Outsourcing Rent Ads

[Jarrod_Uncut]

By this I mean: you live in an area but do not work there, either because you’ve met all the client pool over the months/years, it’s too many other guys posting and it’s slow, or for discretion purposes. 

Does anyone have experience with this? I’m considering myself. Even though I tour/travel often, I’m considering to eliminate myself from one of my local markets, and just work remotely from an area that’s nearby. I run my RentMen ad in the area and it’s almost a waste of advertising hours because nobody is hardly contacting anymore in my area. Then soon as I move it to a different state, it’s suddenly high demand again. 

The drawback I run into with this though, is conveying that I only go to the area for client appointments. And it can be hard to do so if there’s an assumption I’m already there. But when trying to arrange them for later in week or even next day, it’s usually they are going out of town tomorrow, etc, etc. I end up moving it back to local area to be more accessible to bookings. 

Edited August 19, 2022 by Jarrod_Uncut

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So as mentioned: the part that I don’t like about trying to do this, is I try to post in a location within a couple hours away. Someone reaches out, but wants to meet “today” or tonight. It’s possible, but on short notice it could be a bit inconvenient or interfere with some other plans I have in mind.
 

I’ve had instances where they just drag on the process of confirming, and I’m telling them: I don’t go anywhere until the booking is confirmed. And the longer they wait to confirm, the later I’m going to be for the appointment. When trying to schedule for the next day, they’re either leaving or going to be too busy. 
 

It’s like, how can I plan to go somewhere that involves some travel, if it’s going to be difficult or a pain in the ass to get a confirmation? Makes it hard to want to post in other cities outside of where you’re based.

Edited August 20, 2022 by Jarrod_Uncut

[italianboyph]

Yeah, I get it. For me it's very very rare I ever meet people where I live. 

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3 hours ago, italianboyph said:

Yeah, I get it. For me it's very very rare I ever meet people where I live. 

What gets me are people who seem to be sooo busy and have all their other things planned but are so lousy when it comes to arranging a meet up. The past couple of weeks, I have been making appointment after appointment with non-escort things (doctor/car/barber etc.) and it’s hard to find anyone who offers same day appointments. So I know, that THEY know, it’s not something that’s widely done in the business world. 

Then when I try to arrange for the same day, they drag stuff on, wait hours to get to the point and book, and then if I can’t meet on the same day they contact, they’re just sooo busy to do it any other time.

It can be hard if you aren’t limited to a small local radius in limited time windows. Most are just not reliable, especially when dealing with business travelers or locals who can’t host. 
 

Then people go on about others running late: well, there’s your answer and solution right there. How can we be on time for anyone, when people aren’t on time for us 🤷🏾‍♂️ 

Edited August 20, 2022 by Jarrod_Uncut

[BuffaloKyle]

It actually does make sense where everyone in your local market that hires would fall into one of two categories. They either have already hit you up and hired you or they aren't interested in you. So outside of newbies to RM locally or visitors from out of town the amount of inquiries isn't as much as when your ad pops up in a different city and you have a much greater number of clients seeing your ad for the first time. And when you're visiting for a short time that also will cause interest to swell too.

I know you were interested in relocating sometime soon. I think somewhere that is close to other major cities so you can sort of stay fresh would be beneficial. Like take Pittsburgh for just an example. You'd be within easy driving range of Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo/Toronto, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Wash DC, Baltimore and able to travel easily for a few days of clients when you would have enough appts set up. Helps that you can list a ton of cities as near travel on RM. 

Edited August 22, 2022 by BuffaloKyle

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7 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

It actually does make sense where everyone in your local market that hires would fall into one of two categories. They either have already hit you up and hired you or they aren't interested in you. So outside of newbies to RM locally or visitors from out of town the amount of inquiries isn't as much as when your ad pops up in a different city and you have a much greater number of clients seeing your ad for the first time. And when you're visiting for a short time that also will cause interest to swell too.

I know you were interested in relocating sometime soon. I think somewhere that is close to other major cities so you can sort of stay fresh would be beneficial. Like take Pittsburgh for just an example. You'd be within easy driving range of Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo/Toronto, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Wash DC, Baltimore and able to travel easily for a few days of clients when you would have enough appts set up. Helps that you can list a ton of cities as near travel on RM. 

First paragraph spot on. Not to mention: the ones who were interested but couldn’t follow thru, some on multiple occasions.

I like the hub idea, but it’s still a factor of herding the bookings at the right time. Like right now: I usually base out of St. Louis or Kansas City. There’s cities (albeit small market/conservative/or concentrated wealth) within 3-4 hours drive like you mentioned: but most of the time, I can’t catch people because they wait too late to confirm or expect me to just already be there the minute I move my ad to the area. Lately, I’ve just been going to cities where I can stay at a friend’s place for a couple nights and wait for bookings to line up. But to just go to a city, book a hotel, pay upfront (all the things captain @Kevin Slater told us not to do), it’s not been as busy to do that. Unless I have a client who’s confirmed and send deposit, then I can go and actually be there.

I already had that twice this month: tried to go to the next town nearby, but wasn’t given enough notice or they waited hours to get to the point. I’m telling them: confirm now/send details. They don’t, and then when they finally do, half the day goes by, and they expect me to be ready and available. No.

 

And posting cities as travel doesn’t work as well as actually moving the ad there because, RentMen only shows the list of guys in each city who have it set as their home location. You have to click on the City and scroll thru the list. So oftentimes I’ll just move it to the area I want to go to for half the day, and then back to where I am for the other half of the day. 
 

But even with that, idk if it’s just confusing people more or what. Unless I just say first thing: “I am in (city) currently now”. But then when I do that, people still don’t get it. End up with a lot of, “when are you going to be in…?” 
 

I’m not trying to do all that back and forth anymore either. Tired of that. I just want people to send me the deposit and then everything else can be worked and sorted out. I’m letting deposits be valid for up to a month so, they can figure out something within a month. 

Edited August 22, 2022 by Jarrod_Uncut