Articles by: Brad
If You Never Try, the Answer is Always No
Published on September 23, 2009
If you never give online dating a chance, you’re never going to have success with it! This comic makes that point quite well. I probably shouldn’t admit this but that was me for a long time. Then, as I’ve said before, my loneliness finally outweighed my pride and I gave online dating a try. Things […]
Keep readingWhy are People Rejected by eHarmony?
Published on September 22, 2009
Have you been rejected by eHarmony? You’re not alone if so: eHarmony claims that as many as 20% of the applicants are rejected. There are several issues which eHarmony explained to the Washington Post as reasons a person can be rejected. As you’ll see, many of these reasons won’t apply to you. Regardless of the […]
Keep readingTop 10 Most Visited Online Dating Sites, June 2009
Published on September 20, 2009
Nielsen released numbers in June of this year showing which online dating sites were receiving the most traffic. During that month, there were close to 30 million unique visitors across the sites they were tracking…obviously online dating is becoming more popular all the time. The following are a list of the top ten sites based […]
Keep readingHow to Meet Women
Published on September 18, 2009
When I was single, I always felt like meeting women was very difficult. And for me, for quite a long time, it was. But then, almost over night things seemed to come together and I was meeting lots of women and I was even getting plenty of dates. Some weeks I would have multiple first […]
Keep readingShould I Email Again If My First Gets No Response?
Published on September 17, 2009
A reader wrote in asking if it is worth his time to send a second email when a woman didn’t respond to his first. First things first, not getting a response after the first email is normally a sign to move on. If the woman is using the site actively, reads your email and then […]
Keep readingHow to Fix the Free Dating Service Model
Published on September 16, 2009
Yesterday I discussed why the free online dating services have such problems: men who send massive amounts of spam searching for a woman willing to have sex. The services could cancel these men’s accounts but that really accomplishes nothing – they’ll just open another. It would appear that these free services will simply have to […]
Keep readingThe Cost of Free Dating Services
Published on September 15, 2009
With completely free online dating services out there, you might wonder how it is that sites that require you to pay have stayed in business. It’s not because there is some hidden price with the free services (they really are totally free). It’s not because the free sites don’t offer similar services (they do, if […]
Keep readingWhen Should I Give My Phone Number?
Published on September 14, 2009
One strange woman and I never gave out my phone number again. I had been dating online for about three months at this point. I was still in that phase where I didn’t know what I was doing and I wasn’t having any success. I was so excited when a woman asked for my number […]
Keep readingService for Dating Younger Men (or Older Women)
Published on September 13, 2009
This week I was contacted by folks over at Cougared.com who were looking to get some attention to statistics they have collected. They had recently finished surveying older women who prefer to date younger men (referred to as “cougars”) and some of the information they found is interesting: The most common age group for cougar […]
Keep readingBecoming Vegan for a Month
Published on September 10, 2009
After repeated encouragement from my doctor, my wife and I decided to try a vegan diet he was recommending. Going on this diet wasn’t about losing weight, it was about living healthier. The rules were extensive: no meat, no dairy, very little or no processed sugars, no white flour, no caffeine, no alcohol, nothing that […]
Keep readingWith Online Dating, Meeting Matters
Published on September 8, 2009
When I started dating online, I would drag my feet before meeting a woman. I wanted to make sure she was exactly what I was looking for before we met. Whenever I did finally meet someone I would almost always find out within the first few minutes of talking that she wasn’t the match I […]
Keep readingOnline Dating Email Tips: More on First Email Length
Published on September 7, 2009
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. – William W. Watt OkCupid.com has some interesting statistics on online dating emails, specifically some numbers on who gets responses to their first email. Creating good first emails is something I’ve discussed in my online dating […]
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