Just cause you're looking good, doesn’t mean you can slack on making an entrance. Arriving, and the manner in which you do it, is perhaps the most important part of the evening because it establishes who you are to the rest of the bar. Out on the sidewalk, you’re just another night prowling pedestrian, but once through those transformative doors, you can be anyone you want. For a short window (i.e. until the next guy walks in), you’re the newest addition to the room, the unknown variable, so make it count. Don’t just slip in past the doorman and make for the bartender with your head down. Going out is nothing short of a celebration, so be bold, be grand, be funny and most importantly, be exciting upon your glorious arrival.

 

The best way to make an impression is by making immediate friends, and—as Kingsly Amis can attest—the fastest way to make friends is over a drink. So, as you saddle up for your first beverage, inform the bartender that you’d like to buy everyone (or at least everyone within ear shot) sitting at the bar a beer. Sure, it might put you out a few bucks, but you can’t put a price on karma. Not only will you be everyone’s favorite patron, a benevolent, new best friend in the eyes of the men and a big spender in the eyes of the ladies, but we’re guessing you won’t be buying another drink for yourself all night.

 

If the number of beer drinkers in the bar dwarfs the bucks in your bank account, then make an equally impressive entrance by heading for the jukebox instead. Nothing alerts your presence to the ladies in the corner like the sound of a rolling coin followed by the tight funk of James Brown or the smooth croon of Isaac Hayes. Plus, by changing up the night’s mood through music (we’re guessing Britney was on when you first arrived), you’re showing everyone that you’re a man that knows what he wants and makes things happen. Now go toast your musical tastes over a Heineken, good sir!