There has been a significant drop in business for me too, and usually I'd be nicely booked up in advance. But I do remember this time last year, I am sure I actually made a loss during December or had to arrange with clients I generally wouldn't have met.

It hasn't really come as much of a surprise, this hefty lull, but I do wish I had more savings to carry me through the next few months.

Maybe I'll learn for next year?

This industry has so many ups and downs then when you do earn good money for a period i suppose if you do not save for the bad times the reality hits some very quick. I think the saying " easy come easy go" fits well. The money is not always there especially if you had it good had a good spend up and then see not much coming in. Never expect or take good times like it will last.

It has been a joke recently... i mean this whole year to be honest, but nov and dec wa meant to be good, i am on a tour now (in a place i made bank last time just a month ago) and this time nothing, second day here had 1 booking from a regular yesterday, and today not even 1 phone call... now this is promising :(
i was lucky old regular booked me on monday for a few h!
i really dont understand why is this, HOWEVER it is not like that for everyone a friend of my (we work together often) always has 100s calls every day and heaps and heaps of clients no matter what and earning such money it is crazy, she also turns around 50% of the clients away and can be picky with them, why is she brexit/reccesion/ what ever else- proof with clients ?  and i am not ?
this question always kills me, especially when we work together she would make a good 1k (or more in a day) whilst i scramble one half h c or so, s frustrating... :(

Could be a loads of reasons why she is busier than you
Are you very similar in looks / services prices
Do you charge the same and offer same services 
Objectively has she got a better profile than you. What I mean is is hers well written, appealing good photos and more appealing to her client base
Has she got better feedback
Are most of her clients regulars as that can make a big difference between being quiet or busy
 
Sometimes it can be the tiniest thing on a profile that puts punters off .when I started I had lots of photos of me in PVC and and they probably came across as quiet dominating . I remember a client saying he wasn’t sure if he wanted to see me as the pictures were quiet dominating to him
So ever since then I have always included a wide range of pictures from latex & PVC dresses  thigh high boots,  nice glamourous sexy dresses,  pretty girly style lingerie and some selfies  So guys can see a wide range of styles that I have .

Myself and two of my friends profile are very very similar by way of services prices and photos and the way we actually price our services are pretty much identical
When we tour we often end up seeing  each other’s clients or if we happen to be in the same area then clients have said I can’t decide between you and xxx 😂
But overall our profiles seem to appeal to a lot of different types of guys not just a certain type so we are generally pretty busy or steady  even when it’s quiet like now
 
I’ve just Finnished my tour and normally it’s a place that is very very busy but it’s been slowish  I hit my target but mainly because I had quiet a few regular clients .Without them though it would have been dead

This has got to be the quietest week I’ve ever had   

I feel so crap, I barely had any phonecalls. I am on tour and charge high class rates although I planned a photoshoot in a few weeks because my pictures are not that high quality, clients were schocked when they saw me and said my pictures were very bad comparing to in person  . I changed my rates by -£50 and refuse to work for cheaper as I used to work for a high class agency with higher rates, so I am stuck in the middle, no professional pictures, no website yet, but hard to convince client and make money...It gets me desperate to say the least with many, many timewasters, last minute cancellations...but I have to keep up until I get my pics done, many use fake ones (too many fall for them too, so funny) but I don’t really want to go this road...until then I am waiting, and getting tired of all that, but the service I offer is very complete and I used to get many regulars and fixed clients with the agency. Hard time to go through...hopefully it will pay off...

I think touring and charging very high rates is probably very hard to do as you need to convince guys that don’t know you to part with double the amount they would do usually. 
Whereas if your with an established agency or you have your own place it’s probabably easier to command  a higher rate .
   Maybe work out where your agency used to advertise and see if you can match their  advertising as wherever they were advertising obviously worked for them and got you work

If your getting the calls but not the work then the guys obviously like the look of you regardless if you think you have crap photos . So it probably comes down to the price

 

Idiot of an ex-regular left me some nasty fb and this impacted me last week.  Phone hardly rang. Thankfully this week they seem to have gotten over it and looked at all the other FB and I'm back to being selective about who I see.

on tour and its very slow one 30 mins booking so far.