How to Make Your Dating Profile Far More Interesting

Published on July 22, 2010

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, […]

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eHarmony Free Communication Weekend, July 23rd – Aug 1st 2010

Published on July 21, 2010

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, […]

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Selecting Your Main Photo for Your Dating Profile

Published on July 18, 2010

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 […]

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DatingDirect Free Trial July 21st 2010

Published on July 17, 2010

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 […]

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Watch Your Inbox Go from Empty to Full of Promise

Published on July 15, 2010

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 […]

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Book Review: Love, Sex & Deception

Published on July 11, 2010

Love, Sex & Deception is a book that provides online dating advice with a unique approach: instead of listing rules and guidelines they offer advice through the telling of others’ online dating stories. A few samples of these stories include the following: A story of two friends who find out the same man is sending […]

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GoDaddy Hosting Slow? Why I Switched to HostGator

Published on July 10, 2010

Why has my hosting become so slow? That is the question I found myself asking about my GoDaddy account after a few months of having this website. In this “off topic” article I wanted to discuss my problems for this site when using GoDaddy and why I chose HostGator as my new hosting company. I’ll […]

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Dealing with Email Responses That Show Little Interest

Published on July 4, 2010

A reader recently wrote in to ask about dating conversations where the person you are talking with responds but with little or no apparent interest: If you are conversing with someone via email (regardless of who initiates the conversation) and you respond with a short paragraph and question and they always responds with one or […]

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eHarmony Free Communication Weekend, July 2nd – 5th 2010

Published on June 30, 2010

eHarmony’s next free weekend is July 2nd until July 5th 2010. If you are new to eHarmony, during the eHarmony Free Communication Weekends you can communicate with all of your matches absolutely FREE. While eHarmony almost always refers to these events as weekends, there are actually 4 days of free communication for you to take […]

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Save 50% at Parship During July 2010 (UK)

Published on June 29, 2010

For the first time ever, Parship.co.uk is offering a voucher for 50% off of their 3-month subscriptions. To qualify for this promotion you will need to: Visit this sign-up pagewhich includes an area to enter the voucher. In the voucher box enter 33A45 Do this on or before July 31st

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No Apologies or Excuses in First Emails!

Published on June 27, 2010

Photo by °Florian In my article on writing first emails using online dating, I discuss what should and should not be in your emails. I wanted to expand on that topic to include a pattern I’ve seen recently: apologizing or making excuses when contacting other singles. Apologizing in First Emails For whatever reason, some people […]

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The Loneliest Days of the Week

Published on June 21, 2010

When I first started providing dating advice, I had assumed that I would have more visitors to my site on the weekends. My thinking was that people would be reminded of being single the most on the weekends and therefore would be looking to solve that problem then. Well, that theory turned out to be […]

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