@not_doug_judy The first rule of cold approach is not to stress about the end result of a cold approach, especially if you're just starting. You're gonna be doing hundreds of approaches eventually and a single one doesn't matter in the long run. What matters is that you take note of what you did good/bad and improve next one.

Secondly, most of your cold approaches will fail, at least in the early stages. That's good b/c by failing you learn what not to do which is as important as learning what to do. How are you going to know if you're pecking if you haven't pecked?

Finally, make a rule. Depending on how many approaches you want to do (the more the faster the lessons and results), add one more thing to the approach each week or month. Say hi, ask for xyz, get number, add more and more kino, move the set etc. The goal is to move the interaction forward each time.