Successful First Dates
Published on December 21, 2012
These two articles discuss steps to take to ensure that your first dates as are as successful as they can be. The first article, Preparing for the First Date, discusses how you should prepare to meet: how quickly you should meet, where, how long the first date should be and so on. The second article, […]
Keep readingeHarmony Free Tuesdays, December 2012
Published on December 9, 2012
For the second time, eHarmony is having Free Tuesdays. Last time was in October and it wasn’t clear during that event when these free weekdays would be happening (or at least not clear to me). This month though, I received a list of when the free Tuesdays will be occurring: December the 4th (sorry – […]
Keep readingHow Online Dating Took Me off the Market in Less than a Year
Published on December 3, 2012
This is a guest post from Tom, a reader who found success using tips from this site but then built upon that success with ideas of his own (an approach I hope many of my readers take!) January 2010 I just got divorced a few months earlier, my financial situation was horrible, and I was […]
Keep reading5 Reasons Why Online Dating is the Best Way to Meet Someone in Canada
Published on November 19, 2012
Us Canadians are known around the world for being one of the friendliest nations. Yet when it comes to finding successful relationships, we don’t always hit the mark. With 4 in 10 first marriages now ending in divorce, people across the country have started looking for a different approach to meeting new people. For many […]
Keep readingeHarmony Free Communication Weekend Nov 16 – 19, 2012
Published on November 14, 2012
eHarmony is having another free communication weekend, this time starting Friday, November 16th and running until the end of Monday, November 19th 2012. As is pretty common, this “free weekend” is actually four days free allowing you to try communicating with your matches on eHarmony. As I discuss often with these free events, the free […]
Keep readingThe Do’s and Don’ts of Online Dating
Published on November 12, 2012
With more and more singles uploading their profiles online, internet dating is rapidly becoming one of the easiest and most successful ways to find love. To help make you’re dating experience positive, it is important to invest a lot of time and thought into the information that you upload on to the web. Here are […]
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Online Dating Starts Here
Published on November 8, 2012
eHarmony is the first service in online dating to use a scientific approach to matching highly compatible singles. With over 20 million registered online users, the eHarmony Compatibility Matching System® matches singles based on 29 Dimensions® of Compatibility for lasting and fulfilling relationships. Their online matching system does the work for you by narrowing the […]
Keep readingWhen Should I Do a Background Check with Online Dating?
Published on November 4, 2012
When I was dating online, I didn’t use background checks. I’m definitely not against them; I just personally never felt the need to use them. However, I do get questions on this from readers and it’s clear to me that many people wouldn’t be comfortable with the idea of dating online without background checks. Because […]
Keep readingeHarmony Free Weekday Events
Published on October 21, 2012
Update: When I originally wrote this article, eHarmony was giving Tuesdays out as free time. Since I wrote this, eHarmony has now given a Thursday out as the free night instead. With that in mind, I’ve updated the article from “free Tuesdays” to “free weekday”. For the past several weeks, eHarmony has been having free […]
Keep readingWhich eHarmony Matches Should I Be Contacting?
Published on October 15, 2012
With many online dating services, the biggest benefit the service offers is in the quantity of members you are given the opportunity to contact. However, eHarmony concerns itself with providing you with what it calculates as the best quality matches (see my article on How eHarmony Works for more on this). Having had some recent […]
Keep readingMy Online Dating Success Story, Continued
Published on October 6, 2012
Last year I talk about my overall experience with online dating, and how my experience turned into an online dating success story. From time to time, I like to remind people of the joys I have in my life because I stuck with online dating (even after 8 months of failing!) to eventually find that […]
Keep readingLevel Setting in Online Dating after You’ve Been Cheated On
Published on September 24, 2012
I have quite a few conversations with my readers on the topic of commitment, often around the issue of people not taking their profile down as you enter a committed relationship. While emailing with one reader this week, I was reminded of something my wife did that was very helpful early in our relationship. I’m […]
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