Hello, and thanks for stopping back to look at my blog. I would like to say a special thanks to all of you who have gotten in touch with me at www.dream-marriage.com with both your kind words for this blog, and with your questions about our site. Today, I want to talk with you a bit about security. I have touched on it a little in a previous blog, but I would like to go a bit more in-depth into what we do at Dream-Marriage.com to make certain that our customers have the safest and most secure dating experience available on the internet.
A few weeks ago I wrote an article titled She Loves Me, She loves Me Not: Dating Russian Women Online Safely in which I expressed my belief that online security at any dating website – and indeed at any website you do business with – is a partnership between the site and the customer. As a customer, you have the responsibility to exercise common sense, and do (or don’t do) those things that most of us know by rote by now including not giving personal and financial information to strangers, keeping your virus protection and firewall programs up to date, and never opening attachments to emails from people you don’t know and trust. These are just basic online security measures akin to looking both ways when crossing the street or unplugging the toaster before fishing out a stuck piece of bread with a knife. These things should be second nature; you shouldn’t even need to think about them.
Unfortunately as I look around the internet at websites that are in the same business as we are at Dream-Marriage.com, I find that a very large number of online dating websites seem to have taken position that this is all the security that their customers require; that, in essence, the responsibility for online security rests solely with their customers and not with them. Though I find it hard to believe, the vast majority of websites that I look at in the online dating business have little to no security in place for their customers! Their attitude, it seems, is to take your money, advise you to be careful, and walk away.
To be honest, I find this appalling, because Dream-Marriage.com has spent over ten years trying to rehabilitate the image online dating started out with. There was a time – and it wasn’t all that long ago – when online dating sites of all kinds had a bad reputation. Either they were little better than porn sites, or they were just fronts for stealing identities and credit card information. Today, some of us have managed to help the industry rehabilitate itself, and we have proven to the world that just because we have thousands of the hottest Russian women on the internet choosing to use our site doesn’t mean we are not a legitimate, above-board business. To see that sites are still out there which offer virtually no security whatsoever for their customers even at a time when credit card fraud is on the rise and identity theft is rampant makes me sick.
At Dream-Marriage.com, we firmly believe that security is a partnership between us and our customers. We do want our customers not to give out personal or financial information or open unsolicited attachments, and we certainly recommend that they use and update top of the line virus-scan and firewall software; the difference between us and our competitors is that this is where our customers’ part of the partnership ends. We take over from there.
To start with, www.dream-marriage.com is verified as secure by GoDaddy.com Secured – one of the top website verification services on the internet – as well as tested daily by MacAfee Secure – considered by many to be the premier internet security company in the world. While we have invested in top of the line security software for our servers, we still go that extra step and have the site tested seven days a week, 365 days a year by an outside security company, just to be safe. We believe that our customers deserve nothing less.
Next, we have a dedicated team of employees whose job it is to make certain that Dream-Marriage.com is free of scamming and scammers. We randomly audit the accounts of our lady members to search of even a hint of impropriety or scamming activity, and we also investigate every single report of suspicious activity we receive from our customers. Most of the time, of course, these reports are nothing more than misunderstandings, but we suspend any account under investigation immediately after we receive a complaint until we are completely certain that everything with that account is legitimate and above board. In the rare instance that we do find something to be amiss, the account is banned, and immediately deleted.
Finally, Dream-Marriage.com is the only Russian dating website to feature our industry leading “Confirmed Profile” service. When a customer clicks on a hot Russian woman’s profile and sees the Confirmed Profile verification at the top of that page, they can rest assured that the beautiful young woman in question is exactly who she says she is and appears to be in her photos or introduction video. To be a Confirmed Profile a member of our staff will have actually met the young Russian woman in question and verified her identity via passport or other official identification. No other dating website, whether specializing in hot Russian women or a general dating website, offers this kind of protection to their customers. Only Dream-Marriage.com takes our customers’ security that seriously.
If it seems like I am obsessed with security, it is because I honestly am. I know the pain and heartache scammers and identity thieves cause on a regular, basis and I – along with the rest of the staff at Dream-Marriage.com – work hard every day to make certain that nothing like that happens as a result of using our site. While we certainly can’t keep the entire internet safe, at least you can rest assured that at Dream-Marriage.com we take our responsibility of the partnership to keep our customers safe seriously.
