Initially Selling Most Expensive Option When "Cheapest" isn't Really Cheapest
I know, title sounds confusing. This is basically a Q that came to mind when reading a recent thread about selling highest price room first, and then selling cheaper ones.
Now, I totally understand getting customer to say yes and then telling him most expensive. HOWEVER, where I work, the most expensive room is:
-$505/half hour (we get $300)
-next: $280/half hr (we get $150)
-next: $230 (we get $130)
-next: $205 (we get $115)
-next: I really don't remember, but we get $100 - I never talk about this rm if someone asks. It's really the same as the $230 room, but on the lower level so it doesn't look odd on my part
So anyway, let's say that each song is about 3 minutes, so each room is about 10 songs, which would equal $300 in lapdance money (with some type of tip, most of the time)...so we will round down and say half an hour in lapdances = $320. Let's also just estimate and say that my average tip on a room is around $60/hlf hr.
This is where the problem is. It makes total sense for me to do the most expensive rm where I get $300 (and most likely a larger tip than $60 bc the person is spending that much in the 1st place), but as far as the other rooms are concerned, it's not really worth my time unless it's a really slow/bad day. Like I told the other poster, if you're NOT good at selling dances quickly, then it would be good to have the guaranteed money from a room, but I actually am pretty good at selling high volumes of dances in a decent amt of time on a consistent basis (knock on wood)...so it doesn't behoove me to really try and get $210 (the $150 + $60 tip), I wouldn't think.
However, I also get screwed out of possibly selling the most expensive room. I don't want to look snobby or like I'm too much about the money by saying that I ONLY do the most expensive room OR lapdances. So what can I do in this type of situation besides really push lapdances if, after mentioning the most expensive room, the guy gives off body language/verbal cues that the price is too much for him?
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if he doesn't know about the other rooms, don't tell him. if he asks, then do it, but many customers have no idea about the cr prices, lapdance prices, etc.
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Agreed, take advantage of any ignorance custie might have about the pricing. And NEVER feel snobby asking for the most expensive rate for your time! If you feel insecure, like you arent WORTH 505, it'll come across... and after all, to the custie, you're the most beautiful, intelligent, sexy, seductive, and breathtaking girl in the room! No sense in being insecure. You always hear about those girls who sell 1200 dollar an hour vips. And I know now that they don't get them from EVERYBODY, but by acting like they're worth the time and money, the custies who can afford them will pay that.
That being said, if custie won't lurch for 505, ask him in your sexy/slutty/playful manner what kind of budget he has for the time of his life tonight. If he has the $ for another package, great. If he just wants a few single dances, make them the hottest you possibly can, and then when he's on the verge of drooling, tell him if he wants to consider the 280 or 230 room, you'll not charge him for the current song, or will throw in a free one, etc. I use this hustle method all the time right around 12-1 AM, when the single dance guys are turning into sloshes.
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It makes sense not to tell him about the other rooms...if they aren't that visible...but the ones that are the MOST visible that the customers seem to see first and ask about first are the cheapest ones. The 2nd to most expensive one is actually upstairs in an area that isn't even seen, so it's hard to get away with not mentioning the other 2 rms :-/.
It's not really that I feel insecure asking for the expensive room...it's more that I feel as though it would be a bad business move to ask for the most expensive one, leave out the other rooms that are in plain sight...and then tell him about lapdances...basically saying that I will ONLY do the most expensive room OR the lapdances...I feel like I could lose out on money.
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I would work the "unseen" factor to your advantage!
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Originally Posted by
exotica268
I feel like I could lose out on money.
There is always going to be an opportunity cost for ANY decision you make. On packed nights, I can usually make $100 in the last 10 minutes simply because some guy gets 3 dances and feeling generous. But then there are the nights when you think "man! I should have sold that room"
Regardless of which option you choose, you have to pick one over the other.
The GOOD news is that either way: you are making money, and as much as we want to maximize profits every single solitary second...it just isn't reality.