How to write personals that attract great singles.

This personals writing workshop will help you focus on creating an ad that will attract as many of the right responses as possible.

After all, isn't that why you want to use a dating site - to meet people that you will connect with?

The workshop is divided into six parts:

1. Getting started - congratulations, you got started
2. Who you are - writing appealing personal ads
3. Who you want -the single women or men you'd like to meet
4. Your headline - getting singles' attention
5. Good examples - personals that worked
6. Summing it all up. Hey, at least read this.


Ok, now you know what's ahead. Let's dive right in:

When you sign up for many of the major dating services, you are asked at the beginning to fill out a profile "sheet" which includes space to write your ad.

What do you say?

Well, you can say anything, and everything... but good personals, the ones that are going to get a lot more responses are the ones that usually spell out, in no uncertain terms:

Who YOU are, and

Who you want

And that is the gist of it - the basic idea: you want to tell those eligible singles out there what you are about, and you want do so honestly. Then, you want to say exactly what kind of man or woman you are looking for.

Hey, you are doing this for you, so why not ask for things you like?


Before you start writing personals, do this little exercise: grab a piece of paper, and make two lists.

The first list should be of things that you feel like any singles ought to know about you before they get in touch with you. The other, a list of qualities that you are looking for in a potential mate.

Just write a list of points at first, don't write a book. We'll look at the best way to put those points into beautiful prose in the next few pages.

Next: writing about yourself, making your personal ads truly appealing


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