Don't sound like one of these guys

Don’t sound like one of these guys

| Dating Profile Strategy, Dating Profile Writing, Online Dating, Tips & Advice, Video
No matter how hard you might think writing on online dating profile is, at least it's a lot easier than this seems to be. Note how obnoxious these guys sound when they talk about the things they don't want. Also note, everybody wants to "have fun." At least the guy at t
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How to write an online dating profile

How to write an online dating profile

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Writing an online dating profile is the most daunting part of online dating; but there's little else so critical to your success. Since it is such a challenge, it's no surpise that many profiles are clearly given very little thought - either by being incredibly short, n
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Follow-up Online Dating Message Advice

Follow-up Online Dating Message Advice

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So, you've mined the conversation nuggets from your target's profile, you've sent short, funny, and brilliant one-line hook, and boom, you've gotten a response. Now what? This is a very critical point in the online dating process, but this is the final step before meeti
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What to say in a first online dating message

What to say in a first online dating message

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OkCupid has conducted an interesting study regarding response rates based upon specific key words used in opening online dating messages. To summarize: Netspeak, such as "ur" and "luv" are a definite FAIL. However, expressing amusement by saying stuff like "h
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How NOT to Write an Online Dating Message

How NOT to Write an Online Dating Message

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A female reader forwarded to me this incredible match.com message. Wow. The most entertaining thing is that this e-mail's subject is "2nd attempt," as if such an attack could be considered an "attempt" to win a woman over. Sounds like this guy could take my ad
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How to Outsource Your Online Dating

How to Outsource Your Online Dating

| First Date, Online Dating, Tips & Advice, Video
This is a very amusing story. If you aren't already familiar with Tim Ferriss's book The Four Hour Work Week, it's a very informative piece full of tips and tricks for making the most out of your life. It also includes some nice outsourcing tips. Here, Tim explains how
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Does my Online Dating Advice Really Work?

Does my Online Dating Advice Really Work?

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I love download Bone Dry getting e-mails from you guys, especially when they're about your successes. Here's one I got this morning: Russ, you are a fucking genius! I was out flailing on Match.com for a week before I read your columns and watched the tutorials
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Conversation Nuggets in Online Dating

Conversation Nuggets in Online Dating

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There's one very simple piece of advice you can follow to improve your online dating profile, and profile photos, and online dating messages tremendously: inject all of them with as many conversation nuggets as you possibly can. What is a conversation nugget? Simply
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How to Get a Date Online

How to Get a Date Online

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So, you've made first contact with someone of interest (hopefully you used the who's viewed me shuffle and/or the one-line hook), and now you want to go on a date with them. Here are a few guidelines on how to do that. First of all, it's better to meet very early on tha
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Rejection and Online Dating

Rejection and Online Dating

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I got a really great question from one of you folks about rejection. I don't like rejection, either receiving or dishing it out, but the latter a lot more so. If a woman winks and you're not interested how should you deal with it?  Click "not interested", send a messa
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Follow-up Messages for Online Dating

Follow-up Messages for Online Dating

| Online Dating, Tips & Advice, Video, Writing Messages
Able to get a response to your online dating e-mails, but don't know what to do next? I'll talk about that in this video: Note that I talk about the one-line hook for writing a great first online dating message.
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Get “Winks” on Match with the “Who’s Viewed Me” Shuffle

| Dating, First Contact, Match, Online Dating, Online Dating Sites, Screencasts, Tips & Advice, Video, Writing Messages
Here's a video demonstrating the "Who's Viewed Me" Shuffle, a Match.com searching technique that will get women to wink at you, thus conserving your resources and getting her to express interest in you. This puts you in a more favorable position when writing that first
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