Like do you have at least 1 other dancer "friend" who has your back (against cutthroats and douchbag customers) and you help each other hustle? Do you trust other dancers?
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Like do you have at least 1 other dancer "friend" who has your back (against cutthroats and douchbag customers) and you help each other hustle? Do you trust other dancers?
There are only 2 dancers I will run doubles with (unfortunately 1 just moved). We have very compatible yet different attitudes. All blondes with big boobs, but different outfit styles. One is the loud party girl, one is 'Queen Bitch', one quiet almost doing GFE. We will try to 'advertise' the appropriate dancer if the customer(s) doesn't seem interested in doubles. We don't have CRs or dances with long awkward silences, team up to keep customer hands from wandering, keep the customer focused on the 2 women in front of him that may not be there again. All 3 of us can, and will, hustle on our own, but sometimes doubling up can just make the happen quicker and more often. Think slow nights with slim pickings. Plus I have someone to BS and make a game plan with in between dances.
I have one dancer friend that I talk to outside of work and trust to a pretty good extent... we don't team up to hustle unless it's a pair or more of guys... we do give heads ups to each other about guys who have lots of money or are assholes. The other girls, I have always been nice to and a few of us share info on customers, but nothing too extreme.
I enjoy having someone to chat with when it's slow and the camaraderie (it DOES get a little wearing to have to always be on guard against other dancers). I wouldn't say it's a "necessity" at all to team up though.
There's one girl I've been teaming up with for doubles, and it's really increased earnings for it! It's a total business relationship between us, but we have similar personalities with completely different looks (she has black hair, and I'm redhead, for example), and it seems to get a lot of the guys hooked. My last shift, there was a newer waitress who was terrified about giving dances (they're allowed to conditionally where I'm at), so we actually did us three girls with one guy and got him to spend tons with little effort on our parts.
Outside of giving double dances, we don't really talk. We still both have the "don't trust anyone" attitude...we just know we can make money working together but then part ways.
Um, not exactly. I have a ton of club buddies but I always hustle solo. I work best when I have a customer's undivided attention.
No worries (: It'll vary depending on club and the amount of contact allowed, but mine (compared to descriptions on here) seems to be a relatively high contact club, so we do grinding and such.
With two of us in a double, we'll both dance for the guy. Either we'll each be straddling a leg and acting all infatuated with ourselves and him. Sometimes we dance with each other and make the guy just watch, and other times one of us might be grinding while the other is nuzzling his neck and whispering dirty things into his ear about threesomes and so on.
We joke around and laugh a lot, too. A customer asked what doubles entails once, and we said that it meant he would be dancing for both of us...and he actually did for a bit! We usually spend a song or two sitting, drinking (virgin stuff for the dancers), and talking with a girl on each side rubbing his shoulders. Then dance for a bit, talk and drink more, and so on.
If nothing else, when spending time with customers is getting boring, this is a much more fun way of passing the time because you know the other girl gets it, and you can keep throwing faces at each other and just have fun with it.
I basically always hustle solo, but I have 2-3 specific dancers that I usually pull in when someone wants a duo. We work well together in very different ways, but we have good chemistry in the back so the customers enjoy themselves more than if I were to pull in a dancer I'm less familiar and comfortable with. I think it's good to have a dancer or two that you're cool doing duos with for that reason, but I don't think it's necessary to have a hustle buddy that you approach the same guy with. Maybe I've just never worked at clubs where that's a thing that's done though.
Lots of the ladies at my club are happy to refer other dancers to customers if they are good to them. Like, there's this one sporadic regular at my club who really digs redheads, so the ladies that dance for him will often introduce him to other redheads. He likes duos sometimes though, so you often don't end up losing out on money bringing another lady in.
I hate splitting my money with a second girl though.
If I could get the customer for x amount of doubles-dances, i believe i couldve gotten him for twice that amount of dances with just me, and probably even more.
The extra dime is not worth the added relationship/ drama developing with another dancer either.
I find it helps the most in room clubs. Much easier to hustle larger groups and keep the party going for hours with a strip club wife or wives! For wannadance clubs, not so much IME.
I vote yes on this! However, it is really difficult to find someone compatible who you can trust. In nine years I have only found two "strip club wives"
It's called a hustle buddy, and they are extremely difficult to find, yet very useful if you can.
I don't ever hustle with another girl. I rarely do doubles, and when I do, they usually end up being a waste of time... of course this is just my individual experience, but I find it easier to make a connection with a customer and get them to keep spending if we are one on one. I feel the same way about couples dances though; I can count on one hand the number of times I've made any real money from a couple.
I do have one or two girls that I will get particularly tight with like you're describing when I work. However, I am a solo hustler, and I will not aid their hustle except to send their type of customers their way.. I do that for all other girls in the club if I feel like the customer is a spender and just not into me, though; I just give my "stripper wives" preference.
I also do not double unless the customer specifically wants a double and buys a block of dances/VIP time. In my experience, they can go either way. Some times they want to double with a girl I'm not into doubling with and it can be awkward enough that we don't make any extra tips or upsales. Some times, I get to double with girls that I just click with and we have turned a three dance double into an hour in VIP that I might not have gotten on my own.
i don't like hustling with other girls for various reasons.
1) if they allow more than me, i'll get the whole "but bla bla is letting my friend do XYZ" and if she allows WAY less than me then she will be angry with me and it just makes the whole thing very uncomfortable.
2) if its 2 or 3 guys, i want to be able to dance for all of them after their friend tells them what a great dance i do. i love groups because of this and if i hustle with another girl, his friends are already getting dances and that's WAY less money for me.
3) sometimes the other girl will just hog the conversation and its like i have to compete for attention..no thanks, i already have to do enough of that.
This why you have to know the other person pretty well. I have two hustle buddies, one local and one traveller, and I am friends with both of them OTC. It's just like a regular relationship, you have to have chemistry or it won't worth.
As for it being less money, if you have a good hustle buddy, they'll get you back. My local hustle buddy was really in a pinch this week, so when I sold a four-digit VIP room the other day, I brought her in with me because I knew she needed the money. Conversely, two days ago she introduced me to her best regular. It all works out.
I just like the idea..not necessarily for work though}:D
Lol this isn't prison. U should be able to make money on your own honestly
I don't have a hustle buddy that I bring with me to customers but I have a "wife" who I spend time with off the clock and work with most days. We basically just push each other to get on the floor and get in a better mood when our (dive) club is slow or cranky. It helps to have another person there to force you to cheer up and put your persona back on. I'd go crazy without her some nights. It also helps you stay out of club drama because you're interacting with a friend not whoever has the latest drama in the dressing room.
I had a "wife as a newbie and, we made good money together. We always had back to back customers and charged 2 for 1. May not make sense because we had the split the money but, without her I wouldn't have had endless customers. They wanted two girl fantasies and we offered it to them quick and cheap (no actual sex involved).