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General Category => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Tessa on 07 December 2013, 12:28:11 pm
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Hi Girls,
I just wanted to get some advise on how to potentially get more bookings in London. I am only offering outcalls and charge ?200 per hour for outcalls in Central London. I have been getting 1 or 2 bookings per week and have only been advertising on Adultwork so far.
I have profesional photos and I am British Asian, so in a niche market as such and provide mostly GFE services. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks x
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Hey hun, I think you should knock your prices a little as this is out of the price range of most punters. Asian girls are of course very popular and in demand. Why don't you try ?150 an hour for a little while? You are sure to get many more bookings. I thinks the ?200 and over price range is for girls who have pornstar credentials. Would love to know how it goes and what you decide to do. Good luck!
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Hi,
I tour to london the odd time, id definitely recommend advertising on some more sites, i am always quiet if i just rely on adultwork alone :-* x
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Hi babe yes I think you should try with 150 for an hour..especially if you dont offer incall yet...did you try to featured your profil on adultwork?you ll get defo more clients if you feature your profil(cost between 5 and 25 credits to do so)...good luck xx
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Hi girls,
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply and for your suggestions. I will try to knock my prices down, might put it as a Special Xmas offer or something!
Not being able to offer I calls is a major hindrance!
Agains thanks.
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Yes, it can be. On the other hand, a big chunk of the money isn't going to pay someone else's mortgage.
Reducing your price might get you more work. It might also get you more money. Trying it as an limited time offer is one good idea and you can use the time to think of good reasons why someone should pay more for your marketing. If you are charging significantly more than others offering similar things, you do need them.
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Oh yes and forgot to mention another very important point. Most meetings that take place are incall meetings. You do really need to have an incall location. Then you will be able to offer 1/2 hour sessions as well. xx
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Oh yes and forgot to mention another very important point. Most meetings that take place are incall meetings. You do really need to have an incall location. Then you will be able to offer 1/2 hour sessions as well. xx
Whilst it's certainly true that incalls are more frequent than outcalls, not everybody wants to be forking out the sort of amounts that setting up an incall base in London costs; the OP might only be working part time and if that's the case a regular hotel incall day would be far more affordable for her.
I agree with the comments on upping your advertising; Adultwork is a popular site in London and ?200 for a one hour outcall isn't that extreme and I know people who charge that for incall, but no, it's not really a premium site (quite apart from how it's prone to falling over) and you really need to get some broader ads up that more punters used to paying those sorts of rates will see. A website ought to be on your list too, and you can find out plenty about that with a few forum searches.
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?200 for an outcall isn't even that bad- I think that the bigger issue is not offering incalls! Is there any way you could do incalls? Only a fraction of my bookings comes from outcalls.. But hey, there's plenty of outcall only agencies so there's enough demand- maybe google some of their (outcall only agencies') numbers to see where they advertise? And for sure try the free directories and sites that come up.
Another way to blag the price for outcalls would be to say, ?150 for example plus taxi fare and make it clear on the phone etc. so you're in the searches but people know that it's gonna total more with the cab fare. Good luck! XxX
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?200 for an outcall in London is very reasonable but many clients want in calls which is the problem, from experience never go below 200 no matter what you are offering and especially if you have a niche market :)
It would be better to spend a bit more on better adverts and pictures etc.. my experience with adultwork was hopeless, they are all just cheap sleaze bag undesirables on there :o
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I think ?200 an hour is ok for an outcall but if your finding it isn't getting you much work then reducing them a little should defo help.
Or of you'd like a wee boost, perhaps booking a hotel for a day once a week or a couple of times a month would get you a good chunk of money. You could make a grand a day if you work really hard that day.
xx
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my experience with adultwork was hopeless, they are all just cheap sleaze bag undesirables on there :o
.. including you, when you were? ;D
AW is very far from perfect, but not everyone has the same experience as you. If everyone you were in contact with was a problem, I'd say it was probable that you either didn't give it long enough or you need to consider that the other thing they all had in common was that they were after you.
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say, ?150 for example plus taxi fare
Someone I know used to charge ?x+taxi fare, then cycle there.
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Cycling? That's mad turning up to a booking sweaty and breathless especially when the client is paying for a taxi lol x
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Cycling? That's mad turning up to a booking sweaty and breathless especially when the client is paying for a taxi lol x
Ha, I think that depends where you are. Where I live there's hills and cliffs so not good, but if you're somewhere that's flat as a pool table I think it's a good idea :).
