I quite often get emails from members saying they are disappointed that they’ve not had many emails on the site.  

The funny thing is, when I investigate I usually notice that these people haven’t sent any messages out themselves!  To be successful with online dating, you need to take action and not just sit back and wait for things to happen.    This same rule is true in all aspects of life.   If you want a job, do you mail out your CV or do you hope that job finders will magically find you?  If you wanted to launch a business, would you try and promote it or pray that customers will come to you instead.  I hope you get my point.

Even if you have an amazing photo and an outstanding profile, Mr or Miss Right might be getting emails from other people while you hesitate.  Rather than try and find you, they will spend their time getting to know others instead.

The people who get what they want in life as those who make a plan and follow through on it.    Spend at least 15 minutes each day carefully searching through profiles that you like and send them a quick carefully crafted email. Don’t give up if you don’t have a fast response, just keep learning and writing emails for a couple of weeks. You’ll be delighted when the replies start pouring in!

James Preece Dating Expert for Singlesolution.com

Thanks to everyone that celebrated the 4th July “Wild West Party” with us last weekend.

We turned the Abbey into the OK Corral and all our staff dressed up as Cowboys and Indians. Many of our guests put on fancy dress too, making the party extra fun.

We had the usual activities including speed dating upstairs and icebreaking down in the main bar.

Our Shooting Gallery went down very well too, with lots of our guests trying for the highest score. This was so popular we’ll be bringing it back for some of our August parties. We also had a “Candy Sampling” area where couples had to compete to identify the flavours of the sweets our host selected for them.

DJ Precious made a triumphant return later in the evening, getting everyone up dancing to the very best of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits.

If you didn’t make it, you missed an amazing evening and we urge you to sign up to one of our upcoming parties to join us for the next tone.