HOW TO

TEXTA GIRLS
CHASE
GUIDE

A GIRL
 2016 by Chase Amante

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How to Text a Girl / Chase Amante.
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 Contents

Introduction .............................................................. ii
1 - The Four Kinds of Texters ....................................2
2 - Ground Rules of Texting .................................... 14
3 - How to Text a Girl .............................................. 28
4 - Opening up the Hood ......................................... 48
5 - What to Do When She Wont Text Back ............ 72
6 - What to Do When She Flakes ............................. 84
7 - Calls For When Texts Dont Work .................. 92
8 - Texting When Its Been a While....................... 112
9 - When to Throw the Ball in Her Court .............. 124
10 - Example Text Conversation............................ 134
11 - Where the Learning Curve Lies....................... 138
Conclusion .............................................................. 142
Appendix A References .......................................... 146
Appendix B GirlsChase.com Article URLs ........... 148
 Introduction

This book is not about getting you more texts from girls. If it was
about that, I wouldve titled it How to Have Long Text Conversations
with a Girl.
Its not about that, because I dont think thats what you
actually want. I dont think you actually want to be as clever as you
can be in your texting. And I dont think you actually want to make
her fall in love with your texts.
I think what you actually want is to be able to get her to say
YES when you ask her to meet up. So thats what this book is about.
Throughout this book, Im going to challenge some of the most
cherished conventional notions of good texting. If some of these
challenges I toss your way make you a little uncomfortable, thats
good. What I want you to do when that happens is to take the
empiricists mindset and say Okay, let me try it out.
Take it for a spin and see what happens.
Your intuition might say She would never go for that, but
sometimes your intuition lies. Especially when it comes to doing
something new or in a way you havent done before.

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 The focus here is not to build up your ego or fill your head with
platitudes. Instead, the sole goal of this book and the only thing I
care about is to get her off the phone and on a date with you.
In case this is the first time weve met, my names Chase
Amante. Im quite possibly the worlds foremost expert on dating.
At the very least, I run the worlds most popular website on the
subject (thats GirlsChase.com, with half a million unique visitors
each month), where Ive written 5 million words in the last 3 years
alone. My specialty my angle is that I teach you how to get girls
to chase YOU. Sound absurd? It isnt. In fact, throughout this book
youll see words in bold1 accompanied by footnotes pointing you to
articles found on the site. Check those articles out and your eyes will
begin to open. Now, since you cant just tap on the words and be
taken straight to the articles like you can in the digital version of this
book, youll need to visit GirlsChase.com and use the search
function to look up the articles by their title. I promise itll be worth
the effort!
I know youve seen the guys who just sit back and have girls
hound them to meet up. And fortunately, its not just looks that get
girls to chase. I sat down to figure out the dating game and I
discovered the question that drove my passion: How do I get girls to
chase me?
I approached thousands of women. I went on hundreds of dates.
I whisked girls off to bed, and I took some of them as girlfriends.
And I got good.

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Article titles will be found in the footnotes. You can visit girlschase.com and use the
search bar to look up the article by title, or you can find the full URLs in Appendix B.

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 One night, having already taught a fair few students of
seduction at this point, I found myself with a buddy. He told me
about this girl he was trying to get to come meet him. But she just
wouldnt come out.
So I asked him for some detail on the situation: how he knew
her, what their history was, what hed tried already.
And then I asked to see his phone.
The next thing I did was write a simple, tight little text. I passed
the phone back to him to read over and send if he approved. He did,
and hit send.
Two minutes later, she responded saying she had to be up at 7
AM the next day and had to get to bed. It was already 11 PM.
But then she added, But okay, I can come out for drinks
tonight.
This floored my friend. And while Id known I could do it for
myself, it was actually the first time Id sat down to author a text for
someone else.
See, my skill at texting kind of crept up on me. When I first
started meeting girls, I could sometimes get flakey girls to do a 180
and meet up. Even then, I had some intuition; what I didnt have yet
was a method.
More often than not, Id get stuck with go-nowhere numbers no
matter what I texted.
I never set out to learn to text the way I had set out to learn
conversation or physical escalation. It just happened organically as
an outgrowth of my desire to excel with girls (plus the sheer volume
of phone numbers I tore through).

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 I went with my friend on the date, because I was going to help
him recognize when to take her home, too. She was already excited
by the time she met us at the bar.
Oftentimes, thats the effect of just one great text:
It energizes her to meet you.
The girl ended up agreeing to go home with my friend. She
bailed at the last minute (literally; she stopped the cab 20 feet from
his apartment and got out). But she wouldve been his had he been a
little warmer and a little more persistent. Whats important here is,
he got her out to meet him he got a chance because of a single
text.
Once I realized the power my texting held, I began to take on
texting students. And soon thereafter, my texting was getting guys
dates, lays, and girlfriends.
A girl whod stopped texting a guy Id give him a text, and
shed text back immediately and ask him to meet.

Boom!

A girl saying she had a boyfriend and was sorry she couldnt
meet Id tell the guy what to text her, and shed schedule a date
the next day. Theyd have sex, and the boyfriend (if he even existed)
wouldnt even come up.

Bam!

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 A guy with a booty call who wanted something more serious
Id give him a few words, and shed be over at his place that night,
doing some decidedly non-serious things to him.

Kapow!

And I of course incorporated these techniques myself, even on

girls who werent that sold on me at first. A confident, brief, and
snappy texter is rare enough that girls will meet you on curiosity
alone. And if theyre curious enough to meet you, theyre curious
enough to date and sleep with you.
Throughout these texting adventures, my students and I
discussed and documented what worked, what didnt, the hows
and whys as we perceived them, and the tricks and traps. What
follows in this book is a set of instructions on how to achieve the
same results with texting that my students and I have. It adapts
some popular articles Ive written for GirlsChase.com over the years.
It also includes some new content never before published elsewhere.
Once you get texting down, getting quality dates becomes
almost too easy. Being able to quickly turn her contact info into a
meet-up is a game changer. It gives you so many more opportunities
to succeed with women.
If youre ready to use the text message to achieve incredible
results with girls, youll love this book.

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The Four Kinds of Texters

The medium is the message. So said Marshall McLuhan in

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (McLuhan, 1994).
McLuhan argued, just as the digital age was dawning, that not only
do we adapt our communication style to the channels we use... but
that any channel we choose to use itself tells the person were
talking to what kind of message it is.
Texting works best if you think of it as a quick, efficient way to
ping girls, make simple connections, and arrange the logistics for
dates. You can use it for updates (There in 5 minutes) or to ask
questions (Grab a table yet?).
Yet, if you try using it like a text version of how youd talk to
her in person or on a phone or video call, youll face a lot of
unnecessary hurdles.
To begin our book, I want to introduce you to four kinds of
texters. Three of these texters dont fully respect the medium

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(texting) as a message (quick, simple, and logistical). The fourth one

does and he gets the best results. Much of this book will be about
why, and the rest of it will be about how to text girls like he does.
Before we get to that kind of texter, first I want to tell you about
the three far more common forms of texters on the dating market.
These Ive affectionately dubbed Clueless Boring Questions Guy,
Endless Conversations Guy, and Really, Incredibly Witty and
Interesting Guy.

The Three Normal Guy Texting Styles

There are three strains of text messaging styles prevalent among the
men out there today:

1. Clueless Boring Questions Guy

2. Endless Conversations Guy
3. Really, Incredibly Witty and Interesting Guy

Ive ranked these strains in order of prevalence, from most to least

encountered. Yet even though hes last, the Really, Incredibly Witty
and Interesting Guy is not all that uncommon.
Before we dive into what to do with girls to actually get results
out of texting, lets start with a look at what these three guys do, and
why it doesnt work. Try not to be miffed if you realize youre one
of these guys halfway in... because if you are, youre exactly the
target demographic of this book. Theres hope.

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Cant fix the problem unless you know the problem exists in the
first place, right?

Clueless Boring Questions Guy

To women, the most diabolically annoying texter is the Clueless

Boring Questions Guy, hereafter abbreviated as CBQG. CBQG has
zero clue how to text girls, what girls would like to see in a text
message, or even what girls are like most of the time in general,
period. At no time has CBQG ever sat down and asked himself:
If I was a girl, how would I respond to a message like this?
He immediately assumes that all women are like him lonely
and without many options. Thus, they should be thrilled to get texts
from him, even if theyre all just clueless boring questions like:

Whats up?
Hows it going?
How was your weekend?
What are you doing?
Do you have plans?

CBQG assumes that girls must love getting texts like this from him.
After all, hed love getting texts like this from girls. So of course it
must go both ways.
CBQG often becomes frustrated when girls dont answer his
questions. He wonders why he doesnt get replies. He thinks girls
are difficult to understand and make things needlessly complicated.

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He never stops to realize she isnt there in person and doesnt

get the same level of context and expressiveness from him she
would if he was there (Critchley, Rotshtein, Nagai, ODoherty,
Mathias, & Dolan, 2005).
At no point does CBQG sit down and think to himself: Lame
guys inundate most girls all day with lame requests. Most guys text,
write, and say to girls the same lame things all the time. Oh no! If I
send girls lame texts, theyll assume Im lame, too!
This never occurs to him, because CBQG knows himself so well
that he knows that hes not lame. He assumes that everyone else
must know this, too... even if he behaves the same way that other
men, who actually are lame, do.
Shell know Im not lame, even if I seem totally lame, CBQG
thinks. Otherwise, shes totally shallow and not worth my time!
CBQG believes that its womens responsibility to recognize his
inner awesomeness. Girls must fight through the lameness he
exhibits on the outside to discover his awesomeness inside.
CBQG spends many nights alone, angry, hurt, and confused by
how the world can be so confusing and so cold.

Endless Conversations Guy

Endless Conversations Guy, hereafter ECG, is usually a CBQG

who cleaned up his act. One day he looked at his phone, which was
devoid of replies to the texts hed sent out, and said to himself:
If I was a girl, how would I respond to a message like this?

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...and in a flash of sudden insight, he realized hed been doing it

all wrong.
ECG is, you might say, on a more enlightened plane than CBQG.
Hes realized the need to engage a girl in dialogue. And hes
realized girls dont want to answer clueless boring questions.
Unfortunately, ECG still doesnt get much further beyond
engage her in dialogue and there hes usually stuck. ECGs
conversations tend to look something like this:

ECG: Hey Shirley, howd your weekend go? I saw some

friends Saturday, but yesterday was all just relaxing.

Girl: Hey, it was all right. My friend from out of town

came to visit, so we went to a couple of restaurants and
saw some sights... that was about it.

ECG: Cool, what sights did you see?

Girl: Oh, you know, Sea World, the harbor, just the usual
things.

ECG: You know, Ive been living here for 5 years and Ive
never seen Sea World. Everyone keeps telling me I should
go.

Girl: I know, I didnt go to Sea World until I was 19, and I

grew up here. Isnt that ridiculous? But you SHOULD go,
its a lot of fun.

ECG: When I used to live on the East Coast, sometimes

wed go down and visit the Baltimore Aquarium. I dont
know if Sea Worlds like an aquarium at all, but that place
was amazing. I kind of miss going now.

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Girl: Its not really an aquarium... more like a place with

sea animals that does shows.

ECG: Yeah, they had some of those at the Baltimore

Aquarium too.

Girl: Cool.

ECG: Hey, so [conversation continues]

ECG treats his texting like written phone conversations. He doesnt

recognize texting is supposed to be simpler in both language and
function (Holtgraves & Paul, 2013). He doesnt know that the more
time she spends with him in text chats and the less time she spends
with him in person, the worse she feels about him, as researchers
found studying teenage couples in 2014 (Luo, 2014). He never
realizes these endless conversations are actually boring, pointless,
and inane. He doesnt realize most girls who engage in these with
him are either (a) just doing it because theyre also bored, or (b) just
too nice to not send back a response. To him, it feels like he has
unlocked the key to texting girls: just keep texting.
As far as ECG knows, this is just another normal conversation...
in which he imagines he is inching his way ever closer to becoming
this girls beau... every sent text bringing him another couple
centimeters nearer her heart....
You can imagine how frustrated he gets when a girl he has
spent so much time with in endless conversations... endlessly
dodges his date requests and how perplexed he is to discover,
after weeks or months of conversations, that some other guy has
managed to become her boyfriend.

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How can this be? ECG thinks. I thought we had such special
conversations!
Hes bewildered... it just doesnt make sense. Why would she
spend SO much time talking to him and then go date someone else?

Really, Incredibly Witty and Interesting Guy

Last but not least is Really, Incredibly Witty and Interesting Guy,
henceforth RIWIG. RIWIG is the next stage of evolution after ECG.
Hes a man who has realized that endless conversations dont work.
Theyre boring, kill his intrigue, and every guy and his brother
engage in them fruitlessly.
RIWIG has more experience with girls than either CBQG or
ECG. He knows women react well to humor and prefer interesting
bad boys2 to uninteresting nice guys3.
So, goes RIWIGs line of thinking, what could be better than
being a bad boy via text message?
Most texting advice youll see online or hear from friends comes
from RIWIGs. Theyve cracked the texting code, theyll tell you.
Theyve figured out how to create the emotions they want in
women... desire, laughter, intrigue. Being really, incredibly witty
and interesting over text is the way to get girls attracted to you.
And to be fair, RIWIG is far more interesting and captivating
than either CBQG or ECG. Its not even close. RIWIG leaves those
guys in his dust. Just as CBQG cant hold a candle to ECG, ECGs
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GirlsChase.com Why Girls Like Bad Boys
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odds to beat RIWIG in a text fight are about as good as a medieval

pikemans odds against a Navy SEAL with a minigun and a grenade
launcher.
RIWIGs text conversations tend to go something like this:

RIWIG: Oh man, I just had WAY too much food. Never

shouldve eaten that last drumstick. Advice: gluttony
doesnt just make you fat, its also REALLY uncomfortable.

Girl: lol where were you and whyd you eat so much?

RIWIG: Friend had a birthday party. There was far too

much to eat; I felt a moral obligation to ensure there
werent unnecessary leftovers.

Girl: Did you save any for me?

RIWIG: Thought about it; decided against it. You should

be grateful I prevented you from enduring a similar fate to
mine.

Girl: But I want some too!

RIWIG: You know what, miss... you are coming on WAY

too strong right now. Most women are a lot more...
CIRCUMSPECT... when they say things like that to me.

Girl: Im talking about the food, DUH!

RIWIG: Thats what they always say...

Girl: You are such a dork.

RIWIG: Hey, so [conversation continues]

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I was this guy for a long time. And its obviously a big step up from
ECG. But even with his really, incredibly witty and interesting text
banter, RIWIG has the following problems: (a) women will still often
be dodgy about setting up dates, and (b) when the dates ARE set up,
the girl often treats RIWIG as a boyfriend candidate4 (i.e., she puts
up obstacles to sex).
What gives? RIWIG thinks. I was interesting, witty, sexy...
everything a woman looks for in a lover, NOT a boyfriend! And
shes STILL treating me like a potential boyfriend! Clearly I need to
be even MORE witty and interesting.
But being wittier and more interesting isnt the answer. In fact,
the answer is something much simpler than CBQG, ECG, or RIWIG
think it could ever be.

The Fourth Kind of Texter

Theres good news for our heroes Clueless Boring Questions Guy,
Endless Conversations Guy, and Really, Incredibly Witty and
Interesting Guy. The good news is theres a fourth texter with a
style they havent tried out, thought up, or looked into yet.
And he doesnt need clueless boring questions. He doesnt
require endless conversations. Heck, he doesnt even need to be all
that witty or interesting. All youve got to do to use his style is be
able to send simple text messages... and tell the girl you want a date
with her BEFORE you get her phone number.

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If we had to give this kind of texter a name, I think itd be Just

Gets It Guy (JGIG). His style is all about keeping things simple
and to-the-point. The truth is, less natural media (like email and
text messaging) are less satisfying for people to deal with (Kock,
2004). You want to spend as little time with her in less natural media
as possible and as much time as possible with her in person.
I adopted the JGIG style only after I reached a point where I
didnt have time to engage in long text conversations. I didnt have
time to think up incredibly witty, interesting things to say. And at
that point, even when I did have the time, I didnt care to do all that
work anymore.
What I found was, this new style was far more effective.
I started to teach friends how to text girls with this simplistic
model of texting. All of a sudden, they were lining up as many dates
as they could handle. Ive since taught this method to thousands of
students at Girls Chase.
But a lot of guys still dont really get it. Theyre still trying to
mix in CBQG or ECG or RIWIG elements with this style of texting.
Its like taking a gourmet recipe and throwing in extra eggs and
baking soda because those ingredients work great in other things
you make. The end result is not something better. Its something
worse.
Thats why I put together this book: to provide a more in-depth,
more meaty, and more behind-the-scenes psychological approach
that helps you fully understand: (a) what girls are thinking, (b) why
they react the way they do, and (c) what it is that those other texting
styles just dont take into account.

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Youll get plenty of examples of how the Just Gets It Guy

texts girls in this book. In fact, unless I tell you otherwise, every
example you see from here on out is one of his.

In Summary...

In this chapter, we covered the four kinds of texters:

1. Clueless Boring Questions Guy

2. Endless Conversations Guy
3. Really, Incredibly Witty and Interesting Guy
4. Just Gets It Guy

We discussed the problems each of the first three texters run into,
and why they run into them. We looked at the mindsets behind their
texting strategies, and we gave you a taste of what good texting in
the form of Just Gets It Guy looks and feels like.
Next up, Ill introduce you to the eight ground rules of
texting: mental foundations that are crucial to get you thinking
about text conversations the right way.
After that, Ill arm you with a simple structure to follow to get
girls out on dates. Then well open up the hood and look deep into
text tech: little things you can do with texts that work to up your
odds.