Okay, that’s all for this time. Come see us at http://www.Dream-Marriage.com some time if you haven’t visited us before and, no matter where you head on the internet – remember to be careful. Not all internet businesses care about their customers’ safety as much as we do.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Dream Marriage Love Stories
Hello, and thanks for stopping by my blog. My name is Tim Zelmer, and I am the Director of Public Relations at Dream-marriage.com – the premier personalized dating and marriage agency for men seeking relationships with hot Russian women. I would like to offer special thanks and welcome to everyone who has contacted me through the site – your kind words about this blog, and your questions, are much appreciated!
Along with our top of the line security, customer service and the finest selection of hot Russian women interested in relationships on the internet, one of the things I am most proud of is Dream-Marriage.com’s almost astounding success rate when it comes to helping men find the Russian woman of their dreams. Almost every day we receive emails from the men and women that we have helped bring together not only thanking us for what we did, but giving us a glimpse into their personal love story. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than when I receive a note like this:
Or this:
These are just a couple of the many letters like this that we have posted on the website each month. To find more, just go to http://www.dream-marriage.com, look on the left side of the Welcome page, and click on Testimonials. You will find page after page after page of letters from both the men and the hot Russian women that we bring together – hundreds of them. You will also find dozens of video testimonials there – real people who thought so much of our service that they made a video using their webcams to thank us. From a customer service point of view, when your customers think enough of your service to do that – well, it just doesn’t get any better than that.
A lot of people have asked me what the secret of our success is, and what I always tell them is that it really isn’t any secret at all. You see, at Dream-marriage we believe that the only way two people can ever forge a lasting relationship is to get to know each other first. Sometimes it starts with a few emails, and other times it happens after people spend some time in a chat room, or using our Voice Chat or Live Streaming Video features– but whichever of our services a man chooses to use to get to know the beautiful Russian women at our site, how fast or how slow things progress is completely up to him. There isn’t any pressure – everything moves at the speed he is comfortable with.
Unlike the one-size-fits-all internet dating sites you see advertised on television or in those annoying pop-up ads that they run some places, we believe that every man and every woman is different and unique, and what might work for one couple, might not work for another. That’s why we don’t have our customers fill out a lot of forms, or questionnaires, or “personality inventories” and then try to match them up based on some computer generated “compatibility chart”. We believe that the best way for a man and a woman to find true happiness is to get to know each other at their own pace, and then let things progress naturally from there.
Of course, we do help where we can! We have thousands of hot Russian women whose profiles are listed at our site with their pictures and a little bit about them. Additionally, we have thousands of introductory videos that the ladies on our site have made, so the gentleman who is interested in a relationship can get to know a bit about her before getting in contact. Our Secure Email, Live Chat, Voice Chat, and Live Streaming Video services are available 24 hours a day and more women are registering with us on a daily basis. Also, right now we are offering a three-day-free trial at our site, so there really is no risk.
If you would like to learn a bit more about our services, check out our customers’ testimonials, try out the three-day-free trial or just browse the profiles of the women at our site (who, I am certain you will agree, are some of the hottest, most beautiful women in the world) then stop by www.dream-marriage.com. I think you will be impressed.
Well, that’s all for this time. Thanks for your kind emails, and never stop looking for love – it’s only a matter of time before you find it!
Tim
Along with our top of the line security, customer service and the finest selection of hot Russian women interested in relationships on the internet, one of the things I am most proud of is Dream-Marriage.com’s almost astounding success rate when it comes to helping men find the Russian woman of their dreams. Almost every day we receive emails from the men and women that we have helped bring together not only thanking us for what we did, but giving us a glimpse into their personal love story. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than when I receive a note like this:
“Dear Dream Marriage Staff,- Chuck S., Canada on 10 July 2010
I recently returned from my visit to Ukraine and meeting my beloved Elena. I'm not quite sure how to properly express the appreciation and gratitude to you for enabling me to meet one of the most amazing and wonderful people I have ever had the honor and privilege to meet. She is everything I dreamed of and more and your services made it all possible. I will be returning again shortly and I sincerely hope I will never have to be apart from her again very soon.
