Articles by: Brad
No Contact After the First Date
Published on October 18, 2007
This article is based off of a third incoming search “after first date didn’t call cancelled a meeting”. I had originally intended to included this with my previous post on phone calls but soon realized the discussion went well beyond that topic. If you date online long enough chances are you are going to run […]
Keep readingPhone Calls After the First Date
Published on October 17, 2007
Today, I’ve had some traffic coming in from Google regarding phone calls. In each case, the person was interested in some aspect of phone conversations after the first date. Since the site is light on any phone conversation thought, I decided offer some advice for these searches based on my experiences. Search: “Rules of dating […]
Keep readingA Second Dating Profile Review
Published on October 15, 2007
Last week, I was contacted with a request to review another online dating profile. Her profile was good although both Kate and I had a few comments. The profile has been shortened to only cover specific areas that advice was offered for: The Profile For fun I love going to the city – anything with […]
Keep readingThe Best and Worst Cities for Dating
Published on October 12, 2007
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein From time to time, articles are published on the best and worst cities to live in if you are single or, maybe more specifically, dating. This year, of the top forty cities measured, my city, Pittsburgh, came in […]
Keep readingThe Internet Dating Guide
Published on October 11, 2007
Earlier this year, I was trying to determine if there was any use for a blog like this. If the web was saturated with every other person’s opinion on how online dating is best approached, I’d skip it. Specifically, I was searching for dating sites that provided a significant amount of advice. Most of the […]
Keep readingA Profile Review
Published on October 10, 2007
A friend asked that I review his dating profile to see if there was anything he could improve on. In the past when reviewing dating profiles, I’ve always included my wife since I like to have a woman’s opinion. As you’ll see, we don’t always agree! What follows is a trimmed down version of his […]
Keep readingOnline Dating Guide for Handhelds
Published on October 10, 2007
I was recently contacted by someone from the Plucker project with interest in converting my guide to a format for Palm handhelds that could be viewed offline. I was not familiar with Plucker but saw no reason to decline the offer so now the guide is available for handhelds here. Hopefully someone out there using […]
Keep readingCheap but Great Dates
Published on October 3, 2007
Perhaps the only downside to consistent success dating online (or any dating, really) is that all that courting starts to hit the wallet pretty hard. I eventually settled on meeting at coffee shops which was cheap but lacked creativity and fun. This article has some great ideas for cheap dates without making sacrifices on enjoyability. […]
Keep readingIntroduction to Speed Dating
Published on October 1, 2007
Here’s is a nice introduction to speed dating. I never tried speed dating but the article makes it sound worth a try. I also enjoyed the beginning of the article because it reminded me of those bad dates I had to suffer through…and he’s right: at least with speed dating when things are bad, you’ve […]
Keep reading20 Best Dating Sites
Published on September 30, 2007
As the name suggests, Top Online Dating Sites and Services is a list of dating services that I feel offer value for their usability and features. The dating sites are listed because ease-of-use, popularity, honest business practices, etc. Personally, I stuck with the best known companies when dating online because I believed this would give […]
Keep readingSocial Acceptance of Online Dating
Published on September 30, 2007
When my wife and I first started dating, we had joked about making up a story on how we met since we were unsure how acceptable online dating would be. We actually tried it out a few times: my favorite was telling friends we met while she was operating a lemonade stand (she had been […]
Keep readingOld Problems in New Packaging
Published on September 28, 2007
Every now and again I hear a news story talking about the dangers of internet dating such as this one. Now, without question, there are risks with online dating but, as even the briefest scan of newspapers from the past century would prove, date crimes have existed for a very long time. One might even […]
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