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Ground Rules of Texting

Text Messaging ABCs

Our first order of business is to deprogram you from bad texting

mentalities, ineffective approaches, and misconceptions. These are
the things that make texting harder than it needs to be, causing men
to send texts that just dont work.
To do this, Im going to give you the eight mental foundations
of texting you need to have going in. These foundations let you
think about texting a girl in an effective way that gets her excited to
see you and ready to come out on a date.

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#1: Faulty Models Are Your Responsibility to Fix,

Not Womens

One of the themes I stress5 is this: you can blame OTHER people for
YOUR life, or you can go out and get what you want. You
absolutely cant do both, however.
Its blame and be miserable, or accept responsibility and go get
what you want.
As you go down the texting styles, youll find the less evolved a
mans style is, the more he blames girls. Clueless Boring Questions
Guy is the worst... to him, nothing is his fault.
The worse a man is with women, the more fault he perceives in
women.
Whats the reason for this phenomenon?
Its a symptom of faulty mental models.
Women trade phone numbers a lot. And they dont like getting
clueless boring questions from anyone... even close friends, family,
lovers, boyfriends, etc.
So just imagine how a girl feels when she gets questions like
this from some guy she doesnt know all that well, or some guy she
met in passing at work or at the bar or on the street or in class, even
if he attracted her (at first).
Thats right: she pigeonholes him as someone whos a liability
and not a joy to be around. Her interest in him goes from whatever
it was before the clueless boring questions started, straight to zero.

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Its not girls who are the problem. Its the model youve got.
If girls dont think, act, or respond the way you think they
should, it doesnt mean all 3.5 billion human females need to change.
What it means is that your mental model must change to
accommodate the way women actually are.
This chapter is about changing that model youve got.

#2: Phone Numbers are Easy

One of the reasons inexperienced guys struggle so much with the

idea of texting needing to be ironed out is because they view phone
numbers as a BIG DEAL!
The problem is that, to girls, phone numbers are NOT a big deal!
An inexperienced guy gets a girls phone number, and it feels
like a colossal achievement. Now he can rest. For all intents and
purposes, hes got a girlfriend.
Except she doesnt see it that way. For girls, a phone number is
just the START. And girls give their numbers out all the time to
guys whom they never end up talking to or seeing ever again.
Youre not the only one asking her. Other guys ask her, too.
And she says yes to some of them, sometimes.
Phone numbers mean NOTHING. Theyre a dime a dozen...
nothing more than a chance. They are NOT a guarantee, a promise,
or an assurance of any kind. Heres my phone number does not
equal Sure, we can have sex. It doesnt equal Would you like to
be my boyfriend? nor does it even mean Im definitely going to
talk to you again!

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If it helps, you can think of a phone number simply as Heres a

way you can get me to meet you again if you do a good job making
me want to.
Once you start seeing numbers this way, youll instantly begin
to realize why clueless boring questions are a death sentence. That is,
its far easier to say no to you over the phone than in real life.
And if youre just going to be boring and clueless on the phone,
whats she supposed to do... be excited?
Phone numbers are not a promise; they are an opportunity.

#3: Emotions Dont Stick

When you first trade numbers with a girl, you might leave on cloud
nine, dreaming about the amazing future youll have with her.
Maybe you had an amazing interaction with her and really
connected with her 6 on a pretty deep level. Chances are shes
forgotten all about you.
Oh sure, she might still be thinking about you. But you dont
know that, and its much better to assume that she isnt. If she isnt,
hows she going to react to your first text?
Pretend shes forgotten EVERYTHING about you... because its
more likely shes rushed, put-upon, angry, and annoyed from other
things in her life.
Is your text going to make her smile? Is it going to take a load
off her shoulders? Or is it just something else to make her feel even

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MORE rushed, put-upon, angry, and annoyed? If youre not sure,

ask yourself this:
If I was really rushed, put-upon, angry, and annoyed right
now... and I received this text message randomly from someone I
could hardly remember... what would my emotion be?
If the answer is even more rushed, put-upon, angry, and
annoyed, head back to the drawing board. Find something that
better evokes the right emotions.
If she remembers you, great thats a bonus. Youll still send
her a great text message, and shell be even HAPPIER to hear from
you. But if she doesnt... if shes forgotten all about you... and you
send her the right message... you still stand a good chance of getting
her out anyway.

#4: People Want You to Reduce

Their Cognitive Loads (Not Pile On)

Imagine you are SUPER busy. Youre stressed like crazy, running
around trying to get a million things done that you HAVE to get
done. You want to scream and punch the wall and pull your hair
out youre so far behind on things.
Then, you get a random text message from some guy you met at
a bar the other day who seemed like kind of an okay guy.
Whats up? it says.
Whats up? you think to yourself, angry and annoyed. Whats
up??!! What, am I supposed to sit here and figure out what that means?

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Like, you just want to shoot the shit, like I have time for that? Or, you
want to ask me for some kind of favor, or want me to offer something to you?
I dont have the patience for this!
This is the thought process of even a moderately busy girl when
she gets a message like this. In 2005, Ned Kock, Chair of the
Department of MIS and Decision Science at Texas A&M, showed
that as people use less natural media (like texting), the amount of
thinking they have to do shoots up that is to say, their cognitive
costs increase (Kock, 2005). With no context to frame the message,
ambiguous messages like Whats up? are some of the most
mentally taxing messages of all. And that makes them among the
least likely to get a response.
Personally, I wont respond to these messages when I get them
from GIRLS. And Im a GUY. Most guys WANT to get messages like
this from girls. Girls do NOT want to get messages like this from
guys, because these messages raise mental loads.
The second a girl reads a message like this, her mind puts
everything else on hold to ask itself: Who is this? What does he
want? Is he going to ask me for something? Should I respond? How
should I respond? Should I tell him about my day? Should I tell him
how stressed I am? Is he going to start sending me lots of messages
if I reply? Is he waiting for me to take the lead here? Is he going to
ask me out? Does he expect ME to ask HIM out?
Much of the time, her mind will just decide this is too many
questions to answer, and itll worry about this later. She closes her
phone, never to reply.
None of this is because shes mean or cold or rude or aloof or
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off... and then forgets about it. Or she remembers it again later...
only to put it off even further.
Like it or not, when it comes to less-clear media like text
messaging, the burden of making the meaning of a message clear
falls on the person sending the message, not the one receiving it
(Kock, 2007). Its on you to make it clear what you mean she isnt
going to sit there and try to figure it out.
You must strive to be crystal clear and easy to respond to in
your messages. Its vital you reduce mental loads as much as
possible.
Dont make her think. Dont make her wonder. Dont get her
into giant open loops she needs to spend huge amounts of mental
processing power on. Thats an invitation to ignore you.
And you dont want her to see you as inconsiderate or socially
stunted, either. Socially savvy people7 dont shift big mental loads
onto people via text. They make things easy. They take loads off.
You should, too.
That means, instead of Whats up? you can say:

Hey Charlene, hope you had a kick ass weekend. Mine

was solid and restful... just what I needed. Whens good
for you to grab that bite this week? Let me know when
your schedules clear, and lets set it up.

No wondering what your motives are. No asking herself what

youre after. No deliberating on how to respond, or even if she
should respond at all. All shes got to do is tell you when her
schedules open.

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Its easy.
And because its easy, youre orders of magnitude more likely
to get what you want: a date.

#5: You Must Keep Your Eye on the Ball

Quick, how many great relationships in your life stemmed from

long text conversations? How many friendships? Girlfriends?
If youre like most people, the answer is this: 0.
Thats because texting is an atrocious way to build meaningful
relationships. This is not how to text girls at all.
Guys still keep doing it though. They do it in droves. And the
reason why is because their eyes are not on the ball.
If youve ever found yourself mired in long text message
conversations, I bet youve never stopped to ask: Where is this
going? And if you did, Im certain your answer to yourself would
be I have NO idea!
That is not how to run a texting conversation.
Its not how to run anything.
Imagine if a sailor set out on a ship into the great blue sea with
no idea where he was going. Im going to find a beautiful,
uninhabited island out there with a pirates buried treasure and Im
going to get rich! he told himself. I just have to sail around
enough until I find it! Now, after he sets off on his voyage, he
might end up finding that one island in the vast ocean with a few
doubloons buried in a chest. But its far more likely hell die at sea or
return to port, frustrated and bitter.

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When you shoot in the dark, you almost always miss the mark.
With very few exceptions, texting is terrible for building an
emotional connection, getting into a real conversation, transforming
a stranger into a girlfriend or lover, showing your personality and
qualities, or growing or maintaining attraction.
If you use it for these things, you will miss the mark again and
again. You wont even get better at hitting the mark in the dark.
Youll just waste a lot of bullets, time, and patience. If you want to
protest and tell me No, Chase, that isnt so! keep reading, and
within a few chapters, I bet Ill have changed your mind... or at least
have given you something new to chew on.
Regardless, setting up a date must be the primary objective of
your texts. Using it for anything else distracts from your core
objective and slashes the odds youll ever make it to your port of call.

#6: Girls Talk Because They Like to Talk

Unless youre incredibly talkative, my guess is you dont spend a

great deal of time in long text chats with your male friends. Nor do
you likely have these with a girl whos already your girlfriend.
Most men only get into these long conversations with girls
theyre pursuing.
And those men assume that the girl knows what the deal is.
Obviously, I wouldnt talk to her this much if I didnt want to date
her! the guy thinks. So, again, obviously she must know this, and,
also obviously, her texting back to me is an implicit go-ahead to
proceed forward! Shes telling me to continue courting her!

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Therere a lot of assumptions in there... and theyre mostly

incorrect.
As socially astute as most women are (compared to most men,
anyway), they are not mind readers. They know you want
something when you text clueless boring questions or endless
conversations or large amounts of really, incredibly witty and
interesting stuff... they just wont know what it is you want.
And heres the thing: most women love talking! They will talk
to you just for the sake of talking. And theyll love it. Many girls will
be happy to text back and forth with you all day... and not just you.
They do it with their girlfriends. They do it with their frenemies.
They do it with the other eight guys who are chasing them and
texting them all day long, too.
Youre there talking, thinking its just about in the bag, because
shes so willing to chat with you. And shes there talking... to you,
her best friend, her girlfriend, and a gaggle of guys just as gabby
over text with her as you.
This isnt the way to a womans heart. Its simply a way to help
her pass the day.
If you spend time in long text conversations with women,
youre wasting your time... and fast becoming more valuable as a
texting friend than you are as a potential lover or boyfriend.

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#7: Women WANT Men Who Are Just Friends

Many men who text women have the hidden agenda of wanting
to get together with those women. Well, most of the women they
text have hidden agendas of their own.
Think of Mister CBQG. He isnt texting her Whats up?
because he really is dying to know whats up with her. He doesnt
care about that. His real agenda is to maneuver this girl into being
his lover or girlfriend. As it is, he just happens to think that texting
her clueless boring questions is the best way to do that (it isnt).
Well, take Miss Average Girl... when she replies back to CBQG
with Not much. Whats up with you? she also doesnt really care
whats up with him, either. She has her own hidden agenda. Hers,
most likely, is to make CBQG into someone she is just friends8
with.
How cruel and unfair of her, you say? How demeaning for her
to want to take this man and finagle him into the friend zone!9 How
can she possibly live with herself?
Well, wait just a gosh-darned second there. This guy texting her
is also trying to finagle her into wanting him. He isnt being
forthright about it. He isnt being upfront. He just thinks if he texts
her enough, shell become his girlfriend.
Meanwhile, she thinks if she texts him enough, hell become her
platonic guy pal.
Why this mismatch of desires between texter and textee?
Because girls have a lot of options with men, and multiple positions
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that any one of those men might best fill. Girls want men who can
be just friends for them. Friends increase their security levels and
make them feel safer. Girls with guy friends are more likely to get
help in times of need. Theyre more likely to be successful in their
lives, careers, and other endeavors. Male friends and supporters
provide lots of benefits to girls.
And clearly, if youre a guy texting things like Hows it
going? ...and thats it, youre not exactly Grade A lover or
boyfriend material. But you might just make a great friend....
Solution? Dont be ambiguous about why youre texting, and
dont beat around the bush. Well cover this more over the next
couple of chapters.

#8: Women Cannot Get to Know You Over Text

I know a secret of the CBQGs and ECGs and RIWIGs of the world
that they themselves are only half aware of. Want to know what it is?
Theyre all trying to help girls get to know them over text
message!
If I text her enough, they think to themselves, then shell
really get to know me! And then shell have to date me!
Bzzt! Wrong. Attraction doesnt work that way.
Furthermore, she cannot get to know you over text messages.
The things that make texting feel so appealing as a medium for
connection-building (i.e., thinking you can get to know her without
ever having to worry about your posture, facial expressions, voice
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make it marvelously ineffective for actually getting to know

someone (i.e., she cant see your posture or facial expressions, hear
your voice tone, or tell whether you are nervous or know what to
do).
Want her to get to know you?
Meet her in person.

In Summary...

Weve just covered eight mental foundations for texting with girls.
These are the mindsets every successful texter has. Without these
mindsets, youll make mistakes that cost you dates and progress.
Yet with them, youll find texting gets easier and easier.
If youre brand new, and all this information is new to you, you
may ask yourself Dear God, is texting really this complicated?
To which I say nonsense! While weve dived deep into an oft-
misunderstood subject, the topic matter isnt all that complex. Youll
only spend 20 minutes or so on texting with the average girl you
meet and set up a date with.
The nuances are in how you think about that texting, and the
kinds of text messages you send.

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Lets have a quick review of our eight mental foundations:

1. Faulty models are your responsibility to fix, not womens.

2. Phone numbers are easy
3. Emotions dont stick
4. People want you to reduce their cognitive loads... not pile on
5. You must keep your eye on the ball (i.e., your purpose for texting)
6. Girls talk because they like to talk
7. Women WANT men who are just friends
8. Women cannot get to know you over text

In the next chapter, Ill introduce you to a simple structure you can
use to send the first text to a girl. Ill also arm you with a text
skeleton you can follow to get girls you take numbers from out on
dates. Finally, well cover a few general tips for texting to get you
started on the right foot.

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How to Text a Girl

Your Objective in Texting

Lets start with the basics and strategy of text messaging girls. This
is whatll drive how you structure messages and how you view
texting in general.
Most of the men whose text conversations I see have a real
slipshod approach: they text girls with no clear aim. Im not sure
how they expect directionless, objective-free texts to lead to
anything much, but hey, I remember the days when I was a lot less
effective with texting, and all this felt like a big black question mark
to me then, so I commiserate.
Well shine a little light on texting then, and get you pointed in
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texting, and they should never overlap. Here are your objectives in
texting girls: (1) build rapport and comfort, or (2) set up a meet.
Number 2 (set up a meet) is your core objective. And the
rapport-building or comfort-building you do in #1 must be in
service to making #2 a reality. Beyond that, these two objectives are
it. Nevertheless, Ive discovered a lot of guys who text include a
pseudo-objective something like keep texting her, then fish
around to somehow get a date.
This horrible, atrocious quasi-objective leads men to send all
kinds of half-baked text messages messages that leave a girl to
stare at her phone and ask herself Why the heck is he texting me
this? All messages like this do is torpedo a guys efforts to win this
new girl over.
Thumbs down for the pseudo-objective. If you do that, stop
immediately.
Back to our real objectives. When you send text messages, a
woman should know immediately what your objective is. And if
you recall our two objectives, they are: (1) build rapport and comfort,
or (2) set up a meet.
You want her to be able to tell right away what the text is about.
The reason you do not want overlap is because once you mix date
requests with chit-chat, it gets messy.
Thats when you have a guy fish around as he builds rapport,
feeling around for some way to transition into asking her out. Dont
fall into this trap; keep your objectives separate. Either you text her
to build rapport, or you text her to set up a meet.
Some dos and do nots. Dont beat around the bush. Dont text
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wordy or longwinded. Do be direct and straightforward. Do text

with your objective in mind. Do send a handful of well-planned
texts. Do be precise and concise.
You will always be trying either to build rapport and comfort,
or set up a meet. Thats all; those are your text objectives when you
text a girl you like.

Warm Texting and Cold Texting

One stop into the land of definitions before we continue. I want to

differentiate between warm and cold texting, because its an
important distinction. So lets define these terms.
Warm texting is when you text a girl who is thinking about you
or expecting to hear from you at the time you text her.
Cold texting is when you text a girl who is not thinking about
you or expecting to hear from you when you text her.
Why the distinction? Because youre going adjust your tone to
match how ready she is to talk to you. Ill give you a pair of
examples:
First, imagine youre off to meet a male coworker for lunch.
Youre friendly with him but not super close. He texts you: Just
parked. Grab a table yet? It may be the first text hes sent you all
day, but it feels normal because you expected to hear from him.
Now lets say its 10 AM the next day. Youre slogging through
some work you dont want to do. Actually, youd rather be back in
bed. You get a text from that same coworker; this one reads: Just
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person, it might be cool to get this text... but most people will find
this one strange and intrusive; it comes out of the middle of
nowhere. They wonder Why did he text me? What does he want?
Thats the difference between warm and cold texts. The first one
where you planned to meet your coworker was normal, because
you need to figure out when and where to meet.
The second one, though whered that come from? This isnt a
guy youre super close with. Is he trying to be friends with you?
Does he want something from you? Does he have some kind of
man-crush on you? Those are the kind of confused questions that
pop into your head when a cold text isnt structured right. Structure
it wrong, and it can seem like it just came in out of the blue.

How to Structure Your Texts

When you send your first message in a new text conversation, there
are a few parts you always want to include. For our purposes, a new
text conversation (with a cold text) begins any time the old
conversation had a natural end. No exceptions, even if you just
talked to her over the phone. Its still a new conversation even if you
just changed mediums.
The elements to include in a new text conversation are: (a)
greeting, (b) her name, (c) a piece of new information, and (d)
something that shows consideration for her.
Each of these plays a big part in the feel of the text. Heres
what a complete first text with all the elements looks like:

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Gabby, hey. Running a bit behind, sorry. Will be there

closer to 2:30. Still cool?

