First impressions count...

I'm pretty sure you don't need a marketing background to know that first impressions count..I think my nanna used to say something similar.
And yet, it's like the internet sucks all those common sense rules out of our heads.
With that in mind, here is my (humble) advice to the many patrons of online dating.
If you are serious about attracting someone quality...

• Please don't take photos of yourself with your shirt off. Ick! No one (serious) wants to know that you're sitting in your lonely, beige-walled bedroom with no clothes on talking to strange girls in Ghania who desperately need money to bring their mother/child/bulldog over from the UK.
• Just because you CAN pole dance/do the splits/touch your nose with your tongue...doesn't mean you should do it on your profile picture.
• Do NOT keep all your old girlfriends/boyfriends on your Facebook page so they can stalk your new 'recruits'. When it's over, baby, it's OVER!
• When you take your profile photo, try not to do it in front of wall of pictures of your ex-wife and kids, your mum & dad and the ex-in-laws.
• Maybe these aren't hard and fast rules for everyone but, for me, they sure are big fat squealing warning signs. Warning, warning! Danger Will Robinson!

Of course, if you're reeeally hot...maybe you should have your shirt off in one teeny weeny photo.
;)