Linda gets some coaching magic
I got a message a couple of weeks ago from my client Linda. She had just resurfaced – we had talked a couple of times six months ago, and now work had settled down and she was ready to get going. I’d written a profile essay for Linda, and she got professional photos, but she reported that something seemed wrong. She could tell that over 40 men had viewed her profile, some very good looking candidates, but she had gotten no emails at all, not even a paltry wink. She asked me to take a look at her profile and see if I had any idea what might be going on.
Well. Did I.
Linda’s Match.com presentation was terrible! She still had old not so good photos mixed with the new ones, which were not all great either. The profile essay bore no resemblance to what I had written at all. Every sentence had a “but” in it, which erases everything that comes before. Negative.
I know Linda has a great sense of humor and is funny in person, but (here’s another “but”) that humor did not translate well in writing. It was self-depreciating, negative, and just plain silly. And this is a well-educated professional woman! Her professional photos were largely more attractive than the ones she had previously, and had far better backgrounds. But she had a professional one that had the same silly attempt-to-be-funny pose and expression as one of the earlier ones I had her get rid of.
Linda defended her work, even though it wasn’t getting the results she wanted. She said that the essay I wrote “didn’t sound like her,” even though it was accurate. I suggested that she completely change the presentation, including her screen name, use my essay, and take out all but the most attractive photos, then see what happens.
She did, over a weekend.
Silence. Then I got a call the following Wednesday. Not only was the new profile working much better, she had a date for the weekend!
Now is that Romance Coach magic or what?
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