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Very simple shit your club COULD do to make more $, but DOESN'T
OK, this thread is your suggestion box. Is there any sort of simple, no-brainer thing you think your club could do to make more $$, but for some reason or another (or maybe no reason at all) WON'T do? Here's mine:
*Find a way to take Credit card payments. It's all cash right now. We have an ATM machine at least but CC's allow more free-flowing spending.
*Fix up the LD rooms, replace the ripped-up/stained LD couches or add a nice champagne room or some other high-ticket item like that. I could sell blocks of time if I wanted to but the lapdance rooms are so crappy that no one would wanna pay a premium price to spend time in them, and as it is customers complain to me about how disgusting the couches look. Don't get me wrong, I can still get guys w/ money to sit in there for 8-14 songs once in a while, I just wish there were a nice place in the club I could try and upsell for much more $$.
*Fix the driveway so people don't keep fucking up their cars when they drive up
*Replace the cracked wall-mirror up on stage, it's super obvious every single time you look at the stage
*Right now all the customer chairs out on the floor are old dusty office chairs, and they're mismatched. Either throw 'em out and get some new non-office chairs or get them all to match!
*Raise the door price from $8 to $10 or $12+, and raise beer prices from $3.50 to $5 or $7+, to keep all the cheapos out. All these dudes need is a 20 dollar bill to justify being at my club all night and not tipping a single person or buying a single dance.
I feel like all these things would raise the caliber of customer who frequents my club. We have lots of beautiful, natural girls who are very good dancers; we have liquor and allow 2-way contact. There's only 1 other club in the same city and it doesn't have private LD rooms at all. There are like 3 more clubs in nearby cities and 2 of them are pretty upscale, but as long as we undercut them in terms of door & drink prices we could still look like a bargain & get people to come to ours... that is, if we stop letting our club look so crappy and scaring away guys w/ disposable income who wanna chill in a decent middle-of-the-road club. And I think my club could afford to do some of these things, they take a cut of our LD's and I mean, what do we pay house fees for if not for basic maintenance of the premises?
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Re: Very simple shit your club COULD do to make more $, but DOESN'T
^ geez sounds like your owner just doesn't give a shit about the club or something! esp with all the market advantages you have, sounds like its very possible to achieve these simple upgrades. how long have you been dancing there? do you know the owner at all?
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Hiring standards. Why have so many 2's-6's on the floor when 7's-10's are available? I don't get why more equals better.
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^ good call paris! i was thinking that i couldn't think of one thing to improve, but that would be it. you would think they would get stricter with the recession but i guess not. its always the less attractive girls that go up to the customers first too! although that does make it easier for me when i go over, i do care about the overall quality and rep of my club in a saturated city like ny. plus its embarrassing when guys say something to me about them. not a comfortable situation for anyone. i just say "i guess she has her customers". :-X
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Re: Very simple shit your club COULD do to make more $, but DOESN'T
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Originally Posted by
laurcon
^ geez sounds like your owner just doesn't give a shit about the club or something! esp with all the market advantages you have, sounds like its very possible to achieve these simple upgrades. how long have you been dancing there? do you know the owner at all?
I used to work there. The owner really doesn't care about the place. He's in mexico half the time, anyway.
hey serena, you forgot to mention the shitty poles on stage, and the filthy dressing room.....
I could go on and on about what my club could do, but I'd be here all night.
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LOL at one of the clubs I work at there is a LD room that smells revolting! It's like there is a terrible, terrible mould smell. I always joke with the customers that a stripper must have died in there somewhere 20 years ago but they never found her cause it's so dark. This club is in serious need of a head to toe refurb... ahhhhh I'm working there all next week... ewwwwww ewwwww ewwww!
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My club just got two new arcade games that are literally brighter than the stage itself. Fucking ridiculous when we have ripped chairs (they are duct-taped), office chairs in the LD rooms (I literally have guys comment that they feel like they're at work), and water dripping into our dressing room.
Don't get me wrong...I love my dive. But it super irks me that the owner would buy arcade games instead of putting the money (the money we earned for HIS club) towards things that would make EVERYONE more money. Grrr...
Cool thread idea!
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^ ya wtf? why on earth would u need arcade games in a SC? "ya I'll come for a dance...just let me beat this level first"... pffffffffft I have to put up with hubby playing games at home. I'd lose it if I had to see guys doing this at work. A pool table is one thing cause you can play with them, but arcade games? seriously. boooooooooo!
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My club has just recently started to do some major upgrades that I think are super great! This is what we have done so far:
+ Gotten a new sign with a video screen instead of our old jacked up one
+ Weighed and measured the girls and given the questionable ones a time frame to tone up
+ Imposed a dresses only rule Mon through Fri, Sat and Sun you can wear two piece.
+ Gotten a really cool system for th waitresses: glow table "tents". They are white, and if you push the button, they light up red indicating you need something. No more yelling and flagging!
..Now if they would just fix the leaks in our dressing room ceiling.. maybe replace the carpet...
I feel like a major overhaul is about to happen.
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Replace the carpet in the LD area.
Seriously... it's been so long since that carpet was shampooed... that from taking my shoes off to dance/standing on that carpet/putting them back on... the pair of shoes I wear there smell worse than ever other pair of shoes I own combined.
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Originally Posted by
mediocrity
My club has just recently started to do some major upgrades that I think are super great! This is what we have done so far:
+ Gotten a new sign with a video screen instead of our old jacked up one
+ Weighed and measured the girls and given the questionable ones a time frame to tone up
+ Imposed a dresses only rule Mon through Fri, Sat and Sun you can wear two piece.
+ Gotten a really cool system for th waitresses: glow table "tents". They are white, and if you push the button, they light up red indicating you need something. No more yelling and flagging!
