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Escort Recruitment : I have spoken about this on a couple of times and since Sunday there have been 6 conversations with various girls. 4 of them are working for agencies at the moment and they are all saying the same thing ... they don't have any work at their present agency so can they work for Angels4You.
It is really saddening to see how much people depend on this world for an income and whilst I had to be honest and let the girls know that Angels only take women on who are independent business career people it does not make me feel smug at all to know that other agencies are not being honest with their teams and letting them know why these girls are not getting any further work.
One of the girls who was not already in this world had already spoken to another agency before she rang me. I had to smile as the conversation continued with her ... why? Ah well, I think I might have to admit to judging people's voices like she had. A strong accented voice that calls you love or petal or flower can be a put off and I should know on this one.
One of the jobs in my career was as an operations manager for a financial services company. The guy I worked for did not like anything other than his first name being used. I was a devil for always using sweeetheart when I talked to him! It really did get right up his nose (wonder if I did it deliberately eh? Me? No, don't be daft, I would never do anything like that now would I?) but now the boot is on the other foot, I call a lot of our clients darling, or, usually "gorgeous" lol but I know its done in a tender and caring way but coming back to this girl who had rang the other agency, she felt the feeling of "seedy" emanating from the way the girl had spoken and her answers on the phone.
I keep coming back to this subject of professionalism in this world and whilst I always seem to be on a hobby horse about it ... think about it .. when you speak to a person on the phone ... how much do you judge them by the way they sound ... I know I do .... I know I shouldn't ... but if someone rings and says in a broad accent "I'm looking for work, love" I know what I will be doing and it won't be asking them to join the team ... sorry girls :-(
Graduation Days : There are many keys moments in one's life and yesterday for me and for my son was one of them. I forgot to take a hankie and ended up sniffing into the sleeve of my long cardigan as the tears streamed down my face whilst I watched my son graduate along with the other students accepting their degrees.
It's cost a lot of money, it's been a lot of heartache supporting an adult yet not an earning one and it was such an emotional day that its only now 24 hours later that I am coming to terms with the fact that we did it (and yes its been a team effort)! My son is the first one in our family to have attended university and obtained a degree. My brother did an Open University degree some years ago which took him 7 years but for anyone in my family to go to university and get a degree has been unheard of until now. I am such a really proud mum as you may guess.
What the world holds for him now ... who knows. At one time not too many years ago we were all pushed to get that degree to get that job, now, the jobs are there but only for those with experience so the next challenge comes from trying to find the right position but he will always know that his degree is now there. If anyone knows of a position in art and design or illustration let me know as I have a great candidate for you ... I am not above trying to help him get a job either as you can see!
When you see the next profiles coming out on the girls, it's my son that does the work on getting this part of the site up and running for me so he can work lol
The only negative thing about yesterday though? God my feet are still hurting to walk on. I ended up with horrible blisters on the balls of my feet. I used to wear heels all the time so had no hesitations putting them on yesterday - I wish I hadn't. I had to take my shoes off to get to the car but even walking on blisters on the bare streets was definitely "ouch" time!
Sunday Working : Got up early this morning as I knew I had no option but to sort out my own finances today. Its 8pm now and apart from an hour's break when a friend came round and cooking lunch for my son and me, I have only just got to the end of what I needed. My desire to get things up to date came when I got a letter in from the Council Tax people to say I had underpaid them so far this year and that I owed them money. Blonde hair I may have but I found that me owing money to them was hard to understand so the only thing I could do was dig up all the bank statements and check.
One marathon session later and one ever so nice letter (not) to the Council shows that they owe me what they say I owe them ... lets see where this gets me but luckily enough all my statements show that the payments have been made and its not my fault if their systems don't show up I am paying it with the wrong reference number (oops!). We shall see.
Site update next and am presently developing some new pages and new profiles for the girls so keep your eyes open for the forthcoming changes. I am never one to keep it looking all the same for long! Its such a big advantage being able to work on my own site when I want to without having to wait for web and graphic designers to do any major amendments for me. I have always been self-taught and I usually only need a brief showing of what to do and I am then off and running again so keep your eyes out for the new pages and changes.
Whilst the escort world, at least in my niche area, has cooled down considerably, its so reassuring to know that we are still so well thought of though. I had a client ring up this afternoon who last saw Collette in July last year. He had not been up this way ever since but his time with Collette and his conversation with me had stayed well in his mind and he had kept our number. I was thrilled that I was able to remember him and when and where he met Collette. Its called decent customer service in my books but I know it can sometimes throw clients off when I remember them but then most of our guys really are people to remember with great thoughts! We are so lucky to have such a special and wonderful set of people allied to us, it makes up for the all the not so decent people that I have to sometimes come into reluctant contact with.
I know that many clients will always be influenced by lower rates and a short notice booking system but for us, it will always be quality time with the guys that ring and quality support with the girls who know how much I think of them. I love this world (well ... most of the time I do!).
EscortsList? OK, so what’s Sue chattering on about today then? Ah well … Sue is so suspicious about absolutely everything that seems strange at the moment that I emailed the administrator of the above site earlier on this evening after seeing something that I felt was strange happening on voting for my sites.
