Thank you and a shout out of gratitude to repeat clients R, T & J! The extra income you provided comes in very handy this week as I bought a lovely new bike last week and need to pay it off!
Also, a production update; I am taking SEO lessons and am determined to be off the ridiculous Rent Masseur site and Masseurfinder by the end of the year, thus saving myself $90 bucks a months which has been going on for years! I shared this figure with a client yesterday and he was amazed that I was paying for these sites. How naive some queens are.
It's a big mystery how well these two sites even work in terms of reaching and bringing in M4M massage clients who actually book (who can even understand Rent Masseur’s extremely confusing, esoteric and non-sensical numbers?) and I hope to improve my website tags and online presence in order to reach a higher quality of M4M massage clients. (I truly wonder if this is even possible--often I feel like such a war-weary veteran dealing with so many naked men after so many years; well, it comes with the territory). After accomplishing more quality and stable massage practice, I hope to apply these same skills to online promotion of my writing, music and audiobooks. Goals: publishing my writing, selling my audiobooks and creating a buzz about my music! In other words is it even possible to make money from my creativity???!!!! I am determined to explore this and will discover if my new strategy (and outlay of money to the SEO specialist) is even effective and works (?). About a decade ago I attempted to promote via Google ("Massage for men") and was told by someone in the Google mess of a monopoly (this employee was in England no less) that I was a prostitute and therefore my ad could not be run! Perhaps this time the copy should read "Specializing in Men's Health & Healing" LOL! Yes the demon of PC correctitude is here to stay like global warming and the war in the mideast...
I will be particularly happy and grateful to leave the Rent Masseur site as the way it shamelessly promotes masseur's private photos to subscribers without sharing a cut of those profits to the masseur's themselves is nothing short of cheap pornographic flesh peddling with the masseurs here enabling this salient nickel and diming slavery. Not fair at all! I have been complaining about this for years in various blogs and of course am ignored. The denial in the M4M massage world is probably the most extreme at present. Our society at large views women who practice sex work as being cool. Men—well, we are the n’s of the sex-work world. I believe factors that contribute to this male-oriented, omnipresent denial are technology (the dumbness of phone addiction), competition for sex-addicted money & clients along with internalized homophobia and shame (faceless photos of alleged “masseurs” run rampant).
I am grateful to the responsible clients I have gotten from these two massage sites over the years; but am looking forward to reaching a demographic of men who truly value and respect what I do as opposed to the huge numbers of no-shows and clients seeking the flavor-of-the-month masseurs and weirdos who contact me to throw shade (to what end I wonder? jealousy, ageism, etc.). Well, the haters will always be with us online personalities). The best solution is to laugh them away which I will continue to do : ).
In conclusion; emotional freedom technique set-up statement--"Even though so much of the world is a shit-hole, it IS getting better LOL--and I love and accept myself as I am and I'm open to change...
Ta-Daaaa!
See you on the table : ).
Steve O
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