Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Brad
This is a guest post by Kate Houston of trysweettalk.com
10. Bald spot camouflage.
If you’re going bald don’t hide the fact under a cap. It’s not a character flaw and there’s no reason to be embarrassed by it. Besides, bald is the new sexy. So show skin with pride.
9. Saying you’re young at heart.
Generally only people over 40 years old say this and often it’s to compensate for being older. Age is not a defect. Just pick someone you can be [...]
Filed under: dating advice
Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Brad
The Match.com free trial offers 7 days for free to new members and is one of the few services of its type that does so. By “type” I am referring to the fact that Match.com allows you to contact any member that you want.
Free trials and events are more common with the matchmaker type of service, such as eHarmony or Chemistry, where the members that you can contact are limited by the service itself. The fact that a service [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Brad
Lavalife will be providing free use of their instant messenger service to all memeber this Wednesday, July 28 2010.
The email alert I received from them suggested that I:
Log in now and start hot-listing your favorites, then come back first thing Wednesday and start communicating with 1000s of local singles on IM for FREE!
This seems like pretty good advice to me (and I’m actually surprised to see the service offering such clear instructions on how to best take advantage of the [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2010 by Brad
Recently I posted my two part interview with Chloe, the CEO of the new online dating service HelloJackieJoe. You can find this interview in the following posts:
Interview Part 1
Interview Part 2
I wanted to take an opportunity to talk a little bit more about this service. The first thing that I’ll say is that in talking with Chloe, I was given the very strong impression that she really does care about providing a great service to singles.
Filed under: online dating services
Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Brad
Earlier this week (July 21st to be exact) marked the last day that any user of Yahoo! Personals could switch to Match.com, the service that will be taking over all the accounts that previously existed within the Yahoo! service.
Yahoo! Personals is the first service I ever paid for when I started dating online. I never had success with this service and as I discuss in my online dating guide, I think it may have had to do with the fact [...]
Filed under: online dating services
Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Brad
This post is the second half of a two-part interview I had with Chloe Rothwell, the CEO of the new online dating service called HelloJackieJoe. HelloJackieJoe is unique in that it aims to involve your friends into your online dating experience. The first half of my interview with Chloe is available here in the second half is below:
Filed under: online dating services
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Brad
Recently I had the opportunity to speak to Chloe Rothwell, the CEO of the new online dating service called HelloJackieJoe. This service is unique in that it aims to involve your friends into your online dating experience. The first half of my interview with Chloe is available below:
Describe HelloJackieJoe and how it’s different from other sites that are out there today.
Really what we’re trying to do is create a site where unlike other options where you’re the person [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2010 by Brad
This is a guest post by Kate Houston of trysweettalk.com
I had a client whose original profile asserted, I love to cook. As a professional dating profile writer, I can tell you that about 80% of the profiles I read say the very same thing.
Eventually I learned this client not only loved to cook, she loved it so much she collected antique cookbooks. I also learned she was a truly unconventional woman in many respects. So, rather than keep, I love [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Brad
This event occurs in the past. See this post for the most up-to-date free events
Update 7/25/2010: It appears that this free event only allows you to take the communication so far – see the comments below for more details. It doesn’t appear that the free weekend is all it is cracked up to be, at least for this event. If anyone has more details or experiences with this, please feel free to comment below. Thanks!
This eHarmony free communication weekend is [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2010 by Brad
Picking the right main profile photo is pretty important. Just about every dating site out there has statistics that show that having a photo at all improves you online dating success quite dramatically. This can even be seen without statistics just based on how aggressive dating sites when it comes to getting you to add your photos. They want you to be successful (so that they in turn are successful) and they know that photos are a huge part of [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2010 by Brad
This Wednesday, July 21, 2010, DatingDirect will be offering a free trial to all new subscribers who sign up between 6 PM and midnight (UK residents only). Compared to most free dating events, this is a very small window of time to take advantage of the service.
In addition, it appears that only the users who actually signed up during this six hour period are going to be able to take advantage of the free communication. I see this as [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Brad
This is a guest post by Kate Houston of trysweettalk.com
If you’re dating online then you have a lot of competition. There are millions of people out there and each one is competing for attention. So how do you make sure your soulmate shows up in your inbox? Take tips from people who know how to get noticed – advertisers. Treat your dating profile like an ad and you can stand out from the competition.
Filed under: dating profiles
Brad is a happily married man that found great success (and his wife!) using online dating. He now shares his thoughts and experiences, on this site and in his free online dating guide, to assist others in finding success. 
