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10 Sales and Marketing Tips I Learned From Strippers

wisecamel.com — Strippers are such great salespeople. Reall, they use a lot of highly effective sales and marketing techniques that can be applied in any business.

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  • Barman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+58Brilliant article. Those crafty strippers know how to suck men dry.
    • mvanhorn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16I don't think I've ever read a better title on digg before. Brilliant.
    • lieutenantmudd, on 10/11/2007, -6/+12I don't think they are all that great of salespersons. If you are a strip club guy, you are heading there with the intention of spending alot of money to have girls rub their ***** all over you. They would have to do something really wrong to not get your money.

      I have only been to strip clubs for bachelor parties, and usually I see strippers striking out more often than selling dances to my less-interested friends. And furthermore, the guys buying dances often don't even find the strippers that night all that attractive, they're just the best looking ones who happen to be working that night.
    • Gectow, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13The Marketing techniques may be effective in this field of work but they arnt directly transferable, as a guy working in an an electrical store im not sure using the line "these ***** are real" are going to finalise a sale...... or will it?
    • KloroFormd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5barman,

      I'll agree with that. My wallet is currently empty from me and some friends going to a club after being kicked out of a concert before it even started...
    • thatsmyaibo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21I thought she liked me for who I was! Guess I should stop sending her flowers...
    • warrenwebber, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2NSFW for picture of stripper butt. L
    • staffrocket, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1burry
    • jester30188, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1You said suck heh heh
    • sjbdallas, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Nice ass, I'd pay 20 bucks to see the rest of her.
    • demodawid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@sjbdallas
      MAKE IT 50!
      oh wait...
    • sabach, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Did you mean "furry"?
    • SquigglyP, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12I think for some people, the idea of a hot chick getting naked for them would pretty much sell them on anything. The chicks could be selling life insurance for all they cared, so long as they got to see some boobies. If Microsoft gave away a free private lapdance from a professional model with each copy of Vista, their stock would double overnight...

      ... and Linux would be labled 'the gay OS'

      macs would still suck.
    • PRlME, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Eight of us went to Canada for a week, and my friend fell in love with a stripper over there. He would go every day to see her, well to see her strip. He started to run out of 5's cause Canada's smallest bills where 5's. So we told him to start sticking $1 coins in her pantys. So he went one day lol and did it, omg she cursed him out. Ahhh Love lost....good times good timessss
  • webcure, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13A surprising and valuable lesson.

    Great Digg!
    • sjbdallas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5He missed #11:
      They usually don't freak out when I pop my cork.
  • carpediem22, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Funny and educational.
  • IShouldBeWorkin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12who knew during all those trips to Scores i was earning a degree in advanced marketing...
  • ladyarcher85, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Knowledge can be gained anywhere.
  • RioGangsta, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10always worked when used with me
  • futureisours, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3>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.

    Uhhh I don't know about that.
  • doctorcaligari, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18The article made me think of a hypothetical epic match-up...the strippers vs. the car-salesperson. Who would win?

    Could you imagine a stripper car-saleswoman? You would literally hear your bank account getting sucked dry...maybe more if you were lucky!
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  • klank, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4210 Sales and Marketing Tips I learned from Strippers
    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 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 your 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 ***** 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’es 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.

    • antonioc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0hey, have anyone noticed how they are even better advices if you just start reading them from the end and come up to the first?
      i mean, upside down should be every new start-up's mantra ;)
  • invazngirl, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7one very big difference is that in the strip club you're competing with your coworkers with different products.

    at any other place, all the employees would be selling the same product, so it's easier to have a set schpiel for your product.

    at a club, not being tall and busty with fake ***** make a lot of difference. and so do having morals. when a customer says, "well, that girl over there lets me finger her", sometimes you just have to walk away because you can't really argue that.
    • antonioc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0yep, it's a free market failure due to the finite number of strippers:D

      for very large number of strippers the market should go to an equilibrium state in which: goods are commodities, or quality of service is maximum, AND prices are the lowest possible (b2c: p>0; b2b: p->0), which translated into the example context should mean:

      -all the strippers are very similar to the dominant memes of beauty of the meme-pool (?...!!)

