What percentage of your clients find you as a result of reading your posts, and as a whole, are they among your better clients (no hassle, repeat, tip, etc.)?

Almost all of the gals I've met in the last 7 years are gals I first learned of from TER boards.

If my assumption that posting is a great way to meet good clients is true, it would hopefully encourage more gals hearing of this to start posting more.

Zero percent. I just don't see board guys.

I get a lot more from local / regional boards, but perhaps that makes sense given that those provide a smaller and denser pool.  

Of course I don't know that I post 'a lot' - London may have a different perspective.

And I would go as far as to say that 3 out of 5 gents I see are connected to TER and have seen my posts / or profile / or ads. I am complimented on my posts frequently, and even by some gents who do not come out to see me (due to distance, sched, etc..) - they email me and share how enjoyable my comments are to them.

I like most guys I meet on TER but there are always the strange ones...


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Natalie

Do you see board girls? That might bring a guy?

Not that I blame you. LOL I am a heck of a lot of work.

Are we all that bad? If so why. Just wondering, not judging.

Couples tend to be problematic and i always seem to leave out the guy...sorry, just the way it is for me.

It is a personal choice, and nothing personal. Sort of like a hobbyists who refuses to see unreviewed ladies...nothing personal, just something he has found works best for him.

And no, not all hobbyists are that bad, it's just that from my personal experience I have found that we don't mix well on a number of levels. And yes I can pretty much tell from email communication who is who.

no offense taken. I was mostly just playing off the question and reply.

I can see how leaving me out of a session could be problematic, although I'm sure I could learn something by watching LOL

spend time with. I figure if a guy can't handle me on a fk board, no way in hell he is going to handle this in person lol.

more of that around here. I miss Rasha as well and hope she is ok.

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Hell I met a great guy last night who found me in a search . He isn't a reviewer but is a VIP. I stay more busy without posting these days . Lurkers are sometimes better in my opinion .

...vs seeing me somewhere else and researching my reviews or seeing me here (on ad board or picking me out of a search) and don't post/nor lurk is small. I'd say 10%.
Are they amongst my better clients? Some of them.

very far away from me, and I do not travel outside of my local area. So Even if they WANT to see me from my postings, unless they happen to be in The Bay Area, it usually does not happen

true hobbyists, which are not men I am compatible with. My friends don't refer to "ladies of the night" the way men do here calling us "whores", "hookers" etc that some ladies want to pretend are sweet pet names, but this language pushes many away...and those ladies probably cry at night from the insults. This is the main reason I don't post on the boards for business. If anything I will do so to socialize, but who wants to socialize with some seriously disrespectful people? Anyway I maintain old friends and receive new friends word of mouth because I used to rely on the boards, but not any more.

I do not rely on the boards and I am much happier now.

Good post and SO SO TRUE . You took the words from my mind and posted I commend you .
Disrespect on a board is silent disrespect in local networking grouos . Better I'm not
around those types after awhile I'd hall off and deck one of them right in the mouth .
It has been pretty quiet maybe  the animals have been caged and sedated .

I posted a lot on the Florida board because I had no idea how else to get my name out there. I was posting there pretty much every day, and someone recommended I come over to the GB to post (I think they were getting tired of me over there). So here I came, and here I remain, with an occasional visit to the FL board (they don't have much conversation going on over there- just a lot of picture threads, which I got bored of participating in ages ago). I have also posted on the P&R board, but won't go back there. Yuck. (Which is a shame because I really love to debate stuff!!)

Two of my favorite gentlemen found me here!! One on the GB and one on the FL board. A few of my other favorites are here, but they found me through a friend of mine or through P411. So I guess my answer is, two, but not sure what percentage that would be. But I can say that 33% of my reviewers found me here.  I do converse with a lot of fun and sweet prospective friends from other states here with whom I hope to meet some day. So that number could increase.

I enjoy getting to know someone before meeting in person, and this board facilitates this. I enjoy knowing how my friends' minds work, what they find funny and interesting, and how they interact with others. And I love that they know a little about me, too.

It's a lot of work to post here (anywhere on TER). You have to survive the insults, the mean people, the nasty PMs, and the inane threads and comments. It's easy to feel unwelcome, and easy to see why more ladies don't post. Who wants to come here to be told they are fat, old, stupid, whatever? Or to be called "whores" and "hookers" and that our only use is for f*cking? Not the kind of men most of us wish to engage with. Plus there are just so many mean posts flying around- it's not a warm or welcoming place at all. Once in a while an interesting topic comes up on which to post, but you have to dig to find them. Sometimes there will be some really interesting topics, but they get buried pretty fast, or so many posts have happened before I discovered it that I would have to read for days to be able to make a salient point.

I do love forums, though, and prefer this one to my gardening ones now, in spite of the bad parts. I've discovered that it is not the best, most efficient, or fastest way to meet people, but I come here anyway because when it's good, it's really good.

I guess I just don't take things said by random strangers that much to heart...I will likely never be in mixed company to have to deal with them. To some men, many of us ARE old, fat hookers...can't really do much about what another person thinks of you. You can tell them to go get hit by a car though lol.