Don’t Be Shy!
I love, love, love hearing from people when my advice has been helpful. Obviously I advertise on my website and in some ways that is motivating….but not nearly as motivating as getting an email saying that I helped someone find a great relationship. Not even close!
So please consider letting me know if I’ve helped! ๐
Some of the Raves I’ve Received:
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Hi Brad, just want to drop a quick thank you message. Thanks to your articles and online dating guide I have found my significant other. Never thought that I would find someone, not even through online dating but your site has given me hope and I thank the lord every day that I have not give up hope and that I have found your site. Here people find great advise and I can’tรย thank you enough that you taken off a lot of my fears regarding the first date. Mario I just wanted to say that your blog is awesome! I searched the internet today to try and get some advice regarding online dating and I found your site. It’s such a great and informative blog. Thank you so much! I even used some of your advice for writing an email today to someone that favorited me. Thank you for all the work you’re doing! Vanessa I just got your final scheduled email and am replying to let you know that I found the emails useful and helpful in my online dating experience. I did meet someone through Match.com that I’ve been seeing on a regular basis for about a month now. I’m not sure how much your advice was responsible for my success, but I certainly found the advice useful and did make use of it. In particular, the advice that I used was in regard to making initial and follow-up email contact with potential dates. I started sending fairly long initial emails, which was not productive. Shorter initial emails was very important in increasing my response rate. Tim Thanks for writing the manual and articles. I am an engineer so I liked the analytical approach you have taken. I am only a month into online dating, but so far I feel it is going well. I have had 6 initial meetings and two have resulted in a follow up date. Seat belt is fastened, and ready for the ride that I have no specific destination in mind. Not sure what twist and turns lie ahead or where this ride will take me, but I am going to enjoy the ride. I wanted to let you know you were helpful to me get focused and moving foward. Robert Brad – I stumbled upon your site, and I subscribed, I just wanted to say thank you, your site is great and I like to get your emails also. I wish you, your wife and your new baby great health and happiness. I am in Europe now, but when I get back I will get my profile ready for match.com. Thanks for all the great advice. Emily Brad – Thanks very much for your help. Your guides and emails were really helpful to me during my online dating. I’ve met someone now (through ok cupid). Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and knowledge with the rest of us ๐ Joey Brad…you are hitting the nail on the head with your “date in numbers” idea. Between what I’ve read on your site, and some of the less expensive stuff I have….I’m waaay ahead of where I was when I was younger and less educated on this stuff. I am 46 and re-entering the scene, much more confidently thanks to some of your stuff. Thanks for the info once again. Mike Hi Brad – I just wanted to thank you for putting this site together! I started online dating back in February and had a horrible time with it for the first month. I started Googling online dating tips and found your site. It has been SO helpful! I sincerely appreciate your tone and attitude of “hey – I’m not an expert, just a guy sharing his opinions and experiences”. Your site helped me change my attitude towards online dating to an optimistic one, it helped me create a better profile based on your tips, and I’ve shared this site with friends! I honestly felt I was the only one having struggles, so it really helped reading other people’s issues and how they dealt with them. Valerie I still have no idea why she sent an email out of the blue once telling me she liked me and would’ve continued dating me. Whether it was gentle blow-off or thoughts of a confused person. Sometimes some questions go unanswered. At the end of the day, it all boils down to what women want! ๐ Anyways, I will never forget this experience! I just messaged you to thank you from bottom of my heart. You were really empathetic to even stranger like me. ๐ – D I wanted to send you note and thank you for your help and your generosity by creating and maintaining this site. I emailed you back in September with problems I was having and appreciate the help you gave as well as the articles about your experiences. I took your advice on rewriting my profile and over time tweaked the message a little bit and your complementing me on what I had written did help my confidence. During my journey I went through periods of wanting to give up so I wanted you to know that if it wasnรขโฌโขt for you and the sharing of your experience I would never have been blessed with meeting a wonderful woman. Tracy |
My name is George and I have very recently started online dating. So far my only regret is that I did not find your guide until after I have all ready started. That being said I have found your guide invaluable, thank you so much for your hard work. George Thanks for the guide, it helped in many areas. The initial opening email was hard and then to be unread-deleted was not as harsh a surprise when I was forewarned. Of course having the guide gave me a framework to inject my personality and I am now successfully getting dates. I found the first date is much more protective for the women, offering a dinner date has required me to rediscover what the woman wants and then offer coffee at a safe open environment. I have found the emails with the guide to be great prompts for keeping motivated. Stephen I have just begun online dating and your dating guide + articles on this site have been a huge help to me! You have really helped make me a lot more comfortable with online dating and helped me get started, thanks you very much! James Thank you so much. I can’t express how much you really helped me. I felt a little vulnerable because of my lack of dating experience and recieving guidance from someone knowledgeable, such as yourself, makes me feel comfort. Again, I don’t know how to express to you how much you helped me figure things out. I have a lot to think about now with clearity. Thanks! Melissa Thanks Brad. Your emails have been fun and informative. Great work, I got a lot out of them. -Mark I just wanted to toss you a thank you email. I’ve been doing online dating for about a month now. At first I had absolutely no success at all. However, after reading your site and learning from my mistakes, I’ve managed to have two dates and several communications. I seem to still attract women who are incredibly flaky (they fail to show up to dates), but your site keeps me encouraged. Thank you once again for your excellent advice. -Dennis …after a couple of days, I realised, I needed some help with it, so I hunted around and found your site. Your articles have enlightened me, and made me realise I was doing many things wrong (I nearly became the whiner!). So yesterday I spent the day putting together a profile based on your advice. Now I’m looking forward to getting out there, where as before, there was a feeling that there must be something wrong with me – you’ve helped me see that’s not the case. Thank you for the inspiration and confidence boost your site has given me. If I do meet the love of my life online, I’ll be sure to send you a slice of wedding cake! Chris, London Thank you! Your advice kept me going when I wanted to quit the online process and head for the hills! After meeting 12 people in person, I met a great guy- lucky number 13. I wanted to stop after number 6, but your guide gave me a new perspective and encouraged me to keep going in the process for which I am very grateful. Thank you. Kory Hi Brad – Thanks for the great ebook which you have made available for us, and also for free! It’s a great book, very well written and fun to read. Have a great 2012. Paul I just wanted to say THANK YOU! Your site may have saved my sanity. I started following your advice. I rewrote my profile to better show off my strengths and interests. I started trying to have three separate conversations on the go at any time. I committed to ask out every girl on or before the third message. Right away it started paying off. I had a first date within two weeks…then another. I started feeling more comfortable going on dates.And I no longer felt hopeless! And then, Ellen showed up. Even after a few messages it was obvious that we were strongly compatible. A week later, and we went public with our relationship. We’ve been dating now for months and still getting along amazingly. -Graham Hi Brad, you DID give me advice a few months back when (as an older dater) I was discouraged by the reluctance of possible matches to go for a second date (with no commitment expected on my part). Ypur advice was to emphasise that I was looking for friendship not a romance….It worked well..I felt much more relaxed and off the hook myself – main bonus, the pass/fail thing of the first date is removed and somehow I have found someone who did want to go ‘to the next level’ with me. So thank you very much!! Jane |
Note: I had to adjust the text in some of these raves because of technical issues but I assure you I haven’t changed anything critical to any of the messages.