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No Contact After the First Date
Published on October 18, 2007
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 […]
Keep readingPhone Calls After the First Date
Published on October 17, 2007
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 […]
Keep readingA Second Dating Profile Review
Published on October 15, 2007
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 […]
Keep readingA Profile Review
Published on October 10, 2007
A friend asked that I review his dating profile to see if there was anything he could improve on. In the past when reviewing dating profiles, I’ve always included my wife since I like to have a woman’s opinion. As you’ll see, we don’t always agree! What follows is a trimmed down version of his […]
Keep readingCheap but Great Dates
Published on October 3, 2007
Perhaps the only downside to consistent success dating online (or any dating, really) is that all that courting starts to hit the wallet pretty hard. I eventually settled on meeting at coffee shops which was cheap but lacked creativity and fun. This article has some great ideas for cheap dates without making sacrifices on enjoyability. […]
Keep readingIntroduction to Speed Dating
Published on October 1, 2007
Here’s is a nice introduction to speed dating. I never tried speed dating but the article makes it sound worth a try. I also enjoyed the beginning of the article because it reminded me of those bad dates I had to suffer through…and he’s right: at least with speed dating when things are bad, you’ve […]
Keep readingOld Problems in New Packaging
Published on September 28, 2007
Every now and again I hear a news story talking about the dangers of internet dating such as this one. Now, without question, there are risks with online dating but, as even the briefest scan of newspapers from the past century would prove, date crimes have existed for a very long time. One might even […]
Keep readingCompetition of Online Dating
Published on September 8, 2007
Earlier this week when reviewing dating profiles in preparation for our “photo shoot”, I had used my wife’s old online dating account to log in so I could see what other people’s pictures were like. She checked her email a few hours later that afternoon and found she had communication from someone at the dating […]
Keep readingThe Effects of Angle
Published on September 3, 2007
Today we got together with a friend who needed some help with his dating profile. In particular, he didn’t have any photographs that he felt were appropriate for his purpose. The best photos he had always seemed to involve his arm around a woman and he wanted to avoid posting those (a wise decision I […]
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