Photos that are, or are almost duplicates of others in the same ad.
Photos that aren't right-side up - (if they can't take the time to get their pictures right-side-up, they're not making enough effort...) (surely they expect their clients to download their photos onto the company computer just to 'rotate' them... LOL)
(this next one isn't a deal-breaker, but it's a vastly popular sign of stupidity: when the posed selfies in a mirror have the provider staring into the back of her phone instead of looking into the mirror at the reflection of the lens. If we want to look at hot women staring into their phones, we can go and ride the SkyTrain. ) {hint: you can instantly re-take the photo if you didn't frame it well, so look into the mirror at the lens, NOT at the back of your phone}
Beyond that, Selfies are a GOOD thing... people just want an updated sense for whether you're legitimate. If you're using the same 3 pictures in your ads that you haven't changed in 5 years (the ad or the photo) then viewers just aren't going to get a positive sense of you. If you just randomly change it up, even IF you take a rushed, not-your-best photo every now and then... it will suggest that you are 'current' in your thinking and interest in booking appointments.
Copied-and-pasted ads are a strong negative... (meaning when you devise an ad on January 15... and then just keep repeating the same ad, word-for-word, through November (or even through February 7).
(you don't have to be a literary wonder... but just make it clear you're a woman who is offering companionship... and a vibe of somebody who is authentic and mostly sure of herself. I maintain full regard for those who do NOT want to be identifiable in their PERB photos... but I have special respect for those who present their entire selves as they are, while looking to draw from the crowd who may be interested in them , while not attempting to obscure enough of their individuality so that people seeking petite Asians and people seeking tall Caucasians and people seeking Jamaican Canadians might still be fooled into phoning the same provider.)
(for clarity on the above paragraph, consider a pregnant provider: there is a niche which very much adores pregnancy... so when you're pregnant and providing... you play to that niche... to not utilize the convenience of the internet while instead presenting yourself as no more than a black silhouette against the Yellow Pages, with a phone number, sets the industry back 25 years and more)
Or when you rent the penthouse suite at Motel Five... and there is an original Renoir painting over the bed... and when you're foolish enough to take your ad photos in front of the distinguishable Renoir (making your could-be locale instantly recognizable to everybody associated with that location). (The client doesn't know that you've now moved to the Ritz Carlton, or that your previous ad photo wasn't taken in today's same room at the Ritz' {cuz it's your favorite} )
Competition among providers is probably getting greater than ever during hard times... so if that isn't incentive enough to present yourself optimally, then I don't know what is.
(but don't worry, the 'handlers' surely know everything... {OR they rely on 'volume' wherever they go, and nobody else including you can tell the difference} )
Photos that aren't right-side up - (if they can't take the time to get their pictures right-side-up, they're not making enough effort...) (surely they expect their clients to download their photos onto the company computer just to 'rotate' them... LOL)
(this next one isn't a deal-breaker, but it's a vastly popular sign of stupidity: when the posed selfies in a mirror have the provider staring into the back of her phone instead of looking into the mirror at the reflection of the lens. If we want to look at hot women staring into their phones, we can go and ride the SkyTrain. ) {hint: you can instantly re-take the photo if you didn't frame it well, so look into the mirror at the lens, NOT at the back of your phone}
Beyond that, Selfies are a GOOD thing... people just want an updated sense for whether you're legitimate. If you're using the same 3 pictures in your ads that you haven't changed in 5 years (the ad or the photo) then viewers just aren't going to get a positive sense of you. If you just randomly change it up, even IF you take a rushed, not-your-best photo every now and then... it will suggest that you are 'current' in your thinking and interest in booking appointments.
Copied-and-pasted ads are a strong negative... (meaning when you devise an ad on January 15... and then just keep repeating the same ad, word-for-word, through November (or even through February 7).
(you don't have to be a literary wonder... but just make it clear you're a woman who is offering companionship... and a vibe of somebody who is authentic and mostly sure of herself. I maintain full regard for those who do NOT want to be identifiable in their PERB photos... but I have special respect for those who present their entire selves as they are, while looking to draw from the crowd who may be interested in them , while not attempting to obscure enough of their individuality so that people seeking petite Asians and people seeking tall Caucasians and people seeking Jamaican Canadians might still be fooled into phoning the same provider.)
(for clarity on the above paragraph, consider a pregnant provider: there is a niche which very much adores pregnancy... so when you're pregnant and providing... you play to that niche... to not utilize the convenience of the internet while instead presenting yourself as no more than a black silhouette against the Yellow Pages, with a phone number, sets the industry back 25 years and more)
Or when you rent the penthouse suite at Motel Five... and there is an original Renoir painting over the bed... and when you're foolish enough to take your ad photos in front of the distinguishable Renoir (making your could-be locale instantly recognizable to everybody associated with that location). (The client doesn't know that you've now moved to the Ritz Carlton, or that your previous ad photo wasn't taken in today's same room at the Ritz' {cuz it's your favorite} )
Competition among providers is probably getting greater than ever during hard times... so if that isn't incentive enough to present yourself optimally, then I don't know what is.
(but don't worry, the 'handlers' surely know everything... {OR they rely on 'volume' wherever they go, and nobody else including you can tell the difference} )
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