Even if you do like long walks on the beach and a glass of wine at sunset… Who cares? Don’t say it… You have to spark interest before you move to the next step.

A very successful message I’ve used in the past was this:

You sound perfect… Let’s run off to Vegas and get married… Or, we could start with chatting back and forth to see if we like each other first… Then, if you’re lucky, I might agree to meet you for some coffee… … Anyway… I hope you’ve had a great day… I look forward to hearing from you soon…

Later,

Brian

The most important thing about dating in general is to have fun.

Perhaps your readers will benefit from an article I posted about online dating tips from a women here: http://www.yangtown.com/what-women-want/tips-on-online-dating-from-a-woman/

Cheers,

Ryan

As for the online photo thing, I know no matter what type of site be it networking, dating etc I never leave my photo because I honastly don’t have any of me. Funny that? Must be the photography syndrome I like taking pictures of people, places, animals and don’t like my picture being taken I guess.

But I can see how it can be important to the dating scene, kind of breaks that ‘blind-date’ situation if they are truthful with their photo. And as much as people say they don’t alot still ‘judge a book by its cover’