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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Grant and I just got stopped on the street by a lovely woman named Isabel, who spotted my Card Caddie business card holder. We got started chatting about Lovebug — she was particularly fascinated and almost disbelieving that we had met on Craigslist. All in all, it was a fun little conversation, in which we both got spontaneous stranger hugs!
There are worse ways to spend a Saturday night. After having been out of the country for two weeks, and off the radar for waaaay longer, it sure was nice to get a bit of positive business interaction!
Hopefully it’ll spur me on to bigger and better things come the new year. As it is, I’m busily working on a Lovebug book, and trying to get through all the holiday travels and parties without getting too frazzled or going broke!
Happy holidays and hugs to everyone… I hope to be back to consulting more often come January!
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Tags: card caddie, consultation, consulting, Isabel, networking, online dating, Ravenna
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Man, I get a little rush of relief and joy when I see that people are still posting ads like this one and this one on Craigslist. I love being reminded that, despite the bad press and whatnot, Craiglsist continues to serve as a great source of somewhat “alternate” personal ads — and free ones at that. Keep the creativity coming, folks!
Posted in Craigslist, Online Dating, Our Terrible Economy, Personal Ads | No Responses »
Tags: best of craigslist, Craigslist, craigslsit best-of, dating ads, online ads, online dating, Personal Ads
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Man, I have been MIA! Wanna know why? A: Because EVERYONE is getting married this year. Seriously, I think my fiancé and I are headed to my seventh (his eighth) wedding of the season next week. Yowza! We’ve barely had a second to do any planning of our own wedding, let alone consulting or blogging or other fun stuff!
But this story was so cute and heartwarming that it dragged me out of my blogging sabbatical. To every single client who has expressed the feeling that they are “too old” to have any success with online dating: NUH-UH!
If a pair of 83-year-olds can boldly jump into the online scene and *get married*, no less, I think it’s safe to say you’re never too old. Good hunting, daters!
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Tags: engagement, Match.com, online dating, weddings
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
…And their altruistic/mischevious guerrilla marketing. I was parked at the Southcenter Mall for a couple hours this afternoon, and when I got to my car, look what I discovered! Some kids had taken it upon themselves to remove most of the cards in my Card Caddies, and stick them under the wipers of other cars in the parking lot.
At least, I assume it was kids. That’s exactly the sort of generous yet snarky thing my friends and I would do in our bored, antsy, mildly rebellious teen years. Heh.
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Tags: card caddie, cars, flier, internet dating, kids, marketing, marketing flier, marketing promo, mischevious, mischief, online dating, online love, parking, parking lot, promotion, promotional blurb, rebellion, southcenter mall, teenage, teenagers, tukwila, tukwila mall, vehicle, westfield mall
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Hey Seattle singles! I’ve joined up with some other dating-minded entrepreneurs from Biznik to help plan a singles mixer sometime this summer. Please check out our survey, even if mixers aren’t your thing — hopefully we can learn how to change that. :) I’ll keep you posted with details as they come together. Thank you!
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Tags: dating Seattle, mixer, online dating, online love, seattle, Seattle dating, singles, singles mixer
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
In the next few weeks, a really neat movie is going to start to come together. Biznik put together a film called SHINE, which is all about how small businesses are going to be what lifts us out of this recession/depression era.
Personally, I think half the battle is approaching things in a new light — not constantly muttering how terrible things are and how bad our economy is. But there’s definitely more to it than that.
My own bit at SHINE was mostly about how I’m seeing business boom lately, despite the recession — my theory is that people are no longer willing to sit back and allow their lives to be unsatisfactory. Once they wind up laid off from their job, they’re taking the initiative to search for something more meaningful and soul-fulfilling — in this case, finding love!
I love being a part of that search, and I hope this economic crisis has provided the opportunity for some people to re-examine their priorities and move their emotional happiness up a bit on the list! I’ll post a full clip of my interview once it’s done being edited.
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Tags: Biznik, dating, depression, economic, economic crisis, economics, economy, emotional, emotions, fulfillment, happiness, love, online dating, recession, SHINE, soul mate, true love
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Man, I just hate it when an ad I post for a client winds up getting flagged and removed on Craigslist. Sure, sometimes it’ll happen for some minor Terms of Service violation, and I realize that that’s valid.
But MOST of the time, when one of my creations gets flagged and removed, it’s because someone out there is bitter and unhappy. In chatting with other daters who’ve seen this phenomenon, we’ve determined that it comes from a certain sub-section of Craigslist users — those who are so unhappy with their own romantic lives (or lack thereof) that their only satisfaction comes from raining a little misery onto the dating lives of other users.
To them, I say: give me a call! We CAN help lift you out of that misery and find you a match made in heaven — perhaps someone with whom you can eat ice cream in front of the treadmill window at the gym. :)
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Tags: Craigslist, cursing, e-dating, flag, flagged, flagged and removed, inappropriate, internet dating, online dating, profanity, swearing, terms of service
