Archive for March, 2009

Mar 27

Survive and Thrive: Online Dating in a Down Market Part 2

In Part 1 of Survive and Thrive we examined the correct way to diversify your online dating homes and exactly how awesome swap meets are. In Part 2, we’ll continue our look at online dating for the discerning spender.

Mar 27

Survive and Thrive: Online Dating in a Down Market Part 1

Ain’t much money around here.

Whether you are in Japan, Panama or Florida – ain’t much money around wherever it is that you are. That doesn’t mean you have to forget about a dating life however.

Mar 25

Coaching for online daters

If you have been treading the online dating waters for a while without getting any responses (or only getting the wrong ones) perhaps you should take a good look at how you are presenting yourself.

Mar 24

Mate1.com partners with iovation to stop online dating scams

Dating is now safer in Mate1.com, after the site joined forces with iovation to fight and prevent online dating fraud and abuse.

Previously, dating sites had only a user’s email and physical address, which could be easily changed or lied about by repeat offenders.

Mar 21

Are you ready for a virtual date?

The moment of truth that all online daters fear is the first date – will the person you’ve been chatting and emailing with be like you imagined them? Or have they been lying to you? Will there be chemistry?

Mar 20

Online Dating for Tree Huggers

PlanetEarthSingles.com is an up-and-coming dating site based on a fresh premise: bringing together environmentally-conscious singles. Online Dating Sites interviewed owner/founder Jill Crosby, and this is what she had to tell us about the cool, sexy side of green dating.

Mar 17

Body types – let’s get real

How would you describe yourself to attract the most potential mates while remaining honest?

The body type options in most dating sites look a lot like this:

Mar 14

Plentyoffish at the top of the Online Dating ratings

A recent survey by Hitwise showed Plentyoffish.com to be the highest ranked online dating site in the USA and the UK.

Plentyoffish is a cost-free dating site created by Markus Frind in 2003.

Mar 12

Build It to Break It

The last thing you want is an invisible lover.

Even though you have chosen along with so many millions others to begin a love hunt online, the last thing you want is an online relationship.

Mar 11

How to Say Hello

Nothing finds a way to ruin a relationship more than never starting it in the first place.

You can’t fail if you don’t try – that fatal sentence scrolling the internal ticker of so many sad singles worldwide.