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Lu2222

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #15 on: 29 February 2024, 07:52:53 pm »
Miss E

How many enquiries and bookings roughly do you get a week?
I think the issue is my lack of exposure. Twitter plus Adultseek just isn't enough

RB1

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #16 on: 29 February 2024, 08:46:57 pm »
I have Adultseek that's it. I wanted to try Aw but don't want to verify.

Unfortunately if you don’t want to verify in order to use AW then to be honest you won’t get much work
Or you will have to take ages to build things up

I deleted a profile recently that I had for years On AW
And I was shitting myself verifying again because of all the horror stories you read about

But it took less than 12 hours to get my new profile and took about 20mins and it was very easy

A few of my friends did the same recently and had the same experience

It’s up to you if you want to get more work then realistically AW is the main site  and you will have to verify if you want to be on it and potentially earn more money


Today with my new profile ( which is the same as my old one ) I’ve done 4 bookings all 1hrs


amy

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #17 on: 29 February 2024, 09:06:23 pm »
Apologies Lu2222; when you mentioned City of Love I assumed you were in London.

It really isn't that useful to compare yourself with other people working in completely different areas and in completely different ways, especially when those people are established and you're not. £200 sounds high to me for the Midlands but I suppose it depends where you are - your appearance isn't that relevant because there are lots of other attractive women out there doing similar services and charging less than you, which doesn't matter when you've gained some regulars but will make it harder to get them in the first place.

If you're only concerned about AW having your passport details, you can always just 'lose' the passport after and get a new one? Back on availability, are you working regular days/hours or are they different week to week (I suppose this is the sort of thing that you can put on Twitter, but nothing can convince me that it's ever going to be a go-to for punters wanting to punt in the next few hours).

Lu2222

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #18 on: 29 February 2024, 09:20:42 pm »
Thanks everyone for the replies. It's really helpful.

I dont particularly want AW having my passport details, real name, address etc. It makes me nervous of any of leaks etc. I know i'm probably just paranoid  ::)

It's holding me back though. I see that.

I also change my schedule most weeks so that probably doesn't help things. I host from hotels too

RB1

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #19 on: 29 February 2024, 11:05:46 pm »
Thanks everyone for the replies. It's really helpful.

I dont particularly want AW having my passport details, real name, address etc. It makes me nervous of any of leaks etc. I know i'm probably just paranoid  ::)

It's holding me back though. I see that.

I also change my schedule most weeks so that probably doesn't help things. I host from hotels too

I’ve been on AW for 17 years and I’ve not known them to leak details
They removed the verification pic thing that used to get shown if it wasn’t ticked that as a big problem
And they seem to be a lot more human recently 

And like Amy said no point in comparing to others as they might offer totally different services & prices to you or be in a different area

If you stop working off AW you can always ask them to remove your passport / bank details if you use them under GDPR
I did this and they deleted all my stuff within a few weeks

You might even be able to verify with a full drivers license rather than a passport but I’m not sure


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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #20 on: 01 March 2024, 01:50:02 am »
Please just verify your details with adultwork, so you can get some work and get busy since ure new, you will get customers , also get a vivastreet advert and
try this Australian escort directory called tryst (they also require verification) but I get international business men who are coming to London, book me at least once a week from tht site.

Lushblossom

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #21 on: 01 March 2024, 09:50:51 am »
You are charging an extremely high rate for a poor part of the country.

West Midlands is more populated than East Midlands but if you are new and starting out many will be reluctant to pay a very high rate.


Try £160 an hour if you like.

I really cannot see £200 an hour women being very busy in much poorer locations.

I am in the East mids so know how it is here.

RB1

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #22 on: 01 March 2024, 10:27:17 am »
You are charging an extremely high rate for a poor part of the country.

West Midlands is more populated than East Midlands but if you are new and starting out many will be reluctant to pay a very high rate.


Try £160 an hour if you like.

I really cannot see £200 an hour women being very busy in much poorer locations.

I kind of agree

 I thought the OP was in the South East / Sussex

I do know a fair amount of ladies who charge upwards of 200 an HR and busy but they market themselves brilliantly and have some unique selling points


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Lu2222

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #23 on: 01 March 2024, 11:53:49 am »
Thanks everyone!

A rate amendment may be in order then. I'm happy to try that.

With AW if I verify and then decide I don't want to be on the site anymore I know I can delete my account but do they delete the verification information?


amy

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #24 on: 01 March 2024, 02:24:25 pm »
With AW if I verify and then decide I don't want to be on the site anymore I know I can delete my account but do they delete the verification information?

Yes, there is a whole thread about this on the Adultwork board :)

As for the rates, you don't say how you arrived at the figure in the first place but try to think of the bigger picture - would you rather have five or six bookings at £150 or £160, or one or two (or none) at £200?

I don't set weekly targets either because I know it would drive me nuts, and I've earned broadly the same amount on my tax return for years, I suppose because I know how much work I'm comfortable doing so it all balances out in the end.

Lu2222

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #25 on: 01 March 2024, 02:43:14 pm »
Thanks Amy. I looked over the Aw board but I must have missed it. I'll look again.

I looked on AW and found someone about my age, same kind of look etc and saw what she was charging. I just went with the same figure.

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #26 on: 01 March 2024, 04:03:17 pm »
Thanks everyone!

A rate amendment may be in order then. I'm happy to try that.

With AW if I verify and then decide I don't want to be on the site anymore I know I can delete my account but do they delete the verification information?

Look at the post deleting my AW profile
You can ask them to delete under GDPR
I’ve done it recently

MissElvira

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #27 on: 01 March 2024, 11:14:08 pm »
Thanks everyone for the replies. It's really helpful.

I dont particularly want AW having my passport details, real name, address etc. It makes me nervous of any of leaks etc. I know i'm probably just paranoid  ::)

It's holding me back though. I see that.

I also change my schedule most weeks so that probably doesn't help things. I host from hotels too

I used my drivers license to verify back 2019 and again ladt year for a duo profile and was easy and didn't take long to have profile up.

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #28 on: 01 March 2024, 11:22:18 pm »
Thanks everyone!

A rate amendment may be in order then. I'm happy to try that.

With AW if I verify and then decide I don't want to be on the site anymore I know I can delete my account but do they delete the verification information?

Midlands you wont get £200 an hour unless you are established porn star with loads of reviews.

Start £150/ £160 1 hr or consider half hrs at £100? You can always increase prices once established.

Also do you offer incalls. As if just offering outcalls - there's hardly no business!

You can get cheap day rooms at hotels if you don't have an incall venue.

Midlands is dominated by AW . If you don't have AW - hardly no work. Vivastreet also works well there.

Adultseek I get occasional booking say 2 per month. Its ok for extra bookings.

Aw have to comply with data protection as EU based. So if you leave the site you can request personal data to be deleted.

It's going to be the norm for most directories in future verification - covers there arses that you're not underage.

Hope this helps.


Lu2222

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Re: Not enough enquiries? Help me to see what's wrong
« Reply #29 on: 02 March 2024, 11:02:26 am »
Ok thank you everyone  :)

It's really showed me what the issues are. I knew you ladies would put me on the right track.