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    There is one thing that has always puzzled me. You see so many new girls come through, only to give up after a couple of days and go on to something else. I've gotten where I don't even ask them their name until the third day.

    One of the biggest problems I see is that girls have no idea what's involved in stripping and to be honest, most lack the sales skills necessary to make it. Why don't the clubs give a little course to new hires? A short course covering the basics of salesmanship, you know, getting and using customer's names, small talk, sales pitches, stuff like that.

    I know the club management would say that there is so much turnover in dancers that it is not worth it to them to do any type of training. But hey, if the girls were more successful at your club, there might not be as much turnover. You get a job at McDonald's and they start out training you in how to sweep the floor and empty the trash. Yet you get a job as a dancer and all the manager says is, "be here tomorrow night at 8:00".

    A lot of these clubs are major enterprises, many are part of a chain owned by the same person. I remember there was a newspaper article passed around that said the top strip club in the state paid in over $500,000 a year just in alcohol taxes. I'm sure it's possible to find the tax rate and calculate how much money that club made in booze sales, but I don't do math on the weekends. The point is this, a big city club can easily take in several million dollars a year, yet they seem to be run like they were a little mom and pop cafe.

    The customers aren't coming because the strip club's $5 beer is so much better than any other bar's. They are coming to see the girls. It seems like a little effort on the club's part to make sure the girls have every chance to be successful would go a long way. If the girl's were more successful, there would be more/better girls which would equal to more/happier customers and benefit the club in long run.

    Or maybe I'm just crazy.
    Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ~Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

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    Your right Destiny! I was thinking along the same lines a few weeks ago. I cheap handbook would be great! make the dancers feel more welcome, and more likely to stay.

    Upon my hiring, i always sat with a manager or owner and they told me what was to be expected. We had some good talks, these to me are good managers, BUT alot of dancers forget alot of what was said upon hiring. That is even if a club does tell a dancer how their club works, who to go to with problems, and not what to do.

    Alot of these dancers, are not sales people. And not everyone can sell a product. Sales is a tough business. They think it's all about getting your foot in the door and it all comes to you. WRONG.

    To be a dancer, you must first be a sales person. Or you bomb out quickly.

    Clubs would do better by the new hired dancers if they just had some cheapo handbooks to hand out. Hell it won't cost them but pennies to make a few up, and see if they help the newbies out.

    Even something along the way of a newsletter would be great. Just to let them know they are not alone, how to promote themselves, and most important HAVE FUN!!!!

    Those words could mean alot to a scared newbie. I agree 100% with you.

    Pamela

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    i agree. i'm going to audition for the first time and i think it would be most helpful to offer some sort of training course, especially in regards to sales/money/etc.

    maybe even encourage the dancers at their clubs to take dance lessons to promote more creativity on stage.

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    I agree. The better clubs used to do this when I started dancing. I remember thinking it was so cheesy because they took all these unclassy girls and taught them the same sophisticated words that they would use just slightly out of context. But I also remember the older girls teaching me how to dance, and damn I wish I had paid better attention cause there aren't people around that can dance like that anymore.

    Clubs really have no reason to invest in their dancers anymore. Dancers are a dime a dozen.

    Lena



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    The tendancy for business is to cut down on training ,especially during this economic period. No company wants to invest in their employees anymore. Being that it's a buyers' market now the providers are going to have submit to the buyers. That means it's going to have to do more with less. Being that dancers are a dime a dozen you will have to show your benefit to company before they'll even give you a second look.
    You are considered independent contractors. You're supposed to be self-sufficient at the start. The only training you should need is simply to fine tune you to the company's format.
    The only training companies provide is if you move more into management levels, that's if they decide to keep you on at all.
    Being that the entry into this business is usually an audition I think it is actually wise to require the employees to do more on their part to show their seriousness. It screens out the opportunists. Most jobs require a credential of some sort to start with them.

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