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Making Successful Online Dating Profiles

2008-07-08T11:46:00.000-07:00

Online dating services offer a perfect way of connecting potential lovers. It is especially beneficial for busy people. The key to a successful online relationship is being truthful. It is honesty that serves as the major attraction. Successful online dating profiles is the one which contains nothing but the truth. People have tight time schedules these days making it very hard to set time aside specifically for romantic dates. A famous weekly schedule involve long working days, eating in a hurry and doing everything else hurriedly. When the weekend finally comes calling all they want is to sleep. For such busy persons, the idea of going out to meet strangers does not sound interesting. It only adds to the exhaustion. Busy people should also spare time for romance and Internet dating becomes a better option. This is because of its convenience. It can be done at the office or at home. It sounds great.

The busy people in this kind of mission screen prospective matches and get to know them. You can only be the chosen one if you have a great dating profile. Successful online dating profiles are attractive to almost all the visitors. The higher the number of attractions the greater are your chances of meeting the best among many. The next step of knowing each other is done through instant messaging and e-mails. Unfortunately, some people find out that the chemistry is not there when they meet physically. The online relationship is usually great until they meet physically. What usually causes the change of events?

There is a possibility that such people post a picture which they were photographed when they were younger and slimmer. Some even make it worse by posting pictures of other people. The greatest secret to having successful online dating profiles is being truthful. Post your own picture expressing your current physical appearance. The right complexion, hair size and body size. The picture should be truthful and flattering your looks too. Many people have a tendency of creating a profile containing what people want to read. A successful online dating profile should represent who you really are. I do not ignore the fact that there are some people who have problems with conveying who they are in words. These people should get professional help in writing successful online dating profiles.

Some positive people respond to every message that they get as a result of their successful online dating profiles. Whereas it is a positive reaction, it is wise to wait for few days. This helps in deciding the most promising person. If you are narrow down to two or three serious people, you will get rid of jokers. You should be careful while choosing a tag line. This is a sentence which draws attention to your profile. It should allure people to read the rest of your profile. It is unfortunate that many people lack the skill of choosing an alluring tag line. It enhances an online dating profile. Get some help from the web master if you are badly off. The way to a successful online dating profile is through honesty and patience.

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How to find chemistry online

2008-07-04T06:23:00.000-07:00

Online dating is an amazing tool for those of us looking for the big one. Personally, I can attest to the fact that many of my pals have embraced it despite outdated stigmas (remember, just a couple years back one was considered a "loser" for searching for mates online), and while not everyone finds true love, sometimes you can meet some pretty cool people. I even met my partner via a guy who asked me out on Myspace (they were friends, and turns out I liked the non-Myspace guy better than him, but I would never have met him sans the online connection!), so... In these crazy old times, why not take a risk, right?

So it goes without saying that to properly get one's game on, one must adhere to the new strategies the online dating community inevitably demands. For example, according to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, "nearly 75 percent of people struggle with establishing chemistry online. The survey also found only 17% of Americans value sense of humor and a shocking 9% value intelligence when meeting someone for the first time. However, when it comes to online dating, a staggering 69% of people don’t bother to update their photos." This reminds me of the time I went on a date with the guy who wrote brilliant emails, but had a deplorably strange, tinny voice, or the guy who measured 5'1 to my 5'4. (Sorry, but I guess that's one of my dealbreakers...)

Enter WooMe.com , "a live video speed dating site that not only allows you to see someone and judge looks, but because there is a webcam involved users can also factor in personality." The makers of WooMe came up with this list of how to win the game:

TIPS FOR ONLINE VIDEO FLIRTING SUCCESS

1. Smile, smile, smile! Remember it’s not what you say, but how you say it
2. No slouching! Good posture will make you look more confident
3. Laughter is key – don’t take yourself too seriously and you’ll increase your attraction
4. What doesn’t work well offline, won’t work online. Drop the cheesy one-liners and be yourself
5. Sound interested in what the other person has to say… even if you're not
6. Don’t place your webcam facing upward, it’s not a flattering angle for anyone
7. Compliments never hurt, just make sure they’re genuine

Hmm... Not sure about not slouching and smiling, smiling, smiling!, but then again, you can bend the rules depending on your own personality and what kind of person you're trying to attract. What do you think? Is adding video to online dating the best thing since sliced bread, or does it just make you more nervous?

The Five Worst Online Dating Video Profiles

2008-07-04T06:11:00.000-07:00

These days, striking out with the opposite sex is as simple as buying a webcam and "being yourself."

Question: Why in God’s name would you ever want to create a video dating profile? The Internet, in its boundless generosity, has given people (specifically those who might be considered “not traditionally beautiful”) the slimmest ray of hope at having marginally normal sex lives.

