When I first started my professional cuddling business, that bedroom was also my cuddling “office”. I shared a tiny three-bedroom apartment with two other roommates, and I didn’t have other space to cuddle in. I worked out of my home for nearly five and a half years.
I hear about cuddlers who get an expensive office outside their home as soon as they start their business. They’re often left footing a huge rent bill when the demand for their services doesn’t match up with what they expected to be making.
Read MoreWhenever I talk to someone about professional cuddling who hasn’t heard of it before, there are always lots of questions that come up. Whether I meet them at a networking event or they’re interviewing me directly for an article or podcast, at some point the question comes up:
“How much do you make?”
I’ll answer when I’m asked, but…
Read MoreI get a lot of people getting started that reach out asking how they can do it full-time RIGHT NOW
Read MoreIf you start cuddling tomorrow, that doesn’t mean that you’ll be a good professional cuddler or that people will want to work with you. It literally just means that actually getting started is really simple— probably too simple, in some respects.
The following four steps are what I did to start— but before we get into it, I want to say that a part of me kind of regrets moving this fast. But if you’re in a place where you just need to get started, here’s the answer, oversimplified
Read MoreI started seeing clients in my home: they’d park on my street, I’d meet them outside in shorts and a t-shirt with a hug, and I’d invite them inside.
This all was fine and good except one tiny problem:
I hadn’t told anyone I was doing professional cuddling!
It wasn’t until I started getting weird looks from neighbors that my bright-eyed, bushy-tailed ass suddenly realized: “Oh. …OH. They think I’m doing something else, don’t they?”
Read MoreOn the surface, professional cuddling seems like a pretty simple job, right? You cuddle people and get paid to do it. What’s so difficult to understand about that? Maybe you could start doing it too even. It can’t be that hard, right?
Hold on a second there. Sure, the concept of cuddling is easy to understand. You’ve done it before several times, but doing it for pay is very, very different.
Read MoreI definitely understand wanting to have all your business ducks in a row. When I was getting started cuddling, I was worried about that, too. And if I had to do it again, here are five steps I’d take to set up a cuddling business right.
Read MoreBecoming a professional cuddler is a deeply personal decision. There’s so much that goes into it: training, marketing, entrepreneurial skills, relational skills, boundary-setting. And that doesn’t even include the cuddling part of the job!
These five questions will help you reflect on what professional cuddling is– and whether or not becoming a cuddler might be right for you.
Read MoreOne of the hardest parts of getting started is knowing where to start. Whether it’s a new hobby or a new career, it’s sometimes hard to know the best way to begin.
Professional cuddling is no different.
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