Continuation from I Love Discounts Part 1…

I was searching for good pictures for “discounts” and all I could find was the picture here labeled “hot chicks with a d-bag.”  Same difference!

Tip #3 – Always Deal w/ The Opposite Sex: I posted about how I used my flirting skills to get a discount for EZ Lube, so although this is pretty obvious, it’s a little easier to use your sex appeal to tilt the odds in your favor.  Let’s say you want to return something at Target and your not sure if they are gonna buy into your b.s. story about the product being no good.  Having that chance of sexy-time on your team is a good balloon.  If you’re confused, good, I wanted to make sure you were paying attention and not reading this article while watching TV.  Anyways…  if you’re a guy, always try to interact with a female sales person, customer service rep, server, you name it, your chance of discounts increases dramatically.

Tip #4 - “What Can I Do For You?” This is the greatest question you could add to your arsenal.  Imagine working at Walgreens for 8 hours and dealing with annoying customers all night when unexpectedly a customer asks you “Is there anything I can do for you?” after you ring him up.  That will def. get your attention right?  Be willing to offer other people your listening.  In other words, just listen to people and give them the time of day instead of not caring like everyone else.  People LOVE when others listen to them, in fact, it is one of the greatest gifts you can give someone, so start giving!  You will get the love back in spades and cash.

Tip #5 – Steal: That’s right, the best discount of them all is the “five finger discount!”  If you can get away with it, who’se better then you right?  WRONG!!!  The law of attraction will turn around and bite you in the ass, karma is a bitch so this last tip is not really a tip, its more like a message from Robbie Kramer saying – don’t steal stuff, it’s lame!

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You just met someone amazing and this guy/girl is different from all of the others. The stakes are raised and you may find yourself scrambling. Should I call? Should I text? Should I email? Where to go? What to do? How to behave? What do you do on the perfect date???? Here are five tips to make this simple and easy.

#1. You Don’t Have to Bust Your Wallet.

Spending a lot of money on first date is a big no-no because it often gives the wrong impression. If you have to spend a ton of money to have fun then you are missing the point of a first date, which is to connect and get to know him/her better. If you’re rich, resist the urge to flaunt how much money you have. Don’t feel the need to do something extravagant just because you really like the person. It can come across as “try hard” and can be a real turn off. To find fun and inexpensive first date ideas, see my Best First Date Ideas.

#2. Pressure = Bad

A first date can be a very high pressure situation for a lot of people, especially for those who don’t date a lot or usually date people they have been friends with first. Never Read more…

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Today I had a great experience of how the work I’m doing with IC improves not just my success with women, but also in business. Over the last two weeks, I’ve done 14 hours of sessions and it’s paying off. I do IT consulting and today I had an appointment at an office filled with women.

Even at work, women love banter. I kept it light since it was at an office, but they ate up anyways. I walk up to the counter:

You kinda look like a Chammie. Are you Chammie?
Girl 1: [Laughes.] No I’m not Chammie.
Girl 2: I’m Chammie!
Oh. You look more like a Channy.  [It was a stupid joke, but they both laughed.]  Anyways, do you know what Tasha looks like?
[Laughes again.] Yes! Let me buzz her.

Tasha (a white girl) comes around the corner, but is a little preoccupied with some paperwork.

Girl 1: She doesn’t look like a Tasha, does she?  She’s not black!
No she doesn’t look like a Tasha, but I’m sure she’s got a diva inside her.  [It was extra funny because she was pregnant.]
[Laughes.] Yeah, look at that tummy!
Yeah, she’s all knocked up!  [The comment was a little crude for the workplace, but I calibrated from their reactions to my banter that it was OK to be a little more edgy and go there.]
[They laugh hard.]

Tasha: What did you say? [She heard the girls laugh, but didn't hear my comment.]
I said that I knocked on the door and no one answered.
[The two girls at the front desk laugh some more.]

From here, I get walked into the private office where I have my tech stuff to do.  I work on that for 30 minutes or so and then the Office Manager woman walks in and is very friendly towards me.  (She was in the adjacent office and heard/saw the positive reactions from the girls at the front desk earlier when we were bantering.)

