Strip Club Websites

I agree. I visit one that puts the girls that dance up each day - yea, sometimes they miss a day or two, but it is rreally helpful.

I work on some websites for friends. Depending on how much you want to invest (time and money) it can get complicated. But most of the SC websites I've seen are simple and should be easy to update. Perhaps it has to do with the constant turnover...even the guy/gal that did the web site moves on as much as the dancers and other staff.

Perhaps I should make offers to the SC's to update their sites weekly for some free "stuff" at the club?!?

The vast majority of SC websites are lame and boring. Even the Penthouse Club in Detroit has a dead site. It would be too much to hope for a weekly posting of dancers's schedules, but at least some photos, discount coupons, notices of special events, i.e. Super Bowl, St. Patrick's Day or Independence Day and some idea of the rules for dancers.

Yes, most SC websites are badly designed and poorly maintained. The club owners don't seem to understand that websites could be valuable marketing tools. This is probably because most owners are stupid and computer illiterate.

I have to agree. Most of them suck. I can understand that the constant flow of dancers is hard to keep up with, but the clubs here have pics of girls from YEARS ago on their websites. I don't think that any club but the most high end can afford to keep an IT guy on staff....

Kahoots has a nice menu now but their website still has their basic old menu of just pub food.
Most clubs don't even bother with a website but I have to say I like Doll House's website here in Columbus. They have internet coupons that say you can just mention it - so you don't have to constantly print them off. One coupon is for free admission. Second coupon is for a $10 dance (usual price is $30).

I see many escort, porn and strip club websites but this one at least stays focused on strip clubs.

As jackslash said, most club "management" doesn't appear to have much in the way of computer skills.

The few local clubs that do post their dancer schedules regularly offer little to no mileage - so you know exactly when you can come in and get an air dance from Tiffany, lol.

On the other hand, you can use the club not posting a schedule to your advantage - a statement like "If I knew for sure when you were dancing, I would come see you more," will ususally get a dancer to give you her number, if you're into that.

The most active sites I've seen were those where the web site belonged to a dancer. I remember stumbling upon a website or two. One of the first ones I found had the dancer appearing live on a cam several years ago. Live cams were unusual back then especially with a dancer who was actively dancing in the club. At the time when I asked her, she asked me to keep quiet about it. She wasn't getting naked on the cam so I think she was doing it just for fun.

I've met a couple of dancers who had their own website. One of those websites didn't work correctly. I assumed it was a marketing gimmick the dancer ran herself.

I suspect in most cases, a strip club manager pays someone to set up a web site and then does nothing with it not having done anything with the web site himself. A more active site might be able to let dancers and customers post messages or even have a live chat room. I'm getting emails from a couple of clubs that I got free admission to by using my email address in an online free admission ticket they set up online. They rarely send email out though. Web sites with facebook links seem to be more actively run as well.

I was kind of hoping that new "location" apps would help out the lack of reliable internet resources that would report real-time cast at a given club. Now a user can "check in" by a variety of apps -- Google Maps "Latitude" for instance -- to a location; so, if strippers (who, ya gotta admit, are obsessed with their cell phones) would "check in" at the club where they're dancing, then people looking at the right social-media internet outlets could determine who was where, and whether or not the hottie was in the club at the moment. And not to worry about forgetfulness of the flighty but beautiful, generally a cellphone will check a user out of a location automatically when the phone itself gets too far from the coordinates.

I asked a manager at a Detroit Area club why their site looks like it hasn't been updated in 3 years. The biggest issue with posting schedules and pictures of girls is, most strippers don't want anybody to know they are strippers. It's a privacy thing. There's a reason they all work at clubs on the other side of town that they live, they don't want Dad stopping in with his buddies and seeing his darling little girl coming out of the VIP room with her hair messed up and the "I can't believe I just blew that guy" look on her face. The ones with many regulars communicate with them by text or whatever, so there's no need to have schedules out on the internet for all to see. Funny timing of the post, I just asked the mgr a few days ago thinking the same thing.

Another reason I found out, is that employee turnover is so high in these places, not only for dancers, but people that do the sites. They set up a site, get canned, or move to another club, and nobody has any idea what to do with the site. The nicer sites probably have an outside IT professional design the site, teach the one web savy guy in the club how to run it, and then he leaves and nobody has any idea what to do with it.

I've followed a couple of SC web sites, both stand-alone sites and ones on places like MySpace. I think the reason so few clubs have web sites (and why those that have them let them just set there without any new input) is because SC owners are just plain cheap. one club had a site, updated it from time to time, then let it go when they had to pay the fee to reserve the domain name (we're talking something like $9.95, to give you an idea of how cheap these people are!). they turned around and found out one of their dancers knew enough to set up a site on one of the 'social networking' sites. she did an okay job of it, but then they let her go in a re-organization and now the site's just setting there with info that multiple-months out of date. makes them look bad, but I don't think they give a shit. just saving a few bucks.

sanitago, I agree with you about that social networking bullshit. Dreamgirls here in Columbus is run by cheap skate managers. I bitched on their SCL forum on how they don't have a real website and got a reply saying "even fortune 500 companies have facebook pages so it is not unprofessional"

I'm a web marketer. I have my own sites that make money from advertising and ecommerce, and do SEO and site planning for large companies. I've talked with some club owners about sites. They're usually barely literate, and have serious ADD, let alone have internet or computer skills.

If they were "book smart," and could type, they might not be working in a SC!

When they do get websites done, it's on the cheap - by someone's friend, who then disappears - leaving the club with an outdated site, and no domain information. How many times have you clicked on a link to a SC, and found no website? Someone forgot to renew the domain name, and no one knows where to find them.

Even if they do have a site - and someone to keep it updated - they're too stupid/disorganized/lazy to give the webmaster the updates.

Professionals who could help them do not want to deal with them. I certainly don't.

MySpace is still the hangout of choice for strippers, rock and rollers, underground arts scenesters, and all their PL friends.

Some dancers are pretty net savvy, build and maintain their own sites, and wished that their bosses were more on the ball.

SC marketing plan = location + tits & pussy

I don't even bother to look at them!

I've gotten the impression that the Mitchell Brothers place in SF does post a regularly updated schedule, and the internet reviews of the girls tend to indicate that the schedule is accurate. But that place is different from most in a lot of respects.

As far as the question of strippers being "caught" by people they don't want to see them -- putting a fake stage-name on the internet makes it no more or less likely that they'll be outed, I think.