everywomanshero
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I've been doing some experiments with online profiles for a while now.Here are some of the results.
Pic with really generic male profile seems to generate a couple emails per week in and of itself. If I add a blog entry this goes up to about an extra 2 emails, usually received within 24 hours of the new blog entry.
Same pic with improved profile generates about six emails per week in and of itself (with me contacting no users). Again, blog entry will add about an extra 2 emails within 24 hours then it's usually back to normal.
Generic female profile with pic of fairly average woman (6.5) generates 6 emails within 24 hours. LOL. My results did vary quite a bit depending on the site though. I did not find the outragious claims gurus often site, but still 6 a day is quite a bit for someone who is making absolutely no effort to build a descent profile, promotoe the profile, or even bother to send a wink.
So anyway, let's see what we got in Miss Clause's mailbag:
First, pretty much none of the people using online dating seem to incorporate anything remotely interesting into the username. To me, this is blowing a big chance to get noticed in the inbox. Only maybe occasionally will someone bother to use a cool city in their name to draw someone in, nothing more than that have I noticed. They also use their real (boring) names like Bob or Bill, SNOOORING, I'd actually get my name legally changed if my parents did this to me for my own personal satisfaction if nothing else.
Nice guy rants. Man, there are tons of these tools out there. A good 30% of guys are sending emails about how nice they are, some even talk about their mothers in the first email (LOL), and they are often 500 miles away. Why would anyone other than a desperate man want to try meeting someone 500 miles away! That's just insasne.
Sending a list of qualifications with no real content or ever actually speaking to the person being written to. This screams boring or copy-n-paste job, maybe both.
Men saying if things go well the woman can come live with them. They are going to let strange women from 1,000 miles away move in? Why? That's dangerous and totally unselective!
Finally, guys who admit they suck with women and want to pay all a woman's expenses and she can still "date other guys" as long as she's willing to stay with him. I kid you not, thephoney profile got several variants of this, as well as the (at least more respectable) man seeking a trio. LOL.
Now, I see why it has always been so easy to get poon off Internet chicks
Seriously if anyone on the forum uses dating sites, I really suggest creating a fake account just to see exactly what kind of stuff is typically floating around out there. I think it also highlights how easy it is to avoid these things and differentiate.
A properly generated email, only sent to users who have logged in within the last 3 days, should have an extremely high rate of getting RE'd. If most mail is not getting RE'd, then it's because it's the lost needle in the haystack. Send your fake profile an email. Is it identical to all the others?
Although one could work on building some kind of super sterioded profile that gets big-time results (I only spent about an hour on my latest creation, so that my partially explain the relatively number of emails received), I can't imagine this is easier or less time consuming than just crafting an email that gets results.
Pic with really generic male profile seems to generate a couple emails per week in and of itself. If I add a blog entry this goes up to about an extra 2 emails, usually received within 24 hours of the new blog entry.
Same pic with improved profile generates about six emails per week in and of itself (with me contacting no users). Again, blog entry will add about an extra 2 emails within 24 hours then it's usually back to normal.
Generic female profile with pic of fairly average woman (6.5) generates 6 emails within 24 hours. LOL. My results did vary quite a bit depending on the site though. I did not find the outragious claims gurus often site, but still 6 a day is quite a bit for someone who is making absolutely no effort to build a descent profile, promotoe the profile, or even bother to send a wink.
So anyway, let's see what we got in Miss Clause's mailbag:
First, pretty much none of the people using online dating seem to incorporate anything remotely interesting into the username. To me, this is blowing a big chance to get noticed in the inbox. Only maybe occasionally will someone bother to use a cool city in their name to draw someone in, nothing more than that have I noticed. They also use their real (boring) names like Bob or Bill, SNOOORING, I'd actually get my name legally changed if my parents did this to me for my own personal satisfaction if nothing else.
Nice guy rants. Man, there are tons of these tools out there. A good 30% of guys are sending emails about how nice they are, some even talk about their mothers in the first email (LOL), and they are often 500 miles away. Why would anyone other than a desperate man want to try meeting someone 500 miles away! That's just insasne.
Sending a list of qualifications with no real content or ever actually speaking to the person being written to. This screams boring or copy-n-paste job, maybe both.
Men saying if things go well the woman can come live with them. They are going to let strange women from 1,000 miles away move in? Why? That's dangerous and totally unselective!
Finally, guys who admit they suck with women and want to pay all a woman's expenses and she can still "date other guys" as long as she's willing to stay with him. I kid you not, thephoney profile got several variants of this, as well as the (at least more respectable) man seeking a trio. LOL.
Now, I see why it has always been so easy to get poon off Internet chicks
Seriously if anyone on the forum uses dating sites, I really suggest creating a fake account just to see exactly what kind of stuff is typically floating around out there. I think it also highlights how easy it is to avoid these things and differentiate.
A properly generated email, only sent to users who have logged in within the last 3 days, should have an extremely high rate of getting RE'd. If most mail is not getting RE'd, then it's because it's the lost needle in the haystack. Send your fake profile an email. Is it identical to all the others?
Although one could work on building some kind of super sterioded profile that gets big-time results (I only spent about an hour on my latest creation, so that my partially explain the relatively number of emails received), I can't imagine this is easier or less time consuming than just crafting an email that gets results.