Thank you so much for such a first rate service.”
Or this:
“I was very happy with my meeting with Maria. She is now the love of my life. I will no longer continue to look. We have been corresponding for some time. I visited her in Odessa and Nicholaev. I had a wonderful time. She is a wonderful lady. We have decided to be married. I am very happy with the services of Dream-Marriage. Everything went as planned. They picked me up at the airport and I had a wonderful translator and driver. It was a great week. I am happy to say that we are planning to be married and will now start the visa process, shortly.”- Kenneth C., Ukraine on 14 June 2010
These are just a couple of the many letters like this that we have posted on the website each month. To find more, just go to http://www.dream-marriage.com, look on the left side of the Welcome page, and click on Testimonials. You will find page after page after page of letters from both the men and the hot Russian women that we bring together – hundreds of them. You will also find dozens of video testimonials there – real people who thought so much of our service that they made a video using their webcams to thank us. From a customer service point of view, when your customers think enough of your service to do that – well, it just doesn’t get any better than that.
A lot of people have asked me what the secret of our success is, and what I always tell them is that it really isn’t any secret at all. You see, at Dream-marriage we believe that the only way two people can ever forge a lasting relationship is to get to know each other first. Sometimes it starts with a few emails, and other times it happens after people spend some time in a chat room, or using our Voice Chat or Live Streaming Video features– but whichever of our services a man chooses to use to get to know the beautiful Russian women at our site, how fast or how slow things progress is completely up to him. There isn’t any pressure – everything moves at the speed he is comfortable with.
Unlike the one-size-fits-all internet dating sites you see advertised on television or in those annoying pop-up ads that they run some places, we believe that every man and every woman is different and unique, and what might work for one couple, might not work for another. That’s why we don’t have our customers fill out a lot of forms, or questionnaires, or “personality inventories” and then try to match them up based on some computer generated “compatibility chart”. We believe that the best way for a man and a woman to find true happiness is to get to know each other at their own pace, and then let things progress naturally from there.
Of course, we do help where we can! We have thousands of hot Russian women whose profiles are listed at our site with their pictures and a little bit about them. Additionally, we have thousands of introductory videos that the ladies on our site have made, so the gentleman who is interested in a relationship can get to know a bit about her before getting in contact. Our Secure Email, Live Chat, Voice Chat, and Live Streaming Video services are available 24 hours a day and more women are registering with us on a daily basis. Also, right now we are offering a three-day-free trial at our site, so there really is no risk.
If you would like to learn a bit more about our services, check out our customers’ testimonials, try out the three-day-free trial or just browse the profiles of the women at our site (who, I am certain you will agree, are some of the hottest, most beautiful women in the world) then stop by www.dream-marriage.com. I think you will be impressed.
Well, that’s all for this time. Thanks for your kind emails, and never stop looking for love – it’s only a matter of time before you find it!
Tim
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Dream Marriage's Identity Verification
Hello and welcome to my blog (or back to my blog if this is a return visit for you). My name is Tim Zelmer, and I am the Director of Public Relations at Dream-Marriage.com – the premier website for men looking to meet and form relationships with hot Russian women . I started this blog to let you know about some of the things we are doing at Dream-marriage.com, as well as to share with you some of the success stories that we see there on an almost daily basis.
It has been a busy couple of weeks for us at Dream-marriage.com, what with us introducing our Voice Chat service – which I told you about in my last blog – and with us continuing our identity verification program. That is one of the extra added security features that we provide our customers with free of charge to help ensure that their online experience is both fun and as safe as it can be. Basically how it works is that our representatives actually meet the women on our site, and verify that they are who they claim to be. It is a lot of work; we are the only ones we know of in the industry who goes this extra step to ensure the security of our customers, but we feel that the effort is well worth it. Nothing is more important to us than making certain that our customers’ privacy and safety is assured whenever they choose to visit our site, and our anti-scam policy is the toughest one we know of in the online dating business. Simply put, we tolerate no scamming or dishonesty of any kind at our site – and if any of our customers even suspect that one of the women on our site might be a scam artist (as unlikely as that may be) we make it very easy for them to report any suspicious activity to us. We follow up every report completely and if any action needs to be taken, we take it quickly and decisively. I can say, completely without fear of contradiction, that no online dating site has less tolerance for scammers of any kind than Dream-marriage.com.
