Periodically I purge my profile from all dating sites. It’s refreshing on a personal level and and a good idea for my consulting business.
Recently I deleted myself from all paid dating sites and all free sites except PlentyOfFish and OKCupid (a guy’s gotta date). I was spending thousands of dollars a year on dating site fees, which doesn’t make as much sense for me these days. I also wanted to go through the signup process at several sites for a research project I’m working on.
I’ve decided on a new policy. If you want me to look at, review or otherwise pay attention to your dating site, you should create a username and password and send it to me. If you don’t have to, don’t fill out my profile, just create an account so I can log in, poke around and get a sense of your site. If your site is subscription-based, create and account with a month free or three.
This may sound lazy, but I get at least 20 emails a week from dating sites asking for feedback or a mention and these days I’m all about time management. That’s an hour or more of my time spent slogging through signup forms and I want that hour back to work with clients, blog more and continue my industry and media outreach, which is going incredibly well these days.
Soon enough we’ll have a unified profile to use on most dating sites and this won’t be necessary, right?
Send the url, username and password via the contact form.
