How to Write a Dating Profile

Two of the commonest questions on dating site forums is “ How to Write a Dating Profile” or How to Create a Dating Profile”.

The time you spend on writing a great profile will pay off many times over, it’s what will make the difference between people reading through to the edn or giving up halfway through and moving on to someone else’s profile.

The first thing to say is that you don’t need to be an expert writer or a great salesperson to be able to start a dating profile. There are ten main steps to writing or creating a really good dating profile, we’ll list the main steps then go into some of them in more depth in future articles:

1. Be honest
2. Be extra honest
3. be honest but not too much information
4. avoid writing clichés
5. do a draft with a random list of things about yourself
6. don’t put down online dating
7. don’t over try – it will be apparent you are trying too hard
8. be as specific as possible about the type of person you want
9. try to add a little humour
10. try to show you are a positive type of person

On top of this check and double check your spelling and grammar, some people who you may really like could be easily put off if there are loads of typos and poor grammar.

Don’t panic, stay calm and tell yourself – “Just be me and relaxed” and that will come across in your profile.

One of the worst things in profiles is where a person has left loads of blanks or just one word answers. It puts across a feeling of “couldn’t be bothered” and people will just move on to profiles which are more informative and interesting.

So as you can see, the question: “How to Write a Dating Profile” isn’t too hard to answer!