CamLife Magazine
CamLife Pioneer Showcase Melrose
This issue’s CamLife Magazine Pioneer Showcase Melrose. Melrose is a true pioneer in the live cam community with a strong fowling on Twitter and a growing YouTube channel, making Melrose the perfect choice as this month’s CamLife pioneer and cover model.
Melrose is a wholesome redhead that doesn’t produce any boy/girl content or anything too extreme. Instead, she sticks to what she actually enjoys doing in her own bedroom. She creates visually beautiful work and only puts out content she feels is beautiful and represents her brand. So far, it’s been a recipe for success! Before taking up a career as a webcam modeling eight years ago in 2011, Melrose was a hardworking college student with a side hustle. She worked two jobs to put herself through school while simultaneously juggling a full roster of business and marketing courses. She’d work weekdays as a data entry specialist for a banking chain in the Chicagoland area, then on the weekends blow off steam gogo dancing in swimsuit at night clubs downtown for extra cash. It’s that same work ethic that has helped catapult her career to the top of the industry.
After deciding to get into camming, Melrose sat down and talked it out with her partner at the time and her mom. Both were supportive. Her mom even helped give her original webcam name, though now she just uses her real name.
Her outlook was always, “Those who matter won’t mind, and those who mind, won’t matter.”
Melrose live streams on webcam on MyFreeCams. She’s done so her entire career, although she has tested the waters on other platforms. She’s also passionately working on growing her premium snapchat with Fancentro and selling subscriptions to her Fancentro Feed. That way everyone can see all her content for one low monthly subscription.
Her chatroom has blossomed into an incredible online community, with people from across the globe spending time with each other as well as her. On a typical cam day she plays games with fans, chats, and sometimes does a live show for the chat room. She also spends a significant amount of time on Snapchat, which she sees as a modern version of camming that doesn’t tie her to a time and location. Everyday fans get to watch her daily life unfold with friends and family. In the evening she performs a nightly Snapchat show for her Fancentro subscribers, showing off her unbridled wild side. They can also speak to her privately through chat messages.
This career path taught her how to write code, build websites, create effective advertising campaigns, copyrighting, graphic design, cinematography, audiovisual production, social media marketing, traffic acquisition, and more. When she walks into a business meeting she expects to be treated with that level of respect, since she tends to be overqualified for whatever the other person is trying to sell her. For her, the best part of being a live webcam and snapchat performer is the confidence she’s developed. With no boss to micromanage her and no studio or producer to please, she’s in total control of her career. For her, that’s what being empowered is all about.
Melrose doesn’t schedule days off. When she isn’t camming or creating content, she runs a marketing company, writes, edits, and produces her own podcast, and does freelance social marketing for a global company. She’s also got a couple of secret projects in play she’s not ready to reveal just yet. An active person by nature, she spends her free time hiking, dancing, playing tennis, riding bikes, shooting guns, or maintaining her 80-acre property. She focuses on her happiness, and things she loves – like french fries. Melrose has lots of love to share. She is married to a man but also has a girlfriend. While she admits that may sound complicated, she swears it’s as easy as pie, so long as everyone is honest.
The best advice she offers new cam models could give would be to know their boundaries and don’t let any amount of money influence them to betray them. She also wants new performers to skip acting competitively and lift each other up. Kindness is her creed.
You can find her on public snapchat at MelRose.TV. Her Twitter is @MelRoseTV, and her Instagram is @melr0setv. She updates them daily. She also plans on vlogging again in 2020. Check out her Youtube channel youtube.com/melrosetv and her podcast “Seen and Not Heard” at http://www.SNHpodcast.com
Check out our Interview with Melrose on the CamLife App