So we have:

(a) The greeting: hey

(b) Her name: Gabby
(c) Some information: Running a bit behind will be
there closer to 2:30
(d) A little consideration: sorry Still cool?

Also, the fact that you texted to let her know youd be late in the
first place that also counts as consideration.
In certain cases, we can drop the greeting and it still feels okay,
especially if the text is a warm text. So in the example above, we
could drop the greeting (hey), and its still okay, because she expects
you to handle logistical issues in the run up to the date. Usually,
though, you will want to include the greeting it increases the
chance youll get a response (Nakajima, 2014).
Next, you should always use a girls name in the first message
of a new text conversation. This trips a mental trigger that reassures
her that youre talking to her. Text, phone, and email just dont feel
that personal when you dont use the other persons name. I highly,
highly recommend that you do.
My text message conversations always start with a name:

Hey Lily, hope your weekend was good =)

Katie, morning!

Hi Melanie!

Always a greeting, and always a name.

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For a time, I shied away from exclamation points and emoticons

(smileys, winks, etc.) as being too cutesy. And indeed, women do
use them a lot more (Ogletree, Fancher, & Gill, 2014). Me, I thought
they made my texts too silly. Instead, I just used periods and trusted
girls would get it. Turned out this was wrong. Texts are just far too
low context a medium to not use exclamations and emoticons.
Exclamation points and emoticons have more upside than
downside. Theyll do good things for you in texts, and help
compensate for the missing context of the medium (i.e., no voice
tone, body language, etc.).
If all you do is use periods, your messages look like this:

Hi Jim. Hope your week has been good. Feels like mines
never going to end.

If I get a message like this from a girl, it makes me assume the girls
a total downer; she sounds dour and whiny. Im scared that if I meet
her, shell suck me into negative topics or shell get clingy and
dependent if we get together.
Interestingly, researchers have even found people rate text
messages that end in periods, like the one above, as less sincere as
texts without them (Gunraj, Drumm-Hewitt, Dashow, Upadhyay, &
Klin, 2016).
Now compare that earlier message to this:

Hi Lawrence! Hope your week has been good :) Feels like

mines never going to end..!

Doesnt that feel so much fresher and more vivid and lively! I cant
wait to see this girl. Same exact message, just different punctuation

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at the end of the sentences. Shes a breath of cool air. Our texts (as
men) wont be quite that bouncy, since we wont be texting the same
way girls text... but itll be close.
Texting is one of those mediums in which youve got to choose.
In this case, the choice is between masculine and negative, or
feminine and positive. Ill choose feminine and positive and trust in
my real life masculinity to plow under any worries of my texts being
too cute. I suggest you do, too. Even with these added elements,
texting still feels less natural than face-to-face communication
(Skovholt, Grnning, & Kankaanranta, 2014). You cant much afford
to do without them and suffer an even more unnatural feel.
One further note on text structure: thats grammar. How
grammatically correct should you be?
The challenge with grammar is to be loose enough to seem
casual, but not so sloppy that you seem ignorant. Exactly what this
means will differ by subculture, country, continent, and era. As such,
I cant tell you exactly what grammar to use... because it might well
be the wrong grammar for your age or where you live! I will say this,
though: your aim with grammar must be to make your text persona
match your in-person persona as much as possible.
Text works best as an extension of the individual. Thus, if
youve got a nice office job and you dress well and seem excellent,
you wont want to text her:

Wat up bae, wld u lyk get sum drank w/ me?

Even if youre the local crack dealer, you want cleaner grammar
than this. In general, slang is harder to understand... and the harder
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them. Remember, mental loads. Casualness as a stylistic choice is

good; its the urge to go too far into too much shorthand you must
avoid.
So far, weve talked greetings, grammar, names, and
punctuation. Now lets talk about the other two elements to include
in all new text conversations: information and consideration.
The information you share is the point of the text; its the
reason why you texted. The consideration is the bond in the text;
its your way to show care and consideration for this girl.
You must create the right emotions when you text her, because
without that, youre sunk. If shes confused about why you sent the
text (information is missing or irrelevant), or she feels like its cold
and you arent focused so much on her (lack of consideration), shell
have confused or bad feelings tied to the text correspondence and be
less likely to respond positively, or at all.
Information might be:

Sitting here in gridlock this city has the worst traffic

ever!

Had the most amazing shrimp of my life last night I can

still taste it.

Thinking we need to get together some time soon.

Consideration might be:

Hows your week looking?

How was your test?

Whats your schedule looking like this week?

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Youll notice I recommend you use Whats your week look like?
themed texts a lot. Thats because I find it a great, open-ended
question to both: (a) get a girl to talk about anything fun, different,
or interesting shes got going on or coming up, and (b) set up
logistics for us to meet up.
And, as youll see in just a moment, Im going to have you be
direct about dates and not waste much time on niceties.
Heres what our text messages to these gals look like fully
assembled:

Hey Lily, hope your weekend was good =) Sitting here in

gridlock this city has the worst traffic ever! Hows your
week looking?

Katie, morning! Had the most amazing shrimp of my life

last night I can still taste it. How was your test?

Hi Melanie! Thinking we need to get together some time

soon. Whats your schedule looking like this week?

These are cool, fun, personal, and upbeat, and will almost always
get responses. How she receives your texts is influenced partly by
the initial impression you made on the girl youre sending texts to,
of course, and partly by precedent (e.g., if your initial impression
was not good for whatever reason, or if youve already set bad
precedent 10 in your correspondence where you text her but she
ignores your text, a good text now may be too little too late), but
generally, structured this way, youll almost always hear back from

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women, and theyll almost always be at least somewhat warm and

expansive in their replies.

How to Text a Girl to Build Rapport

I recommend you send an initial text message to a girl one to four

hours after first meeting her. If you met her toward the end of the
night in a bar or nightclub, on the street, or at a party, one or two
hours later is okay if youre just about to head to bed.
This initial text is to break the communication ice. You want her
comfortable talking with you. The importance here is that you want
her comfortable communicating with you but remember you arent
trying to get to know her this way. That kind of comfort, as we
discussed last chapter, only happens in person.
The catch with communication comfort is: the longer you wait,
the more awkward the first contact will be (whether text or call). So
text within one to four hours to prevent any awkwardness or
expectation settling in. This way, you establish rapport via text
message right away.
All you need to do to break the text message ice is send a simple
text like:

Glad to meet a fellow traveler :) -Frank

or

Happy to run into you tonight :) -Tommy

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So you give her: (a) a goodwill statement to let her know youre glad
you met her, (b) a smiley face to convey warmth and good feelings,
and (c) your name.
This serves the following purposes:
It establishes rapport. Youve fast moved to establish rapport
via text message and removed awkwardness or expectation. When
you text or call later, it will be much more natural.
It confirms you like and remember her. Sometimes guys take a
girls phone number and get weird or never text or call at all. A girl
can be fearful about whether you actually like her or intend to get in
touch again. Or, if you feel you might seem like one of those
Jekyll/Hide guys whos cool in person but creepy over text, give her
a (brief) goodwill statement with accompanying smiley, and youll
set her mind at ease.
It gives her your name. When youve been at this for a while,
you develop a talent for remembering everyones name, because
you get so used to meeting lots and lots of new people that it just
becomes routine. I have fun when I meet a group of eight or ten
people, get all their names, then go back and tell them all what their
names are, and everyones amazed. Yet most girls are not so
talented, and they may well forget your name no matter how much
they like you or how much you connect. This can downright
embarrass a girl so much so sometimes that she cant bear to talk
to you for the shame of it. Sign your name at the end of that first text
and you remove any chance of her feeling dumb or ashamed.
To build rapport, Ill fire off that initial text, then not get in
contact with the girl at all the next day. I will reestablish rapport the
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fire off a few rapport-building texts to get her comfortable chatting

with you. These should follow the structure we covered earlier, at
least for the first text or two.
Some general outlines on rapport-building texts:
Be concise. Shorter texts get far more replies than longwinded
ones.
Stay positive. No one likes a downer; bring good, positive
energy to your texts. Girls should look forward to texts from you.
Let them dread texts from the boring, life-sucking guys... while you
light up their days.
Keep it to a few texts. Unless you get in a spectacular text
conversation with a girl, youll want to keep it to three to ten texts
sent, generally.
Watch the time. Its okay to vary your response times, but dont
reply too much more quickly to a girls texts than she replies to
yours until you get pretty advanced, lest you risk looking like
youre waiting by the phone for her reply with nothing better to do.
Once youre advanced, you can play around with varying response
times. Sometimes Ill reply within minutes to a girls text; other
times it might take me hours. Usually thats more because Im busy
than anything else... but building variance into your response time
is a good thing to do.

How to Text a Girl to Arrange a Meet

This is the real meat of this chapter, and the most important part of
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usually go straight to the date setup. If you prefer to build comfort

and rapport first, I suggest a rough schedule like this: (a) initial text
several hours after you first meet and grab her number; (b) rapport-
building texts two days after the first meet/number grab; (c) arrange
the date four to five days after the first meet/number grab.
Thats all you need. Less even. I often skip the rapport building
these days unless I think a girl needs it. Instead, I move to set up the
meet the day after Ive traded numbers with a girl, or the next day
after that. You dont need to talk to her for weeks before shes ready
to meet up with you; you dont need to win her over.
You just need to get her out.
Back in my days as a tire salesman, my old boss asked if I knew
what the telephone was for. I answered, To sell the customer on a
tire?
He said, No. Its to get them in the store. A good, seasoned
salesman like Jim can sell a customer on a tire over the phone. But
even Jim knows not to push too hard to try to sell over the phone
unless he can tell thats what the customer wants. All I want you to
do with the telephone is to get the customer in the store. Phone sales
are an uphill battle. But get them in the store, and then theyve come
into the store; theyve decided this is where theyll buy their tires,
and theyre committed. More likely than not theyll buy the tire. You
stand a much better chance to sell the customer when theyre here in
front of you than when you have them on the phone. Get them in
the store.
I took that to heart and made it my priority with every phone
call I answered from a customer. Whenever I found myself on the
phone, my priority was to get them in the store.

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I forgot this lesson for a while when I was first learning how to
do well with girls. Id have these long, drawn-out phone/text back-
and-forths that spanned weeks or months. Sometimes Id finally
meet the girl, and sometimes nothing would come of it. It was about
as effective as hammering nails with a Nerf ball. I hated the phone
in those days. I had better luck just taking a girl home the night I
met her.
But then I remembered get them in the store. Translated to
dating, its get them out with you.
So I stopped trying to sell myself over the phone, and just
started using it as a logistical tool to set up dates. My success soared.
Ive hardly even used phone calls at all for years. Heck, in the first
fifteen days of this year, I slept with four new girls... every one of
them on first dates... and every one of those dates was coordinated
via text message. My secret? Get them out with you.
Every guy I teach this method to gets dates with girls who
normally wouldnt come out. Hows it work? There are three
elements to a meet-up text: (1) be warm, (2) offer value, and (3) keep
your eye on the ball. The ball being the meet, of course.
The value you offer can be something cool or fun with her, or it
may just be leading her to what she wants to do (meet you).
Sometimes girls will ask side questions like How was your day?
Answer these questions, but continue to push toward the meet.
Dont get sidetracked. Heres what an example conversation might
look like as you forge ahead toward setting up a meet:

You: Lisa, hey! Lets figure out a time to grab a bite. Hows
this weekend looking for you?

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Her: This weekends okay, sure! How are you??

You: Im good! Why dont we do Saturday at 1 PM? We

can meet at Main St Station Exit 2 and go from there. Cool?

Her: Okay!

You: Awesome. See you Sat ;)

And bam! thats all it takes. Note that when she asked how you
were, you didnt get sidetracked; you kept your eye on the ball (the
meet). A pal of mine recently fell into that trap and swerved off
course. He ended up not meeting a girl who wanted to meet him,
because he got sucked into irrelevant questions. Keep your eye on
the ball and continue to push gently, calmly, and in a socially
savvy way for the meet. Then, plan a good date11, make it a simple
date12, and shes as good as yours.
See my book How to Plan a Date: Girls Chase Guides for a list of
the best structures to use for dates with girls... not to mention how
to lead those dates to sex and a relationship.

What to Expect as a Beginner

Some of what you can expect as a texting beginner:

The icebreaker text means you get more warm numbers and
fewer dead numbers when you text within the next day or two.

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The four text structure elements make girls suddenly respond a

LOT better to your texts.
You start to have girls want to communicate with you much
more over text.
And you get more comfortable asking girls out on dates.
The biggest gains come from adding in any missing elements
and getting to the point (i.e., setting up the date). Once you do these,
the new dates and lays start to roll in.

What to Expect at Intermediate

Some of what you can expect as a texting intermediate:

As your aims get clearer (i.e., get her out on dates), things start
to move faster
And as things move faster, you turn more of the phone
numbers you get into dates, sex, and girlfriends
Girls start to text you if you dont text them soon enough, and
sometimes ask YOU out
You begin to have an intuitive grasp of texting psychology
By this point, the structure is second nature and you dont have
to think about it. Your reply timing is expert. And you have a sense
for how to intrigue girls without getting sidetracked. Dates are a lot
easier to set up and pull off.

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What to Expect When Advanced

Some of what you can expect as an advanced texter:

You start to bend some of the rules a bit, and do things like text
girls to meet up the same day you grab numbers from them (and
you see yes).
You begin to flake more as you get busier and have scheduling
conflicts; most girls are willing to wait for you and happy to
reschedule.
Your texting becomes even more minimalist. You stop almost
all the cutesy stuff and focus entirely on getting girls out on dates.
You can pick up and text girls you havent talked to in ages,
and more often than not they respond (and agree to a meet).
Youre now seeing the latticework and can climb around and
adjust things to suit your fancy. You know the rules well enough
now that you know where the trapdoors and secret passageways are.
And youre able to get girls excited and willing to meet you and
come almost anywhere with just one or two precise texts.

In Summary...

In this chapter, I gave you the meat and potatoes of texting. I

introduced you to the two possible objectives your texts can have: (1)
build rapport and comfort, or (2) set up a meet.
And I noted that Objective #1 only works if it is in service of
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want clarity. She needs to know right away what your texts are
about.
The big donts in texting are: dont beat around the bush; dont
text without an objective; dont send lots and lots of texts; and dont
get wordy or longwinded. The big dos in texting are: do be direct
and straightforward; do text with your objective in mind; do send a
handful of well-planned texts; and do be precise and concise.
We discussed the difference between cold texts and warm texts.
And we looked at why its vital to format your texts carefully if
theyre going to be cold. Send her a too-familiar cold text, and you
can sink your chances. You must send the right text to warm her up.
Then, I gave you my structure for the most effective first texts.
That structure contains four parts: (a) greeting, (b) her name, (c) a
piece of new information, and (d) something that shows
consideration for her.
We talked about some structural elements of texting: emoticons,
grammar, and punctuation. And I gave you the best approaches to
use on each of them.
Finally, we talked about how to structure texts for the two
objectives: building rapport and comfort, or arranging the meet. I
gave you the three elements to a meet-up text: (1) be warm, (2) offer
value, and (3) keep your eye on the ball. The ball being the meet, of
course. And I gave some examples for each type of text.
Now that youve got the basic framework around which to
build your texts, its time to get your hands real dirty. The next
chapter gives you the deep mechanics: all the detail, nuance, how-
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texting... to really technically brilliant at it. All your technical

questions (for the most part) get their answers in Chapter 4.

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Opening up the Hood

Even More Mechanics

In the last chapter, we armed you with a simple process to follow

whenever you send girls texts. And two chapters back, we covered
eight ground rules to texting with girls. In case you forgot what
those ground rules are, they include the realizations that:

1. Faulty models are your responsibility to fix, not womens

2. Phone numbers are easy
3. Emotions dont stick
4. People want you to reduce their cognitive loads... not pile on
5. You must keep your eye on the ball (i.e., your purpose for texting)
6. Girls talk because they like to talk
7. Women WANT men who are just friends
8. Women cannot get to know you over text

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Now that youve got your foundations set, and youve got the basic
skeleton, youre ready to dive into the mechanics. These are the real
nuances, the nuts and bolts... the nitty gritty of how to text girls and
actually have it go the way you want it to, almost without fail.
This is the chapter youve been waiting for.

#1: Propose the Date Before

You Ask for the Number!

This ones so important that I put an exclamation point on it.

A lot of newer guys skip this step. It just feels easier to ask for
the number. After all, if she says no, all shes rejecting is giving
you her phone number, right? Its not like shes rejecting a date with
you or anything!
But thats preposterous. If she refuses you her number, by
extension she refuses all future possibilities of you and her doing
anything together, ever. That includes dates.
When you go to take her phone number, you must ask for the
date FIRST!
Not only does this actually make it easier to get phone numbers
from girls... it also makes things much easier when you sit down to
figure out how to correspond with her afterward.
Better still, it makes you look confident. If you had a chance to
ask a girl out in person, then didnt, and waited to do it over text
later, she may assume you lacked the courage to ask her in person...
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Im convinced that if men started to ask girls on dates before

they asked for phone numbers, CBQGs and ECGs would become
extinct. And RIWIGs would become an endangered species.
Heres ALL you have to do:

Her: [mid-conversation wherever you met] ... so then I

totally got out of there before things could get even worse!

You: Thats hilarious.

Her: I know, right? I thought I was going to die for a

minute! That girl was crazy!

You: Hey, Im going to have to jet in a minute, but we

should grab a drink or some food this week or early next.
Whats your schedule like?

Her: Oh, I dont know, Ill have to take a look. I think Im

free on Sunday.

You: Cool, Ill text you. Whats your number?

Her: 619...

