I've been having this problem lately at work where I will go on the floor as normal and talk with guys and depending on the guy's general steering of the conversation will either keep things light and flirty or a little bit more serious where they can see that I have a brain but I "know" I'm there for money and it doesnt matter whether I need the money or not, I will eventually have to close the sale right? Sometimes I will be flirting with them the whole time trying to get the dance straight away and sometimes we'll do the "getting to know you" bit....So, I go in for the witty little closing or even just go, "Hey, there's a special, let's go do it, yea?" or some variation.."Hey, there's a special, wanna do it? " and they go..."Wow, you're such a good saleswoman" as if I'm the only girl in there trying to sell dances....but will find some way to get out of it and decline, but still expecting me to stay and chat with them...And this is a club where previously I did very well.
I'm also not making much money on stage anymore...not like this is a huge stage tipping crowd, but it is sort of irking me that people will tell me AFTER I'm done..."Wow, that was so good. You look great up there" and I will keep the smiling face, thank them, yet still not tip, either then or when I go up for another set. I keep my appearance up, always have hair, nails, outfit looking nice, try to give a good show, like having a good conversation. Initially I figured if money was not going to come from stage, I can at least have fun up there even when Im not making money yet I'll see someone do absolutely nothing and yet get tons of money thrown at her...I've been at the club for 5 months, so it's not like I'm the new girl..club's only been open since September. But now the slow money has sort of trickled to lapdance earnings as well and that is bugging me like crazy. I hightailed it out of there after making $1 in 5 hrs. I don't know if this is just a really bad few weeks or what...it has been slow other times, yet people didn't feel the need to talk about my "sales" pitch. (?!?!?)Am I the only professional one there? Do I seem too corporate? Do I intimidate them in some way?
I am not quite sure what is going on..I will normally think that I can pick up on the vibe of someone but I seem to be soo off. At my club a lot of the time I'll give a guy a sincere compliment and he will say, "Yeah, right...All strippers say that"...or things as if they've "caught on to the game" yet I will actually be telling the truth. *Sigh*..And this isn't exactly a high volume club where I could just cut my losses and flit about to another guy...sometimes that extra minute you could've spent would've made the difference and sometimes they already would've told you no (or yes) and meant it had you just done a "D'wanna dance?".
Does this mean I should leave my club and try somewhere else? I have no strings tying me to SoCal other than my lease, but sometimes people will tell me...oh, it's just slow today or the guys are just being weird today, wait until later...but when you've been working from 4 or 5pm that day and theres only a handful of customers, you may or may not have made even $100 and youve got nothing but rejection all day, it makes it very tough to want to "wait it out" and see what happens between 10 and 12 or 12 and 2 when sometimes the girls outnumber the guys and even if a bunch of guys came in your odds of walking with $3+ are much lower. It is worrying me that things have been like this lately without me really knowing why. We've passed the tax season. I haven't gained any weight or had any drastic appearance change since I started. It is hard to get used to 5 solid months of making a good 1-1.5k/week to making half that...yet this IS southern California...home of the lowest earnings....Can someone give me advice on conquering a few of the issues I'm dealing with, or tell me if I really oughta just head back to AZ a week or two out of the month, where the money was much easier and less stressful to come by....?



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