I've just been brought onboard as a computer consulting firm's marketing director. The owner wants to take his company to the next level and thus the reason for hiring me. Yes, yes, I know he's a fool to hire me, but anyway...
Part of the ramping up the company is fielding a massive sales force around the world. I just brought onboard a new Sales Director and already have sales reps joining. However, when thinking who also to recruit for sales reps, I've wondered about exotic dancers.
Being a regular here and a moderator on Exotic Dancer Forums (http://exoticdancerforums.com ), I know many dancers and know a lot of them are already thinking of what to do for their second career. Dancing being a young-n-healthy occupation like sports thus not something one can normally do until you can collect Social Security. I also know some that would simply like to make some extra money, having something challenging to do during the daytime (other than watching soaps), and/or starting a job that has the potential to make them more than they make from dancing and thus a way to transition from one job to the next.
But what I'm wondering and the reason for this post is just how good would dancers really make as sales reps for a web tech firm. Why I'm asking this is because anyone that has been on these forums for any length of time soon realizes that many dancers are quite tech savvy and their dancing job requires them to be good salespeople (i.e., to be able to constantly sell strangers lap dances). Both would be needed for the job. Tech savvy needed as they would need to know how the net and search engines work ... or know they can easily learn and understand that information. And needless to say, the need for sales ability for a sales job is obvious.
Now I don't want this to be a discussion about "We can do anything we like!!!" or such. I'm not talking about dancers themselves as individuals but the exotic dancing profession and what it trains dancers to be as far as sales professionals. For, in the case of my firm, what they would be selling isn't $20-$100 lap dances but big-ticket web support services to marketing firms and ad agencies. The first wave of salespeople hired working on straight commission on the monthly fees charged clients. It would also be a territory job. They're given a set sales territory and their job being to not only rope in clients but keep them as clients. Eventually, they'll have brought in so many clients that client maintenance is all they do.
I've talked about this with the owner and new Sales Director and they're both cool guys that are cool with this possibility. Or rather, they're both cool with it if I'm cool with it. So this isn't merely a theoretical question. So...
I guess what the question boils down to is: What sort of sales training does exotic dancing give and what other sales jobs would they succeed at with such training? And, more specifically, would one of those other sales jobs be what my firm needs?
I'd especially like to hear from dancers who have done other sales jobs and their thoughts of how those compared with what sales acumen is required of them to make big bucks as a dancer.



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