Online Dating Tips that Work
Meeting someone on an online dating site is a little different than meeting someone at a party or going on a fix-up date. When you meet someone in person, feedback from verbal cues and body language help you figure out whether you’re rounding home base or striking out. If you pay attention to your date’s subliminal cues, you can often make corrections to your approach and stay in the game. When you’re dating online, you lose those valuable visual cues which makes it harder – but not impossible -- to develop a winning game plan.
To be a successful online dater you need to develop a slightly different attitude toward dating and master the finer points of online dating etiquette. If you want to connect with someone you discover on an online dating site and move from ‘Hello’ to ‘Let’s Meet,’ follow these online dating tips:
- Jump in with both feet. Online dating is a numbers game. The more people you contact, the higher your response rate. If you send out 10 contact requests a day, you should start seeing some action before the end of the week. Don’t agonize over what your chances are when the online profile of a hot chick or hunky guy catches your eye. Go ahead and fire off a contact request. Who knows? You could be exactly what they’re looking for.
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Online dating takes your ego out of the equation. If you overreach and get shot down, no one is going to see you crash and burn; so go for it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
- Don’t act like a fool. Not everyone you contact will decide to contact you. If you don’t get a response, no matter how interested you are in the person, DO NOT pester them with another contact request. When someone doesn’t respond you have to get over it and move on. Be realistic, you haven’t even met the person. There’s no emotional investment. Stop beating a dead horse. There are thousands of other daters online.
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