Pickup101
Frequently Asked Questions

Do you offer Payment plans?

Yes. On our workshop description pages you can either pay in full or use a payment plan. Most payment plans are 3 equal payments over 3 months.

What are some common after-workshop experiences that you are aware of?

Everyone that has gone through the workshop has improved their skills with approaching, opening, and developing attraction with women. We have yet to have a man go through our workshop and not have a big improvement. Even guys experienced with meeting women have a big improvement.

That is because our workshop is focused on giving attention to each individual, and our unique set of exercises run in workshop show you how to create openers, craft stories women enjoy, show you how to touch women in a way that shows you know how to be around women and are not a 'creepy guy', teach you the proper body language, and more.

After workshop, most men take their new skills and go out regularly to apply them. We get many field reports back and also posted on other lists about how well they are doing. This includes guys hooking up, and most importantly, hooking up with women by choice.

Many men find a girlfriend that is just what they were looking for, and drop out of the singles scene to be with her. That's what this is all about.

We have other men who have the desire to be highly skilled in the social arena, they take our more advanced courses, and some even become guest instructors for our workshops. They enjoy being out in the clubs and they enjoy helping other men so they give back by helping you get better.

There are those men who go back to their everyday life and don't make time to practice all that they learned. Though they know what to do now, for whatever reason they don't. As you might imagine this does not help them do better with women.

Pickup and being socially skilled with women is like any skill set, if you don't practice it, you will not improve. Unfortunately there isn't much we can do for guys that are unable to motivate them self to go out and do something as pleasurable as talk to women.

What is generally recommended to develop and maintain skills taught in the workshop?

We recommend going out and talking to at least 100 groups of women in the month as a bare minimum over the month following the workshop. If you go out and use the skills learned in workshop by going into 100 sets, you will notice that you begin to internalize them. This is known as unconscious competence. Much like driving or riding a bike, you don't actually think about all the little pieces, you just do it and pay attention to what is going on with the woman in front of you.

So after 100 sets you will notice how you no longer have to think about how to banter, what story to tell, when to touch, and instead you will pay attention to the people in the set and all the messages they are sending you. This is when you become socially aware, and women find that VERY attractive.

For those men who truly want to accelerate their skills we have a follow on course called the Pickup Mastery Program. Part workshop, part coaching, and part motivational support, the Mastery Program has had great success in getting our clients to the stage where they begin to feel 'natural' with their pickup skills.

We now have a telecoaching program for those clients who are too far away to attend the Mastery Program.

How applicable are the skills and ideas taught in the workshop to the social arena as a whole?

You can apply them anywhere. All women love playful interactions, and your social awareness will allow you to be comfortable in all situations.

Will there be time to get some clothes between "class" and the night's fieldwork on Friday?

Do you mean purchase or just change? There is time to change clothes and there is even a shower at the workshop space if you need it.

You will not have time to go shopping during the workshop.

Will being under 21 be a problem?

It can be for the field work. Since most of the clubs are 21 and up and they do ID most of the time.

If you are currently under 21 you would miss out on the club field work in The Art Of Attraction.

We now offer a new workshop which focuses on day game. This is in response to college students who inquire about our workshops and also guys who are not big on going out to clubs.

If you are at a college in the bay area, and can get at least 8 other men who want to take the workshop, we can do a workshop on your campus where there should be plenty of women to practice with.

Do you offer your workshops anywhere besides San Francisco?

We don't currently offer workshops anywhere else, because we only run them here in the San Francisco area. We have a beautiful workshop space to hold the classroom portion of our trainings, we have a guest room we can provide to people from out of town for a very low cost, and we know exactly what are the best venues to take our clients to each day of the week.
This allows us to run our workshops very efficiently. Most of our clients who have taken other workshops are surprised at how we keep ours on schedule and give so much material in the time we have together.

Also, we use a special video feedback technique so our clients can see what they look like as they approach and interact with women. This equipment is too much to travel with, and our clients get so much value from this part of the training that we wouldn't want to leave it out.

That said, if you get together 8 men who want to take this workshop in your city and handle all the arrangements, we will bring the workshop to your city.

So it sounds like you're pretty much offering the David DeAngelo material. Is that correct?

No. While there is overlap, both David and PickUp 101 cover generating attraction, PickUp 101 has it's own very unique way of presenting this to men so that they can make it work in the field.

No offense to David D, as we all admire his work, but he doesn't teach skills as much as understanding and concepts, supported by research.

The PickUp 101 workshop is about you getting the skills, since guys like David D. teach the theory and concepts of attraction.

Our introductory seminars will give you an idea of what the full workshop is like, however we would be misleading you to tell you that a 2 hour event will make you a pickup artist. You will get very useful information and a deeper understanding of what it means to be able to build attraction quickly.

To be able to internalize this information... well that is why the founders of PickUp 101, as top pickup artists, have developed an almost 40 hour long workshop that focuses on the first 10 minutes of meeting a woman. It is our premier workshop, the Art of Attraction.

Also covered in that workshop are exercises that teach you how to create material from your own life (so it is unique to you), how to escalate playful touching, how to banter, and more.

