Posts Tagged ‘internet’

Creating an Online Dating Profile

Friday, April 17th, 2009

How to talk about yourself on a date-1To join an online dating service, you need to create a member profile which helps you to describe yourself as to who you are, what you are and what are you looking for? Although you may answer every question as you wish to but before that I would like you to know that there would be many profiles which would have common content. Do you wish to be one of those who share same content on their profile or you want to look different? But of course, you would want to stand out of the crowd. To be different from others in creating an eye catching dating profile you should take care of few things which I am going to mention. Here you go…

The first thing which I would like to mention is take you time building a dating profile. You have to present yourself to the best possibility for a match so be patient and take time building your profile.

Create a unique headline specifying your most passionate thing and it will certainly help you out finding someone sharing the same thing and may be you turn out more compatible with that person.

Look Different: A Profile allows you to demonstrate yourself in front of the world, so you need to be very careful about your answers to some common questions. The idea is to read about 10 to 15 profiles and look for what they all have in common and now you know where to make a difference to look different.

Adding a Photo: Building a relation may not entirely depend on the photo but yes, a photo plays a major role in it. Add a latest photo which is quiet clear and gives a professional look. But that doesn’t mean that you have to take a headshot. You can add any of your photos doing anything you love to, but please do check out for no common results again.

Easy Read Profile: You might be into online dating from a long time back, able to understand the terms like ‘SWF ISO SM’ (Single White Female In Search Of Single Male), but anyone who goes through your profile may not necessarily be knowing these terms, specially the new users, so avoid using such terms in your profile making it easy to read for all. Mostly people do not stay on a profile for long and if you use such terms, they may slip off a little earlier than normal.

Be Honest about yourself: This is a point which is ought to be remembered while writing about yourself. You should know one thing, sooner or later a person will come to know about you, so there’s no point lying at this point. Be what you are, write the truth, no matters if you are divorced, you have kids etc. Just be what you are and no need to hide. When a relation develops, there’s a bonding because of the trust and when small things come up later on the other person starts loosing the trust in you and your relation may end up nowhere, so it’s always better to say the truth no matters how hard it can be.

Keep Your Profile Simple: You are provided with a space to tell about yourself but that doesn’t mean that you have to write a full story mentioning all about you let the people imagine you from your profile. Create your profile in such a way that a person could read it in a minute or two or it can become a bit boring for some.

Spelling and Grammar: Always check your spelling and grammar twice before you post a profile. This is a common mistake made by most of the people. The spelling and grammar mistakes in your profile put up a question about your smartness. Smart people do not make such mistakes. You can also make someone read your profile before you post it, just to ensure about the grammatical errors.

Don’t Write All About you: No questions, this profile is to mention about you and who else?? I just want to convey that, mention you finer points in such a way that your profile doesn’t seems like a boasting thing, just try and be humble and remember to leave a space to mention about the kind of person you are looking for.

Mentioning About The Partner: Always mention specifically what you want your ideal partner to be like, mention a few respectful and realistic lines describing your partner which will in return help you find a compatible partner easily.

Look Alive: No one will ever want to be in relation with the person who is dull, so be passionate about your life, your hobbies. Look full of life!!

Make Changes: You can make changes to your profile anytime you want to, so it’s not necessary to worry about the perfection in the very first time, but you can and you should make the desired changes after a short span of time.

 

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Joining an Online Dating Website: Take Care Tips

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Dating service scam-1Online Dating is an industry which is growing at an incredible rate in the world of today. This industry consists of millions of dating profiles and the rate of addition of new profiles is remarkably around as many as a minimum of a many thousands per day, a huge thing!! There are many websites which are offering you Dating Services, some of which may charge you a few bucks monthly or yearly etc. Whereas, there are many websites which offer you free Dating Services. You can choose either a paid service or a free service, it’s up to you. To have a successful online dating you need to choose the service carefully. Choosing a Dating Service is quiet easy, you should know about the following things which will lead you to the success: –

You should know that there are a many dating services which aren’t reliable.  It’s always a good idea to check out for reviews more than one if possible, just to be sure that the sources are unbiased. If you do not follow the idea of checking reviews properly, you may land up joining a dating service with outdated or inactive member profiles, so be careful before joining and making any payments.

Few sites use a dishonest marketing technique, they would attract your attention by offering you to create a free member profile on their website, but sooner you will me mailed a message stating that you have a private message from so & so opposite sex member, in spite of the fact that you may not have created your profile in detail or added your picture to your profile you receive a private message. Now, to read a private message you need to be a paid user and they (dating service providers) will ask you to make a payment to read the message. DO NOT MAKE ANY PAYMENT TO SUCH SITES. It’s no use. It is only a marketing technique and there is no such member profile that messaged you. Even if you try, you will find no response from that member in spite of making the payment on the same day. Not all the sites are dishonest, but a few sites use this tactic.

