So I want to become an escort to earn money for my spring break trip, but I have absolutely no idea how to get started. Can anyone help?

Read the self help center.  The link is at the top of this page under the life preserver.  There are lots tips for providers.  You have a lot to learn.  Feel free to PM me after you have read the self help manual if you need any clarification on anything.  I am the host of this forum and I"m here to help.

Swim

Get in touch with 2hot. He's rolling in dough

You need good clear photos...  if you decide to continue, you should have a web site...  mostly to keep your pictures.  This is your main sales tool.  You can blur or shield your face...  and photos need not be completely explicit...  but you can not be shy either.  The pictures must be current & look like you.   Don't use the same picts all the time in your advertizing...  rotate them.  Taken in total, the prospective client should know what you look like before arrival.  

You need complete separation...  this is a secret life.  Think 007.  Do not tell your friends, except perhaps one safety contact who must promise to take it to her grave.  You could have a safety system where you leave a client's phone number in a set place so the safety person would have a worst case starting point.  Except for certain rural counties in NV this is illegal & largely misunderstood by the general population.  

You will need a work phone.  Separate from your regular cell.  When you are not working, you shut it off.  Think a tracfone or similar.  
You need a separate email.  
Do not work from where you sleep / live.  
You will use a "stage name".  You can use all or part of your real first if you choose but keep your identity private.  Do not tell your clients your real life.  Some have even made up a total BS fiction...   to tell clients.  
If you decide this is not for you...  you take down the ads, delete the email, trash the work phone & there are no tracks back to you.
Typically meetings take place in hotel rooms or rented apartments...  You do not give the client complete information.  He has called or emailed you one or more times (the "first call").  IF you decide to see him, you give him a call point...  say a hotel.  Or maybe a nearby intersection or address.  He arrives at a set time and calls you from his car (the "second call").   You tell him the room number...  and the lobby layout.  Maybe he'd need to go past the front desk & elevators on the left or right.   This is called the 2 call system...  
There are providers working in about every hotel...  some are provider friendly, othes not.   Tip the cleaning staff well.  Don't leave condom wrappers in the room trash.  Brown bag or coffee cup to a common trash or dumpster.  
IF you are renting a room just to see one client, often the client pays for it...  in that he reimburses you in cash.   It does raise his cost, which puts you at a competive disadvantage.  
IF you expect to entertain multiple guests on a given day...  generally a lady will obtain the room & the client does not pay extra.  Do not schedule appointments back to back.  You'll need time to rest & shower.  Besides, that creates a high traffic situation & is not discreet.  One Favorite provider of mine...  believes the hotel ignores her working...  but kicked out a non-discreet high volume lady.  

You need to learn some screening...  perhaps some lady will mentor you privately.   Certainly screening techniques vary with providers but they should not be discussed on a public forum.    

Do NOT discuss money & sex.  These are the key words for LE (Law Enforcement).  The disclaimers you see in ads mean nothing if you say those words to LE.   The payment is for your time.  Don't discuss anything sexual...  

A good provider everything from kissing to bj to fs is included in a flat fee.  If you get a reputation for charging extra...  it is called upselling...  and is a bad review & will hurt your business.  There is one exception...  Greek...  if you choose to offer it (and many do not) is extra $ in my area.  Most who offer it will not do so on a first date...  

That's a lot of info but as you read the Self Help section...  and  you should scan back on this board until you can answer every question yourself...   with these basics in mind...  you can better understand what is being discussed.
Best Wishes,
skb

you give good service for a reasonable price, you will succeed and earn way more cash than you need to cover your spring break trip.

Lastly, do not compromise your values. If you don't want to do greek, then don't PERIOD. Same goes for fetishes and everything else that could be on a provider's menu.

Good luck to you.

It is a complicated and dangerous profession.  From what the best providers say, it's also exciting and lucritive.  But as a way to make a few grand for a spring trip?  Not a good idea, IMHO.  There's too much to learn and you don't have time to learn it all in a few weeks.  There are legal issues, health issues, advertising and marketing issues, and emotional issues.  Unless you intend to continue with it, I suggest you find another way to make money.

I can provide safe and effective help if you're on the east coast

Viewing your body as a piggy bank is what breeds bad providers. She will be nowhere near prepared before spring break, and there is a certain mindset a lady has to possess/develop before endeavoring down this road. If she was meant for this life, she would be halfway there already. The fact that she has joined this board and has not done her research or at least read around says she needs to ask a friend or parent, take a loan out on her car, whatever she has to do before considering this.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but ask any provider who started the way she's trying to. Stay in school, young lady. Anything worth doing is worth learning on your own.

No one said that.  We simply asked what her long-term intentions were.  I'll stick with my advice.

I will stand by my advise.  An agency might be a way to avoid some of the learning curve.

However, if she does not understand the program, she might well be a LE catch or a pimp's target before she gets up to speed.   She needs to know how this works, if only for a day.  I'd hate for her to be taken advantage of or hurt.
skb

Asking her to consider the long term affects of what she does today should never be a bad thing. You'll be the first to bash her when she doesn't perform for the money she gets for her Spring Break trip. Who cares? She should.

Most men on those sites are simply trying to talk girls into free "test runs" and then brag about it on the forum about it.

I know someone who goes to meet girls from these websites and then posts advise on how to talk girls into sex without payment.

One guy even sets up fake job interviews!  Many will post her picture and brag that they "banged" her for free or for very little money.

What forum?  There is a forum for this?  Please tell me as I have been looking for one

I agree stay away as far as you can and AVOID AT ALL COST because they
are out for a free ride.

maybe a experienced hobbyist will a. get your first appointment. and b give you bit of advice at appt. ! that be a win win youd get your first chunk change to out toward the vaca, and maybe a lesson too, and i bet actually theres a mareket for that some guy would be thrilled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to show you ropes. Some guys love being the one in charge stuff!