Free Communication Weekend Starts Now!
Today until September 1, all Labor Day Weekend, join Eharmony.com and communicate with your matches for free when you send Eh Mail.
Join, be shown your matches and communicate without paying a membership fee.
This is a great weekend to kick-start your online dating adventure and I have a few Eharmony tips for you to really get you started.
1. Post a lot of pictures, head shots, full body shots and with you out and about in your real world life.
2. Answer a lot of questions, this is how possible matches will get to know you better before they message you.
3. Send a lot of messages. Because once the conversation starts you never know where it will lead to!
If you’ve tried Eharmony before without success you’ll want to read my post “The Top Reasons Why Eharmony Hates You”.
Have a great long weekend!
Robert Lee
Eharmony Turns 14!
The year was 2000 when Eharmony.com burst onto the dating scene with huge fanfare.
Think of it, an online dating service based on christian values, that wasn’t a “bible club” or some such niche service. Dr. Neil Warren really stirred up the online dating world.
No adult ads or pictures, Eharmony meant to bring single people together (you still can’t join if you’re married) towards one true purpose: marriage.
By and large they have accomplished amazing things and made thousands upon thousand happier doing so.
If you have yet to try Eharmony now is the right time to get started.
New Romance Tour Dates Announced
Russian Romance Tours has announced new romance tour dates for the fall. Just visit the website and click on “Tours”.
What is a romance tour?
It’s a travel tour that takes you to meet beautiful women that you have the opportunity to correspond with before you travel. Introductions are made in a no-pressure social setting, unless you’re coming to meet someone special you’ve already been corresponding with.
Tours are professionally guided, you’re not left on your own!
Tours accompanied by two American tour directors
English-speaking, experienced foreign staff
24-hour hospitality and guidance from staff
Courtesy interpreters daily (9a.m.-9p.m. in hotel)
4-star accommodations with single occupancy and private bath
The most tours offered in the industry - hundreds!
We accommodate you! After-Hours Tour Info Line
Ongoing introductions to hundreds of beautiful women!
Fling.com: New Dating Service Review
Posted today is a new review of Fling.com.
You’ll find casual and adult dating with millions of members and thousands in your area.
This is a fast growing dating service that works great on your desktop and mobile devices bringing members that you want to meet just a click away.
AYI.com (Are You Interested?) Review
I spent some time recently at AYI.com and found a decent dating service, despite the lack of features for free members.
The overt push to join Match.com and OurTime.com is a bit much, but they are all owned by the same company, so put up with it, I guess.
The big offering is that if you’re a premium member, or a premium member messages you, the messages are unlocked for sender and receiver. Otherwise not too much going on here. If a free member messages you, it stays locked until you pay up.
Tricked By An Impersonator: Online Dating Scams
This can happen to anyone on any social site, it doesn’t have to be a dating service!
Bad people will use pictures of others to bait you into contacting and possibly meeting them. A picture can be copied from anywhere and reported to any site that wants photos or images.
Match.com has come under fire recently for such abuses by members and they say that they use special algorithms to detect such image fraud even being sued for $1.5 billon dollars.
Take this story published by Rawstory.com as an example and what you need to do when you find out the truth.
“New York man arrested for impersonating dead soldier on dating site”
It was the dead soldier’s sister that notified the police about the image theft and impersonation.
There is a level of trust between people that honesty is the best policy. Those that break this trust will take advantage of those that give this trust willingly.
Remember my Golden Rule: you don’t really know someone until you’re close enough to smell them.
Woman Loses $300,000: Online Dating Scam
As long as people can find love without meeting each other - and have a strong belief that love is what they’re in, then there is the “other side of the fence person” that just wants to rip you off.
Take the recent story of a 66-year-old San Jose divorcee as an extreme, but happening all too often, example. ABC News has all the details and there’s also some good advice about how to recognize the alarm bells that should be going off in your head when you’re falling into the love-spell of a scammer.
