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Announcing the 45 Day Online Dating Challenge

February 15, 2010

After doing an extensive online dating profile case study in the last post, it got me to thinking about my own Internet dating efforts and realized that I’ve been slouching lately. A quick look at my own dating profile made me realize that it was about due for some renovations and updates. After even more [...]

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Online Dating Profile Case Study

February 8, 2010

I recently received a request to critique an online dating profile from the PlentyofFish dating site. And though the profile was already fairly decent and well written, there were certainly a number of things in which I would change, or at least test out for comparison purposes. So we are going to go ahead and [...]

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Plenty of Fish Password Email

January 28, 2010

So every week I get the above email in my inbox from the PlentyofFish.com dating site. And every week, they decide that it’s a good idea to remind of my password by spelling it out right there in the middle of the email. Yep, it’s that spot that I blanked out in yellow, and it [...]

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Sample Online Dating Email Messages

November 17, 2009

Lately I have been getting really good at having great flirty conversations on PlentyofFish. I’ve found that the most successful email message exchanges, regardless if I initiate contact with the girl or she does, is all about banter. What do I mean by “banter?” Well to put it simply, it’s a kind of humorous, playful, [...]

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Vegetarian Dating Options?

October 27, 2009

It just occurred to me that Plenty of Fish doesn’t has an option to categorize oneself as a vegan or vegetarian. There are plenty of other things to categorize oneself by like religion, body type, preference for children, your drinking/smoking habits and even if you have a car or not. All of these very clear [...]

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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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