And speaking of visiting our site, I should mention that we have a three-day free trial membership offer going on at the site at the moment – http://www.dream-marriage.com. And when we say free, that is exactly what we mean – free. All you need to do is fill out a short, simple membership form to create your account, and you have three full days to check out everything we have to offer at absolutely no cost.
You know, one of the things that I think makes Dream-marriage so unique is that fact that we are not a one size fits all service like so many other online dating services tend to be these days. With those other services, you basically get what they give you and you need to fit into their way of doing things. That doesn’t make a great deal of sense to us, and it is certainly not the way we do things at Dream-marriage.com!
If you are looking to meet, get to know, form a relationship with and perhaps even marry a hot Russian woman , we are the perfect place to do it and we are set up to make the experience as pleasant and enjoyable for you as we can. But that isn’t all that we’re about. If you really aren’t interested in forming a long term relationship with the hot ladies we have at our site, but instead are just interested in having a fun place where you can hang out with some of the best looking women in the world, we are set up for that too. If you are not certain exactly what it is you are looking for, that’s fine – there is no pressure with us. You can move along at your own pace, meet as many or as few women through our site as you choose, and use all of our services including voice and live streaming video, or keep it strictly to email to start with. The choice is yours and best of all, with our system of credits, you only pay for the services that you want and use.
As I said in my last blog (and will probably say in my next blog) we are all about what you, the customer, wants – and we are all about choice and service. We understand that just because we offer one of the widest ranges of services available on the internet doesn’t mean that ALL of our customers will want or need to use all of our services all the time – any more than just because we have 10’s of thousands of lovely ladies on our site that every one of them is going to appeal to every one of our customers. It simply doesn’t work that way. That is why we offer such a huge selection of hot Russian women, and keep our service and pricing options as flexible as possible – so that you, the customer, remains in complete control.
Well, that’s about it for this time. With so many exciting things happening at Dream-Marriage, I can’t wait for my next installment to update you. In the meantime, take advantage of the three-day free trial offer. And please, if you have any questions at all about the site, write to me here or contact our customer service department at at http://www.dream-marriage.com.
It has been a busy couple of weeks for us at Dream-marriage.com, what with us introducing our Voice Chat service – which I told you about in my last blog – and with us continuing our identity verification program. That is one of the extra added security features that we provide our customers with free of charge to help ensure that their online experience is both fun and as safe as it can be. Basically how it works is that our representatives actually meet the women on our site, and verify that they are who they claim to be. It is a lot of work; we are the only ones we know of in the industry who goes this extra step to ensure the security of our customers, but we feel that the effort is well worth it. Nothing is more important to us than making certain that our customers’ privacy and safety is assured whenever they choose to visit our site, and our anti-scam policy is the toughest one we know of in the online dating business. Simply put, we tolerate no scamming or dishonesty of any kind at our site – and if any of our customers even suspect that one of the women on our site might be a scam artist (as unlikely as that may be) we make it very easy for them to report any suspicious activity to us. We follow up every report completely and if any action needs to be taken, we take it quickly and decisively. I can say, completely without fear of contradiction, that no online dating site has less tolerance for scammers of any kind than Dream-marriage.com.
And speaking of visiting our site, I should mention that we have a three-day free trial membership offer going on at the site at the moment – http://www.dream-marriage.com. And when we say free, that is exactly what we mean – free. All you need to do is fill out a short, simple membership form to create your account, and you have three full days to check out everything we have to offer at absolutely no cost.
You know, one of the things that I think makes Dream-marriage so unique is that fact that we are not a one size fits all service like so many other online dating services tend to be these days. With those other services, you basically get what they give you and you need to fit into their way of doing things. That doesn’t make a great deal of sense to us, and it is certainly not the way we do things at Dream-marriage.com!
