Online Dating Profiles: Tips 16 and 17.

How to write a great online dating profile? As an ad writer and marketing expert, I’m able to provide the kind of  tips that can help you market yourself online. In fact, whether you’re online dating or not, marketing is about interpersonal communication and how to do it successfully. As such, this blog can help anyone trying to communicate and connect with others.

At the beginning of every week, I critique two excerpts from online dating profiles that I happened to come across while scanning various dating sites.  With 20 years + experience, I’m trained to know what works and what doesn’t. As such, my advice is solid. This is one blog in a series. For more critiques, feel free to scan through some of the previous posts.

Besides this post, I also post a blog at the end of the week. It’s just as salient, but more entertaining.  Keep an eye out for that one too. It’s as informative as it is fun. In the meantime, enjoy:

Online dating profiles, tip 16.

What can I say that takes up to 100 characters, minimum, for this part? Am I there yet? Or do I still need about 25 more to go! Now they want 4 sentences not just the 100 letters. So that was two, and this should be three. Ok so for #4 what should I say to be successful here?

Like any print ad, online dating profiles have just a few lines to grab a person’s attention and hopefully keep it. Here, this man wastes that opportunity by trying to be clever. Unfortunately, in his “witty” attempt being (incomprehensibly) defiant, he’s bitting off his nose to spite his face.  Not only is his opener not engaging, the whole profile seems like juvenile obstinance.

Online dating profiles, tip 17.

I am looking for a best friend. I want to find that special someone who at the end of the day, I can’t wait to see! Someone who enters my thoughts several times a day for no reason other than to bring a smile to my face. I know you are out there (because I met you once )and I am really looking forward to meeting you again!

Far too many profiles begin with “I’m looking for my best friend”. It’s a cliché and openers should never ever ever begin with a cliché. That first impression needs to be outstanding. In addition, though she seems sweet, she’s not really saying anything about herself. Basically her profile is just a lot of wistful, romantic prose that, for me, almost seems a little immature (she’s in her mid-30s). She also leaves me wondering whose shoes I’d be filling when she says “I met you once”.  If she has some unresolved feelings or unrequited love for another, it may not bode well for the next guy.

That’s it for this week.  Feel free to return at the end of the week for my more entertaining blog (though every bit as helpful).

In the meantime, if you want to craft a better profile, get started on uncovering some of your unique traits by completing the personality quiz. It costs nothing to do, but it’s an important first step in writing an online dating profile that stands out.

Once you’ve completed the quiz, select some of the most interesting answers and incorporate into your dating profile. Better still, hire me to do it. I’m trained to know what to pick and where to put it.

Feel free to check out the online dating samples of my work, as well. If you like the blogs, then you’ll like the tweets. Would also love to see you on Facebook.