Isnt that way easier than the big productions most men make of
trying to get phone numbers?
Furthermore, doesnt that make it way more straightforward
when you want to text her later? Dont you know exactly what you
need to do now?
If you want my opinion, you ought to open up your phone right
now and delete every number you took from girls you didnt ask
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those numbers, text every single one of them right now with
something like:

Hey [name], I just stumbled across this really cool little

caf in [area] with the most amazing hot chocolates. I
totally want to take you there - want to grab a chocolate
and a bite to eat with me sometime this week / next week?

Any girl you get yeah, sure or a how about we do XYZ instead
from, hang onto; you can work with that. Any girl you get a no, I
really cant or a sorry, Im busy from, just delete.
Now youre starting fresh.
And every number you get from here on out, before you get it,
make absolutely sure youve gotten it in the context of doing so in
order to set up and plan for a date.
No more figuring out what to text her. No more pacing back
and forth in your room deciding what you should say.
Now you know what to say: youre going to text her to find out
when she wants to meet.

#2: Use an Icebreaker Text

We talked about this in the last chapter, but I want to harp on it

again. The longer you wait after getting a girls number to text her,
the weirder it starts to feel. There are a variety of weirdness
factors that come into play: she wonders when youre going to text
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your head and get awkward, or you push things off so long that she
wonders why youre texting a week later.
Solution? You need to break the ice13.
Breaking the ice gives you the freedom to be more natural later.
The awkwardness of wondering whether the conversation will be
normal and comfortable over text is gone. This new girl knows that
you are going to follow up with her.
Breaking the ice sets the tone for you to text women later on
without having to introduce yourself or remind her of when she met
you. Thats because you cement those initial feelings while theyre
still fresh in her mind.
A typical icebreaker text looks like this:

You: Wonderful to meet you, new friend :) -Steve

or

You: Glad to have met you :) -Steve

You do not tell her you like her, qualify her (as in Youre a really
cool/amazing/neat girl!), ask her any questions, or propose a date.
You do keep it very short, use the word friend if possible, and
sign your name.
Its short because this is just to break the ice and reassure her
you arent one of these guys who are in love and writing her novels
already. You communicate from the outset that you adhere to the
Law of Least Effort14. And you show her that meeting a new girl

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isnt a big deal to you... like it is for many men, who are quick to
deluge girls with volumes and volumes of texts just after meeting.
You use friend where possible because you want to confuse
and intrigue her a little bit. Do you like her or not? She thinks you
do... but now youre using this ambiguous term. Ambiguity is one of
the properties of text, and its one you can turn to your advantage
(Meenagh, 2015). So you use this, and shes guessing... shes
intrigued. Most guys state verbal interest right away and kill the
intrigue, excitement, and mystery. Women dont want men like
that... they want men wholl keep them guessing and who wont let
them know how the story ends right up until it does.
If a girl seems super into you and seems to view you as far
higher status than herself, you may elect to drop friend... so as not
to send her into auto-rejection15, thinking she cant get you.
And you sign your name because she may well have forgotten
it. If you dont include your name, and she forgets it, shes either
going to feel awkward that shes forgotten, and not respond, or feel
awkward that shes forgotten, and have to ask you. But if you
include your name, then no matter what, she wont be able to
dismiss you by saying Whos this? even if she mightve been
tempted to otherwise. This is an all-too-common reason women use
to brush guys off if theyre on the fence.
Very, very occasionally, you will get a girl writing Who? back
after your initial text, even if its only a few hours later, and even if
youve signed your name. This is almost always a brush-off attempt;
dont respond back by telling her who it is.

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When I get something like this from a girl its rare, but it still
happens I usually just delete the number as no good and move on.
If shes THAT disinterested, or her memory of you is THAT poor,
youre almost certainly not going to get her out again. You can still
play around with numbers like this for practice if you want... just
dont expect to get anything. But this is pretty rare, and unless you
do tons of approaches, you may never see it. Just keep signing your
name.
When should you send an icebreaker text? About 1 to 4 hours
after meeting her.
You can sometimes go sooner, although 30 minutes is about the
soonest you want to do this. If you wait too much longer than 3 or 4
hours, youre getting into awkward territory... so break the ice
before then.
And dont worry about getting a response; youre texting to
break the ice, not open a dialogue. Youll still get dates and lovers
from women who dont respond to your icebreaker texts. Its just
icing on the cake if they do respond.

#3: Dont Wait Too Long

You know those old dating guides that tell you to wait 3 days or a
week or whatever it is before even calling a girl?
Throw those handbooks in the garbage pail; theyll do you no
good here.
Run things based off how your interaction went when you met
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If she was excited about you when you met her, text her to set
up the date the next day, or even that day if you met her in the
afternoon or morning. Youll find you can set up dates for the same
or following day with girls who were excited to meet you. In fact,
these are always your best bets... the emotions are fresh, the desire is
hot, and you create that whirlwind romance that most girls dream of
experiencing all their lives.
If she was just nice toward you when you met her, text her 1 or
2 days later. 1 or 2 days is enough time for her to make up her
mind whether she wants to see you again... but not so much time
shell have lost interest entirely. If you wait longer than that, she
may just say Ah, I wasnt that interested. Never mind.
Remember the maxim on here: move faster16. If you wait too
long, some guy who knows this rule better than you will beat you to
the punch. Or life may intervene with any number of other
unexpected obstacles.
Strike while the iron is hot, or content yourself with an uneven
blade (i.e., not such good odds to land her).

#4: Dont Beat Around the Bush

Like we discussed two chapters back, if you slink around and try to
trick girls into liking you and dating you, girls will respond in turn...
and slink around to try to trick you into being platonic friends with
them.

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One good turn deserves another, says Aesop.

Thats why all the text her until shes ready for a date
strategies dont work that well. You cant text your way into
somebodys heart.
Youve got to do that in person.
If youre sending texts that dont suggest a meet-up in the first
text (aside from an icebreaker text), then you are beating around the
bush.
Why?
Because she knows you want something, but you arent saying
what it is.
Catherine knows you werent sitting around at 2 PM when the
urge to find out how her day was going just randomly struck you
out of the blue. Gee, you said to yourself, I know my days going
swell... but hows the day of that girl I met at the coffee shop last
weekend going?
She knows you didnt just send a text message to Randy the
maintenance guy and Stefo your old college roommate asking them
how their days are going. You messaged her... because you want
something.
But youre beating around the bush and not telling her what it
is.
If you get a message like this from someone:

Person: Hey man, hows your day going? Mines pretty

good; just had a great club sandwich.

... you know this person wants something, and is going to ask you
for something.

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And if youre not especially inclined to grant favors, youre

likely to ignore it. Or you may give a perfunctory reply to
discourage him or her from asking about it.
You also perceive this behavior as weak.
So dont do this. It moves you further away from attractive and
date-worthy, not closer.
Instead, your initial message of a conversation is best structured
like this:

You: Hope the rest of your weekend was great, Catherine!

I ended up taking a trip to Bear Mountain last minute with
some friends... It was both surprising and awesome. Lets
grab that lunch we talked about later this week - whens
good for you schedule-wise?

Nothing hidden. No beating around the bush. Just some light

pleasantries, and then you spell out what you want clear as day.
Its short, brief, and straight to the point and doesnt make
her wonder at all what youre after. Women respond better and
more consistently to this than any other texting style youll ever use
(respond here means setting up a date with you, as opposed to
entering into an engaging-but-ultimately-unproductive text
banter/conversation, which seems to be most mens idea of a girl
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#5: Keep Texts Short

Your first message to kick off a new conversation can be a little bit of
an exception to this... just so you have enough space to fit the
pleasantries in before the ask.
Other than that, though, your texts should not be much longer
than the last message you received from her. If your texts are much
longer than hers are, you violate sprezzatura17... and look try-hard18
in the process.
That means if she sends you:

Her: Hey Charlie, didnt hear from you last week :) Whats
up?

Dont send her:

You: Hey Marlene, sorry I didnt reply sooner! I was

actually SUPER busy last week traveling to meet some
new business clients. Its really cool stuff but a lot of work.
Did get to see the Cirque du Soleil when I was in Vegas
though... Wait until you hear about THAT one! Anyway,
whatve you been up to? Hope alls been well. We still on
for lunch this Thursday?

Thats okay, and its good stuff, but its too much as a reply to a short
text. If youve been cool with her, shell just view it as you being
enthusiastic about an awesome week. If you havent, shell view it as
you trying to force a connection.

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Instead, send her this:

You: Sorry Marlene, I was up to my eyeballs last week :/

Tell you about it when I see you. Still lunch on Thursday,
yes?

On the other hand, if a girl sends you a wall of text, dont send her
Cool or Lets do it as a response. Shell feel awkward and as
though you arent as interested in her as she is in you.
You want her to feel your interest levels closely match hers. To
do that, youll want to keep your text messages short and similar
in length.

#6: Ask and Share Something Personal to Relate

Imagine last week you met a guy at a networking meeting. He

seemed like an okay guy. Not amazing, no great connections that
could help you land an awesome new job... nothing like that. Just an
okay guy. This new acquaintance asked you if youd like to grab a
beer sometime and shoot the breeze, and you said sure, why not,
and gave the guy your phone number.
Now imagine its a few days later and youve largely forgotten
about this guy. Then he sends you a text message. Which of these
three is the most likely to get a yes response out of you?
Text Message A:

Acquaintance: Tim, want to grab that beer we talked about

tonight?

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Text Message B:

Acquaintance: Hey Tim, howd that audit go? Want to

grab that beer we talked about tonight?

Text Message C:

Acquaintance: Hey Tim, howd that audit go? Ive got one
of those myself coming up... what a pain. Want to grab that
beer we talked about tonight?

If youre like most people, and your time is sacred (if your time is
more of a free-for-all, go look up the 1922 article entitled Why I
Quit Being So Accommodating), your reactions will be something
like a womans reaction to the same messages if they came from a
guy she met informally a few days ago. So now lets use your own
reactions to the above texts and jump into the mind of a woman and
see if you can now empathize with her:
Her reaction to Message A:

Wait, who is this guy? Do I really want to give him my

evening?

Obviously not a reaction you want.

Her reaction to Message B:

Is this guy trying to butter me up because he wants

something?

Also not a reaction you want.

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Her reaction to Message C:

This guy seems like not a bad guy. I can probably afford a
quick drink.

Now youre on the right track.

So, whats the difference? Message C is personal and relates to
you.
Theres a distinct formula here: (a) greet her with her name (yes,
this is important, casual texters); then (b) ask her how something in
her life went; next, (c) relate to that, and share something similar
from your life; and finally, (d) ask her to meet you, with a subtle
reminder that she already agreed to.
The name is to reinforce in her mind that this is a personal text,
and not a mass text.
Asking her about something personal is to get her to start
relating.
Sharing your own experience in the same vein as the question is
to finish up the relating by showing her that the two of you are not
so different.
Asking her to meet you is getting to the point, and mentioning
(in passing! Dont put it out directly, unless you want to look like
you dont think shes going to say yes) that shes already said yes
makes her remember why she said yes...and makes her a lot more
likely to say it again this time around.
Keep it personal.

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#7: Avoid Asking

Too Many Questions / Irrelevant Questions

This ones simple. Dont go around asking girls weird/irrelevant, or

even lots of, questions via text. A simple Hows/Howd your X
going/go? is a formality that makes things more personal. A
question like Shall we grab that coffee we discussed this week? is
necessary so a woman doesnt feel like youre unilaterally trying to
decide for her. Lets grab that coffee we discussed this week is too
imposing and is likely to lead to resistance.
Both of these questions are good.
But theyre just two questions: (1) a personal formality type
question, and (2) a buy in type question about the date.
Other than those two, thats it. No other questions everything
else is irrelevant.
Youll talk to her more when you see her in person. No deep
diving19 via text, my friend; much of its effect is lost without the
body language and nonverbal communication20.

#8: Ignore Unhelpful Questions and Topics

Sometimes a girl may be on the fence about whether she wants you
as a date or a friend. When this is the case, shell often try to wedge
unhelpful or distracting questions or topics into a text conversation.

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She does this to slow things down or steer you away from date-like
activities and toward friend-like ones.
That looks like this:

You: Haley, how was your weekend? Hope you got a lot of
rest in. I was super lazy all weekend... but sometimes you
need weekends like that. Hey, so how about we grab that
bite we talked about this week? Let me know what your
schedules looking like and lets get the gears in motion.

Her: Hey Will... omg, my weekend was insane. Waaay too

much drinking Saturday night, never doing that again, lol!
Lunch? Let me check what I have going on this week. Oh,
btw, did you hear about the new club theyre opening up
downtown next week? Its called Motown. We should
totally go to that! I have a friend who says he can get
tickets.

This is where most guys drop the ball. They feel like somethings
wrong here... this girl seems to be calling the shots. Its weird. It
doesnt feel completely right saying Sure, lets go to that club
opening... but they do anyway, because they dont think they have
a choice.
They didnt ignore unhelpful stuff. They welcomed it in the
front door and left that door open for more to keep pouring in,
instead.
Whys this bad? If its not clear why letting girls lead, going to
party dates, and things of that nature are very bad for seduction, see
these Girls Chase articles:

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The Real Reason Many Men Cant Get a Girl

The Sad Tale of Shopping Guy
The Party Date: Dont Do It

Next, when you get hit with unhelpful and distracting topics, just
duck and weave:

You: Haley, how was your weekend? Hope you got a lot of
rest in. I was super lazy all weekend... but sometimes you
need weekends like that. Hey, so how about we grab that
bite we talked about this week? Let me know what your
schedules looking like and lets get the gears in motion.

Her: Hey Will... omg, my weekend was insane. Waaay too

much drinking Saturday night, never doing that again, lol!
Lunch? Let me check what I have going on this week. Oh,
btw, did you hear about the new club theyre opening up
downtown next week? Its called Motown. We should
totally go to that! I have a friend who says he can get
tickets.

You: Oh man, that sounds awesome, though let me take a

rain check on Motown! Im all out of club juice in me lately.
There is such a thing as too much clubbing, believe it or
not... ;) Well, check your schedule and let me know which
days good for you on grabbing a bite. Ive got Wednesday
and Thursday free at lunch time, and Saturday free right
up until 8 oclock - let me know if either works!

If the girl just wants you as a friend here, youll get a negative
response back on the date. Shell be busy those times, and try to
reschedule for some other time. She does this to maintain the
advantage and stay in control which is what she needs to friend
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But if shes on the fence, shell come back and tell you one of
those times works.
Be prepared to have to do a kick-ass job getting some sexual
tension21 brewed up when you meet her, though. And have your
sprezzatura at full blast. Have both of these in place, and you can
escape that possible friend mantle shes draped around your neck.
Just make sure you move fast!

#9: Use Interesting Language

This ones harder to teach. Its just best if youre well-read and have
a little experience writing. If you can pick interesting, colorful
language out, it helps make your texts more captivating.
A few colorful phrases to get you started:

Shall we instead of Would you like to or Do you want to

Scoop you instead of Pick you up (in a car, for a date, etc.)
Grab [lunch, a drink, etc.] or Snag instead of Get or
Have
Using verbs instead of nouns (e.g., I napped instead of I
took a nap)
Using active voice (I got this instead of They gave me this)

Colorful language is just more attractive, and makes you more

attractive, too. Its effects on women mirror those of humor... a
display of social intelligence that ups attraction.

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#10: Vary Your Response Frequency

This isnt a problem when youre genuinely busy... when youre

involved in a hundred things socially. Or youve got six different
women youre seeing. Or youre running your own business. Or
youve got a million projects to manage for work. In these cases,
your response time naturally varies. Itll be lightning quick
sometimes, and glacially slow others.
This is optimal. Girls respond best to men whose response time
is unpredictable, but within a certain range. Now, if you always take
a day to respond to her, or it happens too much, shell likely auto-
reject. So dont go overboard.
Basically, dont go too extreme in either direction. If a girl
always takes an hour to write you back, dont always write her back
in 10 minutes. Instead, write her back in 10 minutes one time... and 2
hours the next.
Response times will tend to vary naturally for most busy people.
Actually, if you notice that a girl: (a) always texts you back after the
same amount of time (e.g., 40 minutes), or (b) always texts you back
after the same amount of time that it took you to respond to her last
text, you know shes playing games with you. Dont call her out on
it, just... be mindful.
And play her game back better than she knows how vary your
response times and dont be predictable.
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#11: Make Seeing You in Person the

ONLY Way to Talk with You

Like we said two chapters back, girls talk because they like to talk.
And as you recall, we also discussed that girls WANT guys to
just be (platonic) friends with.
How does that affect how you text girls?
Simple: you dont give them what theyre looking for over text.
A girl wants a texting buddy? Great!
Thats not you.
A girl wants someone to go into deep conversation with over
SMS? Fantastic!
It just isnt you.
She wants someone to send her lots of texts and make her feel
special? Outstanding!
But shell have to find someone else for that.
The only thing you use text messages for is getting girls out to
meet you IN PERSON.
If she can get her fill of you via text, the odds of her coming out
to meet you drop dramatically lower.
But, if she really likes you... and if she really wants to talk with
you... and she cant get that from you via text message... and you
wont talk to her on the phone much, either...
She WILL meet you.
And once the two of you are there, in person and in the flesh,
you can work your magic.

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#12: Leave Something Small to Cover,

and Send a Pre-Meeting Text

When you set up the actual logistics of a date, its best to leave some
small detail out that you can cover later. While this isnt totally
necessary, its helpful for your pre-meeting text.
You nearly always want to use a pre-meeting text for two
reasons. The first is you reassure your date that yes, you remember
the place and time, and you will be there. This nixes any chance of
her flaking out of fear of you not showing up. The second is that you
give her the opportunity to give you a heads up if she intends to
flake. This makes sure you dont waste your time going somewhere
if shes going to be late or not make it at all.
A pre-meeting text with a pertinent detail you didnt mention
earlier will look like this:

You: Hey Cassie! Heading out in 10 minutes; should be

there right at 2 PM. Ill meet you at the subway stations
South Exit.

