#4 Move slow in the shoes. It's hard to convey the kind of intimacy to entrance a customer when you're bouncing round all over. Use the walls, pole, ceiling bars if there are any(sm clubs have these bars anchored into the walls or ceiling just for this purpose), chair, whatever's available to help you balance. Practise makes perfect, so if you have shoes already, practise in them at home to break them in & acquire your 'sea legs' b4 you hit the club.
#5 Different clubs have different drink setups. I've worked at clubs that had virgin drink options for dancers, & clubs that didn't -- at one place it didn't help bc sm dumbass dancer blabbed to club regulars that Drinks X, Y & Z were fake cocktails. I also don't drink ITC, or if I'm in a club that reeeeeeaaaallly 'needs' you to have a drink in your hand, I'd get an amaretto sour w/ no ice & make it last all shift.
Other ways around drinking -- I have straight-up told customers & even mgrs that I can't have alcohol bc I'm diabetic. Hard to argue w/ that one. I have yet to encounter a diabetic-seizure fetish, & mgrs sure as hell don't want to deal w/ the risk of you crashing in order to push drinks.
Make an arrangement w/ the bartenders & waitstaff to bring you a 'code-named' drink that's non-alcoholic. You can agree on a unique name for it, or just ask for 'your usual' when the waitress comes to take your drink order. Let the cost difference go to the waitress & bartender as a tip for helping you out this way.
If you don't think you can get away w/ a virgin drink, let him order shots. Wait til he goes 'bottoms up' & then toss the liquid over your shoulder, or in the ice bucket (champagne) or in a potted plant if there's one next to you. This one requires a bit of skill, & the drunker he is already, the better.
I've also used my stage show as an excuse. Mine is pretty acrobatic & I would make a point of telling the customer I'm clumsy enough as it is w/o drinking. I don't need any help falling off the pole, I do that just fine all by myself
6-8 ) The biggest way you're going to learn is thru trial&error. Different customers want different things & it will take time to learn how to read them, & how to weed out the timewasters.
Make Hustle Hut your Bible, starting w/ the stickies & working your way thru. You can even start from the very back of the thread, bc there is a lot of good stuff buried deep from 10+yrs ago.
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