Independent Escorts vs. Agency Escorts - Pros and Cons Part 1

Thinking of becoming an escort, but you don’t know if you should go the independent route or sign with an agency? You probably have a million worries and questions going through your head right now. Things such as marketing, finances, safety, and so on can make even the most organized people freeze.

We’re here to land a helping hand and hopefully make it easy for you to choose one option or the other. Let’s begin.

Do a self-assessment

Before you decide whether to sign with an agency or go solo, you should ask yourself if you know what it takes to be one or the other.

Start by making a list of both your weaknesses and strengths. Are you a good administrator of your own finances, time, and whatnot? Do you know how to market yourself? Can you be available 24/7 and reply to text messages or emails as they come?

Another aspect to keep in mind when doing a self-assessment: are you an extrovert who loves meeting new people and making friends? Do you know how to calm nervous customers? If you answer yes to all of these questions, then you’ll be a great independent companion.

Coming back to the finances bit, if you decide to be independent and try only incalls, you should know that they require you to maintain, source, and budget stuff like toiletries, sheets, cleaning, rental costs, and everything else that goes into an incall place. Likewise, should you decide to provide outcalls instead, you need to think whether you have the money to book a hotel and if it’s worth it in the long run, just like with incalls.

Be aware of legal matters

When you decide to become an independent companion, you’ll have to know all about local laws regarding your job. Because if you don’t, you will end up in jail. Many countries and states consider escorting illegal. Do you have the time and also money to hire a good lawyer? If you work for an agency, they will take care of everything for you.

Consider screening

As far as safety goes, screening is very important, even more so if you’re a newbie. There are so many aggressive and crazy people out there, that avoiding them must be your top priority. Asking your potential client their real name, phone number and work number, home address, and real photos will make it easy for you to spot scammers and timewasters, because the good guys and girls will give you all the info you need.

However, this means that you’ll waste quite a big amount of time to check that things are OK with a potential customer. An agency will make it happen behind the scenes and the only thing you’ll need to do is show up for your appointment. Also, other escorts will provide the agency with references about that person if they’ve already been booked by them at some point.

Ready to promote yourself?

Being an independent provider is all about marketing yourself. This means lots of time, know-how, and money. You will have to create and regularly update your own website with new stuff, write new posts on all your social media accounts, upload photos (or hire a pro to do it, so consider a generous budget for that), and so on. Building an escort brand is very important when you go solo. You won’t have these problems when you’re in an agency.

Stay safe

Do you have a close friend you can call if things go wrong? If not, consider working with an agency. You will have one or more security buddies you can lean on to stay safe at all times. Most often than not, independent escorts don’t tell their family and friends about their job, so in case of something bad happening, they won’t have anyone to contact.

Make a list of services and prices

If you haven’t thought about this yet, now’s the time to do it. Do you want to cater to a niche or not really? Write down what you’re willing to do with a client and what you’d rather not. Be honest about your likes and dislikes, don’t make it sound like you’re a nymphomaniac when in real life you’re not. You’ll only make your client(s) disappointed.

Moving on, consider the prices you’d like to charge. Are you willing to invest time into studying the average market rate or would you rather someone else did it for you? An agency will help you considerably.

Think about your income

Many independent companions have to take another job until they build a solid reputation. Think this through, because you might end up with serious money problems if no one calls you in the first three months or so.

We’ll be back next week with a list of pros and cons for becoming an independent provider and working for an agency.