Now, after a good search you know a good & genuine dating service. Now you need to create a profile in that dating service. All done with choosing a dating service now?? NO. Here, I would like to advice you to check whether the dating service is offering you to create a profile by answering some pre written questions or customize your profile a bit. Now, this is important. Do not select a dating service which is offering you to create a profile on above mentioned measure; this will just add a limit to your description. Instead choose a dating service which allows you to create your profile as you want, defining no limits to how you want to display yourself in front of other member of the service.

 

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Reasons for Online Dating to be Popular

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Date at any age1-1Down the memory lane, online dating was not much popular. Talking about finding singles online for dating was like cracking a joke, but currently millions of singles are looking to date and building relationships online. What made this situation occurred can be cleared out from various reasons mentioned down here:

Through online dating you can make new friends anywhere around the world moreover you have an opportunity to meet people in different cities, states and countries. You can know about the living styles and their compatibility with you.

Online dating provides a very good advantage that, you can know about the person before meeting him/her, which can help you in taking a good and healthy decision about making up a first date.

You may have a very unique sexual orientation and you may find it very difficult to find a perfect match. Online dating can help you by providing you an opportunity to easily search for a date according to you.

If you are looking for a person who shares the same belief’s which you do, internet is probably the best place, as it may seem a bit difficult in today’s world to search for such a person.

You may not be interested in building long term relations and are just looking for some fun. Online Dating makes it quiet easy for you.

If you are a single parent and finding someone to date with, dating online is a great idea for you. You can easily search for other single parents or people who do not care about you having children already. Making dating a lot easier for you.

By dating online, you can easily find people who enjoy the same things which you do, so that you are quiet comfortable being with them.

You cannot deny the possibility of easily meeting someone with whom you can spend your rest of your life.

Online dating is the relatively low cost of the services. If you compare the total cost including the costs of transportation, grooming, and dining for a blind date, you will find that its better to pay a few bucks/month to an online dating firm as it would be quiet cheap. Online dating allows you to find a correct match before you spend money on a date.

You can date online from your home, you need not to be worried about what you are wearing or if you are looking good or not? Etc. This means that you are best up to your comfort and convenience.

Some people think that online dating is not safe, but it’s as safe as you want it to be. Statistics reveal that it is just as safe as conventional dating. All you need to do is follow the guidelines of the online dating website you are registered with and not passing your personal information readily to the one you chat till you are sure about your privacy.

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How to Fail at Online Dating

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Frustrated with datingBeing Too Shy Many people think that online dating is a wonderful way for people who are shy to date. Well guess what? Being shy online will lead to just as many failed attempts at dating as it does in the offline world. If you don’t want to fail at online dating, you’ve got to come out of your shell. Being Passive Rather Than Active This is different than being shy. Passive daters are not fully committed to the idea of online dating. They approach it with half of their attention and most don’t commit to a paid membership which puts everyone at a disadvantage. Regardless of the reason for your passivity, whether you’re indecisive, fear rejection or are just too lazy, failing at online dating will be a blow to your ego. Cutting & Pasting Your Replies Some people will see through this masked attempt at originality. This type of correspondence is impersonal and if it’s all you’ve got time for, then perhaps you don’t really have enough time for dating. If you do this because you’re not good with words, then read how others respond to your messages and use these as guides. Nobody likes a form letter, especially when they’re looking for romance. Sounding Negative or Arrogant No one wants to talk to someone who is a downer or just the opposite, someone who cannot stop talking about him/herself. Keep your negative experiences to yourself. You’re starting anew and there is no need to drag your past into your future. And a successful relationship is a two-way relationship. If you do all the talking, it won’t ever develop into anything more than a one-way dead end. Making Overt or Borderline Sexually Harassing Comments Asking questions that are too personal or offering up blunt descriptions of what you think is an almost guaranteed way to scare off your prospective dates. Plus doing so could put your membership in jeopardy. Lying About Your Relationship Status You’ll get away with this type of lie for some period, but ultimately, always, this type of lie will come back to bite you and it will hurt either you or the person you’re involved with. Lying About Your Real Looks It’s tempting to use photo enhancement tools to make your photo more alluring. Plenty of online daters do this. Or they post a photo that is 10 or so years old. Whether your photo isn’t an accurate representation, or whether the words you use to describe your physical appearance are exaggerated, lying about your looks is another reason people fail at online dating. Corresponding Only with the ‘Hotties’ You’ve got just as much chance getting hooked up with the person behind the stunning image as you do if you saw that person at a trendy nightclub slim to none. That person will be bombarded with email and the chances of finding yours AND finding yours interesting are slim. Get back to reality or online dating will never work for you!