A pre-meeting text if you dont have any specific pertinent data to

cover will look like this:

You: Hey Cassie! Heading out in 10 minutes; should be

there right at 2 PM. Ill grab a seat inside if Im the first one
there.

Either of these work just fine, and both reassure her youre going.
Both also remind her to give you a heads up if she isnt going, so
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If she does flake, of course, then stay tuned. Well talk about just
what to do two chapters from now.

In Summary...

We just took an under-the-hood look at texting best practices. These

are the technical rules to follow to ensure your texts go over well.
Veteran texters figure these rules out organically, on their own.
This chapter lets you shortcut the (often long and arduous) trial-
and-error method and skip straight to awesome texting.
The mechanics of good texting:

1. Propose the date before you ask for the number

2. Use an icebreaker text
3. Dont wait too long
4. Dont beat around the bush
5. Keep texts short
6. Ask and share something personal to relate
7. Avoid asking too many questions / irrelevant questions
8. Ignore unhelpful questions and topics
9. Use interesting language
10. Vary your response frequency
11. Make seeing you in person the ONLY way to talk to you
12. Leave something small to cover, and send a pre-meeting text

Up next, well discuss exactly what to do when a girl doesnt text

back... because even the most advanced texter still sometimes has a
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everyone else, though, is that he knows how to get her responding

again (then, out on a date).

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What to Do When She Wont Text Back

Girls Not Texting

A Girls Chase reader wrote in:

I found something strange. Every time I have long

interactions with a girl in a pick up on the streets, I bomb. I
mean, she doesnt text back. It reminds me of Murphys
Law: if anything can go wrong, IT WILL. I recently
approached 10 women who gave me attraction signals.
They touched me, called me cute, called me the most
interesting person, smiled, were high energy, stayed 20
minutes, and asked me to text them. I had good
interactions with them and was smooth and confident. I
bonded with them and made plans to see them. They
never texted back, and I dont know why.

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I did another experiment where I cut my interaction short

to about 3 minutes and asked for the number. Most of the
shorter ones agreed on dates and texted back, and note,
most of them gave me negative signs first. Is it because
women give guys fake attraction signals? Why do they
seem so much into me at first but never bother to actually
get into contact again? It happens so much that when a girl
gives me signals that are too good to be true, I can almost
predict that I will never hear from her again and Im
always right. I know it sounds counterintuitive but I think
the women who give you immediate signals are maybe
time wasters? And what are your thoughts, do you find
the same?

Brings back memories.

When I started to approach girls a lot more in 2006, I noticed an
odd trend. The trend was this: girls I spoke to longer, who seemed
more into me... were less likely to ever return calls or texts.
How bizarre, I thought to myself. This makes no sense.
The numbers didnt lie. So I did the only logical thing I could
think to do: I slashed the time I spent with girls whose phone
numbers I intended to grab. I started to only spend a longer time
with girls I intended to take home that day or night.
Almost overnight, the problem of girls not texting or calling
back all but vanished. But it still left me scratching my head.... Why
did spending more time with a girl and having her come to like you
more lead to her falling off the face of the Earth and not returning
texts and calls later?

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Things That Lead to Unreturned Texts and Calls

Think of a girl you met, who you liked, who you spent maybe 30 or
40 minutes talking to in your initial encounter. She was charming,
beautiful, exactly your type.
Got her in your head?
Good. Now, if you can, remember how you felt the first time
you called her or texted her. Felt pretty darn nervous, didnt you?
Heck, maybe you didnt even text or call her at all. I hope that
wasnt the case, but there are plenty of guys out there thats
happened to... it happened to me. In fact, I almost didnt call a girl
who was to become my girlfriend for 2 years. It was just too scary
to dial her number on the phone. I almost didnt talk to her again
after the night I met her.
Guess what? Yep: that happens to girls, too.
Now, it isnt always the reason. In fact, its only one of four
main reasons well discuss that may cause her to not reply to you.
But nervousness and pressure is one of the Big 4 Reasons why girls
may not respond.
This ones likely the most surprising reason for a lot of guys, so
thats why I chose to lead with it. But there are three other reasons,
too. The four reasons girls might not reply to you are:
Too much anticipation/nervousness: if a girl likes you a lot, she
can be too shy to reply. She can put a great deal of pressure on
herself to do well with you... or be too jittery to type out a reply or
answer your call. She may really, really want to talk to you, yet
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Too much of a state-shift: this ones a little tougher to get your

mind around at first, so Ill use an example. Say you met an excited
girl at a party, hit it off, and took her phone number. The next day
you call her or text her. But now shes low energy and lethargic, and
likely not to answer. You are that wild guy from the party... but
shes not in party mode right now. She will look at your message
and think to herself: I cant talk to him right now; its too much
work... and then just never get back to you.
A bad ending: The end is important in all things. So goes one
of my favorite quotes from the Hagakure. Even if you had a
dynamite opener and the majority of the conversation was terrific. If
the END is awkward or stale, odds are you wont hear from her
again.
She wasnt all that interested: this happens sometimes to
everyone. Resist the temptation to attribute every no-response to
disinterest. This is what most guys do (I guess she didnt like me
after all). Its actually quite often one of the other three reasons
thats to blame. But sometimes it really is just that she wasnt as
interested as she seemed. It happens.
Of these four reasons, #3 and #4 are the easiest to fix.
Number 3 (bad endings) you fix when you get your closing
streamlined. Check out my book How to Ask a Girl Out: a Girls Chase
Guide, or read the GirlsChase.com article on getting a girls phone
number22. Use these tips and get more practice going for closes, and
youll begin to self-correct and get smoother and more natural with
time.

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Number 4 (she just isnt interested) you fix as you become more
attuned to the signals women are giving you. You grow more aware
of how to tell a girl is interested 23 in you. Then, you plain and
simple dont take contact info from girls you know arent that
intrigued.
Number 1 (girls whore too nervous to respond because they
really like you) is tougher to correct. You have to minimize
nervousness and maximize comfort while youre there in person
with her... plus youve got to make sure that the contact you have
with her afterward is super warm and friendly. She must feel
comfortable responding to you, above all.
Number 2 (girls who have a big mood shift between the time
you meet and the time you text) is the hardest to deal with. You
have to actually change the way you interact with girls when you
meet. If you intend to grab numbers, you must reduce the energy
level and get more real. The goal is that when such a girl gets your
text or call later, when theyre in a less ribald mood, it wont feel too
hard for her to respond.
These four changes may require you to completely overhaul
you interactions with girls... especially if youre an energetic, high-
energy guy.
The good news, though, is theres a shortcut around all these
learning curves. That shortcut is...

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Spend Less Time with Girls

and Get Them Responding More

Sounds counterintuitive, I know, but bear with me on this one.

Less time spent with a girl before you go for her contact
information does something special for you. First, it lets you screen
out girls who arent much into you. But it also lets you cut out the
bad stuff: girls who get so into you theyre too afraid to talk to you
later; girls who get used to talking to you in a too-different energy
level from their usual energy level; and bad endings to your
interactions with girls.
Said another way, less time up front is about as close to a cure-
all for the girls not texting back problem as you can get.
The girls who are into you right off the bat arent time wasters.
Theyre not insincere. They may well enjoy the long conversation
they have with you... or maybe theyre just trying to be polite with
someone who took the time to approach and talk to them. Its vital
to note the difference between reactions and results24. The two are
different things altogether, and reactions can often be misleading.
A girls smiles, laughs, and chats with you are reactions. Her
moving somewhere with you, or giving you her number when you
ask for it fast... those are a few examples of results. Results are what
you need, regardless of how promising (or not) your reactions may
be.

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When you ask for the number fast, you get a real result. The
girls who like you will happily give theirs. The ones who arent so
inclined will hesitate, or refuse outright.
Very fast way to sift the wheat from the chaff.

When a Girl Doesnt Text Back

You met a girl, ended up with her number, but now youve called or
texted her and she hasnt replied. What to do?
When a girl doesnt text back, or when a girl doesnt call back...
first, dont panic. Its not the end of the world. It doesnt mean
youve lost her for good.
It just means she hasnt gotten back to you yet.
I once texted a girl an icebreaker text the night I met her, and
got no reply.
Then I called her a day later, and got no answer. I shot her a text
in lieu of a voicemail, and she texted back to apologize and say she
hadnt realized it was me.
A few days later, I called her again. Again, no answer. I texted
her again, and again she texted back later. But it still didnt go
anywhere.
A week after Id first met her, I called her. Again, no answer.
This time, I left a voicemail. She called me back and complained that
she had nothing to do that night. So I, ever the good host, invited
her over to have dinner and drinks with me at my apartment. A few
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slammed her against the wall of the bathroom and kissed her, then
carried her back out and we made love on the sofa.
Persistence. Its the difference between the men who want it
and get it, and the men who dont. There were guys I mentored who
would have girls disappear and act disinterested, but theyd just
persist. Eventually the girls would reappear, agree to meet, and
finally end up in bed.
Persistence via text or phone can work wonders... BUT its
crucial to persist in a cool, laid back, socially savvy way. There are
myriad wrong ways to persist, and men for some reason are
particularly good at finding them. Dont fall into the traps that most
men do of getting needy, whiny, complain-y. Dont get angry at
women for not replying. Any of those will guarantee you wont get
a reply!
Instead, here are some things to keep in mind... so you persist in
the kind of intelligent, attractive way most likely to make a girl want
to talk to you again:
Dont get mad or accusatory. Yes, it may seem rude that she
hasnt replied, but... youre a stranger! She doesnt know you from
Jack yet, and doesnt realize what an awesome guy you are. Getting
mad is 100% guaranteed to scare her off. Refrain from anything like
I dont understand why youre being so standoffish.
Dont get whiny. Just as bad as mad is sad: whiny, complain-y
men are a huge turnoff to every girl out there. I just want to talk to
you. Im not trying to be too pushy, but blah blah blah. No. You
wouldnt care to get something like that from a girl... and a girl will
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DO be nonchalant. Hey Karen, figured Id drop you a line

since we havent connected in a few weeks. Just got back from the
East Coast and starting to delve back into work again... ugh. Hope
lifes been treating you excellent... let me know whats new with you!
- Chase Treat the situation as if no one is to blame and the two of
you are just reconnecting after a little time off, just busy with your
own things. If you have some hurt feelings, stifle them. Calls and
texts are not the place to air grievances or bandy about bad
emotions. You must be a breath of fresh air; a source of escape for
her. Thats the kind of thing that makes a girl want to pick up the
phone and talk to you... because she likely doesnt get it anywhere
else in her life. Everyone else puts pressure on her. You just aim to
be her release.
DO refrain from being too entertaining. Just saw the most
amazing movie today! OMG, think my head is going to explode,
youll never believe what just happened to me...!!! Anything like
that is no good. That kind of stuff is maybe okay three or four texts
into a conversation with a girl. But to send that as a cold text, as
your text opener, drips of try-hard reaction-seeking. Worse, in my
experience, it rarely works. And when it does work, it gets you
attention from girls who are curious, not girls who are interested.
Stick to normal stuff and youll do fine.
Finally, dont be afraid to give a girl a little time off if she
doesnt reply for a while. My rule of thumb is something like this:
she doesnt reply once: give her a day of radio silence. She doesnt
reply twice in a row: give her 2 - 3 days of radio silence. She doesnt
reply three times in a row: give her a week of radio silence.

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Then, if shes still silent, you might try something bolder,

depending on the situation. Theres no one-shot, surefire way to
reengage a girl who isnt responding. Its going to vary by the
reason why she doesnt respond in the first place.
If shes too shy, a nice, warm voicemail might do the trick... or
tone down your texts if youve come across as to entertaining,
gamey, or insincere.
On the other hand, if it feels like too much of a state-shift for her,
share some more normal details of your life and ask about hers.
Sometimes thats all it takes to help her to see you as more
human... and get her to respond.

In Summary...

In this chapter, we looked at some of the reasons why a girl may not
text back. We discovered it can be because shes too nervous, her
mood now is too different from when she met you, your chat with
her ended awkwardly or poorly, or shes just not that interested.
We talked a bit about some of the long-term strategic fixes for
these. Our top suggestion? Take her number FAST and dont
dawdle if the number is your goal. After this, though, we zeroed in
on what you can do now to troubleshoot girls who arent texting
back now.
When she doesnt respond, you want to be persistent. But its
crucial you persist in the right way. The right way means you dont
get mad/accusatory or whiny, but you do be nonchalant and you do
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Finally, I gave you my general timeline for following up with a

girl who isnt responding to texts: if she doesnt reply once: give her
a day of radio silence. If she doesnt reply twice in a row: give her 2 -
3 days of radio silence. If she doesnt reply three times in a row: give
her a week of radio silence. And if she still doesnt respond after that,
changing up your angle can sometimes work. A warm voicemail,
consideration for her, or an invite to a party or art show may be all
she needs. It isnt always possible to turn things around when a girl
doesnt text back... but sometimes it is.
And if you dont spend too much time with girls from whom
you take contact info say about 3 to 7 minutes you might just
find you substantially raise your phone number conversion rate.
Strange as that may seem!
Of course, just because shes agreed to the date doesnt actually
mean shell show up. Thus, in our next chapter, well take a close
look at what to do when a girl flakes on you.

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What to Do When She Flakes

Date Plans Dashed

Is there anything more annoying than when a girl you put a lot of
time and sweat into texting with flakes on a date with you? You
planned everything out to perfection, steeled yourself to ask her, set
it all up, and then... she flakes.
She cancels. Or shes a no-show.
No good.
It used to drive me crazy when girls flaked, and I know for a
fact it still drives plenty of guys out there crazy.
The good news is it neednt be a dating death sentence. Thats
because there are plenty of things you can do to prevent flakes
before they happen. And even if she does flake, there are still ways
to rebound.

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Were going to look at both the prevention and the cure.

When a Girl Flakes: Its Not About You

At the end of 2010, I met a girl and set up a date with her. She called
me before our date, telling me that her phones battery was almost
out of charge. But we decided where and when wed meet. I arrived
there 10 minutes late; she hadnt arrived yet.
I waited for 10 minutes and didnt see her. I tried to call her, but
there wasnt a dial tone; her battery must have died. I waited 10
more minutes. It was now 30 minutes past our meet time, and she
wasnt there yet.
So I sent her a text telling her I guess wed gotten mixed up and
that Id tried calling her but her phone must be dead. Then I turned
around, hopped back on the train, and headed back to my part of
town. I got some food and went home.
A few hours later, the girl called and very apologetically told
me shed been an hour late because she got lost and couldnt find
the place... and the parking had been horrible... and she had to park
far away and walk. She said she was very very sorry.
I told her not to worry about it. She said she wanted to make it
up to me. I told her she could cook me dinner sometime this week.
She said okay.
At the end of the week, she texted me to meet up. I told her to
meet me at my subway station, which she did. She pulled up in a car,
I got in, and she handed me a box full of chocolates as an apology.
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just go to my place or drive around. I thought about it for a second

and told her we could just go back to my place. So we did.
I had her clothes off within 15 minutes of us reaching my
apartment. We stayed in the whole day and had sex four times that
afternoon. Later, we went out for food, and she paid for my dinner,
again to apologize for missing that original first date.
Were this a few years earlier, I likely wouldve felt insulted that
she flaked and wouldnt have met up with her. Or I mightve
thought she needed more attraction, so Id have played games and
teased her, which wouldve cooled things off.
These days, though, when girls flake, I just stay cool. I dont
make a big deal out of it. And its often a happy ending.
Rule #1 to deal with flakes? Dont let it be a big deal. Stay cool
when girls flake.
What happens with many guys is they take it personal. If a girl
flakes on him, a guy considers it a sign of disrespect. Its obvious
she doesnt respect me, and she doesnt respect my time, he thinks.
You know what I realized? Its not about you. Or at least, its
rarely about you. Most of the time when a girl flakes, its because
something came up, or she misjudged how much time she had to
allow to get there, or she started to doubt youd show up, or the
date as arranged was inconvenient or difficult.
It will almost always be something along those lines. Its almost
always poor logistics, poor communication, or a date idea shes just
not in the mood for. Its almost never a judgment leveled at you
yourself.
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Flake Prevention

How do you discourage a girl from flaking? There are a few

different ways, and I recommend using all of them (I do):
Be simple and direct in your run-up to the date. The reason I
recommend you dont get mired in big phone calls or long text
conversations is because unproductive talk time makes things feel
overblown; she might start feeling like the date is a big deal, that she
really likes you, or that you really like her, and get nervous and
jittery and skittish. Believe it or not, longer text or phone
conversations do not make her feel happier. Talking to her longer
only makes her happier when she talks to you face to face (Vlahovic,
Roberts, & Dunbar, 2012). Far better for your texting to be simple
and for her to feel like its casual and easy to meet you shes a lot
more likely to show up.
Pick a date thats easy and convenient. One of the prime
reasons you want to simplify your dates is that the easier it is for a
girl, the more likely she is to agree. When you try to set up
something with too many steps, or something that involves a lot of
hard work or activity, you risk mental resistance. Thats when she
flakes. It might sound fun at first, then she wakes up the day of and
thinks Man, I dont have the energy for laser tag today. Maybe I
just wont go. Pick dates that are easy and convenient so as to cut
the chances of this happening.
Give a girl a choice of times. One thing Im big on these days is
letting girls choose times. Ill lay out a few days Im available and
suggest we do either a meal or grab a drink. I leave it flexible
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ball back in my court. When you do it this way, shell let you know
if its easier for her to do lunch or if shed rather do drinks, or if any
time of day is good for her, and what day is best. Because if you pick
a time convenient to her instead of squeezing her into one that
doesnt work, you make her much less likely to flake.
Text beforehand. Remember how important it is to text her
before the meet? Dont forget it! This is as important to flake
prevention as the other bits. As you recall, when you text
beforehand, you let her know the dates still on, and you put her at
ease. And, if she planned to flake, this prompts her to write back
and tell you she wont make it... thereby saving you travel and wait
time, and allowing her to save face. You head off the scenario where
she fails to tell you, then feels too ashamed about the faux pas to
face you again.
These are your primary tools to reduce flakes down to a
minimum level in your dating life. Use all these techniques, and
youll slash the likelihood of your dates not showing.

