How to Get a Date Online

How to Get a Date Online

Russ Ruggles | Dating, Dating Profile Strategy, Dating Profile Writing, First Contact, First Date, Match, Online Dating, Tips & Advice, Writing Messages
So, you've made first contact with someone of interest (hopefully you used the who's viewed me shuffle and/or the one-line hook), and now you want to go on a date with them. Here are a few guidelines on how to do that. First of all, it's better to meet very early on tha
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Rejection and Online Dating

Rejection and Online Dating

Russ Ruggles | Dating, First Date, Match, Online Dating, Tips & Advice
I got a really great question from one of you folks about rejection. I don't like rejection, either receiving or dishing it out, but the latter a lot more so. If a woman winks and you're not interested how should you deal with it?  Click "not interested", send a messa
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Follow-up Messages for Online Dating

Follow-up Messages for Online Dating

Russ Ruggles | Online Dating, Tips & Advice, Video, Writing Messages
Able to get a response to your online dating e-mails, but don't know what to do next? I'll talk about that in this video: Note that I talk about the one-line hook for writing a great first online dating message.
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Get “Winks” on Match with the “Who’s Viewed Me” Shuffle

Russ Ruggles | Dating, First Contact, Match, Online Dating, Online Dating Sites, Screencasts, Tips & Advice, Video, Writing Messages
Here's a video demonstrating the "Who's Viewed Me" Shuffle, a Match.com searching technique that will get women to wink at you, thus conserving your resources and getting her to express interest in you. This puts you in a more favorable position when writing that first
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What Song is Your Dating Site?

What Song is Your Dating Site?

Russ Ruggles | Dating, Match, Online Dating, Online Dating Sites
My last post where I mentioned that different sites had "genres" got me thinking. If a dating site is a song, what song would it be? Use this guide to find what dating site is right for you. Match.com: "Toxic" by Britney Spears' I don't say this to imply that Matc
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Match.com Dating Site Review

Match.com Dating Site Review

Russ Ruggles | Match, Online Dating, Online Dating Sites
There's a pretty extensive overview of Match.com's membership features and pricing, as well as other reviews of online dating sites, written by Bonny Albo, over at About.com. Bonny ranked OkCupid as the top dating site, supposedly because it is a fun site, and free.
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Match Winks: an Overview

Match Winks: an Overview

Russ Ruggles | Dating, First Contact, Match, Online Dating, Tips & Advice
I get a lot of questions from faithful readers about Match.com's "Wink" feature. Is it okay to use? What do you do if someone winks at you? What if you wink at someone and they don't wink back? For the guys, let me summarize it with this photo: Well, that's re
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What Online Daters Can Learn from Marketers

What Online Daters Can Learn from Marketers

Russ Ruggles | Writing Messages
Unless you live completely off the grid (though you probably wouldn't be on this website), you probably buy things at one point or another. Whether you like it or not, your purchases are influenced by marketers. Someone identified you as a potential customer, developed
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What online dating questions are okay to not answer?

What online dating questions are okay to not answer?

Russ Ruggles | Dating, Dating Profile Photos, Dating Profile Strategy, Dating Profile Writing, Match, Online Dating, Tips & Advice
I came across something I hadn't seen before: a woman's profile who left her "body type" blank. Nuh uh, I said - you have to answer that one for me to consider you! Of course, I know enough about looking out for the angles, that it's hard to fool me when it comes
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Questions to ask on a date

Questions to ask on a date

Russ Ruggles | Dating, First Date, Tips & Advice
One of these days, I'll get around to writing a well-thought-out post on actually going on dates, but until then, check out Seth's post on questions to ask on a date, over at The Dating Papers. He'll tell you about Flash Factor, Need Factor, and Trunk Factor. While you'
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