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    lately i've been doing better on getting stage tips. even though i can do pretty decent pole work, i'm not one of the more "popular" stage dancers. for awhile making funny faces at the crowd and smiling at them got me tips, then some complicated pole trick that impresses a lot of people.

    last night it was so difficult to get stage tips. i'll do the complicated trick and go with the audience flow, yet some dancer who just shakes her booty gets more reception from the crowd--and tips!

    augh!!!!!!!!!! what can i do? is just dancing to hip-hop the answer? i'm almost ashamed of asking for advice since i've been dancing for 6 months and feel as though i "should know" what to do to put on a good stage show. yet this week has been especially difficult in terms of earnings at the club.

    oh, if this thread needs to be moved to another board, feel free to do it.

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    Oh sweety its not you, and dont be ashamed to ask for help because honestly 6 months isnt that long. I still ask for help after a year n a half.

    Sometimes its just the crowd. Assess the age group in your bar, what seems to get them going. Sometimes its something as simple as going for classic rock, cant go wrong with the oldies.

    If your in the kind of club you can add little props to your show maybe try that? At Staples you can get these paint markers, they're neon and glow under the black light and wash off with baby wipes or water. Get some 11x17 paper, colour your bewbies with the markers and press them on the paper... guys will tip for it. Its not a mess, dont have to worry about getting the stage covered in paint and you can clean yourself up in 5min then be back on the floor.. carry a marker(sharpie) with you and you can sign them after for a small tip

    Get a blanket and a glass of ice cubs.. run the ice cubes over your body to a hot sexy seductive song and have a grin like its turning you on... do it on the blanket so the stage isnt wet for the next girl.


    Or maybe just try talking the guys up at the tip rail... be sweet to them, smile, ask them how their day is going...

    Sometimes though its just a lost cause and the guys are just dicks...

    Play around with ideas im sure it will come back

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    i'm relieved that it's not me. believe me, i've done other things to get the crowd excited such as pretending i'm a sexy jedi knight by wielding a lightsaber on the pole and even THAT didn't impress some people enough to tip even a dollar! this job is the most challenging one i've ever had, yet i'm determined to master it.

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    LoL if you cant get tips just work on the table dances...

    Honestly if you can do the paint thing though it really works... its really cheap and you can do like 5 posters in one song

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cally View Post
    LoL if you cant get tips just work on the table dances...

    Honestly if you can do the paint thing though it really works... its really cheap and you can do like 5 posters in one song
    hmm. that's a interesting idea, yet my club is a classier topless club, not a nude club. i'm not sure how the paint would fit into the taste and appropriateness category.

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    It would be something different.

    If you cant do paint do the ice cube thing with the blanket... or get candles from the dollar store and do a hot wax show. You dont need to be nude to do these you can do it all topless.

    Just remember anything you do you need to have a blanket under you so you dont make a mess for the next girl.

    Plus if booty shaking to hip hop is whats getting tips.... and your in a classy club... well you get what im getting at. LoL

    I do all these things with my feature shows and i've worked classy clubs... these all work well, speshly a fri/sat night with the kids.

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    i'll see what i can do.

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    Get one of the dancers you like to tip you, you can even trade the same fucking dollar all night long.

    If the DJ is worth a shit, he'll help you out by talking both of you up for it, and tell the guys not to be shy.

    If the guys aren't tipping I'll send a girl up with a dollar and do this, it works more than 50% of the time. In my present club it has yet to fail me.
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    There are some nights where you just are the party scene of the stage and other nights it's like you're invisible. Either way when I'm on stage I'm mostly looking at the crowd to see who I can approach, see who looks like a good prospect, the difference at my club is we just dance in one spot because there's usually like 3-5 other girls up there with us so we're not doing pole tricks, floor work, props, etc. so I can scope out the audience more. I used to really focus hard on my stage presence and I still do but I'm focusing even harder at who I can go approach. Since I can see up high on the stage that gives me a good opportunity to see who I can approach.

    I know, I'm sorry this probably didn't help, sometimes I think there's some night where it doesn't matter what the hell you do, you could backflips and they still don't tip.

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    These days the booty shakers really are the ones who get the most stagetip action, because they attract the guys who like to pretend they're in a rap video and do the money-throwing thing. A few years ago money-throwing was RARE. I'm not a booty shaker so I don't get the money showers except on the rare occasion some odd money-thrower takes a liking to me for some reason.

    I just stick to doing my thing, letting my OWN personality shine and that gets me decent tips. I'm happy with what I get and I don't need money showers - hell they're a pain in the ass to pick up anyway and I'm more concerned with selling dances and VIPs than getting a bunch of $1s on stage

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    i agree with bridgette, i'd MUCH rather get dances than stage tips.

    it seems like, at my club, the booty shakers do so well on stage because it's the same people who are only willing to let a few dollars go that are tipping them. they won't buy dances! 9 times out of 10, the "money throwers" are there to make drug contacts, or looking for a fuck for that night.

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    ^^Right, the money-throwers usually spend fuckall except to throw money at the stage like in the videos. Those guys are GENERALLY only interested in the girls who dance to rap and shake their asses the entire set. So if you're not that kind of stripper, forget those dudes. Work on your own hustle and presence. Using the stage to scope out potential targets is good too - often the guys spending the real money aren't tipping at stage

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    can anyone tell me how to post a new topic as i've just joined and i don't know how to i can only seem to reply to current topics rather than start a new one....

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    In every forum near the top of the page on the left, there's a button that says "new thread". Hit that and it'll take you to the page to put in your new topic.