The Internet is ripe for deception: misleading usernames (“buffjuggernaut25”), misleading incomes (“$100,000+, if you count my life insurance premium), and shockingly flattering photos taken from angles that no human will even be seen from in a naturally occurring situation. An e-relationship could last for two months on carefully researched e-mails, filled with opinions copied and pasted from hip trade publications and the latest Yahoo news headlines. It’s the perfect opportunity to fake your own success and convince a person to send you a few dirty e-mails and suggestive instant messages before the cover gets blown and they met you -- and you were animated and ruined it.

Hey, here’s an idea: Instead, let’s skip the fun part and ruin it right off the bat. Great job, guys.

Sam

Profile headline: “Hi, I’m a PC.”

Major mistakes: Mentioning how you are specifically looking for a girl with red hair because “I used to date a girl with red hair who is really special to me.” Also, having "perfectprofile" as your MySpace page kinda sets him up for failure.

Conclusion: No girl wants a guy who’s going to make them wear a mask of his ex-girlfriend’s face while they have sex, especially when you know it will end with a tearful orgasm and mumbled whispers of regret. And if she does she’s probably fat.

Chandelier

Profile headline: “If you’re looking to settle down into a relationship that moves way too fast and is intense and miserable from the get-go, I’m your girl.”

Major mistakes: She was actually doing pretty well, right between the part where she put on those sunglasses and the part where she revealed that she will eventually choose her husband based on his footwear and ring tone. But it’s probably good to discount three-quarters of the male population for wearing black shoes and not downloading hip-hop ring tones. That can’t possibly fail.

Conclusion: Chandelier is a stupid name.

Asshole

Profile headline: “What rhymes with d-bag?”

Major mistakes: “Don’t rap your online dating profile” is one of those rules that’s just so obvious that no one thinks to reinforce it. It’s like “Don’t climb up on your boss’ desk and take a dump.” You just know it’s wrong, don’t you?

Conclusion: Many, many girls will go for this guy. And all of them will have herpes.

~~New Friends~~

[ED NOTE: This video is no longer available on YouTube.]

Profile headline: “Desperate for boyfriend, new friends.”

Major mistakes: Letting her kind-of-racist "frenemies" record her video dating profile.

Conclusion: Did you read her friend’s story on Facebook? It was about an anime warrior girl who flew through the sky in search of love, and she finally found it at MIT. Seriously though, guys, she’s desperate, has the world's most annoying friends, and looks like she's about eleven years old. Oh, and apparently, "her face looks like a balloon."

Danny

Profile headline: “Just escaped from institution, looking to settle down.”

Major mistakes: Showing up on set

Conclusion: No one’s saying that some people don’t deserve love. But for some people you just get the feeling that given the opportunity they might squeeze love a little too tight and kill it. Although it’s admirable to be so forthcoming about yourself (“What’s important to me is my health”), and what you’re looking for (“The thing I love about women are they got a nice attractive legs, nice body, and . . . nice hair"), sometimes it’s better to play to your strengths. Unfortunately Danny’s strength is doing a rather serviceable impression of a man with a traumatic head injury.

Make 50k A Month With An Online Dating Site

2008-07-02T19:15:00.000-07:00

It has been well documented that online dating is a phenomenon which has changed the lives of millions of people throughout the world. Two out of every five singletons in Europe and the USA aged 25 - 40 have used an on line service to either find a partner, or simply to enhance their social lives by making new friends.

This exponential explosion in the dating sector has meant that many companies owning and operating the sites themselves have come from a standing start to generating significant revenues in a matter of just a few months. It is possible to make a small fortune from online dating but, then again, it's just as possible to lose your shirt. For every successful site, there are five others which simply 'got it wrong'. If you follow these few basic guidelines, you could join the cyber-revolution which has not only become a lifestyle choice in itself for a great many consumers, but an extremely profitable market for webmasters to enter.

1. Niche works. Yes, we all know the names of the global dating sites which dominate the sector, but if you want to create a site that attracts millions of members, you are going to need very deep pockets just to get on the first rung of the ladder. There are a great many very successful sites that either cater to special interest groups such as bikers, military personnel etc or geo-targeted sites that cover just one country or even one city. The advantage of this kind of concept is that it is much easier and cheaper to promote than a service which attracts all-comers. The sophistication of online marketing, particularly the various pay-per-click search engines, enables you to target your audience very specifically thereby maximising your return on investment without having to overly stretch your financial resources.

2. Don't over-complicate the design of the site. The primary aim of the homepage should be to encourage visitors to register with your service, not to marvel at your use of different colours or design features. Stick to just two colours (one should preferably be blue - the colour of trust) on a white background and avoid flashing buttons at all costs.

3. Keep your proposition simple. If a dating site looks so complicated that only 'teccies' can use it, you'll lose most of your audience as soon as they land on your homepage. The most successful dating sites tend to offer a very basic system of picture profiles and secure messaging. People sign-up, create their profiles, upload their photos and start sending email messages to other members with whom they think they might be compatible. It's easy and you don't have to have a degree in computer sciences to do it. But there are many sites out there which offer a bewildering array of features - video profiles, psychological profiling and the like; all very expensive to integrate and manage and most, to be frank, are a complete waste of time and money.