If you are looking to meet, get to know, form a relationship with and perhaps even marry a hot Russian woman , we are the perfect place to do it and we are set up to make the experience as pleasant and enjoyable for you as we can. But that isn’t all that we’re about. If you really aren’t interested in forming a long term relationship with the hot ladies we have at our site, but instead are just interested in having a fun place where you can hang out with some of the best looking women in the world, we are set up for that too. If you are not certain exactly what it is you are looking for, that’s fine – there is no pressure with us. You can move along at your own pace, meet as many or as few women through our site as you choose, and use all of our services including voice and live streaming video, or keep it strictly to email to start with. The choice is yours and best of all, with our system of credits, you only pay for the services that you want and use.
As I said in my last blog (and will probably say in my next blog) we are all about what you, the customer, wants – and we are all about choice and service. We understand that just because we offer one of the widest ranges of services available on the internet doesn’t mean that ALL of our customers will want or need to use all of our services all the time – any more than just because we have 10’s of thousands of lovely ladies on our site that every one of them is going to appeal to every one of our customers. It simply doesn’t work that way. That is why we offer such a huge selection of hot Russian women, and keep our service and pricing options as flexible as possible – so that you, the customer, remains in complete control.
Well, that’s about it for this time. With so many exciting things happening at Dream-Marriage, I can’t wait for my next installment to update you. In the meantime, take advantage of the three-day free trial offer. And please, if you have any questions at all about the site, write to me here or contact our customer service department at at http://www.dream-marriage.com.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Dream Marriage's New Voice Chat Service
Hello, and welcome to my blog. My name is Tim Zelmer and I have worked in the online dating industry for the last ten years. Online dating is about bringing people together and making people happy and, at the end of the day, it just doesn’t get any better than that! I am currently the Director of Public Relations for Dream-marriage.com — the premier site for men seeking to start a relationship with a hot Russian woman online. Over the last few years, I have written dozens of articles regarding what to look for in selecting an online dating site and helpful tips on the best way to meet and connect with the beautiful Russian women of your dreams. Now, in response to all of the comments and questions from our members and potential members, I have launched this biweekly blog to focus specifically on the services provided by http://www.Dream-Marriage.com and how they compare to other dating sites out there.
When I started working at Dream-marriage, I was told that “the customer comes first”, and as any PR guy or gal in the world would have done, I just smiled and nodded. Everybody says that, of course, but it is rare to find someone who actually means it. The folks at Dream-marriage really meant it, and over the years I have come to learn – and believe in – just how much that commitment actually means to all of us. It seems to me that lately not a month goes by where I don’t see us doing something else – making some improvement, tightening up some aspect of the site, adding another service or improving an existing one – all for the simple purpose of making the customer experience better.
Part of the reason I’ve decided to start writing this blog again is so that I can share with readers some of the things that we are doing at Dream-marriage, but I also intend to tell you about some of the people that we work with on a day to day basis, and some of the success stories that we have had. While a lot of people use our service as a way to simply meet and form casual relationships with gorgeous Russian women, there are a lot of other people who take the second word in our name – marriage – very seriously, and we take it seriously too. The Russian women on our site are looking for relationships with the guys they meet through us – and if I have learned anything over the years, it is that there is simply no telling where those online relationships might lead. So over the weeks, I will be sharing some of the stories that our satisfied customers have shared with me, and I will be updating you on all the exciting things that we are doing.
There are a thousand things that I could write about, but I suppose what makes the most sense in this first of my blogs is to talk about the latest feature that we’ve added at Dream-marriage – Voice Chat. A while back, we started offering live streaming video on the site; a man would find a hot woman that he wanted to get to know better, and he could then view her on webcam while they typed back and forth in a chat room. People loved the service (honestly, who wouldn’t) but what we kept hearing from our members was that seeing the lady was really only half of the experience they wanted – it would be far better to be able to see and hear them. Well, after we heard that from a few customers, we went to our tech guys and got them working on it, and a little while ago we launched our Voice Chat service. It is now one of our most popular services, and I would like to say a personal thank you to all of our customers who wrote to us and suggested that we do it. We always want to hear what our customers want and, where it is possible, we will do whatever we can to make certain that we provide it. That is what customer service is all about at Dream-marriage – listening, acting and satisfying our customers’ needs.
