Hey all! I am new to this whole biz and have posted on CL and recieved an overwhelming response to each ad I post... I am extremley excited about it but I have found it nearly impossible to filter through and respond to each and every email... or knowing who is legit and who is just messing around. I want to be the best that I can be and be a quality provider... I just need some guidance Can anyone help, maybe "mentor" me or something! Hugs and Kisses to All
~the new girl~

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Good luck!

thirsty

you give us a city and/or state.  Some advice needs to be localized.  Good luck and be safe.

Hopefully you will get some guidance from the many great ladies on this board.  But by all means post any link you have and let us know what are of the country you are in.  Us guys are always interested in the new folk.  Also there are regional boards to post on as well.

On answering the CL ads, do you see quite a difference in them or are they all about the same?  I would say only answer the ones that do not mention sex or money.  When I email a provider I am very formal in my writing.  

Something like:
Dear Miss Kittn I would like to schedule an appointment.

Not:
Hey babe when can we hook up.

I am not saying one is better than the other I am just saying if it sounds like an email you might receive from your bank chances are the guy is going to be an easy client, like me.

And if there is an abundance of curse and derogatory words in their email I would skip them.

Below is a link to a recent discussion I had with a girl starting up in NYC with some good follow up's by Suzanne from San Diego.

Good Luck and Welcome!

First of all, let me say welcome to the biz! I recently started back after about a year break, and I can completely relate to overwhelming response to advertisements.

Kaprice had some good advice; hopefully it's okay if I expand on it a bit. Any emails that mention sex or money, I delete right away. That gets rid of some of the clutter right there.

Make sure that wherever you post, you have everything a potential client needs to know already laid out: rates, photos, schedule, et cetera. It won't completely eliminate emails asking for such information, but it will help cut down on them.

Before long, you'll get into your own routine. You can sometimes derive information about a potential client by the way they present themselves in writing. As Kaprice mentioned, skip the derogatory emails. If a man can't even be polite in an initial email, what reason is there to think that he would be a gentleman in person?

If you are getting so many emails that you have trouble responding to them all, then there is no reason why you shouldn't be selective in who you spend time writing to.

It occoured to me while reading Miss Prescott's reply that using some simple email tools I bet you could reduce your work load while only reading the quality emails.  

I know in Outlook Express they have those message rules mainly for detecting SPAM I would set up a few message rules for Curse and derogatory words and Sex terms.  This way those emails would automatically be deleted and you would never even see them.  All that you would see are the straight polite emails that made it past the email rules.

I think all the free email services have similar filtering as well.

Or is this already done by many providers?