My business picks up dramatically in January and February. I don’t do any extra marketing, but people feel this immense pressure and drive to get paired up based on New Year’s Resolutions and Valentine’s Day. I think some of it also comes from riding the Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve gauntlet that usually comes with increased family time and romantic scrutiny …
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Hi lovebirds! Happy Valentine’s Day, or as my friend Jen likes to call it, “VD.” (By the way, she and I are Valentine Twinsies this year—we both plan to stay in, cook steaks, and watch House of Cards Season 2 on Netflix.) Even though I think this is a bit of a silly holiday, I tend to feel that you …
Get that hair done.
Aly Walansky over at The Fashion Spot quoted me in an article yesterday! The piece is called Post Breakup, Recover and Fuel the Passion for YOU. Here’s my contribution: Pamper Yourself Go for a blowout, get a pedicure. Go out for drinks with friends and take tons of sexy photos. “That brighter, hotter, happy you is going to make for fantastic online dating profile material once you’re …
New Year’s resolutions about Valentine’s Day
Business has been ON FIRE lately. I’m so stoked to be working this much and helping this many people! I have a sneaking suspicion the spike is largely due to new year’s resolutions. Just around the corner is Valentine’s Day, too, so that’ll be New Client Spike 2 if my online dating spidey senses are correct. (I’m already bracing myself for …
Why you shouldn’t pay for eHarmony Plus
Ever since I’ve started seeing trailers for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, I’ve also seen a plethora of links about eHarmony’s new Plus service. This is a new offering in which you pay an expert $5,000 to be your personal online dating… surrogate. They call it a ‘matchmaking professional,’ but in many ways, it’s also a surrogate. Or an …
Happy iPhone Day! (Now get into a relationship.)
Hi y’all! Hope your iPhone Day is going well, haha. I’m in Portland, meeting with clients and networking (ugh, kill that verb) with people who came to XOXOfest, and hopefully buying a tax free iPhone 5S as you read this. 🙂 You may not have seen my blog posts about it, but I think iPhones are a handy singles connection …
How to take great solo selfies
SELFIES. There, I said it. I hate that word, but I hated “spam” and “blog” too and also get off my lawn. So, let’s embrace the neologism and take SELFIES! There are a few reasons for this post. One is that I have many past, current, and hopefully future clients who could legitimately use these tips. Two is that Mashable …
“Big Dick” and “I wanna make sex up on you”
Yeah, I just named my post that, and I’m REALLY looking forward to seeing the search engine queries and spam comments that result. Without further ado: to the content! I hope y’all all had an awesome Labor Day weekend! Grant and I had a most excellent time, especially since we got Friday off too. But we did have one extremely …
Deconstructing the Joke
I had such a great time recording episode 8 of The Heartographer Podcast, with my very special guest Matthew Baldwin! He’s sometimes better known as Defective Yeti, and he’s been a funny guy on the Internet since most of you guys knew what the word blog meant. (Myself included.) Matthew was good enough to make time to chat with me …
32 SWF ISO podcast co-host!
Hey y’all, I’m taking a bit of a break today since I’m going through some lame medical stuff that puts sleep at the top of my to-do list. But I wanted to fire off a quick lil’ post and let you know about this fascinating Medium piece by Casey Johnston! She does a great analysis comparing the specific wording of …