Completely agree with you!!! Past 2 weeks have been very quiet and also lots of timewasters, really glad it's not just me! Does anyone know if this happens at the same time of year? Or any particular times which are especially quiet?

Lexi x

?325 a month !?!

I know the transphobia on punter* is appalling, but this level of exploitation feels worse.

I am trying to remember what I paid when ex-work experimented with advertising there. I do remember enjoying getting them to explain why we couldn't have any white in the ads each time and that, for us looking for sex workers interested in our services, it wasn't worth it.

All print advertising rates are up for negotiation in my experience. Have you tried saying 'right, I'm moving to one day a week unless...'? (Going for a different day each week should still reach a large proportion of the readership.)

Depending on your clients, I'd also look at the gay and fetish media. That level of money is going to get various ad people looking to please you.

I know the transphobia on punter* is appalling, but this level of exploitation feels worse.

All print advertising rates are up for negotiation in my experience. Have you tried saying 'right, I'm moving to one day a week unless...'? (Going for a different day each week should still reach a large proportion of the readership.)

Depending on your clients, I'd also look at the gay and fetish media. That level of money is going to get various ad people looking to please you.

Sadly for me, clients who visit transsexual escorts,
identify as straight and would not look at any gay male sites or publications.
I've only ever had one 'out' gay man {doing it out of curiosity},
a dozen bi-identifying men
and huge numbers of straight men.
I don't think advertising on gay sites or publications would bring me any return.
Have you any contact with other transsexual escorts whose experience suggests my assessment is wrong.
If so I would really be grateful to you for your recollection.

I may approach Loot re occasional ads
But the truth is that even if the ads were free I'd now be reserved in advertising there.
Loot really attracts the society dead wood:
Think huge volumes of time-wasters/no shows,
people wanting ?40 shags,
drugged up/wanting me to supply said drugs!!! 
drunks,
bareback riders
and the types who are frankly deranged and scare the hell out of me.
Fetish is an area I've not looked at advertising in
despite offering mild BDSM / fetish.
Yes I'll look at that, thanks.

Sadly for me, clients who visit transsexual escorts,
identify as straight and would not look at any gay male sites or publications.
I've only ever had one 'out' gay man {doing it out of curiosity},
a dozen bi-identifying men
and huge numbers of straight men.
I don't think advertising on gay sites or publications would bring me any return.

I'm probably speaking a bit out of turn here, since I have obviously no personal experience with gay or trans sex work, but I have definitely heard gay male escorts speak of being contacted by plenty of clients who identify as straight/bi-curious. And I'm assuming those gay male escorts would advertise almost exclusively on the gay ad sites and any relevant publications - which I think does make a lot of sense, factoring in the pressures that still weigh on men to appear stereotypically masculine and heteronormative, which would likely just add to the 'subversive' appeal of looking at all the gay ads for all the men who identify publicly as straight but who perhaps feel differently inside.

This may still have nothing to do with clients who might look exclusively for transgender sex workers. But I think at least a free or cheap ad on a popular gay site could be worth an investigation, especially if it's one you haven't tried before that hopefully is friendly to trans sex workers (and sex work in general, of course, so no US-based hookup sites probably!). It's not as though many (any?!) of our clients are socialising in groups when they're browsing for porn and/or paid sex - and when people are alone, they're free to investigate whatever they like, wherever they like without worrying about their public sexuality, so hopefully that wouldn't be an issue stopping straight(ish) guys from checking out a gay site if they're feeling in the mood for something different?

Jodie
Have you ever considered being a transgender mistress/ dominatrix?
There are not many out there. You seem to have the right attitude for it (going by your online posts) and would pay more money than escorting.
Think about it
I know a few publications you could advertise in.
If interested pm me.

Back to topic. It's been more dead than the local mortuary with escorting for me.
Not a booking in 2 weeks LOL. Am enjoying the free time.
Hair, nails, feet, pamper products. Although it ain't good on the wallet. But what can one do? Ride out the calm before the storm for now.

It's definetely dead! I've had one call today, all day, even though I'm still near the top on most recent frs ( last I looked it was 3000 hits on my site since saturday) and have put on available today on AW. Had 3 bookings Monday and 2 yesterday thankfully, although 2 of those had been booked in for a while.

It'll pick back up, always does, expect a crazy week very soon

Quote from: River on 23 February 2011, 11:45:05 am

I wasn't aware that gay male escorts get lots of straight-identifying men.

If it were not for straight-identifying men, lots of gay escorts would starve.

Well thinking about it you are right about sexuality and self identification
and outward identity-expression sometimes being at variance to same.
And to quote Alice Pieszecki:
    Dana: [after seeing an exchange between Jenny and Marina] I thought Jenny was straight.
    Alice: Dana, most girls are straight until they're not. And then... sometimes they're gay 'til they're not.

I'm looking at a whole new demographic! yea!