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    Friday night, same story at my club. One of the most graceful and beautiful stage dancers I've personally ever seen gets on stage and not a single asshole tips her! I gave her five bucks of my own. Next dancer--husky little booty-shaker--does a few ass claps and gets the money shower. Must be the rap video thing.

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    nothing works better (for me) than making eye contact with each guy. i just pretend (for 20 seconds or so) that i'm dancing just for him. it almost always gets them up to the stage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bridgette View Post
    ^^Right, the money-throwers usually spend fuckall except to throw money at the stage like in the videos. Those guys are GENERALLY only interested in the girls who dance to rap and shake their asses the entire set. So if you're not that kind of stripper, forget those dudes. Work on your own hustle and presence. Using the stage to scope out potential targets is good too - often the guys spending the real money aren't tipping at stage
    yeah, i'm definitely not that kind of stripper.

    i hate to admit this. i want to be liked by the crowd. so without lots of tips i feel rejected, which is not a good thing to feel in this industry. after all, this is an area where you get rejected all the time. maybe as i get better at this the fears of rejection will go away and i won't care about tips onstage so much. yet the feeling of lots of dollar bills on the stage for ME has me feeling like i've done a great job and made some people enjoy their night out.

    what confounds me is the phenomenon of girls who look bored onstage and do mediocre moves get tipped ALOT whereas a dancer like me who attempts to work the crowd and do impressive things gets nil.
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    Sounds like your routine is good, and maybe a bit on the athletic side. Is it sexy too? Sometimes slow and sexy is more appealing.

    I am in the same camp as Bridgette, though -- just like she is using the stage show to check out customers for dances, I am using it to see who I would like to buy dances from. I am a pretty good customer, but I usually tip at the stage only if the club is really busy and I want to make sure I get the dancer's attention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by casaubon1 View Post
    Sounds like your routine is good, and maybe a bit on the athletic side. Is it sexy too? Sometimes slow and sexy is more appealing.

    I am in the same camp as Bridgette, though -- just like she is using the stage show to check out customers for dances, I am using it to see who I would like to buy dances from. I am a pretty good customer, but I usually tip at the stage only if the club is really busy and I want to make sure I get the dancer's attention.
    it's definitely sexy. i will dance slowly when a song with a slower beat is playing. when are you coming to san francisco?

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    i agreee with pretty penny..i also do the smile and "come hither" look...jus as if you were making eye contact with a cute stranger from across a bar. u know? even tho he may be old and have grey hair...just PRETEND! lol.

    jus try to feell like you're not dancing for THEIR acceptance..think like, you already KNOW your hot. and u dont need their acceptance. they need YOURS.

    ya know? i duno my little 15 year old sister told me this tip..and it WORKED!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mina loy View Post
    when are you coming to san francisco?
    Make a guy feel welcome! Certainly in the fall; I hope well before then, but nothing certain yet. Hungry i, right?

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    Eye contact works. I will do my sexy thang looking right at a guy, then stick out my tongue at him and giggle. It makes them laugh, and usually get up and tip. I'll do this several times during a set and I think it helps turn them from being too serious or bored looking at the endless parade of naked chics, to something a little more fun. That's what they want after all: fun.

    Sometimes just doing some sexy move while looking right at a guy gets him up off his ass to tip.

    Last night I went on stage and got the most tips I've gotten at this club so far. I was just playing around the whole time. I was definitely being sexy, but when some dude made a stupid face and was sitting there making fun of me, I just laughed and went on (he really did look pretty funny trying to mock me too). I'd see someone looking at me, walk up and do a little wiggle or just move right on by them and stick my tongue out at them, then turn back a little later and laugh/smile at them. I tell them something like "now stick it in" as I'm holding my garter out for their dollar. Just bascially having fun. I got off stage with a pile of money that I could barely hold in my hands - $1s, $5s and $10s.

    Anything you can do to get a guy to laugh with you on stage will get others wanting to come see what's going on, and of course bring a dollar in the process. It works!

    Another thing that helps is to not care so much whether you're getting tipped. It's related to having fun on stage as well because guys are attracted to girls who look like they're having fun. I've had guys who sat all the way in the back and probably tip onstage once a year get up off their asses and come tip me saying I just look fun. Anyway, just get up there and do your thing. Play with the crowd. If no one tips you for a while, so what? Keep on doing your thing and having fun, and someone is bound to tip you. Show him you're happy to get his tip and someone else will go up too - it's like a snowball.

    One more thing - encourage customers you talk to on the floor to "come see" you on stage when you're going up. Then sometimes I'll make a point of ruffling their hair, winking at them or something as I'm on my way up, as a sort of reminder that it's time to see me on stage now. This helps get the tipping ball rolling. You've already talked to or danced for them and were nice, left a good impression so they're often obliged to give you a dollar onstage. Getting someone up there to tip you early in your set helps break the ice to get MORE tippers to follow.

    Ok sorry for the longwindedness. There's just so many ways you can get guys to tip you on stage...

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    Quote Originally Posted by casaubon1 View Post
    Make a guy feel welcome! Certainly in the fall; I hope well before then, but nothing certain yet. Hungry i, right?
    Ooooh!! One of my really good friends works there!

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    ah, yes. thank you for the suggestions.

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    Hey Mina, you're still at the I right? There's good $$$ to be made there w/LD's, you really shouldn't worry too much about stage unless it's because you really enjoy the attention. Just focus more on your hustle, and you won't even have to worry about the stage tips. Good luck hun!
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