If for some reason you haven’t looked at our site yet, the address is http://www.dream-marriage.com, and I would like to invite you to come and visit us soon. There really has never been a better time to give us a look, because at the moment we are offering a free three-day trial membership which means that you can explore all that we have to offer at our expense. We are sure that it won’t take you three days to decide to join the site and get to know a few of our hot Russian women, but those three free days are there waiting for you, with no obligation.
Okay, that’s it for now. Thanks for reading my blog and if you have anything that you would like me to write about, or any questions you would like me to answer, I would be thrilled to have you drop me a line. Take care, and I hope to see you at Dream-marriage.com soon!
When I started working at Dream-marriage, I was told that “the customer comes first”, and as any PR guy or gal in the world would have done, I just smiled and nodded. Everybody says that, of course, but it is rare to find someone who actually means it. The folks at Dream-marriage really meant it, and over the years I have come to learn – and believe in – just how much that commitment actually means to all of us. It seems to me that lately not a month goes by where I don’t see us doing something else – making some improvement, tightening up some aspect of the site, adding another service or improving an existing one – all for the simple purpose of making the customer experience better.
Part of the reason I’ve decided to start writing this blog again is so that I can share with readers some of the things that we are doing at Dream-marriage, but I also intend to tell you about some of the people that we work with on a day to day basis, and some of the success stories that we have had. While a lot of people use our service as a way to simply meet and form casual relationships with gorgeous Russian women, there are a lot of other people who take the second word in our name – marriage – very seriously, and we take it seriously too. The Russian women on our site are looking for relationships with the guys they meet through us – and if I have learned anything over the years, it is that there is simply no telling where those online relationships might lead. So over the weeks, I will be sharing some of the stories that our satisfied customers have shared with me, and I will be updating you on all the exciting things that we are doing.
There are a thousand things that I could write about, but I suppose what makes the most sense in this first of my blogs is to talk about the latest feature that we’ve added at Dream-marriage – Voice Chat. A while back, we started offering live streaming video on the site; a man would find a hot woman that he wanted to get to know better, and he could then view her on webcam while they typed back and forth in a chat room. People loved the service (honestly, who wouldn’t) but what we kept hearing from our members was that seeing the lady was really only half of the experience they wanted – it would be far better to be able to see and hear them. Well, after we heard that from a few customers, we went to our tech guys and got them working on it, and a little while ago we launched our Voice Chat service. It is now one of our most popular services, and I would like to say a personal thank you to all of our customers who wrote to us and suggested that we do it. We always want to hear what our customers want and, where it is possible, we will do whatever we can to make certain that we provide it. That is what customer service is all about at Dream-marriage – listening, acting and satisfying our customers’ needs.
If for some reason you haven’t looked at our site yet, the address is http://www.dream-marriage.com, and I would like to invite you to come and visit us soon. There really has never been a better time to give us a look, because at the moment we are offering a free three-day trial membership which means that you can explore all that we have to offer at our expense. We are sure that it won’t take you three days to decide to join the site and get to know a few of our hot Russian women, but those three free days are there waiting for you, with no obligation.
Okay, that’s it for now. Thanks for reading my blog and if you have anything that you would like me to write about, or any questions you would like me to answer, I would be thrilled to have you drop me a line. Take care, and I hope to see you at Dream-marriage.com soon!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Ladies! Ladies! Ladies!
In my last couple of blog entries I talked about both the security at Dream-marriage, and the way they charge for their services. While you can check out what I found in detail in my previous blog entries, the bottom line is that their security protocols are some of the best I have ever seen, and their pricing policies are such that you pay for what you want, and have the ability not to buy (or pay for) those services that you don’t want to use. Unlike most of the online dating services I have looked at – which offer a one-size-fits-all approach to pricing for their services – Dream-marriage allows me to control how much I spend, and what I spend it on.
