Business Sense

As the economy crumbles, especially for the segment of society that is poorer than all of us here (they are my client base) I have had to adjust. To get people in the door I dropped my initial conference flat fee to $75.00 from $125.00 and knocked my hourly rate down $50.00 as well. I am working about 20% more, but making the same money in spite of lower charges and higher costs.

I have tried time and time again to explain to dancers that businesses have to adjust to changing economic conditions and that they won't make the same money. Went through this 20 years ago and 25 years before that. Those two times dancers listened nd clubs responded. remembering $10.00 lap dances at Fantasies on Mondays and Tuesdays with 25 dancers and 100+ customers.

This time around dancers, as with the rest of society is significantly stupider. They are raising prices, customers are staying away and the business is crumbling. I see fast food deals, clothing deals, tee time deals and no dancer deals. I must be really stupid because to me one 15 minute room for $150.00 plus an excessive tip is less than 5 $150.00 rooms, with minimal tipping. The reason is actually sad: young people are lazy and were never raised with the idea that life is a waste without a hard work ethic. Boomers are ok because we're used to working our asses off and the young are not. I have been working at least 15-20 hours a week since I was 10 and at 69 i still work 50 hours a week. Its the way life is and yes young folks it truly sucks, but you still need to do it.