We even have developed a totally unique video feedback section of the workshop so when you get feedback from the instructors and the women (yes we bring women into the workshop for you to practice with), you can watch yourself and see what the feedback is about.

Our clients get great results with our program, and that is what matters to us... results.

I just finished up with Mystery’s Boot camp. Mystery gave you guys a very good recommendation. (Said he even learned a few things from you) So I thought I would check you out. Do you pretty much teach the same things as Mystery?

No, we have our own structure and do not teach Mystery Method.

The PickUp 101 Instructors have developed their own unique take on pickup, and even more importantly have developed some very unique methodology for teaching their clients how to meet and attract the women they desire.

The first difference is that we have a process for developing material from your own life so that you have unique stories, openers, etc. And, we also teach you how to use this process, so when you leave you can develop your own material when you need it.

We never have our clients use the same canned openers and stories that you can find on the free websites, so there is never a problem with opening a set that has already been opened.

We have developed a number of exercises that teach you :

You will discover what identity works best for you in the field, and how contrasting that with your daytime self creates intrigue.

You will get a personal fashion consultation. PickUp 101 has a whole workshop on this topic called Dress to Impress, and the instructors are experts in this area. You can bring any clothing with you for this, and the instructors will tell you how that clothing works for you personally and the identity you want to portray. The instructors will give you suggestions on colors that work best to highlight your features, and what colors and fabrics to avoid.

We also cover how to shift into rapport, the single best isolation tactic ( the only one you need ), how to prevent flaking, and how to structure a day two. But we focus on attraction since we have found that is where 95% of guys have the biggest problem.

How applicable are the skills and ideas taught in the workshop to the social arena as a whole? (variation: Does this stuff work outside of nightclubs?)

Yes, only much better. Nightclubs and bars are good places to practice due to the large amount of hot women that go there. This allows our clients plenty of opportunity to practice their skills under the watchful eye of the intructors.

I’m not trying to be a 'seminar junkie' I just want to get this part of my life taken care of.

We have designed our programs specifically to keep people from being seminar junkies. The founders wanted to develop a program that will teach any guy how to approach and get women attracted so that they have choice in their life when it comes to women.

We have follow on programs for those who want to be top pickup artists, as that takes longer and they progress quickly under the watchful eye of another master pickup artist.

But that program isn't for everyone. Some guys just want to learn enough to be comfortable talking to women and not end up labeled "nice guy". For them our premier course, The Art Of Attraction, teaches them everything they need to know to be able to walk up to a hot women and generate attraction.

This does require diligent practice for about 3-4 months. We recommend 100 sets per month rather than saying you must go out 4 nights a week. Count daytime sets, any girls you talk to as a set as long as you use your routine stack.

We have found that the guys who do this after workshop are the ones that really excel.

For those that need a bit more motivation, we have our Mastery Program which is part instruction and part coaching. Designed to get each person on the path to mastery. And we offer Private coachaing and telecoaching programs to help our clients progress to the level they want.

I took a different seminar on meeting women and now have 50 routines and openers in my head and I don’t remember any of them well enough to use them. I feel like a comedian going on stage knowing he forgot all the punch lines to all his jokes. If I take your workshop will I just get a bunch more canned material?

No! Absolutely not.

The way we run this workshop, you won't feel overwhelmed. We will build you a simple but highly effective routine using material from your own life. You won't have trouble remembering it, because it comes from you. We have a process, that we teach you, that makes your stories funny and as we say "girl relevant". Girls like stories, but in a different way than guys. We know how to make your stories so they will like them, and this becomes the core of what we refer to as, your 'routine stack'.

We do this in a linear progression from the beginning of the workshop, until it is over. So you will continue to practice the first parts each time as you add to it, and you will write it down so you can reference it when you need to after workshop is over.

Repetition is the key to all learning, so by the end of just the first day, you will have repeated your single opener, and first story at least a dozen times before going into the field. That way you can focus on the set in front of you since you now know what to do.

Is there a hotel nearby I can stay at?

Royal Pacific Motor Inn ( 2 blocks from where workshops are held)
661 Broadway
San Francisco, CA 94133
Daily 24 hours
Tel: (415) 781-6661
Fax: (415) 781-6688
Toll Free: (800) 545-5574 (Reservations only)

What is your cancellation policy?

Up to 4 weeks before workshop - 75% refund
Up to 2 weeks before workshop - 50% refund
Up to 1 week before workshop - 25% refund
Inside of one week - NO REFUND!

As you might guess from these numbers, we don't want you to consider this as an option. We understand about emergencies, and will work with you if that is the case, but it is your responsibility to be the master of your life and your schedule. Make sure you have the time BEFORE you register.

What is your policy for changing to a different workshop date?

If you absolutely must change the date you are attending, we will work with you. There is a fee based on the time before your scheduled date since this is disruptive for us.

Up to 4 weeks before workshop - $50 fee
Up to 2 weeks before workshop - 25% of workshop fee
Up to 1 week before workshop - 50% of workshop fee
Inside of one week - 75% of workshop fee

As you might guess from these numbers, we don't want you to consider this as an option. We understand about emergencies, and will work with you if that is the case, but it is your responsibility to be the master of your life and your schedule. Make sure you have the time BEFORE you register.