On 2022-03-03 17:11:26 Sensual Natalie said:
I keep the same name on sites. When a client calls or books an appointment I know exactly where they from.

Hence once knows where NEW business is coming in from. So I change sites but my regulars always able to find me just Google Natalie Woodmead. Been here 13 yrs.

As to the increase I think to be careful to increase to often. I only increase every 2 yrs. My regulars have no issues at all with my pricing and new clients find huge value for the money.

I increase once a year, then drop my rates when it's quiet to accommodate the guys who are low on money

Theoretically I looked it from this angle I charge R1000.00 for an hours session. So one of my hour session would be going to my advertising for the month ..

That's one appointment out of all the appointment that I had for the month .

My services and everyone else's service on the site is one of stress relief..
Everything is going up.

Now to hike you fee up is to put yourself out the affordability range for clients that are
seeing you regularly for you're services.


R1000.00 per hour still works for me and my ads then work out to
R7260 on esa for the year and on other sites for the year of R5400.00
Total R12660.00 for advertising for the whole year.

That's my take on it .Each one to their own .

you're businesses you're choice.

On 2022-03-03 14:51:16 Vrik said:
Just read an article in Financial Mail of a rather small almost unknown company taking over 114 Edgars stores. As you may know, Edgars filed for bankruptcy just before this take over.

Well, this small company turned Edgars around ane every single of the 114 stores is now profitable! And amongst the things they did, was TO CUT PRICES BY 12% ON AVERAGE!

So often people mistakenly think the road to increased profits is thru higher prices....

I understand what you say but I don't quite think renting out your vagina is the same as selling clothes! If you sell more and more clothes you can ramp up production, but ideally most of us would prefer the ladies are not over worked .... since they've only got one vagina and it can only meaningfully work for a certain percentage of the day!

The reality in my life is that I have not received any increase in the last 3 years.
The effect of this is that my buying power went down in the region of 12%.
This leads to me cutting expenses on the "Nice to Haves", which unfortunately includes punting.
So - if a lady increase her prices and it goes beyond my price point she will be scratched off the list.
The long and the short of it is that such a move might result in lost clients, but test the waters - see what happens.

I had a good laugh at Mercurial's response as it's so matter of fact. Anyways my take on it is that this is a business for the ladies and they need to treat it as such, increase your prices to the extent that your input costs are going up & I don't really think you need a long monologue to explain why that is.

Like all businesses the market will respond accordingly by either accepting it, reducing its consumption pattern of your services to accommodate the increase or look for alternatives - what you I would keep in mind is the quality of your service offering has to remain on par or be better than last year and similar priced businesses.

I personally would rather a lady charge a bit (or a lot more depending on her circumstances:) but isn't under pressure to see a ton of clients, is relaxed about her time in those sessions and can maintain her facilities and herself in top notch so I'm not against price increase per say.

I will say anecdotally one of my favorite ladies has doubled their prices in the last 12 months to the point where for the last price increase of R2k I've decided I won't see her again. It's not so much that the price increase is offensive, but the way it was communicated and the at that price point you start wondering if you are getting twice the value or exclusivity or whatever by seeing her vs. anyone else, honestly that is subjective so hard to answer and my gut feel is not necessarily.

On the flip side some like Laura Love could double her prices tomorrow and I would miss a bit because her service levels and the experience is unmatched:)

Good luck with the increases ladies - it's necessary as the world is getting more expensive so go forth and conquer.

PR

The price of petrol is going to affect the price of everything including essentials. Punting is not an essential so even without increasing fees there will be less punting going on in the future. It just is what it is.

On 2022-03-04 09:36:51 therodent said:
The price of petrol is going to affect the price of everything including essentials. Punting is not an essential so even without increasing fees there will be less punting going on in the future. It just is what it is.

"Punting is not an essential": one hour after the last punt its not essential, one week later its important; one month later its VERY important and 3 months later its more essential than food. I believe the price elasticity of punting is rather inelastic, ie the demand will not go down much if the price goes up. Our horniness just keeps increasing, regardless of fuel price, inflation or exchange rates. Its the reason this is the oldest profession ..... the demand for it is always there.

On 2022-03-04 10:15:38 mercurial said:
On 2022-03-04 09:36:51 therodent said: The price of petrol is going to affect the price of everything including essentials. Punting is not an essential so even without increasing fees there will be less punting going on in the future. It just is what it is.

"Punting is not an essential": one hour after the last punt its not essential, one week later its important; one month later its VERY important and 3 months later its more essential than food. I believe the price elasticity of punting is rather inelastic, ie the demand will not go down much if the price goes up. Our horniness just keeps increasing, regardless of fuel price, inflation or exchange rates. Its the reason this is the oldest profession ..... the demand for it is always there.

I don't think that "elasticity" is a very useful concept in this market - because it's not really a single market with a single price point as assumed in ecos textbooks, its a series of overlapping substitute markets with several price points. So when the squeeze is on, a punter won't substitute away from "punting" as a good, he will substitute to a more affordable option - i.e. a different lady with more affordable rates. So if you analysed the elasticity for each lady as its own good, you'd probably find that its very elastic, but analysing for punting as a whole is not very meaningful.

On 2022-03-04 09:36:51 therodent said:
The price of petrol is going to affect the price of everything including essentials. Punting is not an essential so even without increasing fees there will be less punting going on in the future. It just is what it is.

As a smoker, I was shocked at the increase, R34 for my brand, now R40

Bottle of my favorite wine R86, now R100

Condoms up from R129 for 12 now R160

@JP82 this correct. WG prices are not included in household spending therefore to track that number is basically impossible unless you have the ability to keep track of all WG rate and how much punters spend on them on average.

CPI numbers are also highly dependent and affected by numbers such as surge kf money supply and especially cost of shelter and housing. Just because inflation is high does not everything have been inflated substantially. From my understanding 33% of cpi is dependent on cost of housing and cost of shelter. This industry has shot up due the rate change by the SARB.

But on the price topic. The market will tell you whether you are charging punters too much or not. Raise them and see if you get the same amount of clients. If not there's your answer. You are at the wrong price range. Goodluck Gretchen. Hope all goes well.