      - they're as hot as hell (!!)

      - they sample a lot and are very cheap (!!!)

      ...such obviously maximizing aggregate welfare ;)



      For god's sake, let's completely liberalize stripper market :D:D:D
  • catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40Sales Technique #11 - Have big ***** (this applies to any industry)
  • idc5, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1#11 : at least you were happy for a few hours before you got crabs in your eye
    • krazykor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17crabs in my EYE?! what strip clubs have you been going to??
    • sjbdallas, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Why did I hear that old country song going through my head when I read that comment:
      "Looking for love in all the wrong places....."
  • rlegions, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3This article is insightful. Now we only need make business school to teach stripping to their marketing major.
  • Stano, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Don't like strip clubs. It's like a kid with no money in a candy store. At least with hookers you get a little candy.
    • manicallday, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Your going to the wrong clubs my friend. Contrary to popular belief there is sex in the champaign room. Its just going to cost you $250.
  • tanto, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Don’t be pressured into buying something. Watch for the warning signs: an offer of a “free gift” if you buy a product, an offer that is only good for that day, or you’re told that a neighbor just made a purchase.
    http://customerdataplus.com/blog/?p=9
  • deleuex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Now how do we get record labels to apply this to selling music online?
  • wastern, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Its not that hard to sell T and A to a drunk guy. The more beer they push the more business they get. I find it real easy to say no when I'm sober, but after 12 or so beers I'm probably going to go along with just about anything
  • NachoBusiness, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Err yeah, everyone in marketing knows the hardest thing in the world to sell is sex. Well, $20 2-minute lap dances maybe. But based on my uh, field research, stripper marketing consists of A) Asking "Want a dance?" then leaving B) Asking "Want a dance?" then sitting at your table until someone there finally bites just to get rid of her. Sometimes they've been known to say "I won't bite... unless you want me to" But that's about it.

    Or maybe strip clubs are just stupid here.
  • pokjob, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4# 11:

    Make sure you have stupid customers.
  • shannobn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Someone has been studying the strippers too hard...
  • Wrecwon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You forgot one, actually two things, titties and ass!
  • kd1s, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Let me explain something. I'm a gay guy who used to do a radio show on location from a strip club. There was one girl I'll never, ever forget. She could make each tit bounce independently. An amazing skill, hell I even slipped her a twenty spot for being a talented gal. Not that I wanted to sleep with her or anything, it's just that I'd never ever seen that done before.
  • Fairly, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Well those of us that are total losers and hang about with strippers all the time. LOL
  • manicallday, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So I can get more customers for my business by offering overpriced blowjobs?
  • ruindpzzle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1got any visual aids?
  • jgzman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I find amusing the following comment from the story:
    ---------------------------------------------------
    The downside (backside?) to this analogy is that, as everyone with half a brain cell knows, the strippers don’t actually care about their customers- they are in it for the money, period. There aren’t too many other businesses where you can only pretend to care about your customers, and they know you are only pretending to care, and they will keep coming back to you anyway. Obviously, there is something fairly unique about the product they are offering that let’s them get away with something very few other businesses could…
    ----------------------------------------------------

    To which I say *****! Let's check in with AT&T, Comcast, Microsoft, and, say, the U.S. Government. I'm sure I'm missing a few.
  • TheKingOfHell, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"Sales Technique #11 - Have big ***** (this applies to any industry)"

    Actually this is very true. A great apparel goes a long way. In terms of marketing it is easier to sell the big product than the smaller but perkier one.
  • evileddy60, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0This is how most men try to pick up in a club.
  • binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Wise Camel Toe....
  • success4uteam, on 06/02/2008, -0/+0nu uh
  • g2506g2506, on 06/23/2008, -1/+0Even though the explanation used of sales and marketing was different from anything else in the coorperate industry..
    The principles of the measures were on point and can be applied to different industries.
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