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The key is to call her with a purpose. If your goal is to set up a date, have a plan mapped out before you pick up the phone. When you met her, you should have learned what her schedule is like. Does she work nights? Is she free on the weekends? Does she enjoy going out for drinks or…

“What’s your bedtime? I wouldn’t want to wake you up.” When you’re out on a date, shut your phone off or keep it on vibrate. Only wanna-be Macks take calls when they’re with a woman, believing that it makes them look important. In reality, important people can’t be bothered every time someone calls them to chat. Plus, if you’re receiving…

If you exchange numbers and she calls you first, it’s an excellent sign. But again, don’t make yourself available for a long chat. The message you want to send is that you were i in the middle of something, but you’re willing to set aside a few minutes for her. This tactic is one of the proven  M.A.C.K. strategies that…

“I was ordering dessert when they were eating dinner. When they were having coffee, I was asking for a check. I had business.” -Ray Liotta, Goodfellas A Mafia boss once said that every time he put a phone to his ear, he treated it like he had a gun to his head. He spoke calmly, with authority, but he chose his words…

Though you’re willing to listen (briefly) about her exes, the rule of thumb is that you should never go into details about your own. Talking about your prior relationships is like stumbling through a minefield. She’ll ask why you broke up with your ex (women always want to know this), and no matter how it ended it’s usually difficult to…

Women have a tendency to talk at length about their prior relationships, especially the ones that ended badly. (Even if it didn’t end badly, women still love to play up every past relationship as a big melodrama.) While this is not a topic you should allow her to dwell on, you need to know how to react if it comes…

The more time you spend listening, the less chance you will say the wrong thing. Give a guy enough rope, and he’ll usually hang himself. We can guarantee that you’ve done this at least once and not realized it: ruined a “sure thing” by saying something that suddenly cooled off a woman’s attraction to you. We’ve heard a lot of…

A standard question women will ask is, “So what do you do?”(Especially if you’re in a big city like New York or Los Angeles, where people tend to be career-oriented.) As a Mack, you’re not the average guy. This means you don’t give standard answers to standard questions. You should always put an original spin on things and maintain a…

Be careful about “baiting questions” that women may ask you. Females have crafty tactics of their own and might slip in an innocent-sounding question in an attempt to expose a chink in your armor. If you give the wrong answer, it may extinguish any interest she has in you. A common baiting question women ask is, “So how come you don’t…

Some guys trigger all kinds of “red flags” when they talk to women, and never realize where they went wrong. Have you ever been on a date that you thought went well, and even though you didn’t hook up at the end of the night, you figured there was a serious possibility that she would become your next girlfriend? But…