Sales technique and money management for strippers
Las Vegas City Life profiles a two-person company that offers "wealth training" workshops for strippers. The classes cover sales techniques to increase nightly earnings as well as basic money management skills.
"Dancing is the single least important part of exotic dancing," says Sternberg. "It's no different than any other sales industry. It's all about the right communication."
Six months since his company, Naked Assets, Inc., officially started offering "wealth training" to exotic dancers, Sternberg says most of his 40 to 50 clients have at least doubled their money.
According to Sternberg and his partner, a retired dancer who asked to be only referred to as "Boyscout," physical appearance is a very small part of the whole equation.
As they tell it, speech patterns and methods of persuasion far outweigh exterior qualities.
[...] According to trainee and Showgirls dancer "Jezebel," the training turned her $200-a-night earnings into $800 a night. "I had been working for about a month and not making that much. On stage I was OK, but it was hard for me to approach the guys for dances," explains the 20-year-old UNLV marketing major.
"Through the training I learned persuasion and influence and how to turn a 'no' into a 'yes.' Before, I would walk up to a guy and say: 'Do you want a lap dance?' He'd say no and I'd just walk away."
Jezebel now knows how to "watch a room and scope it out." She looks for signals from customers who want to spend -- such as multiple drink orders, which implies they intend to stay, and large groups of men, which is usually an indication of a party. Then she plans her "strategy of attack," as Sternberg puts it.
(Thanks, Xowie.)
