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Braziliana

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #15 on: 01 November 2020, 02:07:22 pm »
How do you bump your profile?
And what is LES?
Thank you :)
I've PM'd you.

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #16 on: 02 November 2020, 10:37:33 am »
Put the mobile on display also.

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #17 on: 02 November 2020, 02:39:42 pm »
Hi, I'm intrigued too as to what is LES and AT?

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #18 on: 02 November 2020, 02:54:30 pm »
Local Escort Search and Available Today are paid features on Adultwork which is an advertising site the OP says she is using.

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #19 on: 03 November 2020, 07:28:36 am »
Read a few blogs and write your own regularly if you can think of things to say.  I try to do two a month and it helps.

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #20 on: 03 November 2020, 08:13:29 am »
When starting out it can be good to put yourself online as "coming soon", to screen through all the time wasters for a week or so before you book a venue.

It's made doubly difficult with covid chaos & AW halting the bookings facility for feedback. Could always add some descriptive sentences in speech marks so it looks like a review on the top of your profile.


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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #21 on: 04 November 2020, 10:29:25 am »
Read a few blogs and write your own regularly if you can think of things to say.  I try to do two a month and it helps.


Do you write your blog on AW?

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #22 on: 04 November 2020, 10:31:30 am »
When starting out it can be good to put yourself online as "coming soon", to screen through all the time wasters for a week or so before you book a venue.

It's made doubly difficult with covid chaos & AW halting the bookings facility for feedback. Could always add some descriptive sentences in speech marks so it looks like a review on the top of your profile.

I will try this 😊
I assume that when weeding out time wasters with ‘coming soon’ on my profile, I will have to feature and do LES and AT to make sure they read my profile ?!

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #23 on: 04 November 2020, 10:37:20 am »
Hi everyone,

Hope you are all ok.

I’ve been thinking about working through lockdown (financial reasons) and perhaps sharing an apartment with someone in my area (if I can)

Obviously I’m a newbie and have no clients yet, do you think that it’s worth doing this? I.e whether I will actually get any new clients during lockdown, or just get TW’s and no serious bookings?

I understand that none of you will know exactly whether it will work or not but advice will be appreciated x P.S  I am based in Hertfordshire

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #24 on: 04 November 2020, 04:01:32 pm »
If you can find an apartment to share then maybe try it but I would air on the side of caution on this one because as you said you have no clients and it is lockdown time again so a lot of guys will still be apprehensive to visit an escort, but then on the other hand thier will be less ladies working so it could workout in your favour once you have the advertising thing sorted. I must add that I am just giving a bit of advice and not telling you to go work during lockdown before anyone jumps in and tells me off, GL X.

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #25 on: 10 November 2020, 11:59:27 am »
I am also a newbie, started just this week. I am a man, hoping for male input due to the different market, but female input is also welcome.

I've set up shop on sleepyboy, and although I've had a decent number of visitors within 1 1/2 days, +300 now, I have only had two contact attempts - one was a guy in London complimenting me and expressing regret about the distance, so really just one prospective customer. I am in Scotland so not properly locked down. Is this indicative of an issue with my profile or the attractivity of the services offered, or is this sort of normal in the beginning? :-\

Looking at who else offers their services (mostly mega hunks and twinks) I realise I'm a bit of a niche with my chubby, hairy body, but I've had good feedback before from both sexes, so I don't think I'm just too ugly.

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #26 on: 10 November 2020, 05:37:02 pm »
Well your market is men who want to pay for sex, so not that different :)

If you do a search here there are other threads, but if you only have one ad then you need more - do you have decent photos that show what you look like, reasonable prices, plenty of availability including offering incalls?

Like the rest of us, everything that makes it more difficult for punters to book you means fewer bookings, whether it's something you can control or not. Some of these things are worth doing depending on how you want to work (so if you only have time to do one or two bookings a week it makes sense to charge more, say) but if you want to be busy you need to keep it accessible - amongst other things this means you shiuld have enough enquiries that you can afford to turn people away.

As with the OP though, I suspect it's crap timing as much as anything else. If you're not reliant on sex work for money then it's probably as well to just sit tight for now and it'll pick up as things improve :).

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #27 on: 10 November 2020, 09:12:43 pm »
Yeah I actually got a few contacts since posting that, so I guess it's ok. ;D Even had my first timewaster just now! Maybe monday is just not the time when people look to blow off some steam. Should have my first customer tomorrow morning. Yay!

I'm starting out slowly to get a grip on things, but I do plan to expand my presence eventually. Still a bit nervous about it all. Thanks for the pointers!

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Re: Newbie and no bookings
« Reply #28 on: 11 November 2020, 09:56:04 pm »
You're a bit different to the rest of the escorts on SB (just being 30 puts you in a definite minority!) so it may be worth looking at where else to advertise. I don't know where the bear sites are for Scotland, but there must be some... or possibly the printed gay press is where clients looking for people like you look.
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