How To Create Online Dating User Names – And Get Results!

I remember the day I setup my first dating site. I’m hazy on the year; 11 or 12 years ago. I had a positive deluge of new members that day. I was thrilled. What sticks most in my memory, though, is their choice of user names. You had such luminaries as simon092387 and beth901247142142. I’m guessing their reason for lack of imagination was because they thought all the good names had been taken. I could be wrong, though. If you see a simon092387 in the phone book, you let me know. So, fast forward 11 or 12 years, and here I sit knowing what I know. What I know: 75 to 80% of all dating site members choose names just like Simon and Beth. This means that in a site with 4 million members, something like Amateur Match, at least 3 million people will have crummy names. The truth is, given a choice between chatting to or reading the dating profile of a simon092387 and a LeadSingerSimon22, most women looking for a man would choose the latter. It is now a FACT of dating site usage that if you choose an EFFECTIVE dating user name you will propel yourself to the top 20% of members who get the most attention – and, therefore, the most girls or guys (or whatever!). As such, for those of us in the know, there is a growing trend for good membership names. The rest of this post is pretty short, but you will learn how to create online dating user names that get results.

Specify Your Gender

Include a gender-obvious Christian name in your user name. Simon at least got that right! The reason you do this is because a lot of the time your user name is not accompanied by a pic. If a lady is looking for a guy in San Francisco she will, given a choice between SanFrancisco092387 and SingerDavidSF, choose to communicate in some way or check out the second guy. The big dating sites are littered with user names without accompanying pics. Think of chat rooms, blog and group comments, latest users online, forum threads.

Choose One Word And One Facet To Promote

Consider what it is about yourself that your target person would find irresistible. Are you a singer in a rock band? Do you like reading horror novels? Are you an avid keep fit enthusiast? Do you have big muscles? Then select a single word that typifies it: Singer, Reader, Fit, Muscled. The next time you go to the newspaper stand, check out the front page headlines. They grab your attention, right? Do the SAME THING with your dating user name. A nice lady is given a choice between SFMark and RockStarMarkSF. Who’s she going to email? Another one – because we can’t all be rock stars (no, it doesn’t count when you sing in the shower). SFMark and MrRomanticMarkSF. Ladies are going to choose Mr Romantic’s juicier headline!

Make it Pithy

My dictionary tells me pithy means a ” brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression.” That sounds perfect for a dating user name. Short and snappy and attention-grabbing!

So the next time you ask yourself how to create online dating user names you know the 3 secrets to success (I sound like an infomercial) : choose something pithy that promotes something desirable about yourself to your target audience and lets them know if you’re male, female, transgendered, or whatever else I’m missing (I’ve led a sheltered life…are aliens dating yet?).