I am getting totally paranoid but what was great was that the site owner immediately rang me to talk through my concerns; I was gobsmacked! I am more used to the nastiness and underhandedness and not used to people caring much in this world and actually ringing for a chat so I was a very happy bunny. A great conversation was had but what was funny was that the agency that I have the problem with is rather well known for its, lets shall we say, underhanded actions!
No seriously, it’s not so much glee, as actually now finding even more people who know about this agency and their so-called business methods. It is a steady pattern of bullying and harassing for others not just Angels4You - it just seems that I am their latest target!
A big thanks tonight to EscortsList (www.escortslist.co.uk) for both caring and understanding my concerns and allaying my fears that the unusual activity I had noticed may well just be because more people are finding the Angels4You Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool sites to actually be worthwhile making notes about – yeah – bring it on!
What was it one of my friends in this world said just recently … you need a healthy dose of the positives Sue as they are there … I got one tonight – cheers sweetie!!! xxx
Diary Entries That Should Not Be Done? I think friends of mine who know me well certainly think that I should perhaps not write at the moment or at least not in the way I go on about the issues that are being put in my way simply because I am open, honest and truthful. My friends seem to think that by my being silent (or not saying things about what is happening) I will somehow make the issues I have been experiencing go away.
When I think about events in my past though, I realise how much they shape the person that I am today. There are so many things that have happened during my years and if I had not faced them and written about them and sorted them bit by tiny bit then would they have gone away then? I don't think they would because unless something is dealt with properly then it can and does keep coming back - experience taught me that. I keep thinking back to the fact that I did get through all those hiccups in my life and if I have done that before then I will do so again.
It is so hard at the moment to feel that there are decent people in this industry. I keep wanting to distrust every person who calls me. I feel that they are not genuine when they call me and that is so unlike me. A girl who worked for me in the past rang me earlier this evening, I even asked her if she was genuine!!! I am getting totally paranoid. One of my clients rang also today and was telling him about what had been happening and he mentioned he knew of a copyright specialist so yet another thing for me to now sort out! Will this ever end I wonder? Nah, not whilst I am in this world it won't!
It’s a hard lesson I am being taught though by this world at this moment in time. I hope, I really do hope, that I still learn to be that special Sue who cares about people, who still trusts that they are genuine and they care the same as I do about how others are treated all so often by an industry that has, to not put too fine a point on it, some pretty shitty people in it.
In business (normal business I mean not this industry that is still a half world), if there are issues either between businesses or between people inside those companies, most of the time there will be upfront measures that can be taken when things go wrong. In this world it seems to be not what you know but who you know.
I have had options opened up to me that may mean that I have to go down a path into a side of this world that I have so much avoided. I honestly don’t want to unless its a last resort. I want to believe that society and people within it cannot be as vicious, nasty, underhanded and downright vile as I am presently experiencing and that I can trust the authorities to find a way to protect me …. Am I talking myself in circles? Yep I probably am.
What bothers me more than anything else is that by being me, by being the honest, upfront, direct person I am, I have caused, by writing my feelings down, some idiot out there to feel personally threatened by my attention to detail and by my outspokenness about so much of this world that I have had opened up to others so that they can also have an insight into a world that is so often badly managed.
Do I give up? Do I stop my writings? Some have said I should but this world means so much to me and why on earth my thoughts and feelings should be seen as something to be stopped I am at a loss to know why anyone should be afraid of them? So I live to learn or do I learn to live? That is actually a really valid question at the moment. Am I being stupid in thinking that this constant battle to remain myself is actually causing me to be in danger?
When I was 12 years old I was bullied; it necessitated police protection as it was that bad I was unable to get on a bus and get to and from school because of the actions of this one individual. A lot of us have experiences like this I would guess. The reason for the bullying though? I lived in a big house, on a posh road. What is funny is that it was reverse snobbery. This person had judged me because of where I lived, yet living on the road I did, would you believe it, because my father was a shift worker and not a white collar worker then I was not allowed to play with any of the other children. Their parents had big cars and nannies … we had a motor caravan to fit 6 of us and my mum bought the material to make our school uniforms as it was cheaper to do that than buy what was needed from the official shops that sold that uniform yet this person had judged me as worthy of "attacking" simply because of where I lived. Its a funny world we live in.
There are some really nasty people in this world who for one reason or another think that it is their mission in life to simply stamp on people who don’t meet what they obviously feel is the right way to be. God forbid I ever do to others what is happening in my life presently.
Hate Campaigns : And so the hate campaign restarts. I got asked by George McCoy when he was in with me this week why was this particular agency targeting me so specifically as Angels4You is such a small niche agency and in no way at all threatens or impacts on their particularly large business.
Easy, I said to George, I don’t fit the profile of a seedy, greedy, money grabbing, using and abusing person and I have always stood out against the crowd - that always makes people a target and its certainly made Angels4You and me one. This industry has a lot of nastiness in it and unfortunately this particular agency has now made two personal vendettas obvious on Angels4You in the last 2 weeks and it certainly is headed up by just such an individual.
Hard words from me? Not really – just honest and from the heart.
