Escort business strategies?

[Rabbiteyes]

So, I'm curious about the business strategies escorts use (beyond the list of what they will do, how long, and how much).

Do they use web portals with paypal and "checkout cart" type of a setup? (for approved members). Perhaps with automated schedules? This would keep physical money from being dealt with (so minimizes issues with non-payment or robbery... and is probably safer, since they have to pay in advance and you can use the online screening process for other verification / safety measures) .

For legal issues, I would likely create a dummy company (small business, listed under arts or something) and individually approve clients access to a personal website / accounts (hidden behind an inconspicuous store front). You could also charge clients a small fee to continue to be "current clients" (with access to the website) ...then provide porn or other things for when they are away ~and to entice them to come back~.

Also, forcing them to pay a fee would mean you keep track of how active they are (and more easily control who has access to the client portal... since that is the biggest legal vulnerability).

Or discount pricing for repeat customers? (Though, I think this would be more effective to hand out to clients after a visit as a personal "thank you". Something like a small card with a discount code for their next visit).

Also, regular STD testing (with results being displayed in the "office"? I would think customers would appreciate that. Or doing customer STD checks? Things like the oral aids test you can even buy at home versions). This would make clients more comfortable visiting more regularly (since it would minimize diseases risks, being a large stigma associated with sex workers).

Basically, by upgrading the service from a simple "sex for money" into a safer and professional experience (for clients and the escort), it would effectively allow for someone to differentiate themselves based on quality (and thereby demand a more premium price). It would also probably allow a person to keep a smaller client list (allowing the escort to be a little more choosey).

And yup, I'm bored :P Just curious what level the typical escort business is being run at. From what i understand, it still seems very much "ad in newspaper and show up with an envelope of cash" ~_~

[Jamie French]

As a sex worker for the better part of 8 years, online ad + cash is what works. Everything you listed looks real good on paper but it assumes idealized situations that don't translate into the real world. Men don't want any kind of paper trail. The ability to pay cash up front is one of the highlights of the whole transaction. Paypal will also refund a customers money without any hesitation and/or questions for the payee but may very well start digging around your business to find out why a customer was dissatisfied enough to request a refund in the first place. These are inquiries you do not want to start creating elaborate lies for. Simplicity is the key to any illegal black market business. Complicate things and sales go down.

As far as STDs are concerned, a dude only wants you to tell him that you are clean. Nobody cares to see or expects certification. Asking him to take a test that you provide and/or administer will send him flying right out the door. It's just too weird and clinical.

Guys are paying you for sex in a moment of heightened, focused sexual arousal. If you takes any of these measures you will come off as careful, hesitant and calculated. Men want immediacy, passion and a carefree, positive attitude. It's your job to wear that mask and keep all your safety mechanization hidden out of sight of the customer. Trust me. I've never been hurt, robbed, diseased, or refused payment in all my years of sex work and it's only because I keep a sharp eye on red flags, am personable and warm in person and focus all my efforts and an outstanding session, (as far as the customer is aware of.)

Also, it helps to genuinely enjoy sex. That's the whole gig after all.

[Rabbiteyes]

Humm, yea, the paper trail seems like it would be a problem. Then it becomes an issue of converting cash into an easier form...luckily this is 2013!!

The best way is to simply use moneypak through paypal (basically, it is a gift card you can get at a lot of stores for cash to fill up anonymous paypal accounts).

Or you can use things like payNearMe (which is kind of the same, only you go through this website to create a 'payment amount' barcode. Then you go to 7-11 and they scan it and you pay with cash and it activates online).

So, overall, paying online doesn't need to leave any paper trails or get credit cards involved.

As far as STDs are concerned, a dude only wants you to tell him that you are clean.

Humm, what about repeat clients? Doesn't a client feel safer if they know you are clean and have proof? You can demand a higher price if you can show you are clean (and that you regularly test will make clients be more likely to come back to you. That is why guys see higher priced escorts, they feel the more expensive the more exclusive and the less chance for disease).

Guys are paying you for sex in a moment of heightened, focused sexual arousal.

Humm, maybe the average client... but wouldn't the ideal situation be to build a more selective client list ? who pays more for better and more careful service? You have to work less, you get to be more picky about who you see, the ones you do see get more attention, and everyone wins.

[Willie Escalade]

Jamie spelled it out perfectly.

[GroobyKrissy]

I agree... minus the luck of never having been assaulted (I have been), Jamie has it summed up word for word correctly and it is sound advice.

[GroobyKrissy]

Jamie spelled it out perfectly.

Oh Hon...

Your recent avatars have been making me moist. Oh god, I HATE that word .

[Willie Escalade]

Oh Hon...

Your recent avatars have been making me moist. Oh god, I HATE that word .

LOL...skeet, skeet!

[starkem]

Hi Rabbiteyes! it may be more beneficial to resolve your boredom in other ways. It is quite difficult to suggest that one of the oldest professions can improve on its existing business model.

Absolutely, it would perhaps be in a persons interest to strategize such an alternative business model -preferably planned prior to the business startup. However, once a person has begun to generate income, security, enjoyment as a "cash-and-carry" business of this sort, all genuine considerations and suggestions are moot.

If it is any consolation to your brainstorming a viable alternative -even some hypothetical conversation just for the sake of generating an atypical "picture drooling" thread- you would be happy to know that there are persons generating wealth of this sexual nature without risk, disclosure, or unwanted clientele. Surprisingly, said persons do not have to even engage in sex.

For example, this aforementioned alternative business model suggests that the prostitution aspect be abandoned all together for the BDSM services and/or media production aspects. Coal mining at one point was a necessary opportunity, but it had quality of life implications to suggest that for the Individual coal miner it was an increasingly perilous endeavor with every further exposure to the job (both a mental and physical toll).

[Nikka]

to steal a 7k pound rolex watch and run away

[mistab]

I agree with what Jamie stated except...didn't she get robbed last year? http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/sho...+french+robbed