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Aye carumba!!! I don't think anywhere is good during the summer,although I've read that perhaps places like Myrtle Beach maybe good at that particular time,due to the golf tournaments.
alaska
I did really good here in Wisconsin last summer. I don't know how the money compares to other places regarding cost of living (in my area cost of living is very low) but I did great last summer compared to how it is here the rest of the year. There are golf courses around here, as well as a lot of fishing spots. It may not be the kind of money that a lot of you are used to, but for this area its was great. Summer is definetely better than winter around here.
Jersey Shore
bozeman , montana
spirit lake, iowa
I dance in Phoenix and Scottsdale and do very well most of the year but during the summer this place is a ghost town due to triple digit temperatures. Nobody (including myself) wants to be here when it's 118 degrees outside. So while my electric bill is soaring , my money is about a third or less than what I usually make. My question is which cities are profitable to work in during the summer months? Where do you girls make money at that time and where are all the tourists spending money in strip clubs?
I hear most PHX girls who travel in summer go to Albuquerque. Summer is the busy season over there and they say the money is EASY to make. Higher contact than we're use to here, but if you keep your contact low I hear you can still make money because you're a new face. Probably around the same as you'd normally make here.
My club will PAY for some of our girls to go to ABQ for a week or two in summer, so long as you request at least 2 weeks in advance. Something to think about.
I work in Albuquerque and in the summer we are SWAMPED with dancers from Phoenix, Tuscon, and El Paso. It's definitely not our busy season, hot and slow and tons of dancers, but maybe it's still better than AZ?
The clubs here used to be no contact but because so many out of town dancers swoop through and do want they want with no repercussions and the owners no longer care it seems to be a free for all.
The owners of TD's also own clubs in Tucson and Phoenix so many dancers that visit from there don't have to pay a house fee, though some do at the owner's discretion. I know they used to pay some dancers to come but I'm not sure if they still do.
It used to be very profitable and less competitive for out of town dancers (well, for all of us really) to come here but that's really changed in the last few years. Of course being a new face in any club works for awhile.
Not to be discouraging, just a head's up before you make a trip that summers are tough here too. I've always wondered why so many dancers stop here instead of really heading north.
just curious, what is considered summer here in az?? june july and aug?
go to nyc for the summer
I do really well during the summer in manhatten. I first worked at Scores East and now Penthouse. Both places I banked in the summer because most of the girls disappear thinking its bad. July and August Are my best months since no girls show up and less competition. I wish you the best ofl luck with whatever you choose.
I've worked in NYC in summer and it was extremely hit or miss. I made $2500 one night and barely house fee on another but I guess it averages out. It only takes one guy.... I also noticed that straight prostitution was the norm rather than the exception, but maybe it was just at that particular club.
i've heard south florida can be good because of the ammount of tourists during the summer.
Being well traveled I will give you my feedback. With the big increase in population in Phoenix, (almost 3.7 million people) things are not as slow there as they used to be. The PROBLEM is that the growth has brought in a HUGE influx of dancers from other areas and the clubs have more dancers than they used to several years back. Yuma is more of a ghost town in summer than Phx is and their clubs lose noticeable business.
This business is slower EVERYWHERE. It doesn't matter about the weather.
And keep in mind, during the summer, many more middle and upper middle class family men are on vacation, kids are home from school, and they can't "sneak" away to the clubs as much. This affects clubs everywhere.
Running from one city to another for greener pastures is not usually profitable. Albuquerque is not as prosperous as Phoenix (The Phoenix metro area is #4 in the entire country for the amounts of millionaires living there) not as many customers with money to burn live there, and the clubs are slower just like everywhere else.
I do about the same all year round working bookings with the exception of the 3 day weekend weeks. Some weeks are slower than others for no apparent reason. The clubs just don't get the money spending guys some weeks.
