How to own & run a strip club

Sadly, there is no "Strip Club Management For Dummies" books out there. If there is, please let me know, and if there isn't, please write one so that I can read it. Why write about strip club management? There are two schools of thought in magic, and strip clubs are a form of magic, i.e. sexual magic. The point of the strip club environment is to bamboozle the customer. With the lights on and the makeup, beer tap, and the music off, the customer might realize he's not getting anything better than what he can get at home, if not worse. The traditional approach is keep tradecraft secret. The second approach popularized by Penn & Teller is to let the audience in on the secret, and people will enjoy the show anyway. Some people in the business view such information as proprietary trade secrets, and are only willing to share it at a high price. Certainly, they've got better things to do than sprinkle advice on newbies for free. Obviously this site falls under the category of Penn & Teller. One method is to simply go to clubs and observe, not a customer, but as a prospective owner or manager. As Wayne Dwyer says in his book, "Pulling Your Own Strings," practice observing reality as it is, not the way you, others, or society want it to be. Don't moralize, idealize, or impose your world view or filters on what you're seeing. The zen of strip clubs, as it were. Or as the Stephen Mitchell translation of the Tao Teh Ching would say, stay in the center and do nothing until your mud settles. Well, you better do something, i.e. buy drinks, preferably non-alcoholic, and tip generously, or you will find yourself in the parking lot at the worst or subjected to more subtle pressures at best. Afterwards, you can build a theoretical framework to explain what you saw, but it's a good idea to test your concepts empirically. Strip club management may be an art, but it doesn't hurt to approach it as a science. There is no unified field theory of stripping. You're better off with intuition, common sense, and listening to others. If you keep going to strip clubs, eventually you will assimilate them, as described in Robert Fritz' "Path of Least Resistance." The only problem with this approach is that it's an expensive curriculum and could be hard on your liver, if you choose to drink.