Can't Buy Me Love by Chris Kenry

Author:Chris Kenry [Kenry, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

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MY OWN PRIVATE MADISON AVENUE

After I’d been working steadily for about two months, business began to drop off. Although most of the clients Ray had sent my way were very happy with my services, they also wanted variety, and after two months I was no longer a novelty. They would visit me three or four times, sample what I had to offer, but then, like travelers on a ten-day tour of Europe, were eager to see the next city. Not all clients were so fickle, thank God. These more conservative and loyal men had reached a level of comfort with me and saw no reason to look elsewhere. It’s not that they didn’t like variety, but that they liked the intimacy that developed between us over time, and in that intimacy there was a different type of variety. After a few visits, I knew what they liked and how they liked it, and they came to appreciate my memory and my techniques. There were probably ten or so of these loyal clients, who came at least once every two weeks, and though I was grateful for their patronage, they were not enough to pay my bills.

Three-ways with Ray were another good source of income, and we did them as often as possible now that I was less inhibited, but they too were becoming fewer and farther between. What we needed was a steady stream of new business to augment the regulars. What we came up with, Ray and I, was an elaborate plan to start marketing ourselves.

Contrary to what I had told my father at dinner, word of mouth was not an effective means of advertising sex for sale. Somehow it seemed implausible that Suburban Joe, pausing in his weekend lawn mowing, would lean over the fence and tell Suburban Bob about the great cock he’d sucked the other day.

“I’m tellin’ ya, it was just perfect, not too long but ample, ya know, satisfying, and the price was really reasonable.”

And thank God these conversations didn’t take place, because if Suburban Joe ever realizes that Suburban Bob is after the same thing, then they’ll probably just service each other, and that certainly wouldn’t be good for business. No, our marketing would have to be less oral.

Since moving to Denver two years ago, Ray had advertised only twice, each time placing small, pictureless ads in one of the local gay papers offering escort services. From these, he had established a relatively loyal clientele, but he too saw the need for an aggressive marketing plan, as his taxidermy was eating up more money, and the good turn he’d done me by sending several of his clients my way was not doing much for his wallet.

In the microbusiness class we had spent several weeks discussing and developing different advertising and marketing strategies, so I knew all about the importance of finding my target market and researching the competition.

“Don’t be shy about calling up your competitors and pretending you’re a client,” Tina said one day in class.

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