Job Promotion, Jokes, Contacts

Another ploy, when starting a new job, is to take samples of hobbies to work to show your new customers. Don't be afraid to be different, it makes you interesting, and helps to promote your following, which you will be promoting continually for the first few years.

Take a camera to work and take pictures of your customers for a scrapbook, then take your scrapbook to each new job and show your new customers, while continually updating your scrapbook.

Keep a home file of your customer's birthdays, and give them a card from you on their birthday. It's easy to keep a supply of cupcakes in the freezer and birthday candles, and give the customers that come in on their birthday a cupcake with a lighted candle. A birthday poster could be a special treat and everyone loves balloons. The same thing can be done for anniversaries, or celebrations of any type. The idea is to make every day you work a part and to endear yourself to your customers, so that you will have a following in your next bartending job.

Make holidays special for your customers and personalized by you, always with the thought in mind, to create a following. Make Easter eggs for your customers, pass out sparklers on the 4th of July, pass out candy canes at Christmas, etc.

Organize parties at work, whether it be a wiener roast, or Christmas dinner for customers that have no where to go. Have a party at your home, so that the customers feel privileged to know you better than the other customers, although you are just hustling for your next job before you need it. Your customers won't understand this, and will think it's a personal gesture, but to you, it will have to become a ritual to create and keep a following.

Train yourself to remember jokes, or write them down, and keep a home file of jokes. A new joke, puzzle or game every day, keeps your customers coming back to see you. You must endear yourself to your customers and raise your bosses net profits to ensure your job until you are ready to leave with a letter of recommendation and a chance to work there again when you want to.

Bartending as a profession is not for a lightweight, and it is a job you must take home with you every night, and dream up new ways to impress your customers and boss the next day. Your boss is easily impressed by higher net profit figures, but your customers are not that easy to impress; you have got to have a plan of action and get yourself together to the max for them. After a few years of hustle, hustle, hustle, you will have enough of a following that you won't have to worry about finding a job. You will have developed your own unimitable style, and will always be in demand. You will have enough contacts to know where the job openings are, and be able to have a personal recommendation by at least one of their current customers for the job you want, in the first few years it is advisable to change jobs often to make the contacts that are invaluable as you get older.