I thought things were just a bit too quiet and I had said before that this was probably the calm before the next storm and I certainly wasn’t wrong.
Absolutely no point in my detailing their actions to Angels4You – they would no doubt love me to put in print their seedy actions in all their nasty glory but what’s the point? I really do feel for people who are unable to be adults in a professional business sense.
Their actions speak enough about them as a person let alone what seedy and underhanded business practices they use. What a shame I ever had to know of them this way as I certainly would never wish for them to be associated with this industry – it brings all of us down.
Famous At Last? Yeah ... not really but its getting there. Interesting and such a tiring week and its taken me until now to write up about the events I had on Tuesday but I had a visit then from the one and only George McCoy who runs McCoys Guide to Adult Services. www.mccoysguide.com
A while back whilst doing some back end site linking, Steven (who does the work for back end linking for me) got in touch with George's site for a banner listing. Having got it on our site in the incorrect place the first time I sent an apology to George who promptly called me back and it ultimately lead to him coming over to have a chat with me on Tuesday this week. George is also being "trailed" round on his visits by Channel 4 so no doubt another documentary to come on our industry so watch this space as they say. I love having my say on camera though - try and shut me up about this industry!
George has put a review of Angels on his site - unfortunately, as I refuse to pay for advertising preferring to keep things as organic a placement on search engines as possible whilst keeping my advertising costs as low as possible, it means that most of you who are not into paying to read reviews on massage parlours and other adult industries will miss out on it so I have put the details George gives on his site here for you all.
I am actually really proud of the comments. Angels IS different. We ARE one of a kind and we ARE a niche business. See what you think - comments welcome :-)
"Starting in late 2005, Angels 4 You is an interesting niche market agency based near Manchester and while coming up with ladies everywhere from Liverpool to Leeds to Sheffield, has most of its ladies based and primarily available in Manchester. What is particularly distinctive about this agency is probably mostly down to their supremo, Sue, a lady who takes her business very seriously, she has a fascianting blog on her website, and who expects her clientele to respect that. There is no possibility of last minute bookings here for example, this being because the ladies who work through this agency are all professionals and I do not mean professional escorts, but rather ladies in professional careers, often managment, but who enjoy the opportunity to let their hair down occasionally in interesting company and with the added bonus of it helping to pay the mortgage. So far as agencies are concerned, definitely a one off."
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Diary
Topics
for this month
Diary Entries That Should Not Be Done?
Escort Recruitment
EscortsList Website
Famous At Last?
Hate Campaigns
Graduation Days
Sunday Working
Blogs of Interest
Ptr Leeds in Wonderland
Diary Archive
June 2008
Developing a niche industry in escorting, Escorting and honesty, Expectations of escorting, Is escorting guaranteed sex? Search engine optimisation, Stressful days
May 2008
Adultwork, Being a professional business, Client behaviour, Co-workers, bullies and harrassment, Friends, How to feel sorry for yourself! Joining the Angels4You escorts team, Motorbikes, Rose coloured spec-tacles, Silence is golden, or is it? The silence is broken
April 2008
A favour please, Anonymous e-mails, Being Sue, Blogs and tags, Cleanliness, Clients beneath contempt! Drugs, Escort ages, I'll pay double, Job applications, Male escorting, Monopoly, Poaching, Principles, Radio interviews, Standing up to be counted
March 2008
Accidents and muggings, Chain letters, Domain name tactics, End of Sue's escorting, Enhancements, Harrassment, Memories, Nasty worlds, SWOT analysis, What a day!
February 2008
Anonymous e-mails, Becoming an escort, My first escort booking, Positives and negatives, Interviews, Friends, Easy money, Response to anonymous e-mails, Timewasters
January 2008
Anonymous e-mails, Being let down, Bullies, Business slumps, Client behaviour, Escort or prostitute, Friends, Memories, Rankings, Reactions, Thank you
December 2007
Criminalising clients, Dirty tactics, Frustrating days, Happy Christmas,
Incalls, Nude photographs, Perceptions of escorting, Swinging into escorting, Why pay an agency, Withheld numbers
November 2007
Being known, Disabled and dishonest clients, Frightening stories, Lecturing on the Sexual Offences Act, Moving house, Unprofessional behaviour, Ways forward
October 2007
Concerns, Money does not talk, Radio interviews, Secret diary of a call girl, Stressful times, The new site look, Waiting to move house
September 2007
Adult photographers and male escort agency owners, Discrimination, Drunk clients, Happy Birthday, Honesty, Money laundering, The new site moves closer
August 2007
Arrogance and money, A dedication, Awkward clients, Discrimination, Distrust, Journalists, Non-paying clients, Professionalism, Withheld numbers
July 2007
BBC Radio Manchester, Discretion, Dirty tactics, Hiding from view, Radio interviews, Services, Weddings and bridesmaid's duties
June 2007
Elite escorts, Escort incalls, Favourite clients, Making mistakes, Male escorts, Views from a client, Young escorts
May 2007
Being charged to become an escort, Brothels and incalls, Clients to avoid, Clients with that WOW factor, First diary entry, Male escorts, Stockings and suspenders, Usage and abusage of escorts
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