.

That said, I don’t see anything wrong with offering mentoring for people who consenting capitalists who like the idea of spending quality 1 on 1 time with me. 

So I’ve decided to TEST THE WATERS to see if there is any interest for hosting a 90 day mentoring cohort of 10-15 mentees.

If you’re interested in learning more about the program, you can read more about it here: https://simphunter.com/mentoring/

To apply, just follow the instructions at the end 🙂