need more reviews before you will see me?

Just an observation from the hobbyist side of the fence. When I first came aboard this board and the hobby, I met a girl who saw mostly regulars but when she came across a new 'customer', as I was, she would ask that her review was posted at a certain time. The idea was to stay at the first few pages of new reviews for our region, but not to have a bunch of reviews come in at the same time. This was obviously a marketing move, one that the girl that I sighted either does not agree with, doesn't care, or is just so busy that she really does not have time to think about it.

In my opinion the provider that I saw was looking at the big picture (she had been in the biz for a long time already), and understood that she was more desirable to the higher end hobbyist as what you would consider a 'low volume' provider. Now, that being said, if you are hit and run, don't want to be in the biz forever, I guess the more positive reviews the better, now matter how fast they pile up.

NSF

See the post above Ciara, as I was typing it while you were responding and I don't want to regurgitate.

I know she is not my girlfriend, but I think it is a fair question about marketing and your perception here...Would you like to be at the top of the list everytime a search was done? Maybe some do and some don't...As a hobbyist I would like to think that I'm seeing girls who are not running an assembly line.

And, if she's there to make her quick fortune or retire early, great, more power to her.

NSF

230 reviews at 10 per page with 23 pages.

1% write reviews so X 10 = 2,300 sessions.

Average $300 X 2300 = $690,000.00

WTF, I got to go back to bed.

Soon as I look this girl up.

-- Modified on 8/2/2006 4:11:43 AM

And I was not aware that only 1-3% write reviews. Maybe that percentage is much higher for this girl, who knows.

I'm sure there are plenty of providers out there with much more than 23 pages and that is fine, but I doubt anyone has managed to pile them up that quickly.

I didn't link her because the intention was not single someone out, just a question of diminishing returns I guess.

NSF

Any lady generating that many reviews is ASKING her gents to post them, and focusing on board participants as her client base.  I've even heard of ladies pulling out their computers and asking the gents write their reviews right then at the end of the session.

Regardless, I would guess your 1-3% estimate for clients posting reviews is rediculously low for this provider.

I only have 1 and 1/2 pages of reviews and I would estimate that is actually closer to 10% (if not more) of the men I have met over the past two years... and I am NOT one to encourage or even mention reviews to my clients, though do appreciate the kind words when they come my way.

Just another perspective.

A lot of intelligent, "high-end" clients do not write reviews. I know, because I've met many such men. And, to say that the "bottom feeders" don't write reviews tells me you haven't read a lot of the reviews I've read--or tried to decipher.

Yeah you're right, that's clearly what I'm looking for, a relationship with a provider. Naive, I don't think so, Stupid, maybe, but certainly not that Stupid.

NSF

-- Modified on 8/3/2006 10:20:10 AM

Wrong hobby? I don't think so. It was just my observation of someone who is piling up reviews at an astounding rate, which got me to thinking about my own personal preferences when choosing and how a provider feels about her own perception as it relates to reviews.

My own opinion, which really does not matter, is that I would pass on the girl that I mentioned. That being said, all the girls that I have seen are very well reviewed and have many pages of them.

NSF