I want to thank Staff and Girl Next Door for giving me this opportunity and for putting up with me. I want to thank everyone here for welcoming me into your local community.

Although I won’t be posting on TER anymore, if I end up somewhere else, I’m sure we’ll find each other. In the meantime, I invite you to contact me if you must … just kidding! @

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Over the last couple of years, I’ve helped a number of ladies learn how to use sites such as TER, TBD and Blue Pleasures to market their services more effectively. For instance, did you know that you can post an ad more than once a week while still following TER’s Provider Posting Guidelines? Here is one of my favorite tools. “Take a day off next week (just don’t tell anybody about it and your phone will ring even more!” I still plan to be available in this regard. It’s just that I no longer do volunteer work. I think everyone knows how I feel about “exchange of services” arrangements, so that is not an option either. Ladies, if you’re having trouble making your phone ring or if you’d like to go from $200.00 per hour to $300.00 per hour, let’s talk.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming…

A final piece of advice...

For the ladies…

it’s better to retire too early that to retire too late and NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, negotiate set rates!

For the gents…

keep your perspective…don’t invest too much of your resources or yourself in the hobby. In the end, what matters most is what you have at home!

I wanted to come up with an original tag line, but I’ll steal the closing of a respected Boston hobbyist that pretty much says it best…

Have fun!

Jim

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