I thought I'd run this original idea to see what feedback there is. Since I'm not doing OLD, at least for now, there are some people that in the course of business, there was a nice rapport over the phone. Now they have not seen my face (ie which would probably just kill everything as it has in the past), but still want to know how to proceed with this to have a tight business to phone game conversion before any picture or video is shown of myself.
My thoughts were to follow-up with the business, and while its a call out of the blue, just see how she is doing with the produce/service and make it sound like a courtesy call. Then follow-up again a week or two later, if there is still a great rapport and a mid/high-interest vibe, try and extend a phone convo to 5 min or longer, with a little risk here and there but nothing over the top. Then follow-up a week or two later again and then ask for the order (ie if she's single, find out if there is anything in common, suggest a video-chat, etc....) after another 5 min chat. All this time she won't know how I look like. There may be a soft-catfish because my name is Italian and people often confuse the name with me appearing to be some white Italian when I'm mixed and appear brown/arabic/mixed-black, etc... and that tends to throw people off. I don't even look attractive in comparison to other black and mixed members of this board (ie they may look like a 9 while I would come across like a 3), so to be fair, I'm not even saying it's a race thing, but it probably doesn't help.
What is the thoughts about this approach?
There is no risk to the actual job/employment I'm in as it's already in the tank so there is nothing to lose.
My thoughts were to follow-up with the business, and while its a call out of the blue, just see how she is doing with the produce/service and make it sound like a courtesy call. Then follow-up again a week or two later, if there is still a great rapport and a mid/high-interest vibe, try and extend a phone convo to 5 min or longer, with a little risk here and there but nothing over the top. Then follow-up a week or two later again and then ask for the order (ie if she's single, find out if there is anything in common, suggest a video-chat, etc....) after another 5 min chat. All this time she won't know how I look like. There may be a soft-catfish because my name is Italian and people often confuse the name with me appearing to be some white Italian when I'm mixed and appear brown/arabic/mixed-black, etc... and that tends to throw people off. I don't even look attractive in comparison to other black and mixed members of this board (ie they may look like a 9 while I would come across like a 3), so to be fair, I'm not even saying it's a race thing, but it probably doesn't help.
What is the thoughts about this approach?
There is no risk to the actual job/employment I'm in as it's already in the tank so there is nothing to lose.