I've been doing this only for one year. I took most of the summer 'off' in that I didn't actively pursue clients hard like I had been. This was a refreshing and much needed hiatus.
As I come back I'm noticing a few things as well, one is guys with established whitelists shorting me on money and things like that.
(Please save the lecture about looking at the money first, obviously I'm a guppy.. But not for long. )
It forces me to consider different policies and practicies and it pisses me off. This was supposed to be fun and now I'm dealing with people who really clearly do not have my best interests at heart and don't even respect me enough to follow through with the terms they agreed to. Who does that?DO you just up and pay your mechanic what you feel like paying him? DONATION is a euphemism. They are rates and they are non-negotiable and so reasonable that now, after this weekend, I'm raising my already too low rate and investing in a more thorough and organized screening process which is an expense for me and gets passed on to you. Unfortunately, if the whitellist system is this fallible there's little point to paying for TER's service. So I"m exploring different business practices like deposits, etc and revamping my screening process since the whitelist system here is useless, HX a nightmare and anyone coming in from my email could be a douche or worse, LE>
Someone smart should starts a provider side CRM that aggregates and integrates all the sites that we use into a single point CRM with a back-end interface that allows us to keep all of our contacts in one place, SHARE notes in REAL time with each other about what's happening. I bet it can be done as an app, an add on or such.
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SO many of the sites use the same kind of data, obviously the more standardized the better. But since that's the biggest need I can see, it will populate and be useful very quickly with a smart launch. I know enough about all of that to know I don't know enough about it to say another word! LOL
But from now on, I will require actual IDs, and such. NO more relying on these networks they've been compromised far too much to do anything but clog my pipeline with nonsense and suck precious time away from the real pipes and sucking and such! Sheesh!
By the time I"m done going through emails the majority of which are ridiculous time wasting, "HI, beautiful, how are you?" the last thing I was to do is fuck any of those guys. It's pretty rough. I try to maintain a positive attitude, but ya'll don't make it easy.
So, how am I? Thanks for asking, (I'm busy answering emails, wishing they all gave a handle, date, time, duration and special details all in the subject line) I'd be orgasming as much from emails than from seeing clients. I know it's not as romantic to be pedantic (oh yes I did! ) but nothing is hotter than an easy badda bing badda boom email exchange with a randy gentlemen who provides what's required. He's going to have a great time, trust.
Then there's the "make an appointment and don't show up." I think some clients are doing this routinely and if they find an escort they like better, or a lower price, or closer or sooner or whatever, they just blow off the other providers.
The is due to the fact that we hadn't been requiring these things before. We're responding to how the market is behaving.
The more we are pressured into increasingly risky activities, the more we are stood up, under paid, abused in forums, dragged through the mud by unkind reviewers with a chip, (none of mine, btw just what I'v read) the more we all but especially the independent, free range, providers will continue to create policies and structures to prevent these injuries and insult from harming us or our livelihood.
That is my "just over two cents" worth. Thanks!