 

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How Online Dating Works

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Playing the NumbersYou’ve heard people talking about it. You’ve probably even seen advertisements for it on television. But for some reason, you haven’t yet given online dating a try. Perhaps you’re a bit nervous. Perhaps you don’t know a lot about computers and the Internet. Perhaps you’ll think less of yourself if you try and find companionship using technology rather than your personality. These concerns are understandable, but when you consider that millions of men and women are doing it every day, you’ve got to think that maybe online dating isn’t so bad. The way online dating works is really simple. You first need a way to connect to the Internet, which most people today already have so that should not be an issue. Then using the Internet, you need to find a suitable online dating website. Don’t let the word suitable scare you off. As you’ll see once you get into online dating, there are lots of different dating sites that cater to different groups or lifestyles. You’ll find sites for seniors, Christians, homosexuals, plain old heterosexual, and plenty more. Most of the online dating sites are subscription-based, meaning that you’ll have to join before you’ll be able to participate. Most often, it will cost money to join, but on some online dating websites, membership is free. The process of joining usually doesn’t involve much more than agreeing to the online dating site’s terms and conditions and paying the fee, if applicable. Once you’re a member, the next thing you’ll need to do is create a profile and a header. Your profile is what other members are going to read and based on your profile, another person should be able to determine whether you sound like someone worth pursuing. An effective profile not only describes you, it also talks about the qualities you’re looking for in someone else. Make it unique and be sure to proofread it before posting so you’re certain that what it says is really what you want to say. If the site allows members to attach photos to profiles, you’ll have to decide if this is something you’ll want to do. If so, just follow the instructions to attach it to your profile. Once your profile is posted, you can sit back and wait for others to start corresponding or you can start checking out other members’ profiles. If you find someone who sounds interesting, you can initiate the conversation. Besides corresponding via email and the ability to sort/delete your messages, online dating sites usually offer other activities you can participate in. Some sites offer live (typed) conversations via a site’s message board, and some sites host special events. Check both out and see whether those are activities you want to participate in. Online dating websites offer two really nice features. First, most are open around the clock so you can ‘date’ when it’s convenient for you. And second, new members join all the time so there will always be someone new to check out!

 

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What To Do If He Doesn’t Call

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Frustrated with datingYou had a fabulous time on the first date:  He was so easy to talk to that you felt like you had known him for years. He seemed to have your same tastes in food and movies, and you were amazed at how well you got along and look forward to the next date. If you’re honest, you felt such a connection to him that you told your best friend that you may have found your Mr. Right. Then the next day passes with no phone call. After a week, you stop checking voice mail, email or making excuses for him and accept that he’s not going to call you. How do you handle the rejection? You could head for the ice cream shop and drown your sorrows in scoops of rich ice cream with cookies and sprinkles on top. Hanging around the house in an old bathrobe crying is another way to deal with the hurt you feel. Drinking alcohol, driving too fast or getting angry and trash-talking about him are other destructive ways to cope with your sadness. So far that’s a look at how you might act in private or with friends, but eventually you might run into him again. If you work in the same company or even within the same industry, chances are you’ll see him again. If you met him through friends, then you can count on landing in the same social setting before long. How you handle yourself in that situation is going to be seen by others, so you need to think it over before it happens to avoid making a fool of yourself over a guy who doesn’t deserve your attention. Maybe you’ve imagined how you might “tell him off” – but is that what you really want to do? First of all, if he didn’t care enough about you to call after the date as he said he would, then he simply doesn’t care what you think. Telling him how you feel won’t change him because he has no interest in you. If you do that, you are the one who looks foolish in front of friends or co-workers. Or you might be fantasizing about “showing him what he missed” by parading a new date in front of the last one. Reality check: He won’t care and your new guy won’t like being used to cause jealousy in another man. You lose on both counts. The longer you obsess about him, the more you build up something that’s more than what it ever was. You can analyze your dating conversation a thousand ways so that you eventually hear something that wasn’t said and believe something that never happened. That’s the power of obsession – it turns reality into fantasy that you begin to believe. Don’t resort to high school dating tricks like sending him anonymous cards that are sweet or sarcastic. And definitely don’t drive by his house at all hours to see who is with him. You can’t win him over by stalking him, just be glad that he realized you two weren’t right for each other and move on to find the one who will treasure you most. In short, as one friend aptly expressed: If someone’s dishonored you, don’t let them live rent-free in your head. Move On!!!

