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    This has never happened to me before, but it happened last night. I was waiting to go on stage, and 5 girls went to do their stage, and literally NO TIPS. Not even a dollar!! At our club we do 2 song sets, and it is required that you be fully nude by the end of your set. So it's not like you can just sit there. But it's not a free freaking show!!! And one of the girls on stage went "are you guys even awake??? Wow!" And they just sat there with no expression! Luckily I didn't go on all night because I was in a dance each time my turn came up. I actually get good tips from stage, usually $40-$50 each set which is not bad for just dancing around a pole lol. So what do you do when this happens?

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    Default Re: What do you do when no one is tipping on stage?

    This happens to every girl sooner or later. There will even be times when you will come on stage & the cheap bastards all clear the tip rail the second you get started. It's a really sucky feeling, but nothing you can really do abt it. Sm times it's just one of those nites.

    If it's the first time w/ that audience, then I always tried to put that much extra effort into making myself appealing. Anything from trying to be super sexy onstage, w/ lots of eye contact & CFM body language, to outright pointing at a guy who is watching me & telling (not asking) him to come up. Depending on the crowd I might try a sillier approach instead. Act like I'm going to untie my top, then hold out my garter & then turn & walk away if they won't come tip, to randomly cranking out goofy shit like the Monkey Dance from the Jonny Bravo cartoons. Times like that you kinda have to take a shot in the dark as to what will pique interest & inspire $$$.

    But even if I did take off my top during those 'tough crowd' sets, I sure as hell wasn't taking my bottoms off. I nvr went Full Monty for free, onstage or anywhere else, ever.

    However, if it's my second rotation w/ all the same cheapass lazy mofos in the audience, then it's No Tip, No Strip. I would say Fk It & either completely tune them out & make a pole trick practise session out of it -- fully clothed of course, & let those jackwagons see the kind of effort it takes to perfect our pole tricks -- or just climb to the top of the pole & sit there for the duration & make a show of acting bored. Checking an imaginary watch, tapping my foot in the air, examining my nails, that kind of thing.

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    Default Re: What do you do when no one is tipping on stage?

    I'm a big fan of the 'koala' on top of the pole. If you have dickweed managers like at my last club, this enables you to also take your top off, while simultaneously being too high up to allow the guys to see it.

    I have a huge attitude at work so if you don't tip, you get shitty stage moves. I hate the feeling of a full rack with non-tippers. I don't bust out extra effort. If the first 30 seconds of smiling and being attractive don't work, I shrug and go lay on the floor or 'koala' until it's over.
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    Default Re: What do you do when no one is tipping on stage?

    I'm also a fan of going on strike on the top of the pole

    or if I don't have a manager who freaks out if you're not moving constantly I'll just sit/lay there and look bored in a sexy pose. This enables me to start dancing and moving sexy once a new customer comes in in case he wants to tip.

    If I want a work out I don't mind doing pole tricks and ignoring everybody and not bothering to be "sexy" about it but that's too much effort if I don't feel like working out and that's not benefiting me at the moment.

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    ^ Or when the ass nuggets just sit there , I smile , flip them off and usually sit there. I deal with this almost everytime i go onstage bc stage tipping is almost nonexsistent where I work.
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    If I get a bad crowd who wont tip me on stage, I'll politely remind them "sweetie, its expected of you to tip if your sitting at the stage. If you're not gonna tip me, you cant sit here". Once I tell them that they either tip me, or they leave the stage and go sit somewhere else. If we get a real scumbag who's being cheap and disrespectful while sitting at the stage, I will literally just stand there with my back to the pole and my arms crossed. I refuse to dance for guys who are disrespectful.

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    Default Re: What do you do when no one is tipping on stage?

    I sit down in front of them and say "Hi guys! Got some love?" and hold out my sides of my bottoms or garter, whichever is applicable. Just sit there with it out. They'll get the hint. Or I'll say "Look, I'm doing my part, up here and smiling for you. Now you do your part: it's time to tip, gentlemen."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aniela View Post
    This happens to every girl sooner or later. There will even be times when you will come on stage & the cheap bastards all clear the tip rail the second you get started. It's a really sucky feeling, but nothing you can really do abt it. Sm times it's just one of those nites.

    If it's the first time w/ that audience, then I always tried to put that much extra effort into making myself appealing. Anything from trying to be super sexy onstage, w/ lots of eye contact & CFM body language, to outright pointing at a guy who is watching me & telling (not asking) him to come up. Depending on the crowd I might try a sillier approach instead. Act like I'm going to untie my top, then hold out my garter & then turn & walk away if they won't come tip, to randomly cranking out goofy shit like the Monkey Dance from the Jonny Bravo cartoons. Times like that you kinda have to take a shot in the dark as to what will pique interest & inspire $$$.

    But even if I did take off my top during those 'tough crowd' sets, I sure as hell wasn't taking my bottoms off. I nvr went Full Monty for free, onstage or anywhere else, ever.