As promised in my last blog, today I am going to start talking about the women of Dream-marriage.com. Let’s be honest here, guys – pricing is important, and online security is very necessary – but it is the people, and in my case specifically the ladies, who are going to make or break a site in terms of how valuable it is. Not every woman is going to appeal to me on every level, and I am certainly not going to appeal to every woman I meet, online or off. That means that for a site to have a chance with me, it is going to need to have a large community of women in it, so that I have plenty of choices available to me.
Whatever concerns I might have had about the number of women who used Dream-marriage faded away just about 30 seconds after I created my free three-day trial account and started sniffing around the site. There are thousands of ladies there – maybe even tens of thousands – and more are joining every day. These ladies range in age from 18 to 60, and come in all shapes and sizes – and from several countries. Just quickly glancing at their individual homepages on the site, in the matter of just a few minutes I found everything from dancers and musicians to teachers and secretaries, and virtually everything in between. And the thing about it is, while a lot of these women are drop-dead gorgeous this is not a site that is filled with wannabe super-models or ersatz, cosmetically enhanced creations with more add-on parts than a supped-up ’57 Chevy. These are real people, with real jobs and real lives, who are for the most part looking for the same thing online that I’m looking for – companionship with a member of the opposite sex. The fact that the team at Dream-marriage also verifies the identity of most of the women on their site (and indicates this right on the woman’s homepage) further goes to show that these ladies are who they claim to be.
Now, Dream-marriage states on their site that their goal is help facilitate long lasting relationships between men and women, but at this point in my life, I’m just interested in looking – playing the virtual field, if you will. While I very well might be interested in some kind of permanent relationship with one of the women on the site at some point in the future, right now I am just interested in having a little fun, and getting to know some lovely ladies without any strings attached. Dream-marriage makes this easy by allowing me to control exactly what I choose, or do not choose, to tell any of these women about myself and by also giving me a number of options regarding how I want to interact with them.
The most basic form of communication they offer is secure email that runs through the site. Basically, if I see someone I might be interested in getting to know a little better while I am browsing through profiles, I can fire them off an email. If they choose to respond, their return email comes to me through my Dream-marriage.com account – not through my personal or business email address – assuring my complete anonymity. That way, if the woman in question isn’t someone I want to continue to exchange mail with, I don’t have to worry about her spamming me to death.
Another way to communicate with the women on the site is by using their live chat capability. In this case, obviously, the woman in question has to be online, but Dream-marriage provides both a list of their online ladies, as well as an indication of their online status on their homepages. I tend to prefer this method personally, as I have always been pretty much a one-to-one kind of guy. Once I enter her private chat room, I can talk with the lady in real time and get to know a little bit about her. If she is someone that I think I might want to get to know a little better over a period of time, I can add her to my favorites list, and if she is someone that I don’t think I really have much in common with, I can simply click out of the chat room, end the conversation, and move on. Try managing that when you’re still on the appetizer course of a dinner date with the girl of your nightmares!
Another way that you can get to know some of the ladies on the site is by using their live streaming video service. While this isn’t available with all the women on the site (since, I imagine, some of them don’t have webcams) it is available with a lot of them. Basically, this service is used in conjunction with the live chat function, and lets you see the lady you are chatting with, in real time. This is one of the most popular services on the site, and it’s easy to see why. Live streaming video makes what is essentially a virtual experience all the more real and really enhances the connection you have with the lady you are talking with.
The ladies themselves … well, I think I’ll save talking about them for the next time. I have only gotten to know a few of them (so much beauty, so little time!), but the few I have spent some time with were all fantastic. So, yeah, I’ll tell you about a few of them the next time.
As promised in my last blog, today I am going to start talking about the women of Dream-marriage.com. Let’s be honest here, guys – pricing is important, and online security is very necessary – but it is the people, and in my case specifically the ladies, who are going to make or break a site in terms of how valuable it is. Not every woman is going to appeal to me on every level, and I am certainly not going to appeal to every woman I meet, online or off. That means that for a site to have a chance with me, it is going to need to have a large community of women in it, so that I have plenty of choices available to me.
