Written by WiseCamel.com
Like you, I like strippers.
However, I generally find myself leaving the strip club with an empty wallet. Any business that can get you to spend all of your money is a good one to be in.
But while walking out of a club one evening, I realized that a big reason they have such a good business is because strippers are such great salespeople. It is not simply due to the fact that they are selling to stupid, horny men like myself, but because they use a lot of highly effective sales and marketing techniques.
You too can achieve great success by applying sales and marketing techniques of strippers. Here are the 10 sales and marketing techniques I have learned from strippers:
Sales Technique #1 – Give them something for nothing
One of the first things a stripper will do is come up to you and flirt with you. She will likely sit on your lap or do something to raise your excitement level. For this, you have to do nothing. But you do get a sample of the service and if it is a good one, your chances of buying the service increases. This also applies to the dances they do on the stage.
Sales Technique #2 – Understand your customers
Strippers get to know their customers by asking questions. This allows them to develop a rapport and tailor the sales pitch?
Sales Technique #3 – Tailor the Sales Pitch
Strippers will try different sales pitches to different people based on what she thinks they like. “I like to get dirty” or “Have you seen my great ass?” or “My tits are real”. Each pitch may be the one thing that converts the potential customer into a buyer. (Pointing out a tight ass works well for me). And she revises her pitch based on experience.
Sales Technique #4 – Make sure you are selling a great product/service
She knows she has to have a great product. If she put on 30 pounds or hadn’t showered for the past 4 days, she would likely not get as many customers. Regardless of how great of a salesperson you are, you can’t do much with a crappy product/service.
Sales Technique #5 – Provide Good Customer Service
She will make sure you are happy on your first dance or she won’t get repeat business or won’t be able to do what she ultimately set out to do?Upsell.
Sales Technique #6 – Upsell
She sells the customer on a relatively cheap service, a lapdance, but then markets her other services to them. She tries to get them to the “champagne room” and sell an upgraded service, which is where the money is at. However, without the first sale, she would never get the larger sale. Customer acquisition is tough. Once she does it, she needs to get as much business as she can.
Sales Technique #7 – Closing Techniques
She will use a variety of closing techniques to get you to buy her services. There are a variety of closing techniques, but two popular ones used by strippers are the compliment close (usually flirting with you) and companion close (getting your buddies to push you into closing the deal).
Sales Technique #8 – Target your audience
Strippers market to individuals that are interested in her service. First, she works in a strip club where guys go specifically for her service, that is obvious. But she also knows which guys to go after within a group or which groups will likely spend the most money. Spending time with cheap-asses only wanting to pay a dollar for a dance will not be a wise use of he precious time.
Sales Technique #9 – Persistence
Even though the audience is qualified, she knows she will get rejections. Even so, she will go up to every guy and ask if they need a lap dance. She also knows that the more guys she asks, the more yes’s she will get.
Sales Technique #10 – Branding
I don’t know any strippers that are named Ethel, Mildred or Agnus. Instead, you will get the pleasure to do business with Cookie, Destiny, Candy, or Raven.
Awesome blog, I’ve been a reader of your blog for a while now, probably one of the best I have come across, very informative..
Keep up the great work,
Josh.
It’s always good to see ideas put on a different slant. This is a very interesting look at some sales and marketing ideas. At the end of the day dancers are just out to make as many ‘sales’ as possible. Per hour they can make as much as almost any sales person in the world.
This article is really funny but true! I learnt all my sales tips from Jessica at howtostripper.com
I crumba that’s a cool post!
Who wuld have thought we can get sales tips from such unlikely places. Just remember don’t sleep with your clients ๐
http://iloveclosing.com/2009/03/09/sales-rule-74-never-ever-sleep-with-your-customers/
Cheers
The Closer
i think the naked lady on your website makes the whole thing look iresponsible
One of the best I’ve read in a long time!
This article is more informative that 4 years of marketing classes in college.
10/10
Wow…That pic is the only reason why people are liking your techniques but its not professional at all to me.Planning to Succeed: Proven Marketing Strategies, Business Proposals, Marketing Plans.
Catchy headline. And some great sales tips to back it up!
Not bad,actually good. We’ll use the tips
I have a Very important Sales Technique that I think was left out here…and that is the one of, “using your Existing and or Former Customers” to Refer you New Clients…
… think about it for a second… if you are looking for a Great Restaurant, or a New Hairsalon…. would you not ask a Friend that you Trust and Like for their advice?
I would!
….and so would Most People… Therefore, the 11th Sales Technique should be to have a Referral System in place to make it Easy as well as Rewarding for your Existing Clients to be referring you NEW Clients….Right?
If you want to find out how you can do that for your business I have a great solution that you will be surprised of how simple it is to implement.
FUNNY ALBEIT TRUE, BUSINESS ROTATES ON THE BASICS, ITS ABOUT HOW WE MODIFY THEM ,WHAT WAS LEFT OUT IS LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. STRIPPERS ALWAYS GET THE 3 L RIGHT
true but the location is no 1 t them
Good stuff here. I’m not really into strippers but I do see where your coming from(pardon the pun).
The other thing about strippers is that they NEVER waste time. If your not the one…..NEXT
Good lesson in that as well.
William
This is useful to help almost anyone increase their close rate.
Acne sucks. ๐
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Cheers,
Susan Smith.