What Song is Your Dating Site?

What Song is Your Dating Site?

| Dating, Match, Online Dating, Online Dating Sites
My last post where I mentioned that different sites had "genres" got me thinking. If a dating site is a song, what song would it be? Use this guide to find what dating site is right for you. Match.com: "Toxic" by Britney Spears' I don't say this to imply that Matc
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Match.com Dating Site Review

Match.com Dating Site Review

| Match, Online Dating, Online Dating Sites
There's a pretty extensive overview of Match.com's membership features and pricing, as well as other reviews of online dating sites, written by Bonny Albo, over at About.com. Bonny ranked OkCupid as the top dating site, supposedly because it is a fun site, and free.
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Match Winks: an Overview

Match Winks: an Overview

| Dating, First Contact, Match, Online Dating, Tips & Advice
I get a lot of questions from faithful readers about Match.com's "Wink" feature. Is it okay to use? What do you do if someone winks at you? What if you wink at someone and they don't wink back? For the guys, let me summarize it with this photo: Well, that's re
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What Online Daters Can Learn from Marketers

What Online Daters Can Learn from Marketers

| Writing Messages
Unless you live completely off the grid (though you probably wouldn't be on this website), you probably buy things at one point or another. Whether you like it or not, your purchases are influenced by marketers. Someone identified you as a potential customer, developed
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What online dating questions are okay to not answer?

What online dating questions are okay to not answer?

| Dating, Dating Profile Photos, Dating Profile Strategy, Dating Profile Writing, Match, Online Dating, Tips & Advice
I came across something I hadn't seen before: a woman's profile who left her "body type" blank. Nuh uh, I said - you have to answer that one for me to consider you! Of course, I know enough about looking out for the angles, that it's hard to fool me when it comes
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Questions to ask on a date

Questions to ask on a date

| Dating, First Date, Tips & Advice
One of these days, I'll get around to writing a well-thought-out post on actually going on dates, but until then, check out Seth's post on questions to ask on a date, over at The Dating Papers. He'll tell you about Flash Factor, Need Factor, and Trunk Factor. While you'
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Why Your Match.com Message Isn't Getting a Response

Why Your Match.com Message Isn’t Getting a Response

| Match, Online Dating, Tips & Advice
Ross Felix, a commenter on David Evan's blog, Online Dating Insider, brought up an excellent point: Match.com 15 mil users / 1.32 million premium members = 91% of the people can’t reply to your email without upgrading their membership. That's right, if you didn't ge
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Top 5 Online Dating Profile Clichés

Top 5 Online Dating Profile Clichés

| Dating Profile Strategy, Dating Profile Writing, Online Dating, Tips & Advice
If you read enough online dating profiles, you'll start to see a pattern. While clichés may indicate something you may want to speak of creatively when writing your online dating profile, they certainly aren't something you want to cut-and-paste, as it seems some onlin
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Online Dating Messages: The One-Line Hook

Online Dating Messages: The One-Line Hook

| First Contact, Match, Online Dating, Tips & Advice, Writing Messages
If, try as you might, you can't get a lady interested enough to wink on match.com instead of writing messages, and there's a special woman you're set on contacting, I've got a tip for you. Nothing I've found works better than "the one-line hook." This is a one-sentence
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Match.com Guarantee Granted

Match.com Guarantee Granted

| Match, Tips & Advice
So an update on my progress with the match.com guarantee. My theory that, during the course of 6 months, someone is bound to have at least one love interest that makes them skimp on their end of the guarantee, has held up (your end is keeping an active profile, having a
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Online Dating can at least be practice

Online Dating can at least be practice

| Match, Tips & Advice
I saw a smart comment on a thread on MetaFilter.com, regarding whether or not to date on Match.com. ...you will be busy with having coffee here, a glass of wine there, and trying out a new dessert bar at some other place. You're meeting people, finding out more about
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Match.com's

Match.com’s “Make Love Happen” Guarantee

| Match, Tips & Advice
While I've clearly come up with some good theories on online dating success, I still suffer from being very selective. Thus, with my latest Match.com subscription, I signed up for 6-months to get the "Make Love Happen" guarantee. It's simple. If you don't have a girlfri
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