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Originally Posted by Dharma
That's a good question. It's easy for me because I'm a massage provider and the time starts when your appointment time starts. I generally have my hands on you for 50 minutes or so of your hour. It's your hour to do with as you like but most clients want as much time on the table as possible. If a clients wants to freshen up, let me know ahead of time so that I can make allowances for that. I recently had a client who arrived late, then informed me that he wanted to shower, ok, went over by asking for just a little of this and that and after I told him we'd gone over and I had ladies coming in for henna, he decided to take another shower. A long shower. My next appointment arrived on time and left because I wasn't yet ready to receive them. I lost that money and received damage to my reputation. My time starts when your appointment does. I pad my appointments and leave about a half hour to 45 minutes between appointments. If we go over because of me, it's my gift to you and I'll say so. If a client goes that far over out of inconsideration and then doesn't pay for it, I'm not inclined to book them again. Then there's my personal favourite. I was seeing a client for another provider and he paid me less claiming to pay more, the rest next time. There won't be a next time. I apologize for taking the long way around to answer your question.
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I had a provider put it to me this way and I've played roughly by this rule-of-thumb ever since.
You got 60 mins: 15 mins for chat and feel each other out, 30 mins of fun activities, then 15 mins of cool down and clean-up and out the door + or - 5 mins of scheduled end time.
You got 30 mins: Down to business within 5 mins, 10 to 15 mins of fun, 5 to 10 mins of clean up and out the door + or - 3 mins from end time. Usually best after at least one or two prior 60 mins sessions.
You got 90 mins +: Allows for tease time, drinks and longer chat 20 to 25 mins, Multiple fun activities (MSOG) including breaks 45 to 60 mins, longer cool down, massage and clean up 15 to 30 mins. Scale it up according to minutes over 90.
Anyway, that sounded pretty reasonable to me. I've never done a 15 min BNG. Not sure how that works. I might have to do a new thread and ask about it. ;-)