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Fabulassie

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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #15 on: 16 April 2015, 05:35:05 pm »
I'm like you fab. I aim to see educated, middle class, middle aged men. I like my job because it involves great conversation some of the time and I have regretted it every time I have taken a booking I wasn't so sure of. If I can't talk to the client the booking is awful for me. The clients that don't like talking/are uneducated tend to want to bang for 60 minutes solid (in my personal experience)

Nationality doesn't come into it so long as they speak well and have read my profile. I hate the calls I get where they automatically sound like pushers/time wasters I know it sounds bad but when I pick up the phone and get something like I did last night:

Client: Hi you free tonight?
Me: Sorry I'm fully booked tonight but I am working Friday (secretly hoping he wouldn't book as he didn't sound like my kind of client)
Client: I can't do Friday. Are you sure you you're not free tonight?
Me: No, as I said I am fully booked.

I just like simple courtesies like you would expect in an email, just a 'hello, how are you' takes 2 seconds and it puts the whole conversation onto a positive note. Yes I am a snob. But I couldn't do this job if I wasn't... it wouldn't be worth it as I would be miserable.

Yup - I agree with everything you've said. Especially about the dullards just wanting sixty minutes of "banging." Which is why I will try to limit them to shorter bookings.

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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #16 on: 17 April 2015, 12:17:02 am »
Fabulassie, I say that to myself every month...
thanks for putting it 'down on paper' :D

Then I remember why I have those guidelines. :o
« Last Edit: 17 April 2015, 12:20:10 am by cheesypeas »
Random idle thoughs...Can I manage 100 sit ups a day for a year...?

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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #17 on: 17 April 2015, 01:41:26 am »
I think you are definitely right in creating boundaries, which is something I do too, when selecting clients. I purposefully won't see guys under 25 as I find they just want to rattle my bones and screw me senseless for the full duration of the booking, even though I am not far off that age, I find it horrible!! I could be losing out here, but that's my experience of it. I do have other reasons for not wanting to meet younger clients too, like I might actually know them or they find it hilarious to out me if they see me in public.

However, something I have found is not to stereotype people when they are communicating with me. For example, I had one guy who kept writing "babe" in his messages. I hate this. I find it rather degrading and wouldn't normally meet with someone who uses phrases like this as I believed them to be neddy / chavvy / wankers. But I met with him regardless as everything else he was doing was correct. When I met him, he couldn't be further from a  typical "babe caller". He was a respectable business man, very well educated and was extremely polite and courteous towards me. I couldn't understand why he kept calling me babe! Then I realised, maybe he thought he had to speak to me that way???

Anyway, the moral of that story is: not to put people into boxes. Do not force yourself to meet with people you are not comfortable with for money's sake but I think you are right in maybe being less restricting in client selection, if that's the way you want to develop your business.

If you did not want to open up your target market, then you have to look at your marketing strategies and possibly expanding them to reach your target market? I have just been browsing through the post on where to advertise. So far I have only ever used AW and found myself to be very busy since starting 3 months ago. However, just to keep ahead of the game I have now drummed up my own little website and plan to advertise using other platforms. Good luck with whatever you choose to do.

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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #18 on: 17 April 2015, 08:14:34 am »
I keep thinking I should be less picky when guys ring who haven't read my profile and spend a few minutes answering their questions. Then I remember when I did that before and hardly ever would idiots who don't read ever book :/
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« Reply #19 on: 17 April 2015, 10:23:17 am »
I don't think it's a case of being less picky or lowering standards but being more open and not having pre conceived ideas about certain types of clients for example  a lot of girls might say they won't see Indian/ Pakistan clients because they want to haggle the prices
Or young guys because they want to shag non stop
Or men over 60 because they remind them of there grandad

But for every one that is like the above there are probably 10 that's aren't it's just getting these clients
Ok every so often you will get one that's a dick but it's a numbers game, the more guys you speak to and don't disregard them as clients because of there accent / the way they text  or something that irritates you the more work you will get eventually





I have a spiel ( from my days when I used paper advertising )
It means I don't have to think to much when someone rings to book

I don't get irritated when they ask me questions that are on my website / profile either

I take it  that educated or not they haven't read my profile only looked aty titts,  location, and my prices
I don't even assume that they have read what I do / don't do

By doing this it takes a lot of the hard work out of phone calls because your in control

I don't have a particular type of client that I want to see   I'm generally pretty good at weeding out the timewasters / boundary pushers so I rarely get them


I also think that a lot of people don't have particularly good social skills esp ( and I'm generalising here) but because so many people text /watsapp a lot of people find it hard to speak on the phone

The only text I ignore are those dicks that send one word ones like Hi .... WTF am I supposed to reply to that apart from Hi back



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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #20 on: 17 April 2015, 10:40:28 am »
Yes, Paris - you were one of my inspirations for this thread! :D

It's not lowering standards - it's having a more open mind, thicker skin, and greater patience.

