Online dating has made it 100 times easier for guys to get some action. Here are 3 quick tips that will make it SUPER easy to get dates from the Internet.
Online dating is your last frontier. You’ve seen my articles about approaching women in public, you know how to go out and score at the clubs, and you’ve mastered the skill of building sexual tension with a girl so skillfully and subtly that she can’t help but melt at your advances like a frog in a pot of boiling water.
Helllloooo laaaddiiiies!
But for some reason you just can’t crack online dating.
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I’ll be the first to admit that online dating is an entirely different ballgame than pursuing women in the clubs, and I’m not going to sugar coat things by lying and telling you it’s easy. But part of the fun of pursuing women is in the challenge, and if you’re up for developing a new skill in dating, then turning your focus to the digital world is where it’s at.
We have even more hotkeys we want to teach you if you know what we mean..
Even though online dating is a more difficult skill to master, it has several advantages over bringing home girls from the club. You can do it from the comfort of your own home. You can do it when you’re not feeling well enough to go to the club. You can do it on Tuesday when all the good clubs are closed.
The biggest advantage? The women are higher quality. That’s right: if you’re looking for relationship compatibility and not just sex, online dating is a must have in your tool belt.
Going to the club and paying for $12 beers or chatting with her… mmmmm decisions decisions…
If you’re ready to face that last frontier and become a true master of dating, here are three things that every man MUST have to be successful in online dating:
1) A Good Picture
NOT a good picture.
DON’T try to rely on good looks by posting bathroom selfies of your abs or try to disguise yourself by relying on pictures of dogs and scenery. Bathroom selfies make a guy look self absorbed and douchey, and not even being visible in your picture raises major red flags.
Nothing suspect here… I mean his interest do include “hittin da gym”
DO be the most interesting man she’s ever looked at. Use a picture of you on your motorcycle. Put up a picture of that time you hung out with robot mimes in front of the Louvre, or that time you went ziplining through the Peruvian jungle. It’s important that she knows what you look like, but it’s MORE important that she knows she can have a good time with you. At the very least a cool picture is a great conversation starter, but when she looks in her inbox and sees a picture of a guy robot miming while riding a motorcycle down a zipline in the Peruvian jungle, she’s also more likely to click on that profile. Okay, you don’t have to go quite that extreme, but you get my point: make your profile picture so interesting that she can’t help but click on your profile to see the story behind the man who created it.
Interesting AND a family man.
BONUS POINTS: She’s flicking through thousands of pictures of different guys making the same poses in front of their bathroom mirror, and you’re going to stand out. By having a different kind of picture from the zillions of other men out there, she’s less likely to scroll past you and less likely to ignore your messages simply because her eyes will pause for an extra second on the guy who did something nobody else did.
2) Your Profile
DON’T lie so thoroughly that it looks like you’re running for political office. It’s tempting to weave a fantasy world where you’re more attractive than you think you really are, but that’s a disaster waiting to happen. The only thing you’re going to end up with are girls you’re not interested in trying to contact you, or girls you are interested in finding out that you’re not who you say you are.
DO be clear and honest about your passions, who you are, and what you’re looking for. If you’re a very active and outdoorsy guy, it’s probably a good idea to bring that up so that the couch potatoes will keep on scrolling. If you’re only looking for something casual, say so, because it’s not fair to you or to the girl to string her along and make her think you want something that you don’t. It’s not necessary to be so brutally honest that you include the fact you wet the bed until the age of twelve, but you’ll do yourself a favor in weeding out the girls who aren’t your type by letting your profile speak about the real you instead of some fantasy version that you think will work better. It won’t. After all, what will you do if you say you love rock climbing and a hot girl wants to take you rock climbing with her, but you’ve never hit the cliffs a day in your life? What if things get serious with a girl and she finds out you had a child you didn’t tell her about? Avoid the trouble by not creating any in the first place.
This is an example of being tooo honest.
BONUS POINTS: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. You can try all you want to make yourself out to be some kind of superhuman who holds three PhDs, performs in Cirque du Soleil, and de-worms orphans in Somalia, but only the dumbest rock in the box is going to buy that story. By having a profile that comes from an honest place, you’ll make a girl feel more comfortable talking to a trustworthy guy like you because she’s not going to think you’re trying to catfish her.
Don’t be this guy.
3) Your Opening Line
DON’T do what everyone else is doing. By that I mean don’t rely on canned lines, don’t stop after hello, and don’t be a slimeball. There are thousands more men than women using online dating sites, so she WILL have heard your borrowed material, she WILL get 100 messages in her inbox just like yours with nothing more than “hello”, and she WILL screenshot your creepy messages to ridicule you on social media.
We rest our case.
And definitely DON’T USE THESE CREEPY YELLOW FEVER LINES!
DO pay attention, be original, and either make her smile, make her laugh, or make her think. Don’t just tell her she’s hot—every guy does that—tell her that she looks absolutely stunning in that butterfly dress in her profile picture. It sounds both more genuine and like you’re actually paying attention. Don’t try telling her some corny and overused joke about a chicken crossing the road—she’s not fourteen years old any more—tell her that something you read in her profile reminded her of something you did in college one time that was totally hilarious. You’ll get brownie points for paying attention to her profile and for telling her something she’s never heard before. Don’t send her your rambling treatise about chemtrails and global warming—even if she is interested in the topic, nobody wants an encyclopedia in their inbox—ask her for her opinion on something she can talk about, like a thought-provoking topic she mentions in her profile or something that happened in a favorite television show she mentions.
Not the best first impression.
BONUS POINTS: Pay attention. Far and away the best way to get a girl to agree to meet you is to start by getting her to talk to you, and the most effective way to do that is to actually read her profile. Millions of men browse through these sites and message girls based on their looks alone without ever looking at the girl’s profile. But by bringing up something from her profile, you’re not only separating yourself from the creeps, you’re also validating her efforts and telling her she’s worth being interested in.
Written by Cindy Young