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    Default Do you keep in touch with customers?

    I get a lot of business cards and emails from big spending customers and while I have no problem asking them for thousands of dollars, I get really shy when it comes to talking to them outside the club setting.

    I want to keep in contact for two reasons: one to make them into regulars and two to maybe find a way to get out of the industry. A lot of my customers are CEOs and upper level management of fortune 500 companies so I figure it may be worth my while to curry some sort of professional relationship that may lead to something non-club related in the future. I really want to start networking since I want to get out of dancing within the next five years.

    Has this ever worked out for you? Do you think it's possible to get jobs from customers you meet at the club?
    How do I get over the fear of emailing customers?

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    I have multiple email addresses and a prepaid cell
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    Default Re: Do you keep in touch with customers?

    I keep in touch with big spenders to cultivate them into regulars - working regularly is also an effective way of doing that. I keep our OTC communications brief and always mention when I'll be working next or that I look forward to seeing them next time at the club.

    I've received career and job hunting advice for customers, though I've never actively networked through them. I wouldn't be comfortable with that because I don't want my future employers to know about dancing, nor do I want to feel like I owe them anything. I have had one customer offer to pass on my résumé to the right person, but he commented that it'd be so strange to have me in his office and wouldn't even know how to introduce me, so I didn't end up going through with it. While there may be some potential networking opportunities in the club, personally, I'd just rather keep those lives separate.

    It sounds like you have no qualms about that, but I still urge you to be careful with trying to get jobs via customers. If you make your intentions known, you'll likely get a fair bit of time wasters who will promise you all sorts of fantastic positions to try and get free time with you OTC under the guise of "helping you" over dinner. There's also the possibility that, while you may find a customer willing to help you get a job, you'll be "indebted" to them, in a sense, for their silence on your dancing past or for pulling some strings for you. Thats not to say it isn't possible to network your way out of the club, but it can get messy, so tread carefully.

    Do you have any other work experience or education? Do you have a specific field in mind? If so, it'll be much easier to translate your networking into job opportunities since you'll have your own skills and experience to stand on - not to mention you'll be a much more appealing hire. You'll also be able to focus your efforts on customers within your field, rather than wasting time on everyone. If you just want out and have no plan or background outside of dancing, you'll have a much harder time, I think.

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    Some girls get obsessed with cultivating regulars. Honestly, just because a guy spends a lot of money on you coming in once or twice, doesn't mean he'd be a good regular. I would say that first, you need him to be coming in on a regular basis--see if you can arrange an in-club "date," with him coming in every Wednesday, or the first Monday of every month, or something like that, just so you ensure that he is willing to continue spending money on you without immediately pushing for an OTC meeting. The other benefit of this is if you know a high-spending customer is coming in for you on a certain day, you can plan accordingly and avoid getting caught in the situation where you have two or more customers coming in at the same time and you have to try and divide your attention to keep from offending either or both. If after just a few of these "dates," the customer is getting really demanding and pushy about wanting you to go out with him OTC, he's probably not the best prospect for a regular or sugar daddy. Say you're worried about safety...I have a friend who used to diffuse this by saying she'd been "burned before" and just wanted to make sure she was totally comfortable around him and totally trusted that he was in it for her and wasn't looking to take advantage.

    My last club, girls would try to turn every guy who spent money on them into a regular and it backfired 90% of the time and caused some serious issues. There are very, very few customers I've given contact information to over the years, and I quite honestly prefer it. All regulars have a shelf life and I always see the decline and fall of these in-club relationships, and it's never pretty. The money will start to dry up, he'll become very aggressive, bitter, and angry, and more than once I've seen a former regular turn into a stalker. Any guy who has that in him is best left alone, I don't care how much money he spends.

    I would first concentrate on arranging those in-club meetings over a long period of time--really long, like at least six months of regular visits. If he likes you enough to do that and you don't have any weird feelings about him, I would then consider meeting OTC. But for just the average high-rollers who come in every once in awhile, leave it in the club.

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    Default Re: Do you keep in touch with customers?

    If a customer spends several hundred I make it a point to see if he wants to exchange numbers (90 percent of the the time, they do) That way they become regulars.

    As far as networking goes, that's one of the aspects of this job that I love... my networking opportunities are great, which is awesome for me because I'm almost done with my undergrad and am ultimately going for a jonit MBA/law degree; my agent at the club I work at introduced me to his attorney who owns a very successful law firm, he offered me an internship to eventually be hired, which is GREAT networking! One of my regulars is VP of a Nissan branch in Canada and is going to give me a huge discount on a brand new Nissan... hell, another of my regulars is an oral surgeon who's going to take all of my wisdom teeth out for free So uh yeah, networking is a great perk of this industry! When customers spend a decent amount of money, I always make sure we keep in touch!

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