What working without an agency means
That you post the listing, answer the messages, set the price and decide whether to accept a particular meeting. Nobody calls you with a booking already made and nobody takes a share on top.
The other side of it is honest: there is no dispatcher filtering conversations and no external schedule making decisions for you. Messages and refusals are part of the work, and so is deciding who not to reply to.
Photographs
Almost everything follows from these, and what matters is not production quality but recognisability: the person reading should see whoever opens the door. Listings with photographs edited past recognition get more messages and noticeably more meetings that go badly.
A fairly simple set works:
- Several shots in different light rather than one series from a single evening.
- At least one full length, and one with your face visible if you are willing to show it.
- Natural light instead of flash and filters.
- No photographs belonging to anyone else. That closes a listing permanently and it is the one rule with no exceptions.
- You do not have to show your face. But then say so plainly in the text rather than leaving it as a surprise at the meeting.
Price
The simplest starting point is what the city asks for the same format, which is visible on the Yerevan price table: a table built from live listings with the minimum, the most common figure and the maximum for each duration.
Pricing well below the market is not worth it, and not out of solidarity. A low price does not bring more meetings, it brings a different type of conversation: haggling, urgency and attempts to change the terms in person. An overnight rate is worth setting as its own figure rather than as eight hourly ones: an hour also includes the travel, the messages and getting ready, and those are paid for once whichever format it is.
The text about yourself
Nobody reads a long text, and a short specific one works. The most useful thing it can contain is your conditions: what hours suit you, whether you travel, what you do and what you do not.
Every such detail removes several conversations that would have gone nowhere anyway. A listing that states its conditions plainly gets fewer messages and more meetings, which is a reasonable trade.
Fields that are not decoration
Some fields exist because the catalogue pages are built from them, and those pages are where people arrive from search. A listing without them simply does not appear where it is being looked for.
The three that do the most work, and one that is optional:
- The outcall marker, if you are willing to travel. It is one of the most visited pages: listings that travel.
- The district, which separate city pages are assembled from. Without it a listing appears on none of them.
- The hourly price, from which everything else is calculated. Without it a listing reaches neither the price page nor any filter involving money.
- Identity verification, which removes most of the suspicion from conversations. What the badge covers is in what the verified badge means.
What it costs, and safety
Posting is free, there is no percentage on meetings, and the contact details in the listing are yours rather than ours. What is paid for and what is coming later is on the pricing page. A listing can be hidden in one click and brought back when it suits you: a break does not mean starting again.
Everything in safety: short and practical works in both directions, including the right to end a meeting at any moment. In practice: give the address closer to the time rather than in the first message, send documents and access to nobody, and neither ask for nor send advance payments. Report anyone who behaves otherwise, which is faster than dealing with it yourself.