After much nail-biting and pacing, youve finally made the decision to join an online dating service. Now you face the seemingly monumental task of writing your personals ad. Sheesh, you say. How do I do thisespecially when the personals youve taken the time to read through are so, well, lets be honest, awful. All those abbreviations! All those long paragraphs! All the fluff that a over-sexed seventh-grade boy could see right through!
The trick to writing personals ads that get noticed are to be original and creative when it comes to writing yours. Think about it. Does a Volkswagen ad read like a Mercedes ad?
Of course not. Thats because though theyre both cars, they are completely different carsjust like two short, blonde women or two tall, brunette men. Other than sharing some physical characteristics and being the same sex, theyre going to be as different as a BMW and a Jeep.
So before you even start pecking away at the keyboard, think of yourself as a brand. This is easier for most people if they stick with the car metaphor. If you were a car, what kind would you be? If you consider yourself to be a Beemer, then your personals ad should be written to...