Great online dating profiles are like great road trips

Great online dating profiles are like great road trips.

Now, a great road trip can be a lot of things to a different people, so let me explain what I’m talking about, and how exactly, your profile should be like one.

1) No matter what anyone says, you do need some direction. Your destination can be fluid, but you always have to have somewhere in mind to keep pointing your car towards. Your profile is the same way. It needs to point to something. You are taking your readers on a journey through an image of your life, not just floating around a few vague points.

2) Every pit stop is an opportunity for some fun. If you are on a 2 or 3 day drive, and don’t take the opportunity to have some fun along the way, you won’t remember a damn thing about the trip. If on the other hand, you slow down and see “Utah’s biggest chicken” or the license place museum... those are going to be fun events that stay in your mind long after the trip is over. Your profile has be spruced up with the same fun events. It can’t just be your resume, it has to have some “local character”.

3) Every major stop... err... every paragraph, is a new place that has to offer the reader something new. If every city along the way was the same, it would be one boring trip. Each paragraph should be new and distinct, so the reader knows that if they keep going, they’ll keep getting to learn and see more.

4) Scenery is important. Interesting and diverse scenery is good. 1200 miles of plains is hell! In your profile, keep your scenery, and by scenery I mean descriptive stories and images, varied and interesting. You don’t have to go heavy handed, you just have to spice up each paragraph a little to keep the reader’s mind engaged.

Hope that helps you define your profile a little bit.
Now... my bags are packed, waiting by the door, and I’ve got a 1200 mile drive ahead of me (which is why this newsletter is so short) for some sun and surfing. Yes, I could have flown, but there’s something good seeing it all from the ground. What would you like me to bring you back? A little snowglobe with a pelican in it or a keychain, with a scorpion incased in resin in the handle?

Have a great weekend!

Dylan Alexander

PS. $4 a gallon? Argh!

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