I tried a new method of advertising this month. I put a five-line ad in the city newspaper.
We had lots of calls from this. It was amazing. The problem was, they were all (as my friend puts it)... well... whack-jobs.
We actually got one legitimate response from the ad. One guy called and came in. My partner worked on him. He paid for an hour massage, but got a call and had to leave after he’d been in session 30 minutes. (He was from out of town managing some type of construction in the area. He insisted on paying for the entire session, and claimed he would be back before the day was out. He also left a very large tip.
I have marked in his file that we still owe him 30 minutes, but I doubt we’ll see him again. The problem was that out of the 20 to 30 calls from the ad, his was the only one that came in. And that did not cover the cost of placing the ad.
The rest that called were all men, and very concerned with the level of draping. Basically they wanted to be undraped, which is something we will not do. One actually asked if we do prostate work. Prostate work? Well, let’s see. The only way to do that is from up inside the anus. Duh... I don’t think so. Maybe he wanted to see if we could locate his head which obviously had to be stuck up there somewhere.