My Dallas-based team and I have been working diligently through the weekend and late night hours to get Strip and Grow Rich ready for the public! Here is a sampling of our three course offerings and their content:

DancerWealth™
Personality Types and The Automatic Response
The Friendship Hot Button
The Authority Hot Button
The Consistency Hot Button
The Reciprocity Hot Button
The Contrast Hot Button
The Reason Why Hot Button
The Hope Hot Button
Persuasive Communication
Core Concepts of Running a Stripping Business
SuperStripper Club Scenarios
Psychology of a SuperStripper

DancerWise™
SuperStripper Financial Plan
What does Money Mean to You?
SuperStripper 1 Year Financial Goals
SuperStripper Budgeting
SuperStripper Filing System
Find your Tanning Factor
Get your Spending under Control
Managing Credit Card Debt
Pay Yourself First
SuperStripper Financial Security Plan
Corporate Entities, Wills, and Living Trusts
Insurance: Health, Life, Disability
6 Steps to a SuperStripper Bank Account

DancerVictory™
Choose to Be a SuperStripper
Find your SuperGenius
SuperStripper Mission Statement
Setting Long Term Goals
Invest Your Time Wisely
Creating Passive Income

DancerWealth™ is ready to roll…pending how quickly we can iron out the minor technological kinks. DancerWise™ and DancerVictory™ are still under construction, but will be available for purchase if you want to purchase all three courses for a volume discount, and get started with the basics.

So much to do….so little time!!!!

I will chronicle my week in Vegas similar to my Diary of a Superbowl Stripper Series. The last time I drove and worked an entire week in Vegas was Comdex 2002. I was six years younger then.

4:40am Wilson wakes me up to go outside. Can’t fall back asleep. Lay in bed going over everything I forgot to pack/do/email yesterday.

6am: get up, shower, eat, check stops on my puts

6:30am: get stopped out of LEH, COF, JPM with much less of a profit than I had yesterday. Good thing I doubled up on OIH and XLE puts.

I have to teach Spin Class, get a spray tan, and stop at Christie’s to pick up a few lucky outfits I left in my locker. I’ve never been in the strip club at 10am…not even when I worked the Peppermint Hippo 3am shift.

11:15-4:15 It took me exactly 5 hours to drive 330 miles.  Although the drive was relatively smooth, it re-affirmed the fact that I prefer to fly than drive.  I can be brain dead on an airplane.  Highway 93 is really boring.  Who would ever live in Kingman?

5-6:30pm  Took a powernap.  Vegas doesn’t come alive til 10pm.  Convention attendees tend to go to dinner, gamble a bit, then hit the clubs to spend their winnings.  Personally I would rather stay late than go in early.

9:00pm Got lost on Industrial Blvd.  I meant to turn on Highland. Glad my Volvo has GPS.  Paid my $40 house fee.  I find it interesting that Treasures fees are cheaper than Christie’s fees, and the dance prices are double.

 Apparently there is a sinkhole and Industrial is going to be closed from Frank Sinatra Blvd to Stardust.  Sux for Sapphires and Spearmint Rhino.  I know this because my first customer of the night was the guy they flew in from San Diego to fix it.  Other than him, there are 5 customers in the entire place.

10pm Treasures picks up as guys filter in after dinner and gambling.  Lots of guys from New Zealand of all places.  Good thing I spent time in Auckland.  In addition to CTIA Wireless Convention, there is also a Pizza convention in town.  I want to go sample various kinds of pizza….

11pm I meet Hans the lawyer from Denmark.  His buddy bought the first dance for him, he kept going for four more.  At the $100 mark I played Feed The Meter.  Since I didn’t know if Hans was credit-worthy, I didn’t want to run the tab too high before collecting.  “Thats it?” he said…”lets go to five”  You got it Hans, and I walked him to the 3 for $100 section.  He ended up being credit-worthy and tipped when I collected in full at the end of our dances.

12am The VIP host says, “You’re Avalon?  I have a customer for you.”  He leads me across the floor.  I tip him for the lead…and it turns out to be Ian Dunross, my friend from San Francisco who gave me the heads up on this convention! 

1am Get called to stage.  Wang from Korea tips me well on the main stage.  We go to VIP for a few dances.

2am Crash taps me on the shoulder.  “Hey!  I heard them call an Avalon….I was wondering if it was you!”  Crash decided to hit Vegas this week as well.  Hopefully she doesn’t crash her car through the Treasures parking lot wall…..it backs up to the I-15.

3am Another stage set.  I’m just done at this point.  I made my minimum goal and have six more days to go.

May 10

Oh What a “Horrible” Night

As the days get hotter underneath the Arizona sun, the strip club patrons seem to vanish.  This leaves a surplus of girls working 2 or 3 extra nights to make the same dollar amount that they made during “season.”  I have to chuckle, I pretty much work the same shifts every week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.  Occasionally I have to swap a Monday or Thursday, but I’m pretty consistent.  My clients know when they can drop in to see me, and they also know they really have to  entice me to drive downtown on a Sunday.

So, as I was taking off the rhinestones and stilettos, I overheard on of my co-workers moaning “This sucks, I ONLY made $200 after tip out.”  I glance up at Toni* and roll my eyes.  Miss PrimaDonna never shows up til 10pm, usually doesn’t start working the floor until 11-ish and is actually expecting to cover the $90 mandatory fees for starting the shift after 10 plus tips to the floormen in about 4 hours on a Wednesday in May.

Now, of course it is theoretically possible to make $1200 in 4 hours at Christie’s Cabaret.  Many girls schedule VIP appointments to start at 10 and last until close.  But to just walk into the club and work the floor, it is not likely to happen.

So, I had to break down the simple math for my financially challenged “friend.”

Even at a measly $200 per 4 hour shift, that is $50 per hour.  A wage that she is unlikely to receive when applying for a job in the “real” world.

Suppose this dancer only made $200 per shift all the time.  If she worked 5 days a week, like most jobs require that is $1000 per week.  In the stripper world, we shake our heads and think “Wow, what a crappy week!”

But that is equivalent to $50,000 per year with two weeks vacation.  And that is CASH IN HAND.  No income taxes withheld!

A single person in the 28% tax bracket would have to earn $70,000 a year to have $50,000 after taxes.

Who makes 70K a year? 

Teachers with a master’s degree and 15 years of experience in some states.  It takes a long time to get that high on the pay scale.

Senior Accountants that have completed degree program and extensive licensing requirements.  Requires passing Algebra.

Engineers: Civil, Aerospace, Mechanical.  Also requires passing algebra… and calculus.  Even then, 70K is the top range of the pay scale.

Entry level attorneys after passing the Bar…and law school. 

Sales Representatives that exceeded their sales quota and recieved commission.  Requires more than 4 hours a day.

Hmmmmm…I guess it wasn’t that bad of a night after all.

*All names have been changed to protect the innocent