This weeks Good and Bad of Match.com Profiles
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Rebecca Dakin Dating Expert – This weeks Good and Bad of Match.com Profiles

22 Jun Rebecca Dakin Dating Expert – This weeks Good and Bad of Match.com Profiles

Posted at 10:57h in Online Dating by

Following my ‘5 Step formula for the perfect Dating Profile’, I will analyze two match.com profiles below.

My 5 Step formula:

1)    Photos, smiling, clear 3 minimum – face, full body and action
2)    Introduction – opening gambit
3)    What you offer
4)    What you are looking for
5)    Invitation to connect

This week’s Positive Profile –

 Professional Independent Guy looking for his partner in life

I am looking for an intelligent lady who looks after herself. Someone who wants but doesn’t need someone in their lives. Someone who knows how to share their lives and allow someone in. I am a very young person and mix with younger people, nearly all my friends are younger and mostly less fit than me.

They must be a good communicator as I like to talk through our thoughts and don’t shy away from difficult subjects or discussions.

I am quite easy going on how I spend my time these days, obsessively pursuing my sport is in the past, so open to new pastimes are you?

I would like to meet someone ready to share life I don’t really drink, I can and do occasionally and enjoy a glass or two, but I can and do enjoy life without.

I will add some more later, this is really hard!

 

Lets break it down to cover my 5 Step Formula:

1)    This guys photos his profile has 3 smiling head shots, and his smile looks warm and genuine.

2)    Introduction (what’s visible with his profile photo). Professional Independent Guy looking for his partner in life. I am looking for an intelligent lady who looks after herself. What he offers and what he’s looking for in one sentence. This man is serious about dating. The words professional and independent suggest he’s a stable and secure man.

3)    Aside from the sentence above which acts as an intro and part of what he offers, he follows on to say he has many younger friends, which implies he is young at heart, and he implies he is also very active and physically fit. He also suggests an open mind, and easy going nature by saying he is ‘open to new pastimes’.

4)    What he is looking for is –  an intelligent, independent woman, someone younger than himself (by the fact he wanted to point out that many of his friends were younger), someone also who is open minded and a keen/good communicator.

5)    Invitation to connect: There is none, which is a  shame, because although it’s quite brief it’s a good profile.

 

There’s a few silly grammar/spelling errors which implies to me that this profile was somewhat rushed, but all in all I think it’s a good first effort.

  I’d give it a 6.5 out of 10.

 

 

This week’s Pants Profile –

Normal guy seeks normal girl………

Hi thanks for checking out my profile 🙂

I’m a normal guy seeking a normal girl to be my soul mate.

I will update this as I get used to the site

xxx

 

For fun

Keep fit at the gym, weightlifting, socialising, meals out, fine dining etc etc

My job

I own and run a garage and MOT centre in Nottingham

 

 1)    This guy has 5 photographs. His main photo is really rather strange. It’s dark, his eyes are closed, and he has no top on because I can see the tops of both shoulders, in fact it looks like another that has been taken first thing in the morning. What is it with these guys?? I cannot believe how many first thing in the morning still in bed photos are on Match.com. This is so weird because there is one photo which is actually quite nice, he smiling with his eyes open and stood next to his car. I don’t know why he hasn’t used this as his main photo.  He has 2 further eyes closed photos one where he is wearing a suit, and the last one is another bedroom self portrait, this time with eyes open hurrah!

2)    His intro is – ‘Normal guy seeks normal girl………’ What is normal? This is such a strange thing to say. It’s suggests a lack of imagination, intelligence and a complete bore!

3)    What does he offer?  He offers ‘normal’. Yawn. The only positive thing here is that he runs his own business, and that’s a great achievement, so he must have a certain amount of intelligence, it’s just a shame he didn’t get some help with his profile to make it more interesting and entertaining.

4)    What is he looking for? ‘A normal girl’ and his soul mate. There is minimal information about him that people can read to see mutual interests – gym and weight lifting and fine dining. He’s written ‘etc etc… ‘ that’s a big no no. Everyone likes different things so you can’t say etc, etc…  It implies lack of interest in his profile, and laziness. Also to say ‘I will update this as I get used to the site’ is silly. If you’re not going to make the effort to put up a decent profile you won’t be able to get used to the site because no one will contact you or reply to your messages! So either take the time to do it properly or don’t bother.

5)    Invitation to connect – None

 

 I’d give it a 1 out of 10
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