Hey, you work for a tech company.  We’re looking to replace our main IT guy because they’re horrible.  They’re too small of an operation and can’t handle all the complex stuff we have going on.
Oh yeah.  We can do that.  I bet they don’t have any company polo shirts like this one I’m wearing.
[Laughes.]  No they don’t.  And I don’t think they really know what they’re doing.
Yeah, I’m kinda surprised you guys asked me to come in here and sync this BlackBerry using the cable.  All our BlackBerries are synchronized wirelessly in real-time nowadays.  No one in business uses cables to sync anymore.
Really?  You should come over to my house and set mine up like that.
I don’t know…we don’t really do house calls [with a naughty smirk on my face].
Oh…[while processing the sexual innuendo].
[After holding the tension for a couple of seconds] What are you going to make for dinner?
I’m an excellent cook!  No meat though.  I’m vegetarian.  Sometimes I do fish.
Oh that’s awesome.  I took vegan cooking lessons for some time.  My favorite thing to make is quinoa.  I can cook fish too, but not with a pan because I can’t get both sides to cook evenly.  I only know how to cook it using my George Foreman Grill.
[Laughes.]
Anyways, what do we do next in order for you to show us what tech stuff you got going on and how we can help?

And the rest of the conversation goes into the logistics of setting up a meeting.  I later overhear her reporting to the owner that I’m “amazing!”

All this might sound like I’m tooting my own horn here, but I wanted to share this because it illustrates something interesting that I hadn’t really consciously experienced prior to doing this work with IC.  Her excitement about my tech services had virtually nothing to do with my technical ability.  In our above conversation, I make one small technical comment and the other 95% of the interaction had nothing to do with technology.

I had a touch of sass with my banter, but was mostly just grounded and connected.  And it’s amazing that with just having that way of being, I conveyed competence (the ability to get things done) and authority on my industry. It was more than enough to be considered a strong candidate for replacing their current tech guys and get my foot in the door to get that meeting.

So the moral of the story: This stuff changes not just your dating life, but everything else around it also gets better.

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Let’s face it guys, if you’re struggling with women then I would be willing to bet my 89 Ford Pinto that you are also getting pushed around in your job.  If you haven’t seen the movie ‘Office Space’ then you need to rent it because Peter is the perfect example of a concept that is going to change your life.  Maybe you get pushed around and have to come in on Saturdays or the boss is always giving you extra assignments but you think, “Its ok, I’m just being a good employee.”  Maybe you’ve noticed that you are getting paid the same amount as some other schlub who does way less then you.  Well, if you are then it could be more serious then you realize…

But if you are waiting for life to happen rather then making things happen, you’re gonna be waiting for a longgggggg time.  You may not realize how easy it is to get a raise, promotion or even start you own company so I’m gonna do my best to show you whats in your way.  It’s a word you may have heard before and it probably has some sort of negative or heavy feeling in your mind…

Responsibility

Did you just hear the voice of your mother lecturing you?  There is a huge myth about the word responsibility and I’m gonna bust that myth for you right now.  The funny thing is that even the dictionary has a negative connotation around this word:

‘Responsibility’ –noun, plural -ties. — a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible: the responsibilities of authority.

Myth: Responsibility is something to be avoided

Fact: Responsibility is your ticket to a life of abundance.

Take a look at the top dogs of business, the real estate moguls, and the captains of industry.  What is the one thing they all have in common besides being rich and powerful?  They all have a SHIT-LOAD of responsibility.  They have to make the big decisions, solve problems, manage projects, direct people and lead fearlessly.  How did these guys get to the top?  They all took on more and more responsibility.  Sometimes, they were given things or people to be responsible for but regardless, they all walked into the challenge head on and took action.  These are not the type of guys who sit around and hope and pray for raises, promotions from their boss.  I know this because I used to work for a Wall Street style Venture Capital Firm.  I started as a junior associate and 1 year later I was the Vice President/Managing Director with a country club membership and the freedom to report to the office at my leisure.  How did I do it?  Here’s the short version of the story.  I simply looked for problems and solved them.  I wasn’t given this task, I simply decided to take it on because I was annoyed with how things were being run and I saw an opportunity to improve them and make life easier on myself.  Pretty soon, I found myself in a position of power because without me, my boss would have to deal with these problems himself, which he did not have the desire or time to do.  I used this leverage to move myself up the ladder and 1 year later, I was free from the 9-5 and I still had my job, with a raise and hefty expense account!  You may be thinking that I’m a fool for giving that up to start my own company but living the life of a 65 year old country club retiree at the age of 25 is only glamorous for the first few months.

Here’s the moral of the story, if you are stuck in your routine and watching the clock tick by at work, add some responsibility to your day and watch what happens, you will be amazed.  More on the subject coming soon…

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