I pay to advertise on three sites ( I include aw in that, as it doesn't really work if you don't pay for at least one of their features) and each work out to about ?30 a month.
The way I looks at it is that I need one 1 hour booking from each to cover 4 months advertising and so I think it's a bargain.
I think PN comes into its own if you tour a lot and it does help to have FRs on there, which of course begs the question of how you get one in the first place and there's no easy answer to that. I would never ask someone who didn't come via aw to use their booking system though.
I get all my work from AW, pretty much as I only advertise on one other site, a local punter forum, and even then I dont give a number I also dont pay for any of their features at all escort wise, not even phone number show and it definately still works for me
Its weird as some girls say they barely get any work from AW yet since I started independant I got my clients from there, I dont use any other site at all apart from the one free listing I mentioned and even that links only to my AW, I dont even have a website lol (although I do want to get one but havnt really needed to so far)
one of the reasons I do this is because I honestly dont feel comfortable just having my number out there, I mean anyone can book you no matter what they sound like and I feel safer knowing I have the booking system behind me
it really does work to deter no shows aswell, if your going to show your number the client will think booking is straightforward, to then deter them to AW booking system might put a lot of guys off
I know I miss out on a lot of nice clients through not being available so easily but I'd rather that than jeopardize my safety, plus an awful client really puts me off working for a good few days