I will sum up what you need to know:
- they seem unaware of current events where you live or tell you they live far away
- they ask you to contact them outside of the dating service
- the scammer asks you for money, small amount at first to test you, larger amounts later
- they may seem “out of sorts” or forgetful about things you’ve talked about (because it’s a second person helping with the scam now talking with you
My Golden Rule of online dating is “It can’t be love until you’re close enough to smell them”.
New Review: Coffee Meets Bagel
We’ve just reviewed Coffee Meets Bagel (www.coffeemeetsbagel.com) and can tell you this is a very promising service that will help you find a lunch date, and maybe more, by connecting you to a single friend of a friend using your Facebook contacts. Read our review here.
Also included in the service is a private chat/text line so you will make contact outside of Facebook in a secure way.
New Review: At The Pool
We’ve posted our review of At The Pool www.atthepool.com and consider this service to be a worthwhile addition to your online dating adventure when you want to do more than just converse and meet online.
Take your real world interests, add meeting people that share those interests, and you’re ready to take meeting and dating to the next level.
Read our review here.
Deborah Ann, Vampire on “True Love” Finds Her Match at Match.com
True Blood Star Finds True Love with Match.com.
Deborah Ann, also known as sexy vampire Jessica Hamby on the hit TV show, signed up for Match.com in 2007 to find someone genuine and grounded, different from the stereotypical Hollywood guy. She found just that in 32-year-old comic …
You can find love at Match.com too!
Are Group Events The Next Logical Step To Online Dating?
Match.com has made a lot of news with their recent foray into board game nights and other events that brings members together.
But is this a good idea?
Online dating is for bring people together to find love.
Face-to-face events are for bringing people together to share a common interest that may not quite include looking for more than a possible game partner.
And if you meet someone on a dating service and go to meet them for the requisite coffee date you can always bow out early with some excuse or other.
But on a game night set up by your dating service, meeting with someone you first met online with the same intention of finding love, can your common game interest make up for any dating choice date you may have made of just meeting to play a game?
How do you walk out on a game without ruining your other chances with possible matches?
My suggestion here is to not search out your potential game play partners before you show up for game night.
Some times too much information can be a bad thing.
ONLINE DATING TURNS TO EVENT INDUSTRY
The next evolution in online dating is quite analog: hosting face-to-face events. New York Times: “Last May,
for example, Match.com, the 18-year-old Web site, introduced Stir, an event’s program, and has since …
Match.com Livens Up Face-To-Face Meetings
Match.com Uncovers The Chicago Singles Scene. Sacramento Bee
Match.com, the world’s largest dating website, has released results from a dating survey taken by over 1,100 single Chicago residents which reveals that River North – already one of the hippest areas in the …
Finding Ms. (or Mr.) Right at the Board Game Table. New York Times (blog)
Now Match.com has itself found a partner, the board game industry, to liven up events. On Tuesday, the company began holding what it is calling Stir game nights, where singles gather at bars and restaurants to play games like Bananagrams, a word game, …
Match.com: How To Win At Love
The key to “winning” when being an online dater is to follow not only your heart but the specific steps of preparing your profile right and being as interesting as possible at the same time.
Here’s a great story for winning at Match.com:
Wendy’s Window. Upland, CA
As promised in my last article, this week I’m going to share more of my journey on how my husband and I met on Match.com and our courtship. First, I must take you back a few years. Once I became comfortable with the whole idea and concept …
And here’s advice of speeding things up, compatibility-wise, once you’ve met face-to-face:
Put love to the test on the road.
“Travel reveals a lot of things: Habits, hygiene, sleeping patterns, moodiness, general level of activity, introvert/extrovert tendencies, etc.,” adds Moffit, relationship expert for Match.com. A new survey by Match.com reveals 12 per cent of …
Meet A Powerful Man on Match.com
After the revelation (and promotion) of Martha Stewart on Match.com we have a new celebrity as a member searching for love: Vladimir Putin has joined. His member name is “russianteddybear” and he’s looking for a love connection.
You can see a screenshot of his profile below and join Match.com to contact him before he’s off the market.
russianteddybear - Vladimir Putin on Match.com
