Examples of Good Male Dating Profiles

July 2, 2009

Over the past week, I have been scouring through tons of Male Plenty of Fish online profiles. Not that I’m checking out guys or anything (I love the ladies) but I was trying to look for some examples of great male dating profiles. To do this, I browsed through as many guys as I could [...]

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Social Proof in Online Dating Profiles

May 19, 2009

What if there was a way to influence potential online daters to perceive you and your Plenty of Fish profile as more attractive? There is a way, it may not be up some people’s alley, but we’re going to take a look anyways. There is a concept in psychology called Social Proof. Social proof is [...]

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Plenty of Fish Serious Member Effectiveness

April 10, 2009

It’s been about 1 month now since Plenty of Fish launched it’s serious member upgrade option. This new feature basically included nothing more than having your profile search results appear in a different color along with having a star badge next to your profile. Being the curious kind of guy that I am, I decided [...]

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Online Dating Profile Word Clouds

March 13, 2009

I noticed an interesting experiment on another blog the other day which utilized word clouds to examine online dating profiles. For those that don’t know, a word cloud is a graphical representation of the frequency amount of each word used in a given text. For example, a word that is used 10 times in a [...]

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Criticism of Plenty of Fish Premium Dating

March 9, 2009

A reader has emailed me with a critical look at Plenty of Fish‘s new premium “Serious Member” upgrade, among other general faults on the workings of the online dating system. The email raises some good points and deserves a post of it’s own, so here it is: — Mr. Savage: I’ve reviewed nearly all the [...]

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PlentyofFish Gets Serious with Paid Memberships

March 5, 2009

Owner and founder of Plentyoffish.com, Markus Frind, announced today on his blog that the online dating site will be offering a new paid premium feature. Of course, the main site will remain absolutely free with all it’s current features, the only difference between the free membership and the paid premium membership is that it will [...]

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Intimate Encounters on Plenty of Fish

February 28, 2009

Like most online dating sites, plentyoffish.com, offers an option for what’s referred to as “Intimate Encounters.” This particular option, as with most free dating sites (CraigsList for example), is basically a booty call for a one night stand. Not that I’m particularly into this type of thing, but I have noticed that there are a [...]

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The Unsatisfied Women of Plenty of Fish

February 20, 2009

I’ve been searching around various different blogs lately trying to find different people’s experiences in using PlentyofFish. Lately, I’ve been stumbling across some blog posts by some women who are out in the dating scene looking for potential male suitors. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of disappointment in the men on the site. And [...]

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Profile Picture Experiment

February 11, 2009

Introduction Recently I decided to test out a theory by my friends Race and Kelly on the Plenty of Fish dating site. The concept is simple. Basically it states that the more quality pictures you have visible on your online profile, the more value you display and thus the more dates you will be able [...]

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Anatomy of a Good PlentyofFish Email

November 7, 2008

As most women on PlentyofFish will tell you, a large majority of the emails they receive are terrible. We even took a look at seven of these bad dating email messages in the last post. We also found that, in our fake female reconnaissance profile that in less than two days, we received 60 email [...]

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