 

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How to Dress on a Blind Date

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Attracting women everywhere 1One of the most important aspects of a successful date is feeling comfortable. Part of feeling comfortable on a blind date, a scenario inherently rife with anticipation and potential anxiety, is to dictate the first impressions you make as soon as you walk into the room. There are some general guidelines when it comes to dressing for a blind date, and some of them could make or break your level of success when it comes to making a good, and accurate, first impression. First of all, dress appropriately. I.e.; if you’re going to be outside, you need to dress for the potential of walking on pavement, or cobblestone, or grass, or even sand. You never know when you might end up taking a romantic stroll, so be prepared! You’d hate to give up a chance to be romantic because you forgot to bring a coat or versatile shoes. Dress for the weather as well. No one wants to have their date shivering all night because they weren’t conscientious about dressing properly. If you are going to be going to an upscale locale, make sure that you dress the part. Do your homework; research the restaurant and make sure that you dress appropriately. The same goes for anything else you are planning on doing on your date. This is the first time your date will be seeing you, so make it count. It is always best to give the very best first impression that you can. Also, try to keep in mind the image that you want to convey about yourself. If you want to appear to be a certain way, you should dress that way. If you don’t dress how you want to appear, there is a chance that you aren’t going to be perceived the way you want to. The moment your date sees you, various split-second judgments and assessments will be made, conveying countless details about who you are and what you might be like. Be sure to dress as yourself, but dress also as you want others to see you.

 

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How to be Safe on a Date

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Second DateThere are many things that you need to keep in mind when it comes to ablind date, and safety is paramount. If you are going on a blind date with someone who your friends know, or your family has set you up with, you can be reasonably sure that this is someone your family or your friends trust. However, you can never be too careful, because oftentimes people will present themselves someway and will act totally different. You need to be consistently cautious when you are going on a blind date, no matter how you got set up. It is especially important to be extra cautious when going on a blind date with someone you met over the internet, via a dating service, or advertisement. It is important that you use caution because over the internet or dating services, a person can present themselves in any number of ways, and none of these ways might be how they actually are. You never really know who you are going to be dealing with when it comes to a blind date. In order to be safe on a blind date, you first need to make sure that you know exactly where you are going. If the location is in an area you are unfamiliar with, be sure to bring explicit directions. If you sense the location is not in an appropriately safe area, change it! Pick a location that is well lit and well populated, like a busy restaurant or other place where you know there will be a lot of people. Tell your friends and/or family where you will be, when you expect to be there, and share any and all details about who you will be with. Be certain you have your cell phone with you at all times, and that it is fully charged! If you ever feel uncomfortable about anything transpiring during the date, you should have a friend that is ready and willing to come at the drop of a hat and pick you up, wherever you are. You should also have the number of a taxi service ready as well, so that you can call them if you can’t find another ride. Remember that if you ever feel uncomfortable on a blind date, or wish the date to be over, you have the right to conclude the date immediately. Trust your instincts. You often know better than you think about recognizing both good and questionable situations. Your instincts will rarely let you down, and might even save your life.

 

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When a Blind Date Goes Well

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Fabulous great datesYou’ve probably thought about going on a blind date for a while now. When you go on a blind date, you are going to be meeting someone that you have never seen before, and that you probably won’t know much about. You might be concerned that the date isn’t going to go well, and you might feel like it is not going to be something that you ever want to do again.

However, sometimes a blind date goes well. It might be that you hit it off with the person you have been set up with. This most often happens when you go out with someone that your friends thought would be a good match for you. You friends tend to know you best, so if they think a person is someone you’d like, there is a good chance that this will be true. Sometimes, if you meet someone online or through a personal ad, you might also get lucky and end up falling for that person as well. So, what do you do when a blind date goes well? There are several options for when this happens. If a blind date is going very well, you might want to tell the person that you are having a good time. This honest approach lets them see that you are really enjoying yourself, and you might be surprised to hear that they are having a good time as well. If this is the case, both of you might feel comfortable asking for another date. If a blind date goes well, but no one has asked the other for a second date by the end of the night, you might want to ask if it is okay if you call them sometime. If they say it is, then you should wait a couple of days before you call them and see if they’d like to do something again. If they call you, make sure that you say yes, if that’s what you want to do. Blind dates can indeed lead to something that lasts long-term, so you shouldn’t avoid going out on such dates just because you don’t know the person. If you keep your mind open to new possibilities, you might be surprised at what you find out. It could just be the best thing to ever happen to your dating life. There is always a chance of something more happening when you go on a blind date.

 
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