Effective strategies in dating include the right motivation, authenticity, and communication in video chat
Success in dating and any other business always depends on your approach to the situation. However, if you want to meet interesting people with whom you have similar prospects, you have to make some efforts, and not just waste your precious time and that of people; this is what we will talk about in this article!
Perhaps, the most unfortunate strategy in online dating is to simply go with the flow in the hope that sooner or later a fateful meeting will still take place. We want you to know that it doesn't work in 99 per cent of cases as experience! If you are truly serious, you have to take the initiative into your own hands and think strategically. Fortunately, everything is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.
Dating experts have already compiled a list of effective strategies that significantly increase the chances of successful dating and we will share these strategies with you. We are sure that there will be something on this list that will work for you. Let’s get to them without wasting time!
7 dating strategies to help you succeed
There are many more effective strategies, but we will focus on those that have repeatedly demonstrated their effectiveness and work for the majority of users of dating sites who are willing to make new promising acquaintances.
- Strategy #1. Right Motivation
Perhaps, this is the most important strategy. Firstly, you must have clear goals, and secondly, sufficient motivation. Try to answer these questions from within: “What do I really want from online dating and what motivates me to move in this direction?” We guarantee that a clear understanding of your own goal and motives will simplify your task to a great extent. At the same time, it will help weed out those people with whom your goals do not coincide. Focus on getting to know the person you are talking to, understanding their motivations and interests, and making sure that your goals are in alignment. Subsequently, communication will be active and better beyond your expectation(s).
- Strategy #2. Authenticity and willingness to be yourself
When dating on the Web, there is always a temptation to embellish your biography a little, edit photos, and add some interesting but fictional facts about yourself. In actual sense, this leads to failure. You have to be yourself and not try to be someone you are not. Believe us, sooner or later, you will get tired of playing the role of another person, and somehow, the truth will come out. You don't want to disappoint your potential partner, do you? Surely not! Therefore, try to be yourself in any situation and not strive to seem better than your true self.
- Strategy #3. Transfer from texting to video communication
Texting can be quite a convenient format of communication on the Web, but it does not give the effect of presence. You don't see the interlocutor, and you can't understand exactly what their mood is, and if they are interested in a particular conversation at all. Therefore, it is a more reasonable decision to date and communicate in a video chat. It is faster, more convenient, and more promising.
Online video chat allows you to see a person face to face, hear them, read intonations, gestures, and facial expressions, capture the mood and feel it. Certainly, video chat cannot replace 100 per cent of live communication. However, it’s much closer to it than the usual texting.
If you are looking for a convenient video chat for online dating and communication, we recommend the following options: Bigo Live, CooMeet, Bazoocam, and Chatspin. These sites have proven themselves well and are really very popular among users. In many ways, the platforms are similar, but each has its interesting features. For example, Bigo Live allows you to broadcast live to a large audience, CooMeet offers you an error-free gender filter and a built-in message translator, Bazoocam has built-in online mini-games, and Chatspin allows you to hide your face from your interlocutors using A/I masks. You will definitely find something interesting for yourself!
- Strategy #4. Activity, sense of purpose, and some insistence
If you just wait for someone to write to you on a dating site so that you can have a relationship, then we won't waste time to disappoint you; there will be no result without your initiative. You have to take action, use different dating platforms and approaches, communicate with different people, find those with whom you are truly comfortable, initiate and maintain conversations, and offer to take communication offline when the moment is right.
It is your initiative that is the key to success in dating. At the same time, its absence will only lead to a waste of time. Therefore, if you decide to get acquainted with the Internet, be prepared to make some efforts to achieve success. Otherwise, you simply won't get the expected result.
- Strategy #5. Ability to listen and show interest to your chat partner
There are a lot of people who just don't know how to listen to others. It is important for them to constantly say something, talk about themselves, and share some of their thoughts, and opinions on a particular issue. Believe us, this is very annoying and it pushes the person or people away from further communication with you.
The ability to listen is an extremely useful skill not only in dating but in life in general. Try to show sincere interest in the interlocutor, listen to them, ask clarifying questions, keep the conversation going, and do not move on to the topic that is interesting to only you. The ability to listen and show interest in the life and opinion of another person makes communication more pleasant and shows your respect for them. Remember that sometimes it is better to listen than to speak.
- Strategy #6. Openness to something new
Do not limit yourself to choosing a partner or friends only to certain parameters. Nonetheless, this is one of the reasons why we recommend online video chats rather than traditional dating services. The latter uses too many search algorithms and filters, which actually limit your ability to communicate with interesting people because some of their parameters do not fit the criteria you set. There is no need to limit yourself. Take advantage of the freedom that the modern Internet provides. It's worth it!
- Strategy #7. Self-confidence and positive attitude
Self-confidence and a positive attitude attract people. Your smile, optimistic attitude towards life, and the ability to find something good in every situation will make you an attractive conversationalist and partner. Additionally, you push yourself away when you start complaining about life, other people, your former partners, or even previous interlocutors. Nobody wants to communicate with a person who is constantly unhappy with something and complains about everything. Such conversations and negativity are very tiring and annoying; you only succeed in transferring your bad mood to another person which they don’t need at all.
Is it possible to have a successful dating without any strategies?
Yes, it's possible, the most promising dating is often the result of chance. However, for this to happen, you need to take the initiative to take the first step; sign up for a dating app or start an online video chat to meet new people. Sometimes, these simple actions are enough to expand the circle of one's contacts at times!
If you want to go beyond your usual circle, find interesting people to talk to and make new friends. You might meet your love online in the process, just go for it. Don't sit back! If you need some extra motivation, just read the stories of successful dating from other people. There are a lot of them, and most of them are real. There is proof that about 18 per cent of all modern marriages are between people who meet online. The chances of getting into these 18 per cent is very high!
We hope that our simple recommendations will help you make web dating much more promising and effective. Your efforts will not go unnoticed by others. We guarantee that sooner or later, you will meet that person with whom you will be ready to link your fate.
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