..Now if they would just fix the leaks in our dressing room ceiling.. maybe replace the carpet...
I feel like a major overhaul is about to happen.
oooo! that sounds exciting :)
i esp like the table idea, never heard of that before. sounds like it should work awesome for everyone involved.
and the weighing thing. my manager hasn't done fat suspensions in awhile because of the slow summer, but now that things are picking up its prob time for that again. :-*
and i love wearing dresses. the more you wear, the more they want to pay you to take it off. 8)
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Paris
Hiring standards. Why have so many 2's-6's on the floor when 7's-10's are available? I don't get why more equals better.
Yeah I totally agree. If I go to a club and there are 30 girls working and only 5 or less are attractive, then I'm not coming back and I'm definetely not recommending to anyone. If I go to a club and they only have ten girls but 8 are attractive, then thats where I'm going for sure, but I know that clubs are dumb and only care about house fees.
My club could definetely do the hiring status thing.
Get better VIP rooms.
My club is in DESPERATE need of a new bar and DJ booth. They are seriously falling apart.
Re-do bathrooms
Train new girls better on ettiquette, how to dress, how long to sit w/custies, etc..
Train the DJ's to push the crowd to tip/get dances and say something unique and nice about every dancer that tips them decently.
Impose some standards of how girls can look on the floor. Is hair nicely done, outfit clean, make up ok, nails decent, etc. I'm not saying every dancer has to rock a 'glamour goddess' look, but the way some dancers come on the floor? Lets get rid of trashy dancers!
Make those whose sit at the stage tip every girl at least a dollar. Mandatory tips should be enforced and those who are not tipping should be asked to leave their seats.
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My club could GET a VIP room... And maybe clean the stage mirrors once in a while, ew.
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daniella_maria
I used to work there. The owner really doesn't care about the place. He's in mexico half the time, anyway.
hey serena, you forgot to mention the shitty poles on stage, and the filthy dressing room.....
I could go on and on about what my club could do, but I'd be here all night.
Oh my god how could I forget those shitty poles! They're like these slightly-too-thick fireman brass poles that the owner apparently bought at Home Depot or something cuz they were cheaper there, and the brass outercoating/varnish stuff is coming off and a couple of the dancers are allergic to it and get rash-y. It's so much easier to maneuver & dance on my chromed steel X-Pole I've got at home, I feel like the stage dancing might look better if we had real stripper poles, especially for girls who haven't been working at that club as long.
Yeh and the dressing room...when I went in there to change for my audition I felt like turning right around and walking outta that building. I don't think them fixing up the DR would make the club more $ directly, unless maybe it raises morale which might then lead to dancers making more $ for the club
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Originally Posted by
laurcon
^ geez sounds like your owner just doesn't give a shit about the club or something! esp with all the market advantages you have, sounds like its very possible to achieve these simple upgrades. how long have you been dancing there? do you know the owner at all?
I've been there 4 months. I've seen the owner around a lot, but I guess i just haven't said anything cuz I don't think he'll listen. He's not blind, he sees all the shit wrong with the club that I suppose has been like that for a long time, and if he really did care about making it look nice he would've done something about it already (how can you ignore a cracked stage mirror or a club full of dusty mismatched office chairs?)
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I don't work at this particular club YET, but I have been trying to research it, and there is NOTHING!
-try ADVERTISING so that seattle-ites know you now have female dancers most days of the week! (centerfolds)
-on a related note, try having a WEBSITE so people a) know the status of your club and b) you seem like less of a dive.
Honestly I don't know how they stay afloat without any form of advertising. Must be word of mouth.
All the reviews from google search are out-dated and say nothing of having female dancers most nights! I don't even WORK there yet and I'm still annoyed!
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Jessie_tinydancer
^ ya wtf? why on earth would u need arcade games in a SC? "ya I'll come for a dance...just let me beat this level first"... pffffffffft I have to put up with hubby playing games at home. I'd lose it if I had to see guys doing this at work. A pool table is one thing cause you can play with them, but arcade games? seriously. boooooooooo!
Yeah we have one of those claw machine's with stuffed animals.. It can be funny for drunk people to try and play but all I can think about is, it looks so tack... and those dollars could be in my garter :)
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I think owners have a fear of fixing up/changing anything in the clubs.. bad luck or something. There's a lot that needs to be done but I've heard the owner doesn't want to jinx anything- which I understand. If it ain't broke don't fix it..even if it is broke lol :)
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Christyismyalias
Yeah we have one of those claw machine's with stuffed animals.. It can be funny for drunk people to try and play but all I can think about is, it looks so tack... and those dollars could be in my garter :)
We just got the same thing!! My club literally has chairs taped together, and we're buying shit like this?? Are you kidding me?
It's the brightest thing in our club. That's where customers' eyes land first every time they enter. :mad:
Sooo tacky. And sooo pointless. The entire staff would profit off of its removal.
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i can't believe SC's really have those claw machines! i mean, aren't those for children? what do they do with the stuffed animal if they win? give it to a dancer instead of money? sweet!
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^ They're filled with money, pornos, sex toys, etc. One of my bouncers caught me a stuffed penis for my birthday. O_o
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oooooh! that makes much more sense, thanks.
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I just started at cheerleaders pittsburgh and there is no ATM. WTF??? what kind of message does that send to customers??!! Id say installing an atm would be some simple common sense shit to bring more money around.
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I've got two. First, train your dancers. Second, hire a professional house mom like the ones we had years ago that told the girls to get their looks & attitude together before they dare go on stage!
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Oh yeh I forgot... advertising! My club doesn't have a website or do any advertising. I guess it gets people in because it's 1 of only 2 SC's in that city.