I was amazed to discover how easily a little thing like a name or a voice could turn me off. I was able to reason my way out of 75 percent of the calls. The hang-ups were so much easier. All in all I left nine messages, after which I thought the worst was over. I thought all I had to do was sit back and wait for the women to call me back.
Direct mail gets better responses.
I was now convinced that I must have sounded like a total idiot. I was hoping the women weren't going to play my message back for their friends and have a good laugh. I then decided it must be easier to take out an ad myself. That way I would only need to be clever, charming and desirable once, when I left my outgoing message, which should be easy enough. I actually called some of the guys who placed ads, just to hear how they did it.