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I charge ?150, then I have to take off:

?10 - travel
?15 - babysitter
?60 - room

that doesn't leave a lot does it 

Still, I suppose I should look upon it as one more chance to get a booking who leaves some feedback. I know I won't get another booking to dove-tail onto this one...  I've not had any such luck since I started in May! I wouldn't mind to get 2 or 3 hours of bookings but just one at a time is a very poor profit option.

Am wondering whether to say I only do 1.5 hour appts for in-calls, to offset the hotel costs (then I'll probably end up with even less bookings (which would put me somewhere in the minus numbers  )).

Like you said you need at least a couple of bookings to make hotel incalls worthwhile. You started in May, you?re offering incalls and your rates sound reasonable so I?m not sure why more bookings aren?t forthcoming. Are you working around limited availability?

Hi Bananamuffin

I have a similar situation as you - I escort one evening a week and every weekend.  I find it varies - last week every spare moment I had was full of bookings - 8 in a week (which is a lot for me).  This week - nothing booked so far (cue tumbleweed.....).

Are you on AW? I know a lot of people hate the reverse bookings on the site, but I have found bidding for them can be somewhat successful.  I was lucky enough to find my best regular through applying for his reverse booking.   

Probably only about 25% of my business is gained by waiting for the clients to contact me.  Applying for RBs can be a bit soul destroying though and I certainly do not bid lower than the amount they specify.

Good luck hun - it can be a blooming frustrating business, that's for sure!!!

Lili xxx

@ BananaMuffin. 

I know it feels like a long hard slog ...... and it is ............ but you could be available 84 hours a week and it still wouldnt suit everyone, so really there is no such thing as being 'too available'.

It really takes a long long time to get established and like I've said  previously, the number of girls saturating the business does not help.  Everyone/many think you make up a profile/put an ad in a paper and sit back and take hundreds of calls and bookings galore .. sadly this is a myth.  It might have been like that 5/6 years ago but no longer ... not even for the established girls .... some of whom are struggling too.

All we can do is try and make our profiles more interesting than the next girls - don't ask me how to do this - if I knew I would bottle it !  It's really frustrating when you 'make yourself available for 'x' hours per day/week/month and you end up only getting a couple of bookings - it doesn't seem worthwhile at times - but we got to be grateful that we ARE actually getting bookings in - even if it is with a minimal profit.

Isnt NEED a horrible word and makes us feel so desperate but its the way of life nowadays with work    and its difficult to say how 1.5 hr bookings would go with you.  Sometimes its difficult to get one hour bookings never mind longer.  A little bit here and there is better than nothing at all.  Sorry to sound like such a misery guts but many femmes come into the business thinking they are going to earn thousands of pounds a week and nowadays that just aint the case.  There is always the option of offering a 2 hour special rate booking - just something for you to think about.  Many girls do this and charge around the same price as about 1.5 hours and if truth be told many do not hang around for the two hours.

What I'm trying to say in a sorta stumbling sort of way is that we gotta take baby steps and not expect to be able to do a marathon the first year or so. 

I don't know how it is where you live but up in Scotland it is very much busier during the week like you said with guys getting their leg over on their way home from work.  Weekends can be dead.  The fact that the football is on just now every evening is not helping and when that finishes it will probably be the last week on the run up to pay day and dire as usual - gad why do we bother at times.

I wouldnt be too disheartened re not having any takers on your special offer for for many it is far too far ahead for them to be thinking - especially if it is just for 30 minutes bookings - would you rather have guys make bookings and then have to wait and see if they confirmed or wait till the time comes and get maybe more bookings than you are expecting.  What to do is when you are not working is to put your profile in the area you will be touring and letting guys know that you will be there in a couple of weeks.

Hope these little things help. xx Good Luck xx

Hey Natalie: The thing is if I do 30 min in calls, I'll end up owing money lol!! I am doing an offer for these this week all week - got NO calls AT ALL. NOTHING that I do is working! Less availability, more availability, less opportunity for guys to book on the phone, more opportunities for guys to book by phone - nothing seems to be making any difference. 30n min bookings are fine by me but it it's an in call it's got to be 2 or 3 of them or it's just a total loss leader.

Lili69: 8 bookings in a week? I've not had this since mid-May nor in a month let alone in a week!!! Christ, I'd be made up if I had that many!!!! God, you're so lucky!! I only want about 4-6 hours of work a week, i don't really need any more - but I can't even get that.

Jesus, I can't make my civvie self employed business work, I can't get a job, and apparently I can't make as a prostitute either!

But seriously, I need to figure out what is wrong so I can change it and start getting bookings.

I just CANNOT work from my home where my children live, I just couldn't do it.

I've not really looked into reverse bookings but the next weekend I'm child-free I will look a bit more into it and how it works etc in case that's a way in for me to just get more - and get some fb's/field reports.

Thanks guys. x

Would you mind sharing where you?re based? Location is a big factor too. Try not to be too hard on yourself, as long as you?re doing the best you can, the rest is out of your control x

Would you mind sharing where you?re based? Location is a big factor too. Try not to be too hard on yourself, as long as you?re doing the best you can, the rest is out of your control x

So true Alisha, there is only so much we can do ............ the rest is down to the men ............ unfortunately !!

I think it's not your availability that's the problem. If you are literally getting no calls or emails I think your profile is not attractive enough to the clients. i am not saying you are unattractive - i am sure you are gorgeous, and you sound really lovely
Do you have nice photos? That is probably the biggest attraction + a well written description. I think your profile might be too plain, and is not attracting anybody. If you have a trusted friend ( or even a trusted client at the end of an incall) who can take some nice photos of you ( with your own camera of course). Get some cheap, colourfull stuff from Primark, underwear, nice dresses, heels. Do your hair, and get some snaps taken! Photos are very very important, and once you upload them, you will see how suddenly guys will be adjusting their availability to yours 

I completely second this. In fact I was thinking this the other day on your other thread. If you want you can post your AW link on your profile so we can have a nosey 
Also I think maybe it's time to think about setting up a website/ branching out from AW.

xx