Article Subject: Dr Dato’s series on online dating etiquette - Part 2 - Making your profile stand-out

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Apart from using good grammar and properly structured sentences to your profile description, you can also do a number of other tweaks so that it really does stand out of the crowd!

Try to sound like an action man or woman, instead of giving a laborious detail about your life’s wants and needs. It has been found through our extensive database analysis of users activity in the Jumpdates.com website that the most responses tend to go to people who are proactive in their engagement with other members of the website.

The whole topic is really ‘no brainer’ because if you think about it the chances that you are going to get responses is correspondingly higher the more you are proactive and message other users. Unfortunately for men, sitting down and waiting for responses are not effective and to a certain extent some women can do that but even they have to initiate too. To make your profile even more effective, add ‘activities’ to your profile and make it sound interesting. For example, if you like dancing then say so, men will be surprised by the number of responses they can get from like-minded females.

I started off saying ‘be active’ and this means regularly going through your profile, reviewing and updating it and actively seeking out other members through their search. You will find it quite engaging once you start having a conversation with one person, then another and then you may find yourself having to ‘filter’ out profiles later on.

This is a good previous post on more ‘hidden’ powers of profile creation.

can you see how this profile can be improved further?