Is it just bad timing or is it something else?
I've recently decided to try my hand at "touring". I made the decision when I was planning a trip to Alabama to visit friends and family. Someone suggested I place an ad or two and see how it went.
Well, I went back and checked after the fact. I had 17 different gentlemen PM from eccie, email me directly, or contact me via P411 or my website. Of those, I had to turn down 3 due to lack of screening. The rest all passed screening and were interested. All of them told me to be sure to let them know as soon as I was in their area. I did. I ended up leaving Alabama without even breaking even on the amount the trip cost me. Now, I was already going there to deliver a puppy and visit anyway, so the trip was not wasted. However, it made me start thinking about trying to "tour" on a more consistent basis.
By the time I got back home to northeast Texas, I had a somewhat hazy gameplan for touring a different (and much closer) city in my surrounding areas every week. I started this week... with San Antonio.
Once more I posted an ad a week early asking for the men to get pre-screened. Several did. Again, I was emailed, PMed, and messaged via P411. By all accounts I would be welcomed and BUSY by the time I got here.
Now I've been here right at 25 hours and I have had exactly ZERO appointments. It seems as soon as I arrived, the interest just dried up and vanished completely. I do still have a couple of confirmed appointments over the next 24 hours, but really, the way this has gone so far, I kind of expect them to cancel as well, though I SERIOUSLY hope they do not! lol
So, I'm just wondering... is that the "norm" for touring ladies? Do you get gobs and gobs of interest just to have it vanish into smoke when you get to your destination? If that isn't the norm, then do I just have extraordinarily bad timing/bad luck?
I'm beginning to think that touring just isn't my cup of tea, but I sure do love to travel. I REALLY wanted to make touring work out. But I can't even pay for the trip the way the past two attempts have gone (and I'm eating out of a cooler and not in a five-star resort either), much less pay bills too. *sigh*
Anyone have any advice? Tips from the touring ladies?