    However, if it's my second rotation w/ all the same cheapass lazy mofos in the audience, then it's No Tip, No Strip. I would say Fk It & either completely tune them out & make a pole trick practise session out of it -- fully clothed of course, & let those jackwagons see the kind of effort it takes to perfect our pole tricks -- or just climb to the top of the pole & sit there for the duration & make a show of acting bored. Checking an imaginary watch, tapping my foot in the air, examining my nails, that kind of thing.
    Omg that monkey dance has me laughing so hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Selina M View Post
    I'm a big fan of the 'koala' on top of the pole. If you have dickweed managers like at my last club, this enables you to also take your top off, while simultaneously being too high up to allow the guys to see it.

    I have a huge attitude at work so if you don't tip, you get shitty stage moves. I hate the feeling of a full rack with non-tippers. I don't bust out extra effort. If the first 30 seconds of smiling and being attractive don't work, I shrug and go lay on the floor or 'koala' until it's over.
    Lol or taking your clothes off but curling up in a ball so your technically not breaking the rules

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    Um I tell them to get the fuck off my tip rail unless they're going to tip, and call over the bouncer if they don't. "The TIP rail is for tipping. If you don't tip you can't sit here, sorry " I usually won't even go over to a customer or interact with them until I see their money out. I get annoyed with I do a little trick for them and then they have to dig in their pocket for some $1s...Way to kill the vibe!

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    Default Re: What do you do when no one is tipping on stage?

    This is advice for when you have no one sitting at your tip rail, not for when people are sitting there and refusing to tip (I'd call a bouncer over in that case).

    Here's something I know from experience: getting angry never works. It just makes you angry, it makes your onlookers angry...everyone ends up angry.

    As for how I handle this situation...I usually spend the first song trying to get people to come over and tip me without looking like a charity case. I'll scan the crowd to see if anyone looks mildly interested, and then try to get them to come over by doing the sexy eye contact / touching my body thing. I try to look like I want them to come over, but I don't NEED them to come over, ya know? That's the vibe you want to project. Friendly, sexy, happy.

    If that doesn't work by the end of the first song, I pull my energy back into a little bubble surrounding my body, and focus on entertaining myself up there. My goal is primarily to avoid wasting energy - emotional or physical. I might try to figure out who I'll hustle once I get off stage by gazing around the club, I might prance around the pole like a demented ballerina, smiling and humming to myself...You get the picture. It isn't always pretty. But more often than not, someone eventually comes up and tosses a few dollars at me (I engage them in conversation quickly and try to turn it into a sale), but more importantly, everyone notices that I handled the situation admirably.

    Try to imagine being a customer in a strip club, and you're watching a girl on stage who has no customers to entertain. How would you feel if she threw up a middle finger and spent her entire set with her back to the crowd? Even if you could understand her pain, you probably wouldn't feel like getting to know her better after witnessing that. And we've also all seen the hot messes that stop dancing on stage, relax into civilian stances like they're standing in a library, lock eyes with the nearest onlooker, and pout / look pathetic until someone feels awkward enough to approach her with a limp dollar bill.

    ...Just do your best and get through it with a smile. We've all been there.


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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    This is advice for when you have no one sitting at your tip rail, not for when people are sitting there and refusing to tip (I'd call a bouncer over in that case).

    Here's something I know from experience: getting angry never works. It just makes you angry, it makes your onlookers angry...everyone ends up angry.

    As for how I handle this situation...I usually spend the first song trying to get people to come over and tip me without looking like a charity case. I'll scan the crowd to see if anyone looks mildly interested, and then try to get them to come over by doing the sexy eye contact / touching my body thing. I try to look like I want them to come over, but I don't NEED them to come over, ya know? That's the vibe you want to project. Friendly, sexy, happy.

    If that doesn't work by the end of the first song, I pull my energy back into a little bubble surrounding my body, and focus on entertaining myself up there. My goal is primarily to avoid wasting energy - emotional or physical. I might try to figure out who I'll hustle once I get off stage by gazing around the club, I might prance around the pole like a demented ballerina, smiling and humming to myself...You get the picture. It isn't always pretty. But more often than not, someone eventually comes up and tosses a few dollars at me (I engage them in conversation quickly and try to turn it into a sale), but more importantly, everyone notices that I handled the situation admirably.

    Try to imagine being a customer in a strip club, and you're watching a girl on stage who has no customers to entertain. How would you feel if she threw up a middle finger and spent her entire set with her back to the crowd? Even if you could understand her pain, you probably wouldn't feel like getting to know her better after witnessing that. And we've also all seen the hot messes that stop dancing on stage, relax into civilian stances like they're standing in a library, lock eyes with the nearest onlooker, and pout / look pathetic until someone feels awkward enough to approach her with a limp dollar bill.

    ...Just do your best and get through it with a smile. We've all been there.
    What about the guys that aren't at the tip rail, but the tables right behind it enjoying the free show? Does that get on your nerves too?

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    ^It ALL gets on my nerves. But I choose to handle the situation professionally. If possible, I stand facing the opposite direction so they don't get an enjoyable show.