4. Offer a free trial. This might seem rather ironic in an article which purports to tell you how to create a profitable business, but in order to get your members to pay you a subscription fee, you have to get them to register with your site in the first instance. If you let people have a look around, browse through the database and perhaps send a couple of messages to other people, they are far more likely to want to subscribe than if you ask them to do so straight away without giving them a taste of what your site can offer.

5. Populate your database as quickly as possible. People follow other people when they join dating sites and if your site looks like it hasn't got many members, then people will give it a wide berth. When you launch, it's well worth you doing a limited email marketing campaign which offers a free subscription to founder members. Remember, the hardest part of creating a successful online dating business is to get your first 100 registrants - you want them there in week one and the quickest way to do that is to offer a freebie to your first sign-ups. You're not losing money - these are the most important members and without them your business will not get past first base.

6. Spend your marketing budget wisely. You don't have to throw money at a dating site in order to promote it effectively - you just have to be smart. Establish an affiliate programme with one of the main networks operating in your country as soon you launch your site. Affiliates are third party web-sites which refer traffic to your business on a revenue sharing basis. You don't have to pay affiliates to join your programme, you just offer them a percentage of any subscription revenue which they generate and this is the most cost-effective way of promoting yourself. And you should also avoid generic search-terms when you instigate pay-per-click campaigns on the major engines. Keywords like 'dating' and 'online dating' are expensive to bid on and convert less well than niche terms which are more applicable to the actual concept of your site. If, for example, you are running a dating service for singles living in Chicago, keywords like 'Chicago dating' or 'singles in Chicago' will be relatively cheap to bid on and will yield a far better conversion rate than the more general terms.

7. Offer good customer service. Remember, your members are real people many of whom will not be as computer savvy as you are and when any of them contact the site with a problem (a forgotten password or log-in difficulties are usually the most common), you should endeavor to respond as soon as you are able. An unanswered message is the easiest way to actually lose a member so don't ignore or put off answering the mails that you will inevitably receive.

8. Communicate with your members. I've left this point until last but it it just as important as anything I've mentioned above. A weekly newsletter to your database will encourage people to log-in to their accounts on a regular basis (particularly if they are able to click through directly from the email to the site without having to log-in) and will also help to foster an emotional bond between your business and it's paying customers. Every business to consumer online entity should have a human face and site owners who ignore this do so at their peril.

So there you have it; take heed of the eight snippets of advice that I have outlined above and you too can reap the substantial rewards on offer in this exciting and vibrant market sector.

Which Online Dating Service Matches Your Dating Style?

2008-07-02T12:12:00.000-07:00

In the past, online dating services were more of an unstructured place to log on and chat with people. It wasn't uncommon to find that the 22-year-old model you met online was actually an overweight middle-aged man. Compare online dating services to those of the past and you'll see that online dating has come a long way.

But now that online dating services in general are much safer and more useful, which service offers the best chance of meeting that perfect someone? Just like any neighborhood, community organization, or networking group, different dating services have different reputations. Best Buys decided to compare online dating services Match dot com and eHarmony, today's top two industry leaders.

Comparison of Dating Services: Philosophy

Match seems to spark more flirtatious relationships. It's a traditional dating service that allows you to filter members by factors like age and location. When you find a prospect, you can send an electronic "wink" to strike up a conversation and see where it leads. Serious relationships are possible, but flirting and playing is common.

eHarmony on the other hand is geared more toward long term relationships. Filling out their special Relationship Questionnaire creates a personality profile which is matched to others on specific points of compatibility. You'll then receive a list of potential matches with which you can begin a conversation.

Comparison of Online Dating Services: Security

Because of their personal nature, dating services have the potential to be breeding grounds for problems from fraud to outright assault. When choosing an online dating service, it's important to consider safety in your decision. Match allows you to decide what types of information you will share with others. Though members can send email, you can block another member from emailing you at any time.

eHarmony has four stages of structured communication before open communication begins. These steps include processes such as sending eHarmony's pre-written multiple-choice questions. Once you feel comfortable communicating with another member, there is still a level of privacy. Open communication at eHarmony is not completely "open", since you will still communicate through eHarmony rather than your normal email.

Comparison of Web Dating Services: Pricing

Online, looking for love comes with a price. However, if you think about it, the monthly rate of online dating services are a fraction of what it might cost to go out and socialize for just one evening. Match charges between $16.99 and $34.99 per month while membership at eHarmony costs between $20.83 and $49.95 per month. With both dating services, the monthly cost is dependent on the length of the subscription term you choose.

The Best Online Dating Service for You

When you compare online dating services, Best Buys recommends you match your dating goals to the service. eHarmony is a refreshing option for marriage seekers while those looking to just have some fun may enjoy Match. Both Match and eHarmony are offering free 7-day trials so you can sign up for both and see which one suits you best.