DatingHeadshots and Honesty Online have announced a strategic partnership to provide daters with the tools they want to make online dating more fun and successful. Disclaimer, I work with both companies. Through this new partnership, DatingHeadshots and Honesty Online address two areas that have disappointed users — unreliable photos and inaccurate personal information.
DatingHeadshots, an industry leader in online dating photography, offers professional photo shoots that produce accurate, yet flattering photos to post on a dater’s profile. Honesty Online, a leader in online identity verification, provides a secure identity credential so daters can share verified personal information, such as a dater’s age.
Full press release.
This is a terrific partnership. I’ve been working hard to get complimentary companies to work together while pitching their services to online dating sites. Both startups and established dating sites need an a la carte menu of services to choose from. Right now the online dating business development process seems pretty broken and I hope to change that.
Dating sites often don’t have the technical resources to implement third-party technology solutions, but thankfully this new crop of partners have made integration and implementation much easier than say a generation ago.
Ric Fleisher of Honesty Online was on Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show today talking about the company. I spent the 4th of July weekend hanging out with both companies, exciting things are coming, I’ll keep you posted.
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Giving the quality of the photo some of our dating site members submit I think having a professional photography company like dating head shot is fantastic, I hope the extend their services to UK in the not too distant future.
To tell you the truth you are right about ating sites often don’t have the technical resources to implement third-party technology solutions Now a days , well, I can say Dating is all time HOT subject and millions of people try to make money onilne with it they doing blogs/articles/websites/dating product you named it..
As far as I know most users get disappointed when they try to search online dating or something related to Dating..
Professional photos with styling will never == accurate. DatingHeadshots doesn’t solve the single problem that it claims to exist in order to address.
In general I think overly-flattering photos are a bad idea. Wouldn’t you rather have someone choose to date you based on your epistolatorially-expressed personality rather than your appearance and then have her register delightful surprise when you’re better-looking than she imagined?
Our genes has sadly programmed us to respond to ‘attractiveness’ of the opposite sex as the very first criteria for considering them as a potential mate. Whilst you argument is a fantastic one for deep thinking person, who can see past appearance, may of us still judge on ‘attractiveness’ so a flattering photography that bring out you good attributes can make the difference between getting a date and not getting one.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a few nice photos of yourself in your profile. The key to your issue is to not have all photos be pro shots.
Dave,
I agree on a number of levels. In my mind more than a few issues exist. 1) Does it display the date of the photo. 2) Are they airbrushing the photos? 3) On a separate note, I think it’s ok to have one or two professional shots, but you know the adage — a picture is worth 1000 words — well, what story does a professional headshot tell someone?
I think it’s VERY important to have at least one “real life shot” preferably one of you doing something you enjoy. After all, I’d rather see a picture of someone out dancing, playing softball, etc., instead of just reading about their hobbies in their profile. And often — there’s so much more “depth” to a REAL photo as opposed to a forced one in a photography studio.
Overall, I think this could be a fantastic deal for owners of dating sites.
I think it looks to be a great service however I do agree that there should be a mixture of professional and regular shots.
I think a lot of scammers use professional photos and model photos stolen from websites to entice people. I think a lot of people don’t trust professional photos because it looks too good. Most regular folks only have access to a regular camera, if you can afford a modeling photo, then the women probably doesn’t need to be on a dating site and its likely a scammer. If a woman is truly beautiful, she will look good in any regular photo.
All photos should be verified with some background check to limit the scamers or even deter completely.
Its a nice idea but all photos will never be verified. That will scare away people who click links and drive advertising traffic.