You are single. You have approximately zero minutes a day to spend on dating sites. You do not want to break the bank. And you love your smart phone. Lucky for you there are some amazing dating apps that were probably created specifically for you! Or at least for people just like you who can’t [read more]
Online Dating Tips and How-To's from Expert Dating Coach Betty Russell, BCC
How to Interpret a Profile #2—A Picture Really is Worth 1,000 Words
Last week we looked at how the “about me” section can actually work against someone, and how you can spot the red flags. Pictures, on the other hand, seem pretty straightforward, right? You like, you don’t… what’s complicated about that? Not so fast. There are plenty of shady tactics in this most popular section of [read more]
Online Dating Does Work
I’ve lost count of how many of the couples I know met originally online. Once people meet and get to know one another it does not matter how they met. Whether you are introduced to your grandfather’s neighbor at a family party, or sparks fly with someone you meet at your local bookstore, meeting is [read more]
How to Interpret a Profile #1—“About Me”
Last week I told you I was going to give you a break-down of three main areas in a profile and how to glean the most information from it. Let’s start with the “about me” section. Every site, except some of the more minimalist phone apps, includes this. If someone has written nothing in the [read more]
The Writing on the Wall—What People’s Online Dating Profiles Can Tell You
By the time Laila came to me she’d had an online profile for only two weeks, and she was already burned out. Her first two encounters almost scared her off. One was with a control freak who berated her for “toying with men’s hearts” because she gently told him he was moving too fast. The [read more]
Getting Started with Online Dating
I’m not going to lie to you. Getting back into the dating scene is not a walk in the park. It can be fantastically fun, interesting, rewarding, and exciting, but it can also be discouraging, time-consuming, frustrating, emotionally challenging, and, every now and then, a little ridiculous. Is it worth it? Absolutely. (And I can [read more]
Group Dating: Relaxed Encounters and the Power of Friends
Remember high school, or maybe college, when you’d go out with a bunch of guys and gals all together, and it was fun and relaxed? Even if there were couples within the group, it still felt like a group. Often sparks would fly and couples form within those casual friend groups. Nowadays there is a [read more]
Marketing You: 6 How-to’s for Writing a Great Online Dating Profile
Whether you love to write and do it all the time, or avoid it like it had germs all over it, writing about yourself is the hardest of all. But there is no avoiding the profile if you are going to try on-line dating. Let’s try to break the process down so it is not [read more]