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I only work part time, hence the difficulty of offering in calls but after reading through your suggestions, I will book a hotel once a week and try offering incalls, hopefully that should help.
Maybe I will only have to work very hard just for the one day offering in calls then : )
Thanks once again for the replies! Very much appreciated.
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Hi Girls,
I just wanted to get some advise on how to potentially get more bookings in London. I am only offering outcalls and charge ?200 per hour for outcalls in Central London. I have been getting 1 or 2 bookings per week and have only been advertising on Adultwork so far.
I have profesional photos and I am British Asian, so in a niche market as such and provide mostly GFE services. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks x
Lower your prices, start with ?100-120 for the first hour then offer discounts for longer bookings, like -?20 for 2 hours etc.
Get rid of the professional pictures and instead get a friend to take normal pictures of you in underwear from a webcam or phone etc. Dont re-touch or digitally alter the pictures at all, upload them as they are, let guys see you as you really are. When you do the pictures make sure you accentuate your waist-hip ratio. I.E. wide hips with slender waist. Wide hips and a slender waist is a big turn on for guys if they find your pictures sexually appealing they are more likely to book you.
Always make sure you have the green "available today" icon on when you are prepared to work.
Make sure you login in everyday, guys want to see that your active.
Try to bid for a place in the featured members section, this puts you at the top of the page for searches. You have to pay for this, but guys will know you are serious about escorting if you do this.
Try to give a good service when you do get a booking. Having a batch of regular clients will make the whole thing alot more pleasant.
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Lisa, this might all work fine for you and that's great, but presenting your personal experience as if it's fact isn't appropriate and telling people what they should charge most certainly isn't. The OP has made it clear she's part time and outcall only; I wouldn't do a one hour outcall for ?100 anywhere, let alone London.
Using various AW features can help, but they're not the answer to everything. And dumping her pro-photos is pointless when she's already paid for them - she's made it clear by the rates she's decided to charge that she isn't marketing to the AW bargain hunters, and the only real mistake I can see she's making so far is by not expanding her ads to cover more sites and a much bigger punting demographic. I would agree that adding some amateur ones wouldn't hurt, but only as part of a mix (and only on Adultwork and maybe a blog, if she wants to start one :)).
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I am British Asian, so in a niche market as such and provide mostly GFE services. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks x
If you mean British Asian, as in Indian, Pakistani etc as opposed to Oriental, have you thought about advertising with Indian Escort Guide? I used to advertise on there and got a fair number of bookings from it. I removed my advert for other reasons but I found it well worthwhile. Good luck. :)
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Cycling? That's mad turning up to a booking sweaty and breathless especially when the client is paying for a taxi lol x
It may well not work for the female escort market (although there is undoubtedly going to be a niche for the hot and sweaty) but there is a very definite group of gay men who'd go for a sweaty 'straight' man.
You can also often get to another part of central London quicker on a bike than in a taxi, and this is can be an impatient market too.
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Cycling? That's mad turning up to a booking sweaty and breathless especially when the client is paying for a taxi lol x
It may well not work for the female escort market (although there is undoubtedly going to be a niche for the hot and sweaty) but there is a very definite group of gay men who'd go for a sweaty 'straight' man.
You can also often get to another part of central London quicker on a bike than in a taxi, and this is can be an impatient market too.
I can confirm. I cycle to and from a lot of my outcalls. It's rarely hot enough or hilly enough for me to work up a sweat but I shower when I arrive when I need to or at least splash some water where necessary. I leave a few hundred metres from kensington gardens so I short cut through there and through Hyde Park a lot to avoid traffic. A slow, flat cycle ride through beautiful parkland beats crowded tubes and buses and saves a fortune in taxis. Not ideal for everyone though. I do get the occasional request for sweatiness. Usually foot fetishists wanting sweaty feet.
Also, to the op- Hi Tessa, check the 'where to advertise' guide on the saafe main site. I'd recommend advertising on as many directories as you can at first until you're getting the number of clients you want and ask each client where they found your ad. If you find you're paying for a directory that's not bringing in clients, don't renew your ad there. Also look up a well established escort or two and google their mobile number to find which directories they're on.
If you're only seeing a few clients per day it might work out cheaper to rent an incall place by the hour rather than a hotel. I rent mine out but I'm not in London now. There should be some on the saafe seeking/offering page.