Always on the lookout for new and better information, I am. I’m like your own personal Web surfer, looking for the newest and best information on writing personals ads.
There’s tons of free advice out there. Go ahead and Google how to write a personals ad. Lookit! There’s 47 million pages just waiting for you to read them!
Let me summarize what about 47 million of those pages say, so we can get the free advice out of the way:
- Complete your profile in full
- Add photographs
- Don’t be obnoxious
- Don’t get too specific in what you’re looking for
- Don’t swear
- Don’t talk about boinking
- Don’t be boring
- Be yourself
- Reply in a reasonable amount of time
- Don’t get all negative about how much life/dating/your job/your mom’s basement/anything made with bran sucks
There! That’s all you need, right? Now go write a spectacular personal ad!
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You’re right. That “free advice” didn’t help.
So, if you can’t lie, can’t talk about wanting to bang her like a screen door, and can’t whine about life, what the hell else IS there to write about?
Yep, that’s the fix you’re in Charlie.
THIS is why you need a system for writing ads. Because everyone who tells you “how to write a personals ad” doesn’t tell you jack about how to write ads! They give you tips. You know what else is a tip? Don’t self-immolate. That’s a tip. Good one, too! But it doesn’t tell you squat about what to do if your life ain’t working the way you want it to.
Do you think Ian (last post) read these free tips before crafting his so-painfully-sucky-that-I-wanted-to-stab-myself-in-the-eye-just-so-I-didn’t-have-to-look-at-it-anymore ad before writing it? Probably! That’s why you need my book.
I’m really trying not to get all sales-y, but sometimes, the free crap that’s out there just gets my goat. (Can I use that phrase even though I’m not 80? I hope so.)
Stop reading tips. Read something that will actually give you the straight goods (and a dead-simple system) for what you SHOULD write about. M’kay?
Now please ’scuse me, as I’m on my way out on a date. Yes, with a girl I met online. Third date! Wish me luck!
