So I have a registration form on my site but nobody wants to fill it out so far with the questions I have and my intuition met all good peeps. I feel like I might be scaring some nice gentlemen off I don't think so but I don't know maybe you all can relay some advice?

My standard questions are as follows:
Profession, age, do they have any references and can they provide me with something that I can verify. They seem like pretty easy questions to answer nothing to perturbing. And yet I seem to get a lot of hesitation.

The data could be found by LE if you're busted. It's better not to have the form and just tell them to e-mail you the screening info you require.  Personally, I don't think that's a real solution because then you've got their screening site info, though it may not do much harm if that falls into LE hands.

many, if not most, guys will not fill out website info forms, as they often ask for more information than they are willing to have out there in cyberspace.  Remember, once it's out there, IT'S OUT THERE!!!!!

Recommend you ask for less, and use verification sites for refs, like DateCheck, Preferred411, or RoomService2000, which ever is most popular in your area.  That will save you, and your clients especially, a lot of hassle.

Swim

I agree alot of guys do not want to have their info out there.

There are more discrete ways of screening a gentleman that wont scare him off.  I'll pm you.

I agree with Meena's response and would add that if you accept Date Check, P411, etc. in lieu of employment information, you should make that clear. Many of us do not want anyone calling our place of employment or even knowing where we work for safety reasons. I would have to say it is the screening form that is keeping guys away because having looked at your pictures and reviewed the rest of your site, I know that I would be very interested in meeting you.

I choose providers only if they are either date-check members or P411 members, or both... and only if they have TER reviews.

In return, I expect the providers to accept me based on my verifications on the multiple sites I belong to, and do whatever homework they wish to do quietly on their own, such as emailing providers they see have verified me, and/or providers I have reviewed on TER, to get a one-on-one opinion of who I am. If they require a form be filled out, I will not do that, and will quickly move on to someone else.

Yet, I sympathize for you gals because it is an income producing business or hobby for you, and you will be contacted by guys who are not part of verification services. I don't know what I would do if I were in your shoes (or heels... lol) to insure your safety and not lose an opportunity. As hobbyists, we can move on to many other gals out there and not lose a beat. For you gals, passing up an opportunity hits the pocketbook and the decision to move on to another hobbyist suitor is not as easy a choice.

Nooner

your form is pretty standard..i never liked filling them out for the reasons already stated..you have an e-mail and phone..that is all i need..besides the way you look you will not have any problems attracting clients..dont sweat the small stuff..

in an email.  If you want to talk on the phone to further screen me, that is OK too.

I even had one lady in Las Vegas ask to see my airline ticket and DL so that she would know I was not local LE.

Guys do not like providers' website forms.  This should be a wake-up call!!!  Lighten up on the website forms.  We don't like them!

Swim

Definitlehy a lot of guys don't want to fill out website forms, but some will. However your form does ask a lot of info that should not be necessary, as Meena mentioned. I think if you lighten up the form , and move it so that it is on the same page as the contact page, then offer the option of filling the form OR contacting you by email, with the required information, then you should be fine.
Good Luck

I don't usually get anyone who tries to book via email anymore. I will screen through email, but only if they provide everything asked for on my form. If I have to try and make hobby soup out of rotting vegetables the email goes into the trash. I would say that of every 20 legit inquiries I get, 1 is by email and the rest via my form. Feel free to check mine out to see what I've found gents to be comfortable with.

I agree with the above post that your requested information is probably daunting and a turn off.

Hope that helps!

Veronica Sweets

and I really don't like to use them. It's for a lady I'm going to see next month.  It was short and sweet.
Just a "few" items and I was finished. She got back to me in less than an hour. Now we're good to go when I get to her city.  The minute I see a form that's an entire page or close to it, I just move on, or if I'm really interested, I'll send an email and give her the usual info for screening stuff and info about myself. As was mentioned before, keep it short without much prying into the client and you should get a better response rate.

Make it easy to see you, not hard. You already got him hard in another way that he prefers!

Having too many questions on the form can make you sound way too picky and high maintenance... too much like his SO! And too many questions can make guys really nervous.

Her advice her is right on. My "form" has like two questions. I prefer to ask screening questions myself and use that opportunity to start getting to know each other and creating a banter. And I've mainly done that because so many guys say they don't like forms at all because they seem too impersonal.

Web forms are a big no no for me if they ask for too personal information such as last name, work number, etc.  Even email is questionable as it too is truly never gone (emails go through many different servers and could be stored for an indefinite amount of time).

I think every provider should have a hushmail.com (or equivalent) account or some form of PGP.  That way all communication is encrypted and very difficult to crack.

I also think TER should have a stickies on ways for everyone to be safe, proper ettiquette, and other common questions.

Another form of security is a VPN service which will connect your computer to another server which will then act as a proxy which data is transferred, effectively making your IP address look different and to shield your ISP provider from knowing which websites you're looking at.  Of course this doesn't take into account that your MAC address is probably being recorded somewhere and can be traced back to your physical computer...but that's a subject for another time :P

Link

Hi Veronica (or any provider can answer)

I'm curious...if a gentleman is on P411 or datecheck and is in good standing, why do you require a last name?  

Thanks!
Link

I use and love a contact form, but I also make it clear on my site that you can email me the info, or you can use P411, DC, or RS2K for screening.   But I do get quite a few forms sent in and it is just so efficient.  We don't have to go back and forth with 20 emails and there are actually some guys who do that on purpose.  I guess they are bored or they don't believe I'm real, or I just don't know.

I actually did just switch over to Hush mail myself and I noticed they offer the https secured forms.  I would  have to pay extra to use that "premium feature" of hush mail so I was wondering if any of you who wouldn't use the contact form would use the secured one?  Would https vs http make a difference to any of you?  

Yea, seeing a http (not https) on a screening form where they are asking for my last name will never get filled out.  I'm not 100% sure about https, but it's leap years above http and I'd consider it...especially if Mr. Happy was especially lonely.

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It would matter little to me, as I'm not giving you my CC# or anything.

HTTPS just means that any data sent from the page is encrypted. It's important to note that websites can load both secure/encrypted content and unsecure/unencrypted content on the same page... There is a setting in IE to force a pop up notification when this happens, but most people disable it as it pops up constantly with web based email websites.

Yes, you want your online banking site to have HTTPS. In fact, any site that you would give financial/detailed information about yourself should be. You should also know and trust the site. IE your bank, an online retailer, etc.

Anything less than that doesn't require HTTPS. All HTTPS does is secure the data from you to the webserver. If you don't know who is running the webserver, that security counts for nothing. Anyone can get a SSL certificate for less than $100. A SSL certificate is what allows for HTTPS.

IMO you should save your money, but on the other hand, it gives the _illusion_ of security to your clients.