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If you are just starting out then business will come in Waves. When you first begin to advertise, within a week or two you will get a ton of business. You won’t know what to do with all the cash you made because you’ve never made that much cash at one time before. But then business dies down. It will be slow, really slow, real agonizingly slow. This is where you need to learn a secret that took me a year to learn: “It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon.”
You are going to have busy times and slow times. That Is A Fact!
One problem I always run into is that I end up with tons of free time on my hands. Because of the nature of this line of work, you make a full week’s paycheck in three or four hours. That leaves 164 hours of free time and most guys I know in this business, myself included, blow a lot of money during those hours. When you blow all your money it makes the slow times much harder to endure. It’s easy for me to say: “Don’t blow your money,” but I know self control is hard in that area.
Something that most Escorts will agree on is that no matter how slow it is, business will turn around virtually overnight and you will be slammed with clients again. If you are going through a slow patch right now just remember that within a day, or a week or two, you will have cash coming in… lots of cash. A phone call could come in within the hour, who knows? It happens when you least expect it. So long as you are advertising people are looking at your Ads and making plans. You will be amazed at how many clients will say: “I saw your listing 3 months ago.”
If you are tempted to lower your rates in order to get a client today, DON’T DO IT!
Your clients aren’t interested in the price as much as they are interested in you. The person looking at your ad right now is planning for tomorrow. People will call you when they have the time for you and if you’re what they are looking for then they are going to pay you whatever you’re asking. If you lower your rates to try to earn a quick client today, you will end up with no work tonight and clients paying you less than you’re worth tomorrow.
This entry calls to mind an experience I had a few years ago, observing a male escort who was my friend and neighbor. Real nice, level-headed sort of fellow from Europe. He had long-overstayed his visa but was doing well as an escort. Not great, but well.
That all changed very suddenly when he caught the fancy of a very wealthy visitor to Las Vegas. My friend was showered with all sorts of gifts and bundles of cash. He was excited and happy – and also generous to his friends, I might add.
But that nice phase was brief, just a couple of days. As the money and new toys continued arriving, my friend tipped over into grotesque self-indulgence. He disappeared for a couple of days and when he came back it was apparent that he had not slept in at least two days.
Two days without sleep, even without drugs (if such is even possible) will already make you psychotic. With the drugs, he was totally insane. Raging at his friends and roommates, shrieking all manner of nonsense. His eyes were the worst. I have never been so frightened and alarmed looking at anybody’s eyes.
“Crash and burn,” fails to capture the horror of it all but it’s a more-or-less adequate approximation.
My friend recovered some semblance of his former self and quickly got on a plane to Europe. The last I heard of him, his family took one look at him and sent him away to a church camp retreat.
Have a plan for the slow times. But it may be even much more important for you to have a plan for what to do in the surprisingly “good” times as well. The good times can kill you, they really can. So please be careful.
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Love your post!
As an indepedendent in the industry, I can certainly relate to your material from clients coming in waves (whats up woth that) to your take on working for an agency.
Anyway, if your ever in Atlanta send me an email. I would love to invite you to have a drink.
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Hi, We have just started a male Chaperone business in Brisbane, Australia, not having alot of success, seem to get a lot of calls from men wanting women. HELP!!! Where do we advertise to get up-market female clients? I think this could be a viable business but starting to become doubtful.