Online Dating Guide & Blog

In my guide, I stress the importance of meeting anyone you are talking to online sooner rather than later. I make this recommendation based on the fact that I found my impressions that were created from talking to someone through email or on the phone were often very (very) wrong. In these cases, within the first few minutes of the date I would realize my mistake. In my opinion, actually meeting the person you are talking quickly to is a [...]

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If you are one of the many singles out there who has considered online dating but just can’t bring yourself to shell out the cash to give it a try the web site Plenty of Fish might just be what you were looking for. When I was dating online, there were a few free sites that I tried but to be honest there was next to no one using the services. As expected, if very few people are using a [...]

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While online dating is bringing more and more people dating success everyday, there is another reminder in the news that caution should be exercised. In this story, an Australian man flew to Mali to meet his “bride” only to be taken hostage. While this is horrible, it seems the man from the article isn’t the typical online dater (as the article states, he made a similar trip to Russia in the past also looking for a bride). In another case [...]

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Once again I am using Google searches that send people to my site for article ideas. This time the search that sent someone my way was: “If a guy views your online profile often are they interested?”

The Short Answer
Wink at him and find out. It may not be called “winking” in the service you use but there will be some kind of method for contacting him without actually having to write an email.

The Long Answer
This is an interesting question because [...]

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I briefly described what I thought a good email looks like in my online dating guide. Basically, my opinion is keep things short and simple while proving you actually read the profile. Today, I found a site called I Liked Your Profile that is a collection of weird, scary or just out-right funny emails people have received at their online dating accounts. There are many opinions to be found across the internet stating what your message should look like. While [...]

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Recently, when a friend needed photos for his online dating profile, it was a good opportunity for my wife (who is a professional photographer) to get some portrait shots while helping a friend at the same time. The shoot went well and our friend genuinely liked the photos and had them up on his profile very quickly. A few weeks later, I mentioned that perhaps she could offer this service in addition to her other photography services. Interested to see [...]

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I am always hesitant to give women advice for online dating. Primarily, this is based on conversations I had with dates during my internet dating days. One great conversation starter was to simply talk about the online experience itself. These conversations revealed how very different a woman’s experiences were from mine, although many were similar to one another. While I would compare my experience to searching for that needle in the haystack, these women had experiences more comparable to trudging [...]

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This article is based off of a third incoming search “after first date didn’t call cancelled a meeting”. I had originally intended to included this with my previous post on phone calls but soon realized the discussion went well beyond that topic.

If you date online long enough chances are you are going to run into a situation where the person you were speaking to “drops off the face of the earth”. This scenario exists in all types of dating [...]

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Today, I’ve had some traffic coming in from Google regarding phone calls. In each case, the person was interested in some aspect of phone conversations after the first date. Since the site is light on any phone conversation thought, I decided offer some advice for these searches based on my experiences.

Search: “Rules of dating phone call after first date” from East Hanover, NJ
First, there aren’t any hard and fast rules about anything in dating. I’ve had conversations that worked wonderfully [...]

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Last week, I was contacted with a request to review another online dating profile. Her profile was good although both Kate and I had a few comments. The profile has been shortened to only cover specific areas that advice was offered for:

The Profile

For fun I love going to the city – anything with lots of people and lots to see!I am looking for a guy that is used to a big family and would like one of his own! [...]

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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein

From time to time, articles are published on the best and worst cities to live in if you are single or, maybe more specifically, dating. This year, of the top forty cities measured, my city, Pittsburgh, came in near the very bottom of the list. This is actually an improvement – I know Pittsburgh was dead-last two years in a row a [...]

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Earlier this year, I was trying to determine if there was any use for a blog like this. If the web was saturated with every other person’s opinion on how online dating is best approached, I’d skip it. Specifically, I was searching for dating sites that provided a significant amount of advice. Most of the dating sites I found were fine but I disagreed with how some of them recommended a person find dating success. It’s not that I think [...]

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