Flake Management

Say you take all your flake prevention measures, and a girl still
flakes. Either shes a no-show, or she texts to say she has to cancel.
What do you do then?
Just a few simple guidelines in this case. First, dont panic; treat
it like its no big deal. Second, be understanding; tell her its okay
and theres no need to explain if she tries to launch into a long
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Third, dont try to reschedule then and there unless shes

adamant. Dont even mention rescheduling. If she brings it up, tell
her to just do her thing if shes in a rush, and youll worry about
rescheduling later. You want to communicate confidence that youll
see her again and, once more, that its no big deal. Aside from this,
hastily rescheduled dates are more likely to get moved again. Let
her reschedule with you when shes calm, not rushed, and not
under an obligation.
However, fourth, do make excuses for girls where necessary.
Just like with that girl I had a date with. I texted her that I guess we
got mixed up and her phone must have run out of juice. You want
to show her youre on her side, that you understand, and give her a
possible out. You want to avoid her feeling trapped and like she has
to explain herself. Supply her with an explanation, and shell be far
more likely to feel at ease with you, and far more likely to meet you
again later.
The basic gist is: its no big deal.
Ive seen guys recommend you call girls out on a flake. Ive seen
other guys recommend you dont let them off the hook too easily.
Still other guys recommend elaborate games to play to re-interest a
girl and make her want to see you again. All this, of course, relies on
the assumption that the reason shes flaked is that she isnt into you.
Its my bet if shes interested enough to say yes to a date in the first
place, her interest likely isnt the issue.
More likely, its that something came up, or she ran late, or she
panicked, or got nervous. Or the date you set up was inconvenient
for her. Or anything along those lines. Just let her call it off, then
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No ruses, no games to re-spark interest, no radio silence to make her

think youre ber hard-to-get. Just be chill and reschedule later. No
big deal.

In Summary...

Ive just armed you with a full set of tools to understand flakes,
prevent them, and address them. Before we close the chapter, lets
have a quick review.
The first point we covered was that flakes are rarely about you.
Often its something on her end, not yours. She most likely flaked
because something came up, she misjudged how much time it
would take to get there, she started to doubt youd show up, or the
date as arranged was inconvenient or difficult. So, dont take flakes
personal.
The ways to discourage flakes include:

1. Be simple and direct in the run-up to the date

2. Pick a date thats easy and convenient
3. Give her a choice of times
4. Text her before the date

If you do these but she flakes anyway, you should not panic. Treat it
like its no big deal. Do be understanding. Cut off any long
explanations. Dont try to reschedule then and there (unless she
insists on it). Yet, do make excuses for her if needed.
Great things can happen when you handle a flake well. You
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following the flake. Handling a girls flake well tends to make them
intrigued... and often ready for rapid intimacy. Why? Because most
guys dont know how to handle the situation; they get testy or weak
or needy or angry. But you, when you handle a sticky situation like
this well... it says more about your strength, confidence, and power
as a man than almost anything else you can say or do. And thats the
kind of statement about yourself that makes girls want to jump in
bed with you fast.
In the next chapter, well talk about what to do when your texts
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Calls For When Texts Dont Work

Sometimes Youve Got to Change the Medium

I want to talk about a fun little technique. This tech fractionates25

your contact method to get somewhere with girls who dont
respond well.
This technique is, simply, switching back and forth between
texting and calling.
Now, if youve done things right from the beginning with a girl,
you wont usually need to use this. A great first impression 26 ,
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game to set things up... thats usually going to do everything you

need it to do.
Usually if you need this technique, its because youve done
something wrong: you made a weak first impression, you didnt
make it clear you wanted a date with her, or it could be your texting
was weak and/or unfocused.
However, you can still have things unravel sometimes, even if
you were perfect. This is if, say, you do it all right, but when she
gets your Hey, lets get things scheduled text, it is a bad day for
her, and she puts it off. She has just set bad precedent and anchored
bad emotions28 to texts from you. Sometimes a girl may get it in her
head that XYZ thing is hard (like when you fit on her schedule)
for reasons she isnt aware of (anchoring). Then, an otherwise
promising connection goes cold.
For any such situation, you have one neat tool in your toolbox:
just vary the means of correspondence. In this chapter, Ill show you
how to do that by switching between texts and phone calls. One
note: email and instant messaging are practically the same as texting,
so they dont count as switching things up in this context. Were
going to be talking text-based vs. voice-based here.

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Objections to Text/Call Splitting

There are three primary objections to text/call splitting, so lets

address those first.

1. If she doesnt respond to my texts, why bother?

2. Isnt making a phone call intrusive?
3. Isnt using phone calls dated/outmoded in todays day and age?

Well discuss.

#1: Why Bother?

This objection is no different from anything else with meeting

women: Cold approach is hard 29 . Why bother? Men have to
lead 30 . Why cant I wait for girls to lead? All this learn
game31 stuff is a lot of work. Why not just be myself32 instead?
The answer here is the same: because it works.
Not everyone wants to do everything, and that I understand.
But if youre a guy who wont text/call split because he doesnt want
to, then complains that women dont text him back... well, thats just
silly.
Some guys view such techniques (where you continue to follow
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Sure, they are... if youre doing them wrong, but you can say that of
anything.
Imagine this: a busy, important man meets a beautiful girl. He
texts her to meet up several times, but it doesnt pan out. Meantime,
hes going on dates with other girls, too.
One day on his way to the gym, he takes out his phone and calls
this girl. She answers, they chat, he sets up a date with her before
the call ends, and then he hangs up and goes on about his day.
Chasing? No.
This is how youll be using this technique.

#2: Isnt Making a Phone Call Intrusive?

Not as intrusive as what youll be doing to her in the bedroom. ;)

To a certain extent, you want to be considerate of a girls time
and not put too much pressure on her early on (before youre lovers).
At least this is how you want to kick things off. Ill tell you a secret,
though... not all women are created equal.
Some women desire a man wholl leave a minimal footprint on
their lives one wholl make things easy and low pressure for them,
and take up little of their time. Other women desire a man whos
going to impose himself on them in attractive and savvy ways. They
desire a man who will force them to pay attention to him.
The nice thing about the text/call split technique is that it starts
out: Ill be cool and well do this in an unimposing way. Then, if
she does not respond to that approach, it switches to: Hey, Im
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Dating itself is an intrusive process. You intrude on her time,

intrude on her thoughts and dreams, and at last intrude into her
body. If youre (overly a little is good) worried about being too
intrusive with a girl you want to copulate with... well, maybe its
time for a little asshole training33.
Also, keep in mind, some girls actually prefer phone calls over
text (Reid & Reid, 2004; Rettie, 2007). By starting with text, then
moving to phone if it isnt working, you enable yourself to cover
both groups.

#3: Arent Phone Calls So 20th Century?

Theres also this objection that asks: Who makes a phone call
anymore? The answer, of course, is busy people. Phone calls
simply are just the best communication medium for certain kinds of
talk (LaBowe, 2011).
When you try to set something up over text, and it isnt
working, the only people who keep texting are students with too
much time on their hands and other people who dont have too
many things to do.
That doesnt mean YOU have to only text girls in college or girls
with too much time on their hands. They understand and appreciate
a good phone call from a busy man as much as anyone else.

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The busy guy just calls. Instead of 100 text messages and half a
day of typing and waiting, he can accomplish everything with a 2-
minute phone call.
If you are successful with women, you will be busy. And the
kind of men women find attractive are those who are busy. One of
the things youll notice is that the busier you get, the easier dating
gets, and its not a coincidence. Busyness works as a kind of implicit
preselection34. If its obvious you dont have a huge amount of time
for her (without you being fake busy), that says good things about
you. It says you live in abundance 35 and have things that are
important to you36 in your life.
Another alternative to the text/call split is the ball in your court
text (well talk about it in two chapters). You can use one of these
techniques, or both of them. If youve already done a few phone
calls, and she still wont come out, you will actually want to do a
ball in your court call call instead of text... but well talk about that
later.
One other group of people who prefer phone calls to texts are
lonely people (Reid & Reid, 2007). Youll find some girls may be
slow to respond or non-responsive over text, but very responsive
over phone especially if they are sad, lonely, or depressed. Phone
is simply a more personal medium, and one thats better for people
who desire a more personal touch.
Phone calls are as good now as they always have been IF your
phone game is good (same IF as its always been). Like anything,

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this is a skill you have to train, and it takes a little time. So if you
arent used to talking on the phone, it can feel like phone calls arent
working that great for you, because they arent yet.
If thats the case for you, make sure to check out these
GirlsChase.com articles:

Talking vs. Texting & Related Tips (note: my stance on text-

dates has changed)
Tactics Tuesdays: Making the First Phone Call to a Girl
Call Girls to Success: Phone Secrets Part II

How to Call/Text Split

These days, I suggest you usually start with texts. But not always.
Well cover situations where you want to lead with phone calls a
little later in this chapter. However, usually you will lead with
texting. Thats because its easy, low pressure, and the learning
curves shorter than phone calls.
You only need to be good at basic logistics-handling texts to get
dates with text game, provided of course youre doing everything
else right before you get the phone number. So it cuts down on the
level of skill you need to get dates, which is what long-distance
correspondence is all about: get her out in person with you.
You should usually only use phone calls these days when one
or more of the following is true: (a) you sent her icebreaker and
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date(s) via text, and she flaked or didnt respond; (c) she has
continually dodged date requests or is hard to pin down.
In each of these cases, the phone call ups the ante. Continuing
to text when shes evasive positions you as the chaser. Shes given
you little or nothing, yet you keep tossing her bones. Or, at this
point, you can use the ball-in-your-court text to say Okay, well,
when youre ready, you text me. But that takes it out of your hands.
She may call back, she may not.
My general recommendation on when to use text/call splits vs.
the ball-in-your-court text is: if youre meh about the girl, throw
the ball in her court; if youd really like to see the girl, text/call split.
If youre good at phone game, youll tend to find phone calls have a
better percentage than ball-in-her-court texts. Calls are also a heck of
a lot more time efficient.
That means, if you dont have a lot of time (say, youll leave
town soon), OR you just want to get this girl ASAP (if shell be off
the market soon... or if you just really like her), theres no point
pretending you dont care and bouncing her the its in your court
text when you do care. You also dont need to wait 2 weeks for her
to decide she wants to date you, either.
If you want her and texts arent working then call her.
Heres how you do that, in four steps.

Step #1: Good Text/Impression Game

How likely she is to answer your phone call is directly tied to how
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you made. If these sucked, shell have bad emotions anchored to

your name on the screen, and shell be less likely to answer. If your
text game was good and your first impression was good, shes going
to tend to want to answer your call. Thats because shell see you as
a source of good emotions.
Women are constantly in search of good emotions. If they view
you as someone who can provide these, they will welcome you into
their lives. That means: dont just be lazy with your texts and
assume youll call her if it doesnt work out. You still need good text
game. Without that, shes less likely to answer your call.

Step #2: Time It Properly

Especially if youre new, its important to give her enough time to

respond to texts.
Some girls take hours to get back to you; some can take a day.
This doesnt necessarily mean they arent interested; although, if she
doesnt respond in 3 or 4 hours, you probably have work to do once
shes on the date. It can simply mean a girls busy, or keeps her
phone on silent, or doesnt check messages a whole lot. Believe it or
not, there are girls out there who dont check their messages a whole
lot... mostly professional women 37 or others with a lot going on
(whose lives dont revolve around InstaSnapBookTwitter).
So dont fall into the trap where you text a girl, she doesnt
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looks scared and needy, like you sat around staring at your phone,
and called when you didnt hear back.
Instead, a typical progression might look something like this:

1. Meet the girl

2. [3 hours later] Ice-breaker text
3. [next day] Follow-up plus date-ask
4. [IF says no / dodges 2 days later] Phone call with date-ask
5. [IF no date / dodges 3 days later] Text invite to something different
6. [IF no date / dodges 2 days later] Bonding phone call with no date-ask
7. [3 days later] Phone call with date-ask
8. [IF says no / dodges 3 days later] Text invite to something different
9. [IF says no / dodges that night] Ball-in-your-court phone call

Thats five date invites in a two-week period without feeling rushed,

crammed-in, or try-hard. Thats pretty good. Its good because it
filters for as many variables as possible: maybe she doesnt want a
date one day you ask, but she does on another; maybe she doesnt
like one of your date ideas, so you cycle through others; maybe she
doesnt like one medium (texts), but is happy to get a phone call.
When you switch tactics up, you give yourself room to find an
angle that works for a girl where previous angles did not.

Step #3: Keep It Fresh

Its important to hit the right note of fresh + familiar. You want to
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same time introducing new information, ideas, and stimuli. For

instance, you never want to propose the same date idea twice in a
row. Dont be the guy who invites her to coffee on Monday, gets a
Not right now, thanks, then texts her again inviting her to coffee
on Thursday... then texts her again on Sunday to invite her to coffee
again.
Instead, be the guy who invites her to coffee on Monday, then
invites her to an art gallery opening on Thursday. And if she
declines both of those, invites her to go hiking with him on Sunday.
Vary it up. Thats for two reasons: it gives you the chance to strike
on something shell say yes to, and it makes you more intriguing39:
Whats Scott going to propose this time?
For the phone calls, follow the phone call guide and make sure
you have a recent short story prepped to go. You wont always need
it, but its handy to have sitting there at-the-ready. You can launch
into your story to warm the conversation up if she doesnt jump into
the chat right away.

Step #4: Texts for Logistics,

Phone Calls for Bonding

Keep this rule in mind: text messages are for logistics, phone calls
are for bonding.
If you had a quick interaction when you first met her (e.g., a 2-
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and then kind of fumbled the follow-up over text... you might need
to do a little bonding before she feels comfortable enough to meet
you. Thats where phone calls come in.
Dont use texts to try to build connections, due to the lack of
context. You can joke around on texts, and you can set up logistics,
but they arent ideal for much else. Your sexy bedroom voice plus 10
minutes talking to her on the phone can be enough to swing a lot of
girls from on the fence about you to fully onboard.
The greater context of phone calls also makes them more
resistant to negative anchoring. For example, if she starts associating
bad emotions with your texts (Hes too pushy or His texts are
boring or He always texts me at inconvenient times), its easy for
her to anchor these emotions to you and not want to answer.
However, with phone calls, especially if youre good at phone game,
its easy to inject energy, enthusiasm, and variety. These make it
easier for you to anchor strong positive emotions... insomuch that
even if she declines a few dates, or if you dont always call at
convenient times, you still provide energy that makes her want to
answer your call.
If she seems uncertain about you over text, or shes being dodgy,
call her. It ups the ante (Okay, lets get serious about this) and
reassures (and re-attracts) her in ways texts cant.

Call/Text Splitting Caveats

There are some caveats to what weve laid out in this article, too.
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clearly hot for you, and that once youve introduced calling, any
ball-in-your-court communication must be over a call, not text.
Heres what these two caveats mean.

When to Call First

The normal rule is: lead with texts, follow (if needed) with phone
calls. However, sometimes you dont have time for texting and
waiting, texting and waiting.
When youre just in town for a few days, for instance, texting
can murder your odds to see a girl again. Even if she wants to meet
you, by the time you get it all scheduled, you may already be on
your train or flight out of there.
In this case, even if leading with a phone call perhaps isnt the
social norm per se, still do it. If your phone game is good, it wont
matter, because as soon as shes on the phone, shell be thrilled to
talk to you again.
Additionally, sometimes you meet a girl and you can tell shes
super excited to meet up with you again. When this is the case, its
often better to lead with calls over texts.
Leading with calls brings her back to a richer communication
channel, which is what she wants. Ideally, she wants to be with you,
not be chatting with you at a distance. Calls are much closer to
actually being with you than texts are. So you can call, remind her
what shes so excited about, and get her to meet up, hopefully
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You may run into the scenario where a girl is piping hot for you
in-person, then you start to text her and she grows cold. And then
you call her again, and shes hot again. Whats happening here is the
texting is a let-down for her. She doesnt want to interact with
words on a screen that represent you. She wants to interact with you
yourself. So, when you have girls who clearly really like you, you
may find youre better off with phone calls rather than texts.
What if the first phone call doesnt get you a date? No problem;
just use text/call splitting, and continue to switch it up.

What Medium to Use With

Ball-in-Her-Court Messages

Usually the ball-in-her-court message is done via text. However, if

you introduce phone calls, you need to do this via phone, not text.
The reason why is because phone calls are a more serious, more
real medium than text.
If youre already chatting to her via phone call and you give her
a very real message like When youve got time and want to grab
a drink, drop me a line and let me know over text, it comes across
as a little cowardly. Oh, so he can talk to me over phone about ABC and
DEF, but he cant tell me Im avoiding him and ask me to let him know
when Im ready over the phone? Scaredy cat!
Do not ask her out and also give her a ball-in-her-court message
in the same call; it sounds spiteful.

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Dont do this:

You: ... blah blah blah. So anyway, we should grab one of

those mojitos you keep talking about want to do that this
week?

Her: You know, this weeks actually really busy for me. I
dont think I can.

You: Okay. Well, it seems like youre always pretty busy

lately. Tell you what, Im not so good at the whole chasing-
you-around thing, so why dont we leave it off for a while,
and then when youve got some time you can drop me a
line and let me know when you want to meet up?

