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A Few Tips For Men Writing An Online Dating Profile

For Geeks and Desperados?

Do you think that online dating is only for geeks or desperados? Think again. It’s estimated that over 8,000,000 women visit online dating sites every month looking for casual encounters, affairs, and obviously their perfect match.

The World Wide Web has quickly changed many aspects of the past as we know it and one of those is dating.

Internet dating has become the latest and greatest craze, with both women and men logging on to the internet to find romance, true love, and casual encounters rather than hooking-up the old fashioned “meet someone somewhere” way.

The first thing you should realize when creating your online dating profile is that you will have a lot of competition, so you need to make sure that you stand out from the crowd by including a photo in your profile.

The Profile Photo

It’s a fact that many women search profiles with photos first, so for best results, include a photo in your profile. This will increase the number of views for your listing.

Be Unique

You should be as unique and specific as possible. Not only that, if you can establish a sense of urgency, you would be conveying a message that you will not be around waiting forever.

Think Of Your Online Dating Profile As A Sales Page

• An Attention Getting Headline
• Your Online Dating Profile
• The Close

The Headline

The headline is the most important part because it is the ad for the ad. Picture the headline with arms waving at the reader. The job of the headline is to peak the interest of the reader and get them to read the next sentence.

Your headline should flag down the type of woman you are targeting. Don’t try to target all women or you’ll risk branding yourself as desperate.

The Profile

This is the part many men get wrong.

In the profile, you normally write about what you do and don’t like, your interests and activities, and so forth. Anyone can say that they like movies, traveling, skydiving, etc.

Instead, why not write in detail about one of your favorite places or a place that you are planning to visit in the near future. This stimulates your next date’s senses because you are painting mental pictures in her mind.

The Close

Let readers know that you will be off again soon, maybe to one of those places you mentioned in your profile.

Check Grammar and Spelling

Make sure your profile is grammatically correct. If it isn’t, you will appear either stupid or lazy. You could turn off a possible candidate just because there is a silly spelling and grammar error in your profile, so remember to proof-read your profile a few times before you go live with it.

Will You Succeed?

Only three out of every 10 men who post an Online Dating Profile ever get a response. This is because most men’s ads are boring, repetitive or filled with errors, and do not contain a photo in the listing.

More information about Online dating profiles and positive proof that you don’t have to be good looking to attract women can be found in the How To Pick Up Girls Bible.

What To Put In, and What To Leave Out

Not sure how to write an Online dating profile? Are you aware of what you should write about and what is worth leaving out?

The first question that you need to ask yourself is this: What is the purpose of your Online dating profile?

Because your profile for one of these sites can be challenging, the foremost important concept is to be clear about why you are writing a dating profile in the first place.

Why?

• Are you writing a dating profile for fun and friendship?
• Are you looking for just potential dates for casual sex?
• Or are you looking for romance and marriage?

This is important because if you do not state your wants and needs, how can you expect to get what you want?

The reason why you are creating an online profile in the first place is the first detail that should determine how you write your profile.

Don’t Spill Your Guts

Next, you should hold back the need to pour your heart out into the profile.

Telling-All is a sign of low self-esteem so don’t spill your guts or reveal your emotional deformities in the profile. Telling-All in your profile will position you as a victim and will increase your chances of attracting predators. This applies to both men and women.

Captivate Them Instead

To get people to be captivated by you, you should be frank, honest and upfront. Don’t include a lot of irrelevant details, but do make a point to talk about yourself in enough detail so that like-minded people will be intrigued and want to know more.

Your Unique Selling Proposition – USP

Writing a good profile begins with taking an inventory of what makes you unique and interesting. Everyone is one of a kind, but it is hard to show people what makes you one of a kind unless you can create a profile that shows why.

Brainstorming Questions

• What makes you unique?
• What makes you tick?
• Why are you different from everyone else on the internet?
• Why are you different from everyone else in the world?

Depending on the type of Online Dating site, you could describe what you find is important, like your ambitions, your dreams, your desires and your attitudes.

You could write about your most important likes and dislikes, turn ons and turnoffs, and any other details you can think of in order to give an accurate picture of who you are and what you’re about.

Obviously, if you are writing an adult dating profile for discreet encounters or casual sex, you will have to think of a different USP, but I’m sure you get the idea.