I'm already noticing an improvement in my entire mood when I answer the phone to someone who sounds "chavvy." I just had a call from someone who had that sort of flat, nasal twang and a couple of weeks ago I would have replied coldly and gotten them off the phone. But this time I didn't. I kept my tone warm and was friendly and he warmed up and as he talked I got a good feel for him. He talked about how he wasn't sure of his schedule today because he had to drop a kid off at Uni (so, "chav" accent isn't the right judgement... this is a good dad who has raised his kids right.) He then asked me a question about my profile and made a very helpful comment - genuinely helpful advice for me - and we had a nice talk about it. The guy was just lovely and I hope he can make it to see me today.

And that's someone I would have probably gone cold on from the first thing he said.

I think part of my problem may be that as a foreigner I am still not entirely sure what all the different accents or ways of speaking mean. I have learned to recognise my local Asian accent - that is, the accent of young Asians who were born in the UK. Those guys are pretty much great - as much so as the non-asian 20-something. I get a bit more unsure when they have a very thick foreign accent. I get nervous if I think they come from a misogynist culture. But, if I keep them on the phone and stay friendly they often open up to me like the guy above did and I can sense that I'm dealing with a decent guy.

Vivastreet gets a lot of these people and I'm trying to figure out how to make Vivastreet pay off. I sure does make my phone ring - I just need to get a handle on this demographic.

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« Reply #21 on: 17 April 2015, 11:05:12 am »
I think you just have to be more open-minded and relaxed as well when on the phone

Also sounds stupid but if you smile like a  crazy person when you answer the phone it's can make a massive difference to how you come across on the phone  you sound happy and upbeat someone that a guy might want to spend time with .

  If you sound like a right miserable cow, who is coming across as stroppy and cold and short then he might as well have a wank or call someone else


If they ask for uniforms I ask what would they like ( they normally know what they want  ) I have French maid, school girl, loads Of PVC & boots, secretary but I ask them what they want so that I don't have to give them a list

But I also say I always wear  a little black dress high heels and stockings and suspenders as normal and if they want a uniform then they can choose when they arrive as mine are all hung up on the walls ( lol )


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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #22 on: 17 April 2015, 11:52:09 am »
I'm incredibly picky aswell the slightest thing will make me turn someone away for a booking.
It could be their spelling, the way they talk on the phone anything.

But I think I would rather be picky than just take any old booking off anyone who calls me! X

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« Reply #23 on: 17 April 2015, 12:47:53 pm »
I think you just have to be more open-minded and relaxed as well when on the phone

Also sounds stupid but if you smile like a  crazy person when you answer the phone it's can make a massive difference to how you come across on the phone  you sound happy and upbeat someone that a guy might want to spend time with .

  If you sound like a right miserable cow, who is coming across as stroppy and cold and short then he might as well have a wank or call someone else


If they ask for uniforms I ask what would they like ( they normally know what they want  ) I have French maid, school girl, loads Of PVC & boots, secretary but I ask them what they want so that I don't have to give them a list

But I also say I always wear  a little black dress high heels and stockings and suspenders as normal and if they want a uniform then they can choose when they arrive as mine are all hung up on the walls ( lol )

Paris

What do you do if they then go blank?

When guys ask what services, or what outfits, what lingerie I have tried asking them what are they looking for, what do they like. Quite a few just say "ummmm, errrrr" and the conversation comes to a halt. Do you just leave it?


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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #24 on: 17 April 2015, 04:20:08 pm »
I seem to turn so many away too so I tested myself last week. Someone phoned who sounded ok at first, clear voice, then he mumbled some questions. One about parking, fair enough, and one about what I'd be wearing. Both times I had to say pardon as he was mumbling a bit. Normally I'd turn them down but thought it could just be nerves, didn't get a danger feeling so thought I'd see him. So I agreed to see him then when he turned up, tried to start kissing me. I said could I have the money first please. He said I've lost it ??? then said oh it's ok and took out ?50 which isn't my half hr rate. So I refused and he said he'd come back with it (doubt it) and I said no please don't but the way he said in an automatic way 'I've lost it' makes me think he's gone through with bookings before and at the end said he's lost it. So I'm carrying on as I am I think!