Feels like youre being kind of whiney or bitter here, doesnt it?
Thats because youre immediately following the rejection up with
the ball-in-your-court message. This is different in text. Since
because a text message is much less personal, everything feels less
serious. Her declining your date isnt that big of a deal, just like you
throwing the ball in her court isnt one either. So you can follow up
a rejected date request with a ball-in-her-court message. It doesnt
feel like youre saying this just because your feelings are hurt.
However, for the phone call ball-in-her-court, you need to do
things differently. So, instead, ask her out via text, and if she
dodges/rejects, call her that night and have a short (2 or 3 minute)
call... then ball-in-her-court her.

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That looks like this:

[2 to 3 minutes of small talk/chit-chat]

You: Yeah, so anyway, seems like youre super busy/tough

to meet up with!

Her: Yeah, you know, I work long hours, and this project
Im on right now is sucking up ALL my free time.

You: I completely understand. I had a project like that

about 4 months ago. It was fun, but my social life just
vanished. Hey, so, I dont want to keep calling you and
texting you and distracting you when youre so busy, and
Im also terrible at the whole chasing thing, as you can
probably tell. [pause; let her laugh] So Ill quit bugging you
for now, but Id really like to meet up with you at some
point and quit being strangers over a phone line. Tell you
what, when you get some free time, shoot me a text or give
me a call and lets meet up, that work?

Then say your goodbyes and get off the phone.

Note the difference in tone and message structure from the ball-
in-your-court text message. Its much more conversational here, and
you put more time in to communicate I get where youre coming
from, and I understand. Thats because the phone is a richer
medium, and its important you make it clear youre not saying this
because youre smarting.
Also, the reason you call her that night boils down to a basic
premise of operant conditioning 40 . That is, positive punishment

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(removing something she enjoys) works best when it closely follows

the bad behavior it punishes.
In this case, her brushing aside yet another date request is the
bad behavior. The positive punishment is that now youre going to
wait for her to contact you. And you arent going to call her and
provide good feelings, happiness, and excitement anymore.
If you do this 2 or 3 days after the rejection, or even the next day,
the feeling has waned, and she wont tie the punishment to the
behavior. That makes her less likely to think Oops I caused this; I
did something wrong... Id better fix it if I want the good feelings
back. Instead, shes more likely to think Hmm, I guess hes just
giving up, or Maybe he found someone else; I should probably
move on, too.
If you need to use the ball-in-your-court call, time is of the
essence.

In Summary...

Lets sum this chapter up.

Some of the reasons you might want/need to use this technique:
you made a weak first impression, you didnt make it clear you
wanted a date with her, your texting was weak and/or unfocused,
your texting accidentally got negatively anchored for her, or she just
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The big three objections to text/call splitting are:

1. If she doesnt respond to my texts, why bother?

2. Isnt making a phone call intrusive?
3. Isnt using phone calls dated/outmoded in todays day and age?

The responses are:

1. Its not chasing; if you actually want to meet her/get laid, youll
bother ;)
2. Phone calls are more intrusive than text. Sex is even more intrusive,
though
3. Phone calls still work awesome (IF you develop good phone game.
Big IF)

You should usually just use phone calls when you sent her ice-
breaker and follow-up texts but she didnt respond, or you tried to
set up a date(s) via text but she flaked or didnt respond, or shes
continually dodging date requests or is hard to pin down. In each of
these cases, the phone call (being a higher context medium) serves
to up the ante.
When deciding whether to call/text split or just throw the ball in
her court over text without ever giving her a call, my
recommendation is this: if youre meh about the girl, throw the
ball in her court but if youd really like to see the girl, text/call
split.

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Steps for using call/text splitting to good effect:

1. Make a good first impression and text her well before you ever call
her
2. Use proper timing in spacing out and planning texts and phone
calls
3. Keep your conversations and date suggestions fresh
4. Texts are for logistics, calls are for bonding

And the two caveats to call/text splitting: call FIRST if youre time-
pressed or if shes clearly hot for you. And if you introduce calling,
any ball-in-your-court communication has to be over a phone call,
not text.
Remember, the phone-call version of ball-in-your-court has
several rules the text-only version does not. These include:

1. Make the call after she brushes off a text-based date invite
2. Call her the same day she rejects the invitation
3. 2 to 3 minutes of small talk, then ball-in-your-court message
4. Make it clear you understand where shes coming from
5. Leave it very open for her to contact you when shes ready

Lots of rules, details, and nuance here, I realize; many of these

things are more minor details, however. If you want the easy quick-
start guide to call/text splitting, here it is:
Switch it up between date requests over text versus chatting
and date requests over the phone.
If youre brand-spanking new to all this, I wouldnt worry
about too many more of the details than this. Once youre more
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At that point, observe which rules youve already begun to follow

instinctively. Then add in the other rules you arent using yet that
will most immediately help you out.
In the next chapter, well talk about how to pick things up again
with a girl you havent talked to in a while. And in the chapter after
that, well take a detailed look at that ball-in-her-court
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Texting When Its Been a While

Havent Seen You in Some Time

Sometimes you might have a situation where you lose touch with
the girl for a while. Whether its because it didnt go anywhere or
you just forgot, you quit texting her. And she quits texting you.
Then one day you stumble across her number again or recall
her, and you think Man, that girl was cute. Id like to see her again.
But its been so long and shes likely moved on. How do you get
back in touch?
The way you do this is with what I call the check-in text. Its a
way to pick up with a girl youve lost touch with. And you do it in a
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She Doesnt Know Where Youve Gone

You dont know where she is or what shes up to. But by the same
token, she doesnt know this about you, either. She doesnt know
why you havent been in contact. She has no idea why the texts from
you stopped.
It could be you just gave up your efforts to get her. It could be
because you got busy. It could be you were on travel, or got a
girlfriend, or got engaged. Theres no way for her to know.
Shes also unlikely to recall the tone when you quit texting her.
She wont remember if she was short with you. She wont remember
if you chased a little too hard. Unless you were desperate in your
texts, if some time has gone by, shell have forgotten. Its the old
time heals all wounds clich, but here its true. If things didnt go
perfectly before, give her some time to reset, and try again.
Remember, shes a girl. Shes busy. She likely texts a LOT of
people. Even if you made an impression before, if you drop off her
radar, you get a reset. She does too much texting to remember the
details of who is what to her for long.
Sure, she might skim through her past texts with you and read
what you wrote before. But a lot of girls wont bother. If they get a
text they like from you now, they wont care. Only the obsessive
types go back and reread messages. The rest squint, say Oh yeah,
that guy, and if they like the message, they want to meet.
So there are two key factors here: she doesnt know why you
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Whats a situation like this do for you? Simple: it lets you

reframe41 your disappearance any way you want to.

The Standard Check-In Text

The standard check-in text contains these five elements:

1. Greeting and her name

2. Apologies for why youve been quiet
3. Explanation that youve been busy
4. Ask her how she is
5. Ask her out and request her schedule

The greeting and name weve already covered in the chapter on

how to text a girl. So lets talk about the other four.
Apologies: but Chase, isnt it bad to apologize, you ask? Well,
yes, usually. But in this case, you are apologizing for you having
marginalized and forgotten her. The thing you did wrong makes
you high status and important, yet her low status and unimportant.
She sat around and waited for you, and you forgot her. And now
you want to make it up to her. It doesnt matter if this isnt 100% the
case. It doesnt matter if she started to ignore you. All that matters is
that you frame it this way. If you do, most of the girls you text will
treat it like it is actually the case. Funny, right?

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Youve been busy: here, you just want to say youve been busy.
You can mention the why if you like, but it isnt necessary. You
just want to give her an understandable reason for your absence.
This makes your check-in text congruent... you were busy, and now
things have cleared up (and you have time for her). This is the
piece of new information part of a new text conversation.
Ask how she is: as you recall, consideration is one of four
elements to include in a new cold text. Here you ask how she is to
show consideration... and also because its just a normal thing for
people to do who havent spoken in a while. This way, if she has
anything important she needs to update you on, youve given her a
social window to do so.
Ask her out and request her schedule: and lastly, you want to
get right to the point: ask her for her schedule. This way she doesnt
have to wonder what the message is about. She doesnt need to ask
herself what youre after. Its right there in the text. Oh, okay he
wants to grab drinks and catch up.
Heres an example of what these elements look like all put
together:

Hey Gina! Sorry Ive been radio silent these past 6 weeks; I
wasnt ignoring you, I just got so slammed with my
projects that everything outside of work got pigeonholed
until life returned to sanity again. Anyway, things have
cleared up a bit. Howve you been? Let me know your
schedule over the next week or two, and lets plan to meet
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Pretty straightforward, right? Heres another one:

Becky, hey! Sorry to drop off the map, I got super busy
with work & got on this intense schedule at the gym and
just became a total hermit. Argh. Anyway, I am returning
to normal socialization again! Howre things with you?
Howd the new job search go? We should grab a bite or
drink and catch up let me know when youre free!

Its so simple, so nice, and so friendly its hard for her not to respond.
Because you apologize for ignoring her, it feels impolite for her to
not say anything back. Of course, when she responds, she accepts
your frame that you were the ignorer and she the ignored. See how
that works?
Odds are you lost contact because she was being noncommittal.
But Ill tell you: this text gets girls to forget how flighty they were
with you 9 times out of 10. Those formerly flighty girls will say Oh,
I mustve liked this guy and agree to meet up. Or even if they
remember you, they get that shift in psychology and say You know
what, let me give this guy a shot.

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Non-Standard Check-In Texts

The standard check-in text will be your text reset bread and butter.
Its what youll use most of the time, with most girls. But what do
you do in more extreme situations? A member of the Girls Chase
forums asks:

To boil it down to brass tacks, whats needed is a way to

generate interest from a woman we have only met once, a
year to 18 months ago; number close, good chemistry but
no date or same night lay. They may well be married and
pregnant by now. But they might also still be free & easy
and living nearby and would benefit from spending time
with us and our recently-realigned perspectives on how to
give her what she wants & needs via fun & frolicsome
encounters. So whats needed is a non-weird-blast-from-
the-past-icebreaker in SMS Format. Maybe a bit too
magic bullet to actually be able to realize, but even some
half-baked ideas would be fun!

So, what do you do in these more extreme situations... where you

hardly know the girl or its been far too long since you talked to
them? Well, you need something a bit more extreme than the
standard check-in text. You also need a good reason why youve
decided to write her after a year or more of silence. As it turns out, I
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Option #1: Clearing Out My Phone

Your first option is to go through your phone and clear out old
phone numbers that didnt pan out. As you delete old numbers,
look for girls youd like to take one more shot with. When you find
them, text them this:

Gina, how ARE you? Its Chase! Im sorry I havent talked

to you in forever... I just got caught up with things, and
totally didnt get in touch. My bad. Listen, I was going
through deleting old numbers, and wanted to touch bases
again and see whats up. Are you still in town? Want to
grab a coffee sometime?

Youll get some hilarious responses back to this. Some of these girls
will only very vaguely remember you (or they wont remember you
at all)... and they just assume from the tone of the text that the two
of you must have been close... somehow.
Theyll meet up with you, both intrigued and skeptical, and
theyll want to remember how you met. Usually you want to be
semi-vague here. Dont try to completely jog their memories. The
past isnt important. Just treat them like an old friend, be sorry that
you havent followed up, and get on with things.
You can actually get a nice boost sometimes with these girls.
Theyll feel like because theyve known you for so long, they dont
have to be as on-guard with you as they are with most men. And
you still get the benefit of being on their romantic and sexual radar
screens... unlike most of the men theyve known a long time and
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Youre the long-lost guy they never got with, but whos stepped
back into their lives. Its a fine place to be.

Option #2: Leaving Town

If you plan to leave the city (or country), you can pick numbers out
of your phone and text this:

Gina, hey, its Chase! I know I havent been in touch lately,

even though I said I would be... Im sorry, and thats on me.
I got caught up with some things before, and never ended
up following up with you way back when. Anyway, Im
going through and letting everyone know that Im moving
to Nantucket next Thursday. I dont know what youre
doing, but if youd like to grab a hot chocolate or an ice
cream before Im out of here, Id love to see you one last
time.... Shall we do that?

In my experience, this message gets you a greater response rate than

Option #1... that is, shes more likely to respond. However, the rate
she comes out on a date is lower than with the first option. My guess
is the first is more romantic; this ones more Im leaving town; last
chance to hook up. Shell only take it if shes in the mood for a no-
strings it doesnt count hookup with a guy wholl soon be gone.
But if youve got 10 or 20 numbers that never went anywhere
and youre on your way out, theres no reason not to use it. You
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Arent These Texts Too Long?

If youre familiar with my material, youre likely familiar with the

Law of Least Effort42. And if thats the case, you might wonder:
dont these long texts violate the LLE? Or, even if you have no idea
what the Law of Least Effort is, maybe youll just say That is one
long-ass text. Who even texts like that?
The Law of Least Effort just says the most socially powerful
man is the one who gets the greatest results for the least amount of
effort. If you can send one text, and do in one text what it takes most
guys multiple texts and hours of texting and waiting to do, thats
lower effort.
And when its been a while, you need a long text like this to get
your message through. If you think youre going to text her Hey
Gina, whats going on? Sorry Ive been busy. Whats up with you?
and get into a text conversation, it wont happen. She doesnt
remember you, or you havent chatted with her, so youre irrelevant.
You need the long text format to get enough information in that
her mental process goes: Who is this guy? Oh, right, I
remember him. Why is he texting me? Oh, I see, he was busy.
But now hes free. Hmm. Oh, he wants to meet up with me.
Busy guy has time for me now, huh?
You want to roll from one of those emotions to the next before
they have time to cement. You dont want the message to end with
her thinking Who is this guy? because when your next message
comes, youre already a question mark. You dont want it to end on

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Why is he texting me? because now you have to fight her

skepticism.
The long text with everything in it violates social convention
somewhat. Yet its so exuberant and so sincere that it doesnt matter.
Ever get an excited, happy, but also apologetic long text from a girl?
I have, plenty of times, and you never care that its long. You just
catch the emotions shes sending over and those emotions feel
good.

In Summary...

Weve just armed you with a few texts to send to pick things up
with girls you havent talked to in a while.
Weve covered the five elements a check-in text must contain:

1. Greeting and her name

2. Apologies for why youve been quiet
3. Explanation that youve been busy
4. Ask her how she is
5. Ask her out and request her schedule

And weve given you examples of how to write a standard check-in

text, plus examples for two more texts: the clearing out my phone
text and the leaving town text.
Those are texts you can use to reconnect with girls you havent
talked to in forever... sometimes even years. Theyre lower
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back). But if you have a bunch of numbers, you can send the
message out and often get a text or two (or sometimes more) back.
The next chapter looks at how to throw the ball into a girls
court. You can do this any time, with girls you meet in bars, at
parties, or via social circle. However, well focus particularly on how
to do this over text message. How do you tell her youre done
chasing her and program her to ask you out for a date later?

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When to Throw the Ball in Her Court

A Line You Learn to Love

The balls in your court.

You either love to utter that line, or you never utter it.
Its a liberating line when you use it right. Some girl you think
likes you, or you think might like you, but who is being coy or
difficult about coming out... youre just going to fire that text off to
her, and forget about her.
Or a girl you met somewhere social, but she wont accompany
you: Come find me later. Maybe she will, maybe she wont. It can
be hard to say things like this, and even harder to stick to them
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manage to tell a girl the balls in her court, you may find yourself
texting her the next day anyway... or the day after.
And the opposite is sometimes true. You might find you shove
girls off your plate too quickly and too often. This can happen if you
dont want to deal with the sometimes-stressful dance of dating.
Perhaps that girl you told to get in touch with you later, who never
did, wouldve gotten together with you... had you persisted just a
little bit harder in person or over text.
Where to persist versus when to toss the ball in her court is a
dicey call sometimes... yet it may determine the difference between
you chasing after her and still not getting her... versus you flipping
the script on her and getting her to chase you.

Throwing the Ball to Her

First, the technique. Hows this done, exactly? Well, what youll look
for before you turn the ball over to the girl are several signs:

1. Youve persisted and tried to get compliance or a date from her,

but shes resisted or flaked again and again
2. Youve determined her resistance or flakiness isnt from you trying
to shoehorn her into anything uncomfortable
3. Youve made multiple different overtures, and none of them have
worked

In other words, it isnt just that youve said Hey, lets go sit down!
six times and shes resisted. Instead, youve tried Hey, lets go sit
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get out of here and go somewhere more fun, and none of them
worked.
And it isnt just that youve invited her to coffee at midday. But
instead, youve tried inviting her out to get drinks at night, too. And
youve asked her to take a walk by the beach with you when the
other offers didnt work.
Because if you just go for one sort of invitation like a stubborn
bull, you can miss that youre getting a no because she doesnt
like the thing youre inviting her to do... not because she doesnt like
you.
Not everyone likes coffee... or maybe she doesnt want to sit.
Maybe she wants some guy whos just going to get her out of there,
and the idea a long seduction when what she wants is sex right now
is a buzz kill.
So, you change up your offers. You throw a few other things
out there. You feel her out, and see what sticks.
And if nothing sticks, then you can throw the ball in her court.
That looks like this:

Her: ... and so I moved to Los Angeles.

You: Thats for sure a unique journey. [pause] Hey, lets

grab a seat over there.

Her: Nah... Im good over here.

You: Well be much more comfortable sitting down.

Her: I was sitting all day; Id rather stand.

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You: All right. Tell you what then, lets mosey on out to
the patio and get a little fresh air in that case. That way you
can stay upright and we can change scenery.

Her: Im okay here I think.

You: Yeah? Well, you want to just get out of here? This
place is a little dull and you dont exactly seem riveted. We
can find somewhere more fun to head to.

Her: Ill just stay here for now.

You: Okay. Well, I need a little more stimulation than

propping up lazy against a bar, so Im going to go shuffle
around a bit. But come find me later when youre feeling
more active.