    I try to imagine that other customers are watching who might buy a dance from me after I get off stage. So I keep my professionalism for those potential sales. It's hard to sell dances to people who just watched you walk around on stage for 8 minutes with a horrible case of bitchface.

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    ^ I think its all excellent advice Charlie and I follow the same principles (and do the same things to a tee).

    On the other hand, sometimes I have found getting angry works! Its all about how you project that anger which turns it into a positive or a negative. I channel all that angry energy (adrenalin?) through my dancing and do my thing; usually heralds a result.

    To be fair, sometimes I just lose my temper but I try and rein it in quickly and not stay in that angry state giving off the "Well fuck you to vibes" to scare off any of the genuine attention out there in the crowd.

    There will always be times when we aren't being compensated when we should have been but just consider, Who is watching that just came out of a lapdance (ready to spend on whoever next catches his eye? Who is walking back into the club after a trip to the ATM?

    Don't let the non-tipping twerps sitting at stage (or close by) fuck you out of the dollars that come from other peeps' too.
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    I use it as time to improve my stage work and focus on myself. Hey, it never hurts to make yourself better. Try out that new move you've been wanting to do for awhile but aren't quite sure if your customers will like it or not yet.

    Sometimes if I'm REALLY tired I will just pose and look cute.

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    Default Re: What do you do when no one is tipping on stage?

    If the club is really busy, I'll koala at the top of the pole. The DJ then goads the crowd into tipping.

    Usually, I just dance and don't really care, unless you get those guts in perv row who lean forward and STARE. I'll usually go to the other side of the stage or turn my back to them. Fucking freeloaders.

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    Hahaha I love everyone's responses! Monkey dance and koala? Yes please! I workout when no one is tipping me. I'll stretch, do push-ups, sit-ups etc.. Most of the time by the last song, someone will tip me. If not, hey at least I got a good workout in.

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    Anyacola, this is the second comment that you've posted which is unhelpful and negative. It seems to me that you are trying to start a fight; perhaps you have poor communication skills but given your other posts I think you get off on attention achieved any which way.

    I told you in the other thread that I would ask a moderator to supervise your posts if you continued in this manner and now I am going to report you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    It's hard to sell dances to people who just watched you walk around on stage for 8 minutes with a horrible case of bitchface.
    ^^^^^ this

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    ^ I've never had a problem getting dances after stage sets even if I got angry & "flipped out my middle finger" or walked around with a bitch face. Not everyone wants to be a goody two shoes towards these idiots that clearly know what they're doing in a club but are just choosing to play stupid to get a free show.
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    I put in as little effort as possible or just clearly show them that I don't care either.Once no one had tipped the girls before me I went on the stage with my phone,sat and started texting.The manager was unimpressed with that move but after I got off stage one guy spend 300 because he liked it.

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    It depends on my mood. Unfortunately, there's not a good stage tipping culture in my club (or the other clubs where I've worked around here, frankly), so I have to deal with this on a semi-regular basis. If not no tips at all, then just a couple dollars sometimes. I just take it in stride. If there are people sitting right by the stage without tipping, I'll call them out on it if I'm feeling frisky. Sometimes I just don't take any of my clothes off if no one's tipping, but I still try to make as much eye contact and look like I'm having as good a time as possible to try to entice them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but in my experience if I at least act like I'm having a good time, I can kind of convince *myself* that I'm having a good time, which prevents me from getting that stank attitude that makes it impossible to sell dances (for me, anyway). I try not to let it personally offend me.

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    I must have missed something because I thought this was about people sitting at the tip rail and not tipping. If no one's coming up to my stage I do my thing anyway...Sometimes I get so into my set doing cool pole tricks etc I actually get slightly annoyed when someone *does* come to tip me. (I hate being interrupted.) I love when guys come up and just throw money on the stage but don't sit there. I remember one night no one was tipping anyone so we all started doing crazier and crazier stuff on stage just to entertain ourselves. One girl put on a fur bikini (Halloween costume) with a head dress and another girl grabbed hoola hoops and a blow up doll from backstage (was used for a stage show). We started going onto each others' stages and trying to fit as many girls onto one pole as possible. Soon guys were coming up to tip, but we didn't care because we were having fun on our own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wednesday86 View Post
    I must have missed something because I thought this was about people sitting at the tip rail and not tipping.
    Oh, I didn't even think about that, because we don't even really have a tip rail at the clubs where I dance. There are tables right by stage, but not a line of chairs around the rail like there are at other places. It sometimes happens that a guy will pull a chair up or come stand by the rail, which is allowed if they tip, but not allowed if they don't. So if someone does that without tipping, they'll get asked to leave so it's not a problem. The annoying thing is when guys sit at those tables which are right there but not technically on the tip rail, so they'll just sit there drinking in the full show without contributing anything. THAT's infuriating. It really is kind of annoying no matter where guys are sitting in the club because it's a small enough club you can see everything on stage from any part of the club.

    But, still, I try just to have fun anyway so I don't ruin my attitude for myself and for guys who might actually want to buy dances from me later.

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    I watch the lights flicker on the stage and dance with them

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