What makes someones profile stand out? (74)

Maybe they are looking for something else !! It's who I am, not what others want me to be.

Should I change it .........nah .

" I own a shoe shop we stock Juimmy Choo, at discount..." possibly good to attract female subs.

Incidentally I don't actually own a shoe shop....

T.

As a marketing professional of many years experience, here's a few tips I've picked up along the way.

1. Never, under any circumstances, tell the truth about yourself. Remember the three Bs – bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Did Tony Blair tell the truth? Does David Cameron tell the truth? Of course not. It's up to you to lie about yourself – no-one else is going to do it for you. For example if you're an overweight lorry driver from Barnsley called Reg, call yourself Camilla and say you're a rubber-clad lesbian.

Here's a simple rule of thumb: Ten years off your age; two inches off your waistline; three inches on your height.

2. If you're a guy, post a picture of your cock. Make it look as attractive as possible – lounge on the bed in your untidy bedsit, with your jeans around your ankles. And don't forget that a few simple theatrical effects can work wonders – try leaving empty pizza boxes in he background.

3. Pretend to be a Dom(me). Nobody wants to waste their time on simpering subs who only want to be wanked off. Everyone secretly wants to be dominated (think Max Mosley). Get yourself some Nazi gear. In fact, why not join the Nazi party – it adds street cred. As P. J. O'Rourke put it, “Nobody wants to dress up as a liberal and be fucked”

4. Don't waste people's time with long words and sentences – this is the MTV generation. Keep it short. In fact, use text speak and internet abbreviations as much as poss.

5. Be vague about where you live – especially if it's somewhere god-awful like Scotland, or Nottingham, or Guildford. Use some fancy description like BDSM-ville or Spanktown.

6. Most important of all, tell us everything about yourself – your life, your loves, your deepest yearnings. Don't leave out anything – what's your second favourite jam? Which 1970s pop group would you most like to see reformed and on tour? Any minor operations you've had.

Take my advice and you won't go far wrong.

There is more than one way to skin a cat but there is only one try per cat

• Keep it short
• Keep it funny (unless you can't do humour, in which case, steer clear)
• Give some information about who you are, what you can offer
• Give some information about who you're after

DON'T:

• Take yourself too seriously, sure, take what you do seriously, but if you come across as wonderwoman/superman, people will be less likely to buy into it.
• Be too needy and pathetic, just eww

But all the above is only what'd do it for me, there'll be plenty of people who like serious, long, egotistical, needy profiles.

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Edited 24 Feb 11, 11:44 AM by mia

Well, a bit of advice;

Profile text. Yours doesn't say all that much. Try thinking about profiles that appealed to you, how they are written, what they cover, how they have been put together.

Generally, you want to answer the following;

- Who are you?

- How do you interact with people?

- What do you do everyday?

- What do you do for fun?

- What kinks do you have?

- What are you looking for?

Keep anything else to your journal. That would be another thing, journals. They show readers that you are actually serious about this. You didn't just stick up a profile with hopes of getting laid, you come back, you re-assess, you keep looking.

Photos. So important. If your not prepared to put your face up, take some kind of creative body shot, or wear a cunning hat. Really, if you haven't got a photo up, most people don't think you're serious. I only browse profiles with pictures, and most lasses I've talked to do the same.

Other sites. Having profiles on multiple sites shows people you're serious. Talking on the forums also helps you get noticed. Try fetlife, informed consent, alt. Informed Consent is my favourite.

Get out and meet people. Go to munches and clubs. You might meet someone to play with, but there are other purposes. You can then invite those people to be your friends or network members on here and IC. This is another check for girlies. Showing that you know real people involved in BDSM proves that you're a real person, not just another fantasist.

First messages.

Girls get a lot of messages, your needs to stand out. Negativity is never a good starting point. You want to engage the girl. Tell her why you've contacted her specifically, this shows you haven't just copied the message, and flatters her.

I can understand why people use copied messages, but at least try to make it believable. Write out the profile name at least. Phrases like 'your profile peaked my interest', or 'judging from your profile, we could have a lot to offer each other' can be used in copied messages, and are a lot more engaging than stories or repeating information from your profile.

Adding a personal line of text to the bottom of a copied message is a quick way to customise it to your target too. Hope that helps,

Mostly, in profiles, I like something that stands out. A bit of personality.

Rose

Profiles with nothing in them, and especially those with no age and height details, I ignore immediately. It's the profile equivalent of the one-line demand to chat.

It's good to be positive too, rather than ranty. However, my own experiences on here, and clearly those of many other women, mean that the grumpy lists of no-nos get longer and longer.

Photos can be good, but not (in my opinion) if they're awful bleached-out bad flash shots of, say, a very abused and reddened bum. These tend to look like crime scenes. (Am well aware that some may have a thing for crime scenes, of course.)

Someone put up, as his main pic, a horribly photoshopped pic of a starved/surgeried-looking naked girl's torso, not tied up or anything, but just a really ugly pointless shot, from a man putting himself forward as dominant. When he wrote to me again a few weeks later, I politely pointed this out and he removed it. Your main pic should be of you (though not necessarily a face shot of course) or something representing you, rather than someone else tied up or whatever. Just my view there.

Discretion prevents me from describing one particularly head-shakingly hilarious main photo. Perhaps it's ironic. I hope.

And yes I'm aware that I have no pics at all! Perhaps this is due to the evolving nature of things for me at the moment. I'm working on it.

Edited 24 Feb 11, 12:26 PM by belle_lettriste

Let's stick to BDSM, do you own Jimmy Choo??

The Red Rose Whispers Of Passion (J o'B R)

It's just "slave j" nowadays.

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Oh you poor little lamby-kin, does the nasty post above upset you..?

I love a profile that tries to be funny, but I think Captain Vimes profile is trying a bit too hard. Its too self-consiously "wacky" ... whats he really like? I dont know! I just know he likes one-liners - millions of them!

I think the differnce here, is he's written a profile that tells us what he wants us to know about him. He's not looking to find someone, and has found his lovely lady. So he doesn't need to tell us about his 'real life' if you like. We can see that he's got an amazing sense of humour and he's good fun. We don't need to know any more. Similar to this hilarious profile...

http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/p/The_Perfect_S...

If you're actually looking to meet people and they need to know about you and who/what you are, then it's different.

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