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PREP: wait a day or two, incorporate something from their profile, email conversation, social interaction, to form an emotional anchor. If you hang up when they answer you need to gain inner confidence.
PURPOSE: have a plan prior to calling, dates, time & availability. Have a contingency alternate plan just in case she denies your first choice. Never ask for a date directly, use subtle suggestions. Suggest meeting for a drink at a mutual place.
HUMOR: don’t be too rigid, avoid interviewing (name, rank & credit score please), keep it light hearted, fun. Avoid sexual innuendo’s, asking personal , specific details. If she asks you qualifying questions return with humorous answers, then tell her all questions will be rectified on the date. Give her a nic name and use it from the moment she answers!
SCREEN: this is where the primary screening process transpires on both ends. You have to act like you are the prize to win over and she is the contestant. Maintain control without being controlling. Remember she is also screening you. You want to reassure trust, friendship while being slightly mysterious, interesting and challenging.
CONFIDENCE: slow down your speech, keep cool, relax. Don’t ask, suggest, lead, be decisive. If you appear nervous she will sense it.
TIME CONSTRAINT: keep it relatively short, as the longer you talk the more you tend to babble.
SHE GIVES AN EXCUSE: now there may be times in which you are calling at a bad time, so she may have to call you back. If she says let me think about it, I will call you back to confirm, hesitates in any way, odds are she is giving you the run-a-round. Find someone that is sincere, fun, and wants to meet.
YOU: LISA?
HER: YES?
YOU: this is the man of your dreams calling?
HER: oh really !
YOU: nice tattoo, I never thought you would be the type to get a tramp stamp.
HER: hey that’s not nice, it’s just a rebel thing, I was young
YOU: don’t worry I know you are a Mary Poppins and your adventurous days are long gone, listen the reason I am calling is for my token date. I was thinking meeting for a drink around 8, tomorrow at xyz bar…you know where that is right?
YOU: OK I will call you tomorrow before the crack of noon to confirm the details………wear something sexy too!
Now there are some other variables you will encounter........voicemail, answereing machine, call screening, not her number, never answers, constantly rings, dropped calls, time of day, phone tag, texting, unknown caller, etc.
For today lets just do the above........info overload is a bit much to remember. Phone game TRULY IS ANOTHER SKILL-SET.