Internet dating is becoming an increasingly common way for people to meet each other and form connections, but unless you market yourself properly you are likely to be as disappointed with your results as if you went to a bar and sat in a dark corner all night.
There are a few common mistakes that all newbies seem to make and they are very easily avoidable once you are aware of them.
Here they are:
- No picture. Always put up a picture of yourself on your profile page. Do NOT use an avatar, a cartoon, a landscape shot or a picture of your dog. If it is not a picture of your face, don’t use it, people will think you have something to hide or are Big Foot. Don’t leave it to their imagination, they will imagine all the wrong things.
- Dating the first person that says yes. There isn’t actually anything wrong with this, but it leads to the mistake. Don’t assume that you are suddenly in a monotonous relationship because you’ve been on one date. They certainly won’t see it that way. Keep your options open, go on as many dates as possible and meet as many people as you can before you decide who is the best match for you.
- Generic profiles. Sometimes it seems like one person has created most of the profiles on internet dating sites. Don’t use cliché one liners or generic jokes that everyone has heard. It makes you seem unintelligent, unimaginative and uninterested.
- Longwinded Profiles – Keep your profile short but interesting, longer than lame one-liners, but at the same time people didn’t log on to a dating website to read your biography.
- Lying. If you lie, you will get found out. It might land you an extra couple of dates if you tell people you are Tiger Woods’ cousin, but you will never gain anything meaningful out of it. As soon as your date finds out, it’s over. In any case, why would you want to date someone who wasn’t interested in the real you anyway?
- Rushing into it. There is no need to rush out and meet the first interesting person you encounter online. Make sure that they want the same things as you. If you want a relationship and they don’t, you will end up getting hurt.
If you avoid these common rookie errors of online dating it should make your experience a lot smoother and a lot more pleasurable, but at the end of the day your experience is what’s most important, so just go and have fun with it.
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