Her: Okay.

This is a going nowhere fast interaction where you start smooth

and get more and more blunt... because screw it, its not going
anywhere, so might as well toss something out there and see if she
bites.
The lets get out of here line toward the end is a low-
percentage shot that doesnt hurt you if its well worded. She was
already turning you down like nobodys business, and it looked like
nothing would come of it... so its worth a shot just because
sometimes you will get a *shrug* Okay, why not response to this...
and then somehow youve snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat.

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In any event, in the above scenario, when you still get a no to

your final offer, you deliver your parting shot44. You tell her the
balls in her court. And then you leave.
Maybe she finds you again later; maybe she doesnt. But either
way, you wont worry about it, because youll busy yourself to meet
other girls who arent her.

When Youre Too Afraid to Do It

Something that can happen when youre new is you struggle to find
the courage to tell her the balls in her court. Theres no way around
this other than to just forge ahead through it the first couple of times.
Youll tell her Okay balls in your court a little awkwardly
after shes shut down your efforts to get anywhere with her. Then
youll slink off in defeat. She likely wont follow up. But thats okay.
The important thing is to build the capability here.
Once youve done this a few times, youll stop stressing out
about it. Itll just be a normal thing you say and do at that stage in
the interaction. Then, once it ceases being something you get a little
weird about, thats when youll start having girls follow up with
you again.
Heres an example of when youd send a balls-in-your-court
text: you text her to meet up with you for coffee Tuesday evening.
She flakes on that date the night before; something came up. You
reschedule to hit the park with her Saturday afternoon. She flakes

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the day of; she feels a little under the weather. You reschedule again
hookah bar Monday. She flakes a third time, apologetically.
You send her a balls-in-your-court text:

Haha, all right. Well, I know youre super busy and Im

not really good at doing the whole chase-you-down thing.
So youre in charge of planning the next meet, whenever
your schedule permits just let me know a little ahead of
time.

or

Hey, no worries. I think thats 3 meets Ive planned

youve had to take a rain check on, so planning for the next
attempt is on you! Youre the busy one, so Im leaving that
ball in your court. Just let me know when and where once
your schedule allows.

Youve got to be able to drop the parting shot like this and walk
away 45 . You cant go text her the next day and try to schedule
another date after a balls-in-your-court text. That reveals your hand
(i.e., that youre not a guy with a lot of options... youre a guy
without them. Girls like their guys to have options46).
So if youre going to tell her the balls in her court, make sure
you mean it, and dont go back on your word.
Same with interacting in person. Dont tell her Come find me
later and then you find her later yourself anyway. (Exception: if
youre at a bar or party and everyones been drinking, and its much
later in the night. Then it can be fine, because youre both a little

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hazy and no one remembers exactly who said what... just that the
two of you got along well earlier and meant to reconnect later.)
In essence, if you tell her to do something, youre usually just
going to have to wait for her to do it.

When Youre Using It Too Liberally

The danger of this technique, once youve got it down, is that you
grow too comfortable with it.
Once you know how to do it, it becomes easy to just throw out a
Okay, well, its too early in the night for me to get rooted into one
spot; come find me later! and get moving again at the first sign of
resistance... or tell a girl the balls in her court after shes flaked on
you for a date only once or twice.
If you do this, though, you will leave plenty of girls to scratch
their heads and wonder what they did or said to make you take off.
Something to keep in mind: women carefully evaluate your
exits.
They know very well intuitively if your exit was justified,
because you tried everything possible to get them to invest in as
smooth a way as possible. And when it became clear they wouldnt
invest, you bowed out... or your exit was too quick, too abrupt, too
sudden, or too awkward. You didnt feel out if they were into you or
just put up token resistance to further investment in you (a girl cant
look too eager, now).
Men eject too soon from interactions with women all the time to
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date. Its all kinds of guys. They hit a rough patch in the
conversation, get a little bit of declined compliance, or an awkward
pause? Theyre outta there. They just hit the eject button and bail.
This is every bit as uncomfortable for the girl as it is for the guy,
because she knows there isnt a good reason for it. He just does it
out of fear (of negative social repercussions)... or because he doesnt
know what else to do (which can be kind of cute when youre
younger younger women are attracted to male shame47 but it
still doesnt advance the interaction any further).
When you catch yourself throwing out parting shots too
liberally... and youll be able to tell; it feels awkward when you leave,
like its too early and youve jumped the gun too much... the
solution for this is simple enough:
Make yourself make at least one more invitation or compliance
request of a different angle than youve made. She doesnt want to
walk over to the caf across the street with you? No worries, lets
just head over to the mall, then. She flaked on the ice skating date
you invited her to? No problem, propose she meet you for pizza and
beer. Try at least one alternate option for your
invitations/compliance requests.
Three seems to be the sweet spot for variety. If shes flaked on
three dates in a row, or turned down three different forms of
investment in a row, throw the ball in her court.
If you do it too early, youre likely not asking enough and/or
not varying your requests enough to rule out her just not wanting to
do some specific thing... rather than her out-and-out not wanting to
go with you.

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In Summary...

The healthiest way to think about a parting shot balls-in-your-court

exit is this: you want to encourage her to follow up with you again
(as much as possible). Thats a big part of why that sweet spot of
three different requests is so important.
If you do more than that, it feels like youre chasing, and youre
not the kind of guy she wants to follow up with. Yet, if you do fewer
than three, it doesnt feel like youre making a whole heck of a lot of
effort to get her. Now if she follows up, shes going to feel like she is
the one chasing. Most girls will shy away from this, even if they like
you they dont want to risk losing face.
What youre going for here in how you balance your balls-in-
your-court deals is for a girl to feel like you put out a valiant effort
to make something happen with her... but stopped before crossing
the line where it would turn into chasing. And then you walked
away but with an invitation for her to follow up with you again
when she feels so inclined.
You balance the emotions here. Youre not chasing, but youre
also not investing so little that she feels like shes chasing if she
contacts you again later.
Remember: you must give a little48 if you want her to pursue.
Use this one right, and youll avoid the two snags men get
caught up in here: using the parting shot too much and too soon, or
not using it at all. Hit that sweet spot in how and when you use it,
and youll turn go-nowhere scenarios into she came back ones.

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10

Example Text Conversation

While all this might seem complicated at first glance, the hard
works all at the start. What good texting leads to is vastly simpler
text chats that line up dates like dominos. All said and done, heres
an example text conversation, start to finish, to give you a feel for
what this looks like:

[an hour after meeting a new girl]

You: Happy to have made your acquaintance, friend ;) -

[your name]

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[two hours later]

Her: Great to meet you too! :)

[36 hours later]

You: Hey Sandy, howd the weekend turn out? Hope the
rest of it was as awesome as the beginnings were :) I ended
up going to a pizza party with a bunch of people Sunday
night... Havent been to one of those since I was 12. It was
fun, though. And, some great pizza. On our bite this week
- whens good for you? My schedules pretty open except
Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Let me know what days
best and well schedule it up.

[40 minutes later]

Her: Hey! The pizza party sounds amazing! My weekend

was pretty chill... Mostly just recovering from Friday, lol.
Hows Thursday for meeting up? Im free most of the day.

[25 minutes later]

You: Thursdays perfect. Say 1 oclock in the afternoon?

Theres this amazing little caf no one knows about on
Green Avenue we can check out... They have the most

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mind-blowing crepes in the world. We can meet at the

Green Ave subway stop, its a short walk from there.

[1 hour later]

Her: That sounds great, lets do it! See you on Thursday!

[2 hours later]

You: Awesome - see you then, Sandy!

[Thursday, 12:30 PM]

You: Heading out the door in a few minutes, should be

there right at 1 oclock. Ill be at Exit 2C. See you soon!

[5 minutes later]

Her: Hey, Im running about 10 minutes behind. Sorry...!

Im coming!

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[3 minutes later]

You: No biggie. See you when you get here!

Now compare that to the last 10 texting conversations you had with
women... which are more complicated, and which are less? The only
complicated part here is in learning the process. Once youve got it
down, you can execute it perfectly, efficiently, and consistently...
and its a thing of pure beauty.
And youll sit there and look at the cell phones of those poor
girls youre sleeping with or dating... and youll see the volumes and
volumes of clueless boring questions they get... endless
conversations theyre mired in... and really, incredibly witty and
interesting texts theyre inundated with... and youll shake your
head at the guys sending them.
I used to be one of those guys, youll say to yourself. But
that... was another life.
And then that thought will pass, and youll probably never
spend a second thought on texting again.

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11

Where the Learning Curve Lies

Here are the biggest growth areas you can expect, depending on
where youre at with texting.

Growth Areas for Beginner Texters

As a beginner, youll want to focus most of your attention on the

following areas:
Getting down timing. How fast or how slow should you
respond? What days and at what times of day should you text?
What kind of message do you send, and when?
Getting down structure. Your challenge will not just be to get
used to using the proper text structure, but to stick to it. Youll likely
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astray... especially when youre a beginner. Stick to best practices

(what we covered in this book) and only experiment with new
angles on girls you dont mind losing.
Anxiety over pulling the trigger. Sooner or later, you have to
ask her out. Better to learn to do it sooner.

Growth Areas for Intermediate Texters

The most important areas to focus on as an intermediate texter are:

Getting down concision. As a beginner, you learned structure.
Now its time to be briefer. The more concise you can make your
texts (while still cramming in everything you must cram in), the
better. People respond best to messages that are short.
Interesting without being the fool. You want to include fun,
humor, and interesting bits in your texts. However, you dont want
to be the clownish entertainer. How you strike the right balance
where you arent boring, but also not over the top is one of your
key challenges at this stage.
Engaging girls properly. How do you get girls to actually
engage with you over text? How do you get them to take part? This
is one of your biggest foci at this stage. As she participates more, she
does more of the work to set things up, and makes the courtship
more fun for you.
Arranging dates more smoothly. Here youll target aspects like
when and how you schedule dates, where you take girls on dates,
and how you manage the convenience of dates. The better you get at
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Growth Areas for Advanced Texters

The primary targets for the advanced texter to improve upon are:
Cutting down texting even more. Whats the bare minimum of
texts you need to send before you can get a girl on a date? The closer
to this you get, the less chance you give yourself to mess things up,
and the sooner youll get her out.
Getting girls to chase you and pursue you. Wouldnt it be nice
if girls worked to set up dates themselves? This is something youll
find yourself playing with more at this stage (and starting to
succeed at).
Getting very dominant and direct, both in how you set up your
dates, and in how you handle the finer points of language structure
in texts. The aim is to be powerfully dominant without being
domineering. Attractive, rather than repulsive.
Working on assuming the sale. Youll be sending texts that just
assume shes sold. Shall we grab lunch? Im thinking we could do
OMalleys at noon tomorrow; sound good? The better you are at
assuming the sale, the more you offload mental labor from her, and
the easier it is for her to just say yes.

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Conclusion

Farewell for Now

Theres a great deal of nuance in texting. But in the end, its about
simplicity. The simpler your texts are, the better a response they get.
Of course, theres finesse to keeping things simple yet effective.
Thats why you bought this book!
If you read from cover to cover without picking up your phone,
I hope youll pick it up now. Try out the material from this book.
Whether its a first text to a new girl whos number you just got, or a
check-in text with a girl you havent talked to in a while, take this
book for a spin. Try it with a number of different girls at least 5 to
10 phone numbers. I think the night-and-day difference in responses
you get will surprise you (in a great way).
Before we go, I have two free gifts to offer you for completing
this book.
The first free gift is an audio podcast I put together exclusively
for buyers of this book. I polled the Girls Chase audience and asked:
What is your BIGGEST unanswered question about texting girls? I

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then took 79 of those questions and answered them in a 93-minute

podcast.
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her in the queue?
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11. What do you do when you propose a date and get an excuse
instead of a yes?
12. What should I text after a good first date, and how long do I wait?
13. Should you text girlfriends and friends with benefits outside of
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GirlsChase.com Article URLs

Why Girls Like Bad Boys

http://www.girlschase.com/content/why-girls-bad-boys/
Why Nice Guys Finish Last
http://www.girlschase.com/content/why-nice-guys-finish-last/
Does She Want You as a Boyfriend... or Something Else?
http://www.girlschase.com/content/does-she-want-you-boyfriend-or-
something-else/
How Victim Mentality Can Stifle Your Life and Luck with Women
http://www.girlschase.com/content/how-victim-mentality-can-stifle-your-
life-%E2%80%93-and-luck-women/
Get to Know a Girl: Connection-Building Tactics
http://www.girlschase.com/content/get-to-know-a-girl/
Just Friends: A Mans Worst Nightmare
http://www.girlschase.com/content/just-friends-mans-worst-nightmare/
How to Get Out of the Friend Zone: A Mans Survival Guide
http://www.girlschase.com/content/how-get-out-friend-zone-mans-
survival-guide/
Dating and Relationship Precedent: Why Its So Very Important
http://www.girlschase.com/content/dating-and-relationship-precedent-
why-it%E2%80%99s-so-very-important/
Date Templates: Minimize Confusion, Maximize Returns
http://www.girlschase.com/content/date-templates-minimize-confusion-
maximize-returns/
Simplify Your Dates
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How to Break the Ice: 5 Surefire Ways to Entice Her
http://www.girlschase.com/content/how-break-ice-5-surefire-ways-
entice-her/
The Law of Least Effort
http://www.girlschase.com/content/law-least-effort/
Secrets to Getting Girls: Staying Out of Auto-Rejection
http://www.girlschase.com/content/secrets-getting-girls-staying-out-
auto-rejection/
Secrets to Getting Girls: Move Faster
http://www.girlschase.com/content/secrets-getting-girls-move-faster/
Sprezzatura, Effort, and Investing
http://www.girlschase.com/content/sprezzatura-effort-and-investing/
Are You Trying Too Hard? Stop Trying. Start Succeeding
http://www.girlschase.com/content/are-you-trying-too-hard-stop-trying-
start-succeeding/
Secrets to Getting Girls: The Art of the Deep Dive
http://www.girlschase.com/content/secrets-getting-girls-art-deep-dive/
Nonverbal Communication
http://www.girlschase.com/content/nonverbal-communication/
The Real Reason Many Men Cant Get a Girl
http://www.girlschase.com/content/real-reason-many-men-cant-get-girl/
The Sad Tale of Shopping Guy
http://www.girlschase.com/content/sad-tale-shopping-guy/
The Party Date: Dont Do It
http://www.girlschase.com/content/party-date-dont-do-it/
Sexual Tension: 7 Ways to Make Women Excited and Randy
http://www.girlschase.com/content/sexual-tension-7-ways-make-women-
excited-and-randy/
Secrets to Getting Girls: Natural Number Swapping
http://www.girlschase.com/content/secrets-getting-girls-natural-number-
swapping/

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How Girls Show Interest
http://www.girlschase.com/content/how-girls-show-interest/
Reactions from Women, or Results with Women?
http://www.girlschase.com/content/reactions-women-or-results-women/
Simplify Your Dates
http://www.girlschase.com/content/simplify-your-dates/
Fractionation Simply Explained
http://www.girlschase.com/content/fractionation-simply-explained/
A Good First Impression: Making One Every Time
http://www.girlschase.com/content/good-first-impression-making-one-
every-time/
How to Get a Phone Number from a Girl Every Time You Ask
http://www.girlschase.com/content/how-get-phone-number-girl-every-
time-you-ask/
How to Use Anchoring to Mesmerize Women
http://www.girlschase.com/content/how-use-anchoring-mesmerize-
women/
Why Cold Approach Works Better Than Anything Else
http://www.girlschase.com/content/why-cold-approach-works-better-
anything-else/
Do You Really Need to Learn Game to Get Girls?
http://www.girlschase.com/content/do-you-really-need-learn-game-get-
girls/
Just Be Yourself: The Worst Dating Advice Known to Man
http://www.girlschase.com/content/just-be-yourself-worst-dating-advice-
known-man/
How to Be an Asshole and Become Adored by Women
http://www.girlschase.com/content/how-be-asshole-%E2%80%93-and-
become-adored-women/
How Preselection Works to Get You Girls
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Absolute Abundance
http://www.girlschase.com/content/absolute-abundance/
The Purpose of Life from a Practical Point of View
http://www.girlschase.com/content/purpose-life-practical-point-view/
Talking vs. Texting & Related Tips
http://www.girlschase.com/content/talking-vs-texting-related-tips/
Tactics Tuesdays: Making the First Phone Call to a Girl
http://www.girlschase.com/content/tactics-tuesdays-making-first-phone-
call-girl/
Call Girls to Success: Phone Secrets, Part II
http://www.girlschase.com/content/call-girls-success-phone-secrets-part-
ii/
Whats Different When Picking Up Professional Women?
http://www.girlschase.com/content/whats-different-when-picking-
professional-women/
Secrets to Getting Girls: Nicknames and Callback
http://www.girlschase.com/content/secrets-getting-girls-nicknames-and-
callback/
Be Intriguing. Be Memorable.
http://www.girlschase.com/content/be-intriguing-be-memorable/
Operant Conditioning in Your Romantic Relationships
http://www.girlschase.com/content/operant-conditioning-your-romantic-
relationships/
Why Chasing Women Doesnt Work and Why Persistence Does
http://www.girlschase.com/content/why-chasing-women-
doesn%E2%80%99t-work-and-why-persistence-does/
The Parting Shot
http://www.girlschase.com/content/parting-shot/
I Dont Chase Em, I Replace Em
http://www.girlschase.com/content/i-don%E2%80%99t-chase-em-i-
replace-em/

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A Devil May Care Attitude: What It Is & How to Get It
http://www.girlschase.com/content/devil-may-care-attitude-what-it-how-
get-it
Get Girls Chasing: Give a Little to Get a Lot
http://www.girlschase.com/content/get-girls-chasing-give-little-get-lot/

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