Examples of "effective ads"
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Examples of "effective ads"
| Fri, 03-25-2005 - 7:47pm |
iVillage has an article that includes two examples of "effective ads". Here is a link to the page that has one example that was written by a woman and one example that was written by a man:
What are your thoughts?

Aren't they a little lengthy?
Or am I just old and jaded and can't possibly be bothered to read quite so much...?
I'd rather learn a lot of those things about the person from MEETING them, I think. Short & witty is the way I like 'em.
Tracy
I think that if the woman is looking for a casual sex type of relationship, she has a great ad. If she's looking for a serious LTR, then it's not a good ad.
The guy's ad is ok...not enough specifics for my taste (too much of the male equivalent of 'chick chatter', I'd say), but if his picture was decent and he matched up with me on stuff like age, I'd probably wink at him.
Sheri
The guy's ad was okay, but I didn't think it was unusual. It did have touches of humor, which I like. But even if I were the right age for that guy, the ad wouldn't particularly attract me.
Get this -- once when I was browsing through the chick profiles, to read the competition in my area, one woman had copied that woman's profile, virtually word for word! I had just read the article so it was fresh in my mind.
Hilarious.
Maybe
I imagine that would depend on how you define "effective". With lines like...
I love staying up late -- whether it's to party, have sex or just read a good book -- but I almost always sleep in on weekends.
I like a bit of a bad boy...
Truth is, I'm just a nice girl (most of the time) who's looking for some fun and companionship (not necessarily in that order).
We've built up such chemistry on the phone that when I open the door and see you, I grab you by the back of the neck and kiss you before I even leave the house...
Down and dirty sex ...
I'm sure she got a lot of responses
I fully agree with what everyone has written. IMO, the gal's essay is so overly-animated I would fear she'd break into a dancing chorus of Singing In The Rain at the dinner table.
She gives me the impression that our date would have to end with us holding hands and running through a field in slow motion in order for her to consider the meeting 'good'.
I've always thought that Profiles should be like Resumes'. You put enough info in them to show some of your personality and interests to entice a person to contact you. They aren't autobiographies.