Dress requests are fine in half hr or more and giving them a choice of outfits is a good idea because some start saying wear blue knickers with purple spots and that's annoying but some will like the office look which is common with me, and the others like skimpier stuff.

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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #25 on: 17 April 2015, 05:13:17 pm »
Bluetits, I had a similar situation.

Guy called asking for a 3 hour booking, not my usual type, sounded a bit chavvy but I thought I could try to be a bit more tolerant. So I booked the hotel, right before the booking time I was sat on the bed trying to talk myself out of cancelling, I just felt off but then he knocked and it was too late.

When he turned up he paid me for only an hour... then 5 minutes later says the parking only has 30 minutes on it so can we make it half an hour. Told him I don't do half hour bookings and so he carried on with the hour... at this point I wouldn't have extended if he really had wanted 3 hours.

He spends the whole booking at it, not gently either. Then at the ends he asks for a shower and is in there half an hour... seriously taking the piss. I actually think he was wanking in there. For someone who supposedly was going to get a ticket he wasn't all that worried about his car.

I haven't loosened my screening since.

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« Reply #26 on: 17 April 2015, 05:29:21 pm »
I know what you mean about sounding chavvy Mids. I'm in London so most of the builder types have cockney accents and those tend to be my faves but with the thick chavvy sounding ones, that's different and it's not even a case of I don't think I'd like to be in their company, I think it's that I don't think they'll even have the money to turn up.

I'm less keen on the 'lawyer' types because I feel they're judging my surroundings and come across as stuck up which I can't get on with. One even said a couple of weeks ago that when he was walking to mine he wished I was in one of the houses opposite as they look so much nicer from the outside. Yes they do but I live alone so am unlikely to live in a 4 bed family home and he said they're much more likely to get burgled then mine. I mean, what's that got to do with anything! I'm not in a penthouse but it's a decent street and building.

I accept about 2ish out of 10 calls I get. Accidentally though, I've even turned down guys I've seen before who were decent but next time they phoned they didn?t pass my screening for whatever reason and I said I wasn't free but they've sent me a text at a later date explaining who they were and if I was free which I'm glad they did as I would've missed out so am now saving all numbers.
 

 

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Re: Trying to be *less* picky
« Reply #27 on: 17 April 2015, 05:35:06 pm »
Yeah I save the numbers of clients I like. Never experienced snobby clients up here... Something I'm sure I'll come across in my tours of London eventually though.

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« Reply #28 on: 17 April 2015, 05:48:19 pm »
One guy I saw last year who was an accountant, had even written me a script of how he wanted the booking to go. I was to be the matron as he always fancied his at school and he said when he's taking a shower, could I learn the lines! It was two A4 sheets. It made me nervous and as the booking got going I was trying to remember these lines but in the end I said it would be more natural if I just go with my own words and that I understood what he wanted. He was fine with this thank gawd but I felt like I was back at school  ;D

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« Reply #29 on: 17 April 2015, 05:50:26 pm »
I think you just have to be more open-minded and relaxed as well when on the phone

Also sounds stupid but if you smile like a  crazy person when you answer the phone it's can make a massive difference to how you come across on the phone  you sound happy and upbeat someone that a guy might want to spend time with .

  If you sound like a right miserable cow, who is coming across as stroppy and cold and short then he might as well have a wank or call someone else


If they ask for uniforms I ask what would they like ( they normally know what they want  ) I have French maid, school girl, loads Of PVC & boots, secretary but I ask them what they want so that I don't have to give them a list

But I also say I always wear  a little black dress high heels and stockings and suspenders as normal and if they want a uniform then they can choose when they arrive as mine are all hung up on the walls ( lol )

Paris

What do you do if they then go blank?

When guys ask what services, or what outfits, what lingerie I have tried asking them what are they looking for, what do they like. Quite a few just say "ummmm, errrrr" and the conversation comes to a halt. Do you just leave it?

I have a script /spiel that I say which pretty much covers everything that I do-
/don't do so I cover my prices , services what I include /don't include or don't offer
I ask how long they want /what time

If they ask for uniforms and say don't know what they want I usually say well I have loads so when you know what you want give me a call back. ( the genuine guys either know what they want and will say I have you got xxx ) the TW / will normally find someone else to ring and waste there time

If they sound uncertain / or vague I just say give me a call when you want to book / know what time
you want