YourTango Bootcamp guys and gals – this one’s for you! An extreme profile makeover!
Online Dating Profile still tricky no matter how many tips you read? Do you need an example of how a fun, flirty profile gets designed?
A favorite client of mine, lets call her Dyna(mo) was struggling through the Wonderful Online Dating world that I lovingly call The Toad Kingdom. She’s a fascinating woman with so much to offer. BUT … she was attracting all the wrong men.
Men still wanting to be breast fed …
Men still living in Mom’s basement …
Men seen on last night’s America’s Most Wanted …
She asked me to take a peek into her profile and help her figure out what she could do better (she even said I could share it with you – WOOT!).
Ms. Dyna is a lively, comedic young woman of barely 40, so she wanted to attract a man with a great deal of passion and energy in his life. Thinking that meant younger, she wrote towards Generation-Y. Nothing at all wrong with that, but if you are looking for James Bond he was a bit older.
As you will see from the profile, the handsome Gen-Xers and borderline Boomers were missing out on a fabulous broad based on misperception of immaturity …
Ms Dyna writes …
I live a quiet life in a small, village in the mountains with my 2 dogs (it’s my cover, really)… As being in the big city fuels my energy and and fascination with art, culture and above all: CHAOS! (btw… I am not Italian, I am CANADIAN)
See, I hope to meet someone active with similar interests, for cultivating a friendship and maybe one day a good relationship. BUT OK, in all honestly if you are a mad-scientist (or similar) striving for the greater good for all humanity, carrying the torch with Amnesty International, riding the waves with Greenpeace, a simple Super-Hero, or at least a mutant à la X-Men (I LOVE X-Men), then we shall get along fabulously. As I am “super loyal” and would make an awesome side-kick/partner in crime (the Robin Hood variety), and an edgy kind of accessory to your infinite coolness. But YOU HAVE TO like dogs – specifically my English Setters, (even if they shed their fur all over your trousers, and super-hero gear), because they are MY sidekicks and I love them to bits.
I like to keep active ie. leaping over tall buildings, hiking, running semi-regularly, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important to me… (although Sundays I will make an exception as “The Feast of a Canadian’s Sunday Brunch” is sacred.)
I ‘m not permanently ‘nailed down’ to my location so welcome corresponding with Super-Heros of foreign lands – OUTSIDE ITALY, as who knows where life can take you, right? (One sec, I’ll grab my jet-pack.)
As you all see – she cracks me (and herself) up. But we needed to find a balance between the comedic elegance that she actually offers up.
Over the next week, we will examine her her humor and her goals as well as her human-to-dog ratio. This time next week, she’ll have a shiny new essay to support her gorgeous photos.
Stay tuned …
And if you would like to see another mouthwatering Extreme Makeover – check out the end of my eBook
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And for a peek at my own journey through the Toad Kingdom, enjoy the first chapter of my memoir – The Art of Toad Kissing - here on the website. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it …
xoxo
Heidi Lee