Wednesday, April 25, 2007

# Close Voicemail

So I was driving to work this morning and thinking about number closes. I can't remember who posted this on the forums, but one guy had a terrific way of number closing. After he got the number, he would call the girl's voicemail and leave a message talking about her. It's a terrific idea because every time the girl hears the message, she'll be brought back into the state she was in when she met that "funny, interesting, cool, sexy guy". It's also a million times more memorable than "Joe01" that she sees on her phone.

The script that I would use for the phone message would be this, "Oh man, I had a great time tonight and met a bunch of really cool and interesting people... except for this one girl. She seemed like a bit of a dork. But you know what, I think there's more to her than meets the eye." It playfully teases her but also paints her as a deep person (every girl wants to be known as "deep" -- thanks to Nubilous for bringing that up). The only other way to make it better is to set a non-flaking frame, but I think the message might get too unwieldy at that point. If your game is tight enough, you shouldn't have too much flaking problems anyway.

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