Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering A Pizza – Book Review and Giveaway
January 19, 2009 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Relationships
I just finished reading, Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering a Pizza, by Cherie Burbach.
Cherie shares advice on all aspects of setting up your online profile, including your pictures, your essay, your intro, and your search wording. She talks about the next steps – making contact, dating, etc.
She writes in a conversational manner that is easy and entertaining to read. I don’t read a lot of nonfiction books, because my work is nonfiction and I’m immersed in facts and theories and products all day. I found Cherie’s book to be fun and I’m using her ideas to tweak my profile.
She gives great advice on that initial email, for example, keep it simple, direct, and to the point. Make a standard opener and go with it. I’m not good at the initial email – I let them come to me and I think it’s time to change that approach. With Cherie’s tips I’m going to come up with something succinct and reach out to more men. (Reach out to more men? That came out oddly…….) In addition, I have to be less afraid of rejection, because the more people I talk to, the more chances I have to find someone great. Burbach, herself, went on 60 dates in 6 months before finding her Mr. Right online – and then she married him.
In addition to writing books on dating and poetry, Cherie Burbach blogs here at b5media. You can find her at Career and Kids and the entertainment blog, JLo Stalker, among others.
Cherie is allowing me the opportunity to giveaway one of her books here at Dating Dames. If you’d like to enter the Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering a Pizza giveaway, please leave a comment that has something to do with internet dating – either a tip or a story. I will be announcing the winner of the book later in the week.
Image credit: Barnes and Noble.com
I find it difficult to date online.
be patient when choosing a date
I have been looking on the internet for Mr. Right for 4 yrs now. I still have not found him, but I am not going to give up. There is someone out there for me – I just know it. So Thanks for writing a book to give us all a little help. Finding Mr. Right is like finding a needle in a haystack and us single gals need all the help we can get.
Be careful. Yes, I have a friend who met her wonderful husband this way. I have another friend who is currently having a lot of problems as the reult of an on-line relationship. (Her friends, including me, think he’s either married or psycho. Either way, we’re advising her to get the heck out!) Go slowly!!
I have friends pushing me to try online dating but I’ve been very leary of it.
It sounds like a great read for me.
I beg to differ though about ordering pizzas.
For my bro, he ordered what he wanted from the expensive dating site,
and they both found the perfect match
(each other)
and have been married 3 years already.
I haven’t done any internet dating since about 1996. Ended up with a good Scrabble partner but nothing else. Can this book help me to get back into?
I met my fiance on a social networking web site as well as some of my best friends.
My tip would be–be a skeptic–this may sound a little harsh, but be a skeptic. Even if you get a picture–it might not be a picture of the person you are talking to. trust your instincts.
I used to be addicted to Internet Dating and yes.. I am lucky that I wasn’t hurt or something … now I am happy to not be doing it. The first time I have been relationship and drama free for once.. it feels nice!
Always meet somewhere very public
I would like to meet Mr Right on the internet.
Met my hubby through a friend online -