How to Start a Conversation and Get a Date

by Clayton Warholm, Tag Goulet

You're at a singles dance, the supermarket or just walking down the street, when you suddenly notice Mr. or Ms. Potential. You feel sparks and know that this could be your only chance to meet. So how do you approach an attractive stranger, carry on a conversation, and arrange to meet again?In this easy to read mini-guide you will learn from the authors' research with thousands of the three most effective ways to approach someone, how to use compliments to break the ice with someone new, the best ways to approach someone who is part of a group, how to keep a conversation going, ideas for topics of conversation plus topics to avoid, how to end a conversation with someone you're not interested in, and how to turn a first conversation into a date.The authors are husband and wife team Clayton Warholm and Tag Goulet. Tag is a university instructor of interpersonal communications, while Clayton is an award-winning speaker and university guest lecturer. Together, they have over two decades of adult education experience including teaching relationship skills for boards of education in two cities. For five years they taught The Singles How to Create the Relationship You Want more than 200 times to tens of thousands of singles in more than a dozen cities.Articles about Tag and Clay and the singles workshop have been published in more than 25 newspapers. The authors have also appeared on television as well as local and national radio programs throughout the United States and Canada. Their advice has been described as "insightful", "irreverent", "shake-em-up" and "practically hands on.""Tag Goulet and Clayton Warholm use a lot of humor and examples from their own experiences to illustrate their focus on knowing what you want, who you are, and communicating it effectively." - Vancouver ProvinceThis mini-guide is the first in the Create the Relationship You Want Guides for Singles series for Kindle by Clayton Warholm and Tag Goulet.

21 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 15, 2010