The reason I have been able to make a living on the road doing bookings is because the clubs control the amount of girls. I typically work with a total of 5-7 girls a night. Also I have a customers who come to see me in various small towns I work in. The weeks I have a few of these guys come in I do ok. But the business is slower in ALL clubs including these. The survivable difference is the dancer to customer ratio, the fact that on bookings we all work from opening to close 6 nights a week and get base pay of $300-$400 a week. When only 30 guys come in one of these clubs in a night, there are only 5 girls to split the pie with, and if a few of the guys come to see you, it works out. Plus no house fees in most clubs, just tip outs and $5 a dance to the club which goes towards paying us.
The downside is having to keep my stuff in storage and be on the road more than I am at my home base.
Dancers need to in my opinion build a clientele, use their heads, and stay put. Work full time in hot climate areas and save money when it's not so hot to compensate for the slow seasons. You may only make $400-$800 a week instead of $1500 in some places over the summer, but there really aren't many alternatives. There are so many dancers now and less customers interested in strip clubs.
The places with a little more strip club volume in the summer have more girls than they need nowadays, and motels in those areas jack the rooms up, which makes costs hard to bear.
If you are traveling to a place where there is not a controlled amount of girls, so that the dancer to customer ratio isn't good, and you are not guaranteed 6 full time shifts for a week, and don't move around each week to clubs that have controlled amounts of dancers and full time weeks, your money can be very very shaky.
If you work in big city clubs where only 60 guys walk in the door for a slow night, you probably have 35-40 dancers on the floor. Repeat that scenario all across the country. And if you do work in a big city with dancer schedules, they have a lot of girls on the books and may only let you work 2-3 nights a week or restrict which shifts you can work. That's not enough days to make much money and you're not able to work from opening to close, or long enough to have a shot at every customer that comes in during the day.
When I worked in Phoenix a few weeks back on a Sunday night I made the best money. Only 15 girls and hardly any black girls, plus better customers. On a Friday night, there were around 35 girls, lots more black girls, and the same amount of customers, and the usual young hardheads who don't buy. I barely made my tipout back.
This business is getting harder and harder to have a STABLE 4 figure a week income at (in the teens and low 2's) because the amount of competition in most major markets is not stable. Too many dancers and the guys lollygag around when it comes to buying dances, or choosing who to buy from. And in clubs where you get decent stage tips, it cuts down the amount of times you go up, thuis equalling less money.
There is NO city with a booming strip club business. Some may be a little busier than others, but if they are you can bet they have more dancers than the business warrants.:P
Tina's right of course.
What I did last summer was watch the baseball game schedule and strictly work RIGHT AFTER the home games, plus a couple other busier shifts per week. I was able to keep my head above water that way.
Go to the diamondbacks website and see the game schedule. A whole lot of girls hadn't figured out the deal there, so we'd often be a little slower on girls that time of day (after games), and we'd get a rush of customers for an hour or so. I'd make most of my money for the day post-game, then stick around another couple hours and get whatever I could before bailing. I usually managed to pull $300 or so after payouts that way. If games were on a Friday I'd make around 5-6. It wasn't fantastic money but enough to live on.
Make sure to note when the games start, and time it so you're ON THE FLOOR right when it's ending. Example, for the 1pm games, we'd usually get our rush about 4. So I'd be sure to be at work around 3:30, so I could be rolling and catch the full swing of the post-game rush. It also works out nice in summer because you've made some cash earlier and don't have to deal with the crappy summer night crowd. (I usually do really well at night here, but in summer it's a whole different ballgame - just not enough customers and SWAMPED with girls). AND, make sure to work a PHX club on game days. That's where the custies will be heading when they leave the ballpark.
Anyway, hope that helps.
Being a bachelor party dancer can be really great in summer in just about any city.
Oh, you are SO right about that! I did really well when I first started!Quote:
Originally Posted by Paris
Do you like events? Try Golf Tounaments, NASCAR races and Grand Prix Racing events. I like in Indiana and it's all about racing here in the summertime! They are always worth it!