Conquer Online Dating
A Strategy Consultant’s Guide
John Dodge
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Smashwords Edition
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Table of Contents
How a Strategy Consultant Methodically Conquered Online Dating
What this Guide Will and Will Not Get You
What to do When you Get a Number
Introduction
When I first decided to try online dating, I went in nearly blind. My only previous exposure was via my first roommate after college whom we’ll call Bill. Bill would come home from work, grab a beer or something harder (later on it was more often than not the latter option), plant himself on the couch and cradle his laptop for the rest of the evening like the significant other he wished he had. He spent night after night on the couch staring into the glow of his laptop desperately trying to get dates. This went on for months only for him to score a handful of dates with sub-par girls that didn’t go anywhere.
I was not going to be Bill.
I am what’s known as a management consultant. Management consulting, also known as strategy consulting, is an elite (or so thought by its practitioners at least) and niche industry that provides strategic advice on business decisions to Fortune 500 companies. Wikipedia defines it as “the practice of helping organizations to improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement.” Urban dictionary defines it as “people who have never had any experience with the type of work that the client does.” Take your pick. It is one of the two types of jobs most Ivy League graduates want to go into (the other being investment banking but that has no relevance here). Basically, I give Fortune 500 CEOs and executives business advice. This includes optimizing, reducing, structuring, planning, forecasting, strategizing, and analyzing the business landscape to give these executives an edge against their competition.
Bill got dates, it’s true, but extremely inefficiently. Despite the tons of hours he put in (more than 300 that year), he still only got a few sub-par girls. Ultimately, he bitterly gave up online dating only to end up in a relationship with another sub-par girl. They are still together, and he has sadly become a mere hollow shell of a man.
It was several years later before I decided to enter the world of online dating, but unlike Bill, I approached it from a strategy consultant’s viewpoint, utilizing my day-job’s skill-set. In essence, I would become my own corporate client and use my skills to achieve my goals - namely, to get as many dates as I wanted that week with extremely hot, interesting women. My job would be to give myself the edge in online dating that I worked to give my corporate clients during the day. I also needed to get these dates easily and efficiently, meaning with minimal effort or time on my part.
The results - it worked spectacularly. I could get a phone number and a date within an average of 3.5 messages. I had a spreadsheet full of numbers, notes, and names of hot girls that wanted a date with me. I could easily add to that spreadsheet at any time. By week 3, I had 23 entries on that spreadsheet, far more girls then I could ever go out with that month considering my day-job.
As I am a straight man, all of my experience and advice is on how to pick up women. Thus, this guide is primarily for men seeking to improve their online dating skills and efficiency. However, the following is just as applicable for gay women seeking other women.
That being said, this guide can also be useful for straight women looking for men online, even though they will have to do more legwork. If you are a straight women, the key thing you will be getting from this guide is the methodology to systematically get dates with the hotter, busier, higher-value guys on these sites. However, while you may be able to use my messages and profiles as a rough template, I have not optimized them or done any testing for what works when picking up men (beyond having an extremely attractive photo as discussed in the hot girl experiments below).
This book contains all of the knowledge and experience I have gained in my endeavors. More importantly, it also contains my methodology so that you can experiment and improve on the method listed here. My method works and has tested by others with similar results, but I strongly encourage tweaking and experimenting on your own for your specific personality and area. In addition to my experience and method, the following chapters focus on getting a date quickly and with minimal effort.
Now, let’s conquer online dating.
-John