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[zkelvin]

Mark Wrote:You make some good points about the level in which guys are at when they're exposed to me. For a long time, I seemed to only net "advanced" readers... guys who had already been through the newbie PUA phases and were looking for something more practical and authentic. I'm trying to get away from that a bit as well and hit the newbie market a little better... but we'll see.

I think most newbies come to pickup after something fairly acute has happened to them-- either a rough breakup, or they've gone a record amount of time without getting laid since graduating college, etc. And I think their typical mindset is that some extreme action needs to be taken in response-- routines memorized, 100 girls banged, thousands of nights out approaching, etc. This is also probably why skeezy wall-of-text advertising works-- because it appeals to this mindset. I think the best way to sell your product to this mindset is to first acknowledge the way they feel (extreme circumstances require extreme measures) and then point out the ways in which that can be counterproductive and even ineffective. You probably have enough anecdotes from guys you've coached to make this argument.

At the very least, I wish I had followed the path of genuineness and vulnerability first instead of trodding down the path of routines, perfected lines, and overanalysis for two years.