slizl Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Hello Loveshack! I have been a member for a little over a month now and I have seen quite a few posts about OLD. I wanted to share what I put in my profile (and why) that got me a couple of women messaging me a week as well as giving women some easy conversation starters to message me back after my initial message. Disclaimer: Don't get me wrong, I only had about a 20% responce rate from women who i initiated conversation with, but I feel like that number would have been less with a typical profile. Back to the story...After joining match, and reading through hundreds of profiles, I realized one common problem, all the profiles were exactly alike with no real way to start a conversation. Here is your typical profile (who doesnt love this stuff???): -Love to vacation -Love my family -Love wine -Love my friends This must be the person for me, right? All kidding aside, these profiles are super generic and hard to write to! Where was your favorite vacation to? Do you have any siblings? What is your favorite type of wine? Those would be some standard emails that I would send out, but I am sure 100 other men messaged them with the exact same thing. I wanted to focus on conversation starters in my profile to see if I could get some responces. Here was my profile: Interesting facts about me: - Completed 30 days of P90X once - I am the best bowler I know, no joke - When I order Fireball shots at the bar, it's time for me to be cut off - Airplanes scare the crap out of me - I hate avocado, shocking I know - Some nights I amaze myself how good I am at Jeopardy There were a few other ones on there, but you get the point. You would be surprised how many messages I got for not liking avocado! Literally 75% of the messages or responces that I received had mentioned that. Women who initiated challenged me to bowling, said they were scared of airplanes too, some loved fireball, etc. Anyway, I think my point is (or at least what worked for me) to be more personal. All of these interesting facts are softballs for women to respond to. Not once did I say how I love to travel the globe or how much I love my family (like everyone else). Divulge something personal about yourself that people can actually respond to and connect with you about. Just my two cents :/ Link to post Share on other sites
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