One Problem With Internet Dating Profiles – And How To Overcome It

“One Problem With Online Dating – And How To Overcome It”

Here’s one thing that most dating sites
won’t tell you:

Internet dating is often *a lot* more
shallow than real life dating. The exception is
when the dating site is a “niche dating site” or
a site that creates matches based on psychological
profiles.

On a “generic” dating site (especially
the free sites), people will often go from the top
to bottom of a list and only pick out the pictures
they find attractive. If you don’t have a good
picture, good luck. In real life, at least you can
approach the woman and light up the whole room with
your confident body language

and exciting personality.
But on the Internet, you profile may not even
be read if you do not have a good thumbnail.

Here’re the kind of odds you are dealing with…

I did a test a few months ago. I borrowed
a picture of an attractive woman (with her permission
of course) and set up a simple profile for her.
The profile does not have any special words or
phrases. It’s pretty empty except for the picture.

And guess how many messages it received
on the first day?

Over 100!

Now tell me…how will a woman screen
through all those messages AND search for other
people?

By picture thumbnails first, profile
second, of course.

Here’s what I think:

Hit rates used to be a lot higher seven
years ago when there were less members on various
dating sites…but now I think the situation gets
worse every year as more and more people sign up.

I am not against Internet dating though.
By all means, put up a profile and have fun.

Have a nice picture of you doing something
adventurous (like sky-diving or rock-climbing) and
then build up the social proof in your profile.

If you are a pilot, put up a picture of
yourself in front of a small plane.

This will probably double or triple your
response rate.

Yes, it’s shallow. But hey! If nobody
even clicks on your profile, then you’re never going
to get a chance to show anyone what a nice and warm
person you’re inside!

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