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    Default Re: big fish in a little pond

    It does depend where you are and what suits you, I started off in the most high end clubs here, when the economy went crap i started working at dives and did great, In America the club I mainly work is the most high end in the city, i like it for the most part, one weekend i went to a say mid kinda divey place, and it was low pressure and soo easy to sell I i did well there but like soo many dances I was soo tired afterwards, here now Im fed up of my dive and I find the men want so much for like 100 pound,and the girls are dirty for much less than in the bigger clubs, im hoping to find a higher end place where i can make some $$.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rudi View Post
    I have worked in both, high end clubs w/ long gowns and elbow length gloves and the dive to mid tier clubs. I started high end then moved to dives. I prefer working in dives/Mid tier. The secret to working at a dive and making it extremely profitable: A) find a small clean club in a state that brings in a tremendous amount of tourism of high end clientele. Yes, you will be in a dive but there is wealthy men in the club because of an event in town or because it's season. B) find a small clean club that is the only club in a 120 mile radius in a tourist town. And that is how I have manifested big money at dives.
    what tourist towns have only one club in a 120 mile radius?

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    Default Re: big fish in a little pond

    It's not worth it to be the big fish in a little pond. My new club is full of sharks and I like it. No competing against gum jobs or jelly rolls. It's not an upscale joint by any means, they just have hiring standards. I used to work in dives because I was a little lardbucket who couldn't get anything better. Now that I'm not fat I'm through with dives. I won't go for uber high end but at least where I work now everyone has teeth and nobody is 200 llbs!
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    I started working in dives, then progressed to mid-tier places, and have also worked a few high-end bars. I've also worked in locations from downtown, suburbs, small towns, small cities, and big cities, and I think the most important factor is region beyond club type. To extrapolate the point being made in this thread though and take it further and apply it to regions is where this "big fish small pond thing" can be really useful. I started dancing in dives in a small city. Made decent money. I moved back to the big city when I returned to school a few months later and tried out a couple dives, mid-tiers, and even some higher end places over my uni time in the "big city". I consistently made shittier money in the "big city". No matter what kind of club I was in, no matter how good shape I was in.

    Due to the higher prevalance in larger cities of models, dancers, actresses, singers, etc, I find the competition to be insane. Therefore standards of both the clubs and the customers are way higher. This on it's own isn't neccessarily bad but...paired with lots of pretty girls that are hungry for cash are lots of customers whose bank accounts are overstressed due to extremely high living costs in the big city and you get a lot of "value" --better known as "extras"--seekers. I'm serious I worked every club in the city pretty much, all except 2 which were really close to my uni and they ALL sucked. All were full of extras, oversaturated with girls who ranged from passable-super hot (again, didn't really matter which club we're talking about, they were all pretty uniform for the most part), and all were full of the highest concentration of dirty customers I have experienced in my dancing career. I travelled outside the city to the suburbs for a while living there to work eventually, being fed up with the extras-ladden environment, and the trade off was super high fees to work (gas, rental car, 2-3 extra hours in commuting time each shift + higher house fees in general). The suburban clubs were a bit cleaner and less competition but holy hell did all the fees add up. It ended up being more worth my while for me to commute back on the train a few hours to the "small city" where I started working and work at literally ANY club there for 4-6 shifts, make my money for the month, and go home and not deal with the horrible working environment in the big city and focus on uni instead. I think the general rule of business is that you want to be the biggest fish in your pond. To get bigger, however, you eventually need to allow "natural selection" to work on you a little bit, and "evolve" your hustling skills. You can't do this without dealing with some competition at some point. While working in the big city was extremely unpleasant for me, it really honed my hustle, and general ability to compete, as you are forced to learn adaptive measures in some form or another, and those tricks still stay up your sleeve when you head back to a more relaxed environment.

    Basically, though I think it's good business to work where you are most comfortable and make the most money, I also think it's good to push yourself sometimes and work somewhere that might intimidate you a little bit. It makes you that much of a better dancer and makes you stand out that much more if/when you downgrade again in the future.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lol1337a View Post
    Everyone needed to know exactly how much money I'd made. I started waiting until they'd left to cash in my funny money, but then they started waiting for me! So at the end of every night I would come out to 5-10 dancers sitting at a table placing bets on how many dances I'd sold. God forbid someone someone beat me or come close because then it would get kind of mean spirited -- they would totally fawn over the other dancer and make it completely obvious they had been waiting a long time for me to fail. I was so uncomfortable that I also started counting my tips in the bathroom stall at the end of the night, but even then I was told that they'd peek in under the door!

    In addition to this, I had to be the nicest person in the world because everyone was looking for any excuse to turn on me. Whenever I slacked on my schmoozing someone would try to cut my throat (I was always able to turn it back around because they were pretty inept.. I earned the nickname "Diamond Throat" once). Since cutting my throat didn't really work they turned to weird accusations. I was flat out accused of stealing funny money, other times they would accuse me of participating in schemes where I would buy funny money from other dancers to pretend it was my own. They would bring management and staff into the gossip too! Their logic was that it was impossible to sell more than 20 $25 dances in a 6 hour shift, much less 25+...

    I can't overstate how relieved I am to work in big clubs where I'm a nobody now!
    God this is almost my exact experience at my home club. Being a big fish in a little pond is extremely stressful and I am already VERY burnt out. It just sucks that I basically have to travel if I don't want to deal with the same old bullshit constantly. I love travel for leisure but travel stripping stresses me out honestly (maybe because I am still new to it and still trying to figure out where it's good right now...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by tempest666 View Post
    It's not worth it to be the big fish in a little pond. My new club is full of sharks and I like it. No competing against gum jobs or jelly rolls. It's not an upscale joint by any means, they just have hiring standards. I used to work in dives because I was a little lardbucket who couldn't get anything better. Now that I'm not fat I'm through with dives. I won't go for uber high end but at least where I work now everyone has teeth and nobody is 200 llbs!
    I agree. Bad bitches get along. All the girls at my place can make money if they want.

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    I alternate between a high end club in a central downtown location in Toronto and a smaller mid-tier place in a suburb.

    During the week and during the day youll find me at the high end place. Theres more customers, more foot traffic, potential to make actual money on days, traveling business guys etc.

    On the weekends I prefer the mid-tier place because the high end place is PACKED with dancers and gets more of the "Im just here to watch the show before I go to the bar/club etc" crowd. Sometimes the club is packed but its overwhelming. I find that most half decent clubs are packed on the weekends and I might as well go somewhere where the money comes easier. Competing against 20-25 dancers vs 80-100 makes things easier for me.

    The earning potential at the high end place is higher always because of champagne rooms but on the weekends at a dive/mid tier place I find it pretty easy to just stack 20 dollar dances. A big spender at the high end place drops 1000 plus in one go whereas at the lower end place its more like 200-300 bucks.

    It's also good for the ego .. not gunna lie.

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