Match
Match.com truly is the big daddy of internet dating. As one of the longest running dating sites around, Match.com has amassed an amazing 25 million+ members, with roughly equal numbers of men and women on the site, making it highly likely that you'll be able to find a perfect match in your area, no matter where you live. In fact, Match.com are so confident of this, that if after the first 6 months you've still had no luck getting a date, they promise to give you 6 months extra free! Last year alone on Match.com, more than 400,000 people found someone to keep them warm at night. That's four large football stadiums filled with couples who've found love online through Match.com. Could you be next?
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Match.com membership comes with relationship expert and TV Show host Dr. Phil's MindFindBind feature, to help you adopt a more realistic approach to dating. MindFindBind is a 3-step program using video and audio to deliver his greatest tips and techniques to not only help you find your ideal match, but more importantly, to help you discover what type of mate would really best suit you. If you're gonna go looking for something, first of all you've got to know what it is you're looking for, right? Dr. Phil McGraw's MindFindBind helps you do just this, helping you better understand yourself, which is the first step in being more successful with the opposite sex.
MindFindBind, which is only available at Match.com, will give Match.com subscribers access for the first time to the action-oriented, plain-talk dating and relationship insights of Dr. Phil. Created specifically for Match.com, MindFindBind is a Web-based program designed to educate singles about the ins and outs of dating and relationships. It includes more than 50 new Internet-only video segments with Dr. Phil that aim to inspire and enlighten, workshops that are a lot more fun than work, an occasional audio blog, and provocative dating tips and techniques. Participants can move through the program at their own pace, in the privacy of their own homes.
So what's it all about? MindFindBind is a 3-step program, as the name suggests, and encompasses the following...
- Beginning with the Mind phase, participants complete a candid self-evaluation, the results of which can be used to help them design a new dating action plan.
- The Find phase of the program provides people encouragement and practical suggestions about topics such as how to communicate effectively, how to make great first impressions, how to carry on meaningful conversations on a first date, and how to move a relationship forward.
- Once members have met someone special, the Bind portion of the program can help them grow that relationship in a healthy, rewarding direction. Throughout MindFindBind, members may continue to journal their experiences and take advantage of additional self-evaluation tools and workbook activities. These program elements are designed to help them understand what it takes to create successful, long-term partnerships and offer tips for working through the challenges inherent in any new relationship.
The usefulness of Dr. Phil's advice will depend entirely on what you hope to get out of your membership to Match.com. If you just want to take advantage of Match.com's truly enormous members' database to help you find a match in your area, then you may wish to skip spending the extra 10 bucks on Dr. Phil's advice. If, however, you've had problems finding or keeping dates in the past, then Dr. Phil's advice maybe just what you need to help you turn your life around! The choice is yours.
Anyway, that's enough about MindFindBind! Whether you choose to include MindFindBind in your membership option or not, Match.com has more than enough features to help you find your perfect match - see our features list above for a comprehensive list of these. In particular we liked the two-way mutual search facility, which returns only those members with whom there will be mutual compatibility, based on your geographic search (similar to a one-way search) and your compatibility with other members based on your personality profiles and what you're both looking for in the opposite sex. Do you have traits that another member is looking for in a partner? Does the other member have traits that you're looking for? If so, and if he/she lives within your search radius, then that member will be returned in the two-way search. With over 25 million members online, this is a great way of whittling down the numbers that are returned as part of your search to a more manageable number, allowing you to focus your attention more on potential dates with whom you have the most in common.
We also particularly liked the fact that you can view entire members' profiles without paying up first (if you've tried out other dating sites, you'll know that this is a rarity - you usually have to upgrade to a premium membership before you can view a member's profile in full). And we also liked matchWords, a keyword-based search, allowing you to search other members' profiles by a particular keyword or phrase. This can be a great way to find other members who have the same interests you do.
Match.com really is the superstar of online dating! With over 25 million members in over 240 different countries spanning 6 continents and presented in 18 different languages, online dating doesn't get much bigger than this! Match.com has been around for over 10 years, and it shows. It has a refined, intuitive user interface, expert tips and advice, a professional, polished layout and of course the biggest database of members on the planet! The premium membership is also extremely competitively priced, costing a lot less than many other, smaller dating sites.