Connecting with Possible Clients

My account was approved the next step was to fill in my profile, and message with clients.  I immediately got half a dozen messages.  The site alerts users on the homepage when new members have joined.  Many messages were from people who lived far away, but a few were from people who actually lived close by.  The site prefers for the members to communicate primarily with the site’s own messaging interface.  They even include the option to upload pictures with your communications.  I found that most people wanted to move off of communicating on the site quickly.  The site does monitor messaging, mostly so they have an idea of scheduled sessions and when they should expect to get paid.  Part of the user agreement as being listed on as professional cuddler on this platform is that after a session the site gets 15% of the session fee.  I get why they want to see the messages, and since everything is monitored, I get why clients who don’t even post their pictures on the website would want to connect in a different way.  I decide that as long as we confirm our sessions on the site, side conversations with the phone or email or text messages isn’t breaking the rules.  At first I gave my number to a few possible clients.  Then I thought, oh maybe this isn’t the best idea.  So I signed up for a new gmail account and a new google voice number that I can use for this purpose.  The most surprising thing to me about starting this business is how some clients  wanted to pay me just to talk to me.