How do you keep your hustle during slow seasons?
Hello beauties,
I know I can't be alone in this scenario: the season slows down, the girls get desperate, the club gets dirtier, the hustle gets harder.
My club has really gone downhill, but it still remains the busiest in the city. In a snapshot, it looks like this:
- In the morning, it usually takes up to three hours for customers to come in. When they do, they are customers who are there every day. These customers are treated like wallpaper, because they do not spend any money. They usually drink water and eat lunch. There are 10-30 girls checked in at this time, and 5-20 customers. The girls are a mix of top earners there to meet their regulars and girls who are there planning to work an 8-10 hour shift and want the cheaper house fee.
- In the afternoon, the few customers who are there leave. It usually doesn't pick up again until around 8. The 'finishers' (girls who provide 'extras') usually arrive at this time, and competition is really stiff. Customers will see girls touching men's crotches on the floor, giving extensive dollar stage dances, and providing high-contact floor dances. They then expect the same from everyone! The customers are either regulars who are there every day, sweatpants-wearing older men who know they can receive full service, and groups of 3+ younger men. There are 20-40 girls and 5-20 customers.
- At night, there is quite a variety of customers and girls. However, the 'finishers' make it hard to hustle. I find it particularly hard to compete with their stage and floor dances. A typical stage dance can include a girl getting off stage to straddle a custy in his seat for 10-15 seconds, giving him a short, high-contact floor dance. Or, girls will hook their legs around a customer's neck and rub their vagina in his face. I don't feel right doing anything more than a quick motorboat, and that's for a really big tipper. Girls will rub a custy's crotch under their pants, if they're wearing shorts, during a floor dance. We are a topless club, and I regularly see girls pulling aside their t-bars for customers. When I do get a dance, a customer rarely gets another one. I just don't know how to compete. On top of that, while there may be 100 men in the club, there are 40+++ girls checked in, too!
OK- that was more than a snapshot- but my hustle just isn't cutting it anymore. I've scoped out other clubs...and the girls at the other clubs are in the 3-6 range, and there are fewer customers. I used to be a top earner, but I just can't keep up with how much things have changed in the past year. My regulars keep me going, but they are expecting more and are trailing off quickly.
Does anybody have any advice? A similar situation? An attitude-changing, uplifting few words??!!
xoxoxoxo
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Have you scoped out the other clubs in terms of working at them or did you just visit them as a patron? Fewer customers and less hot girls aside, if they're cleaner, I'd be over there. It can be hard to compete with extras girls, and it sounds like your club is a cesspool for that kind of activity. A cleaner club will not only be easier to make money in, but it'll be less soul destroying to not have to compete with that sort of thing. Worth a shift or two just to see if anything!
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I know exactly what you mean.
Reality = a dead a$$ club or cheap a$$ customers and chance of making money is seriously up in the air.
Any decent big money clubs are hours away. Not quite an easy commute for a family woman.
Camming is looking more and more like an option right now.
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My club has been rough too. I got to work at 10pm tonight and the evening shift starts at 8pm, the bouncer told me they'd had one customer since 8pm and he came in specifically to see another girl. No one came in again until midnight and then it was just a bunch of cheap motherfuckers. I was getting really down until some guy came in at 3am and ended up making my night.
It's hard for me when the club is dead like that for hours, or just fake-busy and not even really fake-busy because there were like 5 guys and 10 girls... it really affects my hustle. I get down on myself even though I KNOW it's not my fault I'm not making money, but I get really depressed, and then when customers do come in I don't do well because I'm in such downer mood.
I just try and stay positive and I drink a lot of wine to try and keep my party-girl mentality going on...
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I feel that way too and I was trying to explain to manager but he totally doesn't understand.
It can be a total downer to sit in a dead club or work hard but be surrounded by cheapos.
Well you can always pull out your phone and get on stripperweb.com to keep your mind focused despite the shitty circumstances.
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^I got on stripperweb at work all the time for that reason!
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Tarabell
Does anybody have any advice? A similar situation? An attitude-changing, uplifting few words??!!
I've been down that road before. If I find myself in this situation I'll either cut down my hours at the club and then work more often in a second club, or I'll just switch to another club entirely.
If you're looking at a club that is really far away, try traveling the long distance if you can, as long as the club is worth it. Look for clubs where it is the only club in the area, these can be little goldmines because if it's in a town where there is nothing to do, guys will have no choice but to go out to that only club. My area is slow right now so I travel to work in another state entirely once or twice a week where the money is 2-3x better than in my usual area, so it makes up for the travel costs and is well worth it.
Also by going to a new club where you don't know anyone and the customers don't know you, you have an opportunity to make new girl money! New girl money is the best!
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Attachment 36237It's why I do so much self promotion. If I can find a few custies of my own a week or every 2 weeks that helps!
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I've been focusing in other areas in my life. Diet, exercise, hobbies and personal projects take over my attention this time of year. I go to work, but my goals are non-money related. For instance, one goal is to send a text message to all my customers and just touch base with them once a week. Another goal may be to force myself to talk to a customer that I'm convinced will spend nothing and attempt to be so charming that he ends up throwing me some money for my time anyway. I never expect this customer to spend, but go in with the hope he'll say nice things about me to the other customers in the bar.
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i usually don't work very much at all until spring. it IS a dead time of year, although i've been lucky enough to work in a brand new place so it gets attention just for that.
anyway,i focus more on my hourly positions this time of year. if i could, i would travel somewhere touristy/seasonal. or vegas.
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I usually get a vanilla job during the dead season, and dance maybe once a week. If I'm only making neighborhood restaurant or dive bar money at a strip club, why not just pour beers while wearing clothes a couple of nights a week until the club is busier? What did you do for a living before dancing? Can you do it part-time and dance one night a week? Or can you talk to management about working as a door girl or waitress or bartender in your club?