‘Play up your love of anything sporty, outdoorsy or public – like concerts and exhibitions.’ Wouldn’t you know, profile photos that demonstrate you playing your guitar or downhill skiing – even if your face isn’t showing – get more messages.
Avoid negative tones and always be positive about yourself. You wouldn’t want a future employer to read anything negative, so why would you want a potential partner to read anything that isn’t positive?
I don't know why, I don't know how, I only know that I was at the supermarket one fine morning, minding my own business, when suddenly I came face to face with "the sun-dried plum." I will tell you right now that I'm a fan of the prune—particularly when it's in Danish form—but the prune was clearly not selling.
For the prune to turn heads (not to mention meet a nice guy, move to the suburbs, and have a couple of baby prunes) it needed a fresh marketing strategy.
Which brings us to today's subject: the online dating profile.
I've got a number of brilliant, beautiful, frank, funny friends, all capable of remarkable things, but writing an enticing online profile does not seem to be one of them. Some people offer their services in soup kitchens, some volunteer to shampoo crude oil off of sad, gooey pelicans; I rewrite online dating profiles.
She doesn’t want to read a boring list of adjectives.
So we’re not only giving you incredible profile examples you can use, we’re also telling you which dating site or app they work best on.
Also, introverts tend to be pretty good at expressing ourselves in writing, which means we can make a good first impression given the opportunity.
But you’ll only get the opportunity if your profile works for you, which is why Lisa Hoehn wrote .
read dozens of dating profiles every day, and not because I’m looking for a date: I am a professional online dating profile writer for Match.com’s Profile Pro service.
It’s my job to take someone’s profile and some additional information gleaned from a survey, then use that information to craft something that really showcases who each person is as an individual — and that will attract the kind of person he or she is seeking.
Here's why: Because if she waited for this, she'd likely come up with another excuse later for deferring. Does that mean she should abandon her weight loss goal? But her efforts to change her life and body are not mutually exclusive from efforts to meet people, nor do they have to be sequential. Dating is a process and it's ongoing, and there's no better time to start than now. The idea that you should "work on yourself" before you start dating is what I call living in the future perfect tense. This notion that you'll be perfect in the future is crazy -- and confers a ton of pressure on you to be the perfect weight, to look a certain way, you endeavor to connect with another person.