Whatever concerns I might have had about the number of women who used Dream-marriage faded away just about 30 seconds after I created my free three-day trial account and started sniffing around the site. There are thousands of ladies there – maybe even tens of thousands – and more are joining every day. These ladies range in age from 18 to 60, and come in all shapes and sizes – and from several countries. Just quickly glancing at their individual homepages on the site, in the matter of just a few minutes I found everything from dancers and musicians to teachers and secretaries, and virtually everything in between. And the thing about it is, while a lot of these women are drop-dead gorgeous this is not a site that is filled with wannabe super-models or ersatz, cosmetically enhanced creations with more add-on parts than a supped-up ’57 Chevy. These are real people, with real jobs and real lives, who are for the most part looking for the same thing online that I’m looking for – companionship with a member of the opposite sex. The fact that the team at Dream-marriage also verifies the identity of most of the women on their site (and indicates this right on the woman’s homepage) further goes to show that these ladies are who they claim to be.
Now, Dream-marriage states on their site that their goal is help facilitate long lasting relationships between men and women, but at this point in my life, I’m just interested in looking – playing the virtual field, if you will. While I very well might be interested in some kind of permanent relationship with one of the women on the site at some point in the future, right now I am just interested in having a little fun, and getting to know some lovely ladies without any strings attached. Dream-marriage makes this easy by allowing me to control exactly what I choose, or do not choose, to tell any of these women about myself and by also giving me a number of options regarding how I want to interact with them.
The most basic form of communication they offer is secure email that runs through the site. Basically, if I see someone I might be interested in getting to know a little better while I am browsing through profiles, I can fire them off an email. If they choose to respond, their return email comes to me through my Dream-marriage.com account – not through my personal or business email address – assuring my complete anonymity. That way, if the woman in question isn’t someone I want to continue to exchange mail with, I don’t have to worry about her spamming me to death.
Another way to communicate with the women on the site is by using their live chat capability. In this case, obviously, the woman in question has to be online, but Dream-marriage provides both a list of their online ladies, as well as an indication of their online status on their homepages. I tend to prefer this method personally, as I have always been pretty much a one-to-one kind of guy. Once I enter her private chat room, I can talk with the lady in real time and get to know a little bit about her. If she is someone that I think I might want to get to know a little better over a period of time, I can add her to my favorites list, and if she is someone that I don’t think I really have much in common with, I can simply click out of the chat room, end the conversation, and move on. Try managing that when you’re still on the appetizer course of a dinner date with the girl of your nightmares!
Another way that you can get to know some of the ladies on the site is by using their live streaming video service. While this isn’t available with all the women on the site (since, I imagine, some of them don’t have webcams) it is available with a lot of them. Basically, this service is used in conjunction with the live chat function, and lets you see the lady you are chatting with, in real time. This is one of the most popular services on the site, and it’s easy to see why. Live streaming video makes what is essentially a virtual experience all the more real and really enhances the connection you have with the lady you are talking with.
The ladies themselves … well, I think I’ll save talking about them for the next time. I have only gotten to know a few of them (so much beauty, so little time!), but the few I have spent some time with were all fantastic. So, yeah, I’ll tell you about a few of them the next time.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Money Can’t Buy Me Love
Hi there, and welcome back to my blog (or welcome to the blog, if you are a first timer). About a month ago, after a couple of years of alternating between trying to be your basic 21st Century version of Don Juan (too expensive) and a monk (too lonely), I checked out a website that a friend told me about called Dream-marriage.com. It’s a site that looks to hook guys like me up with Russian women and while that whole idea didn’t appeal to me much at first, I took advantage of their three-day free trial anyway, just to see if there was anything there for me. Well, it’s been a month, and I’ve been having a great time on that site so far, so I guess the answer to that question is, yes!
In my last blog, I wrote about the security set-up they have on Dream-marriage.com because, being in IT, security is very important to me. You can go back to that entry to see what I found in depth. Suffice it to say, these folks take their security very seriously and, judging from the things that they post on their site that they are doing, continually upgrading their systems. They not only take care of the technical concerns on their end, but also have a huge database of articles relating to anti-scam strategies, and how to stay safe online. All in all, I give them 5 out of 5 as far as their security is concerned.
Now while security was my primary concern about the site (just as it is about ANY site I choose to use for anything, not just dating), running a close second to that was cost. Let’s face it, guys, money is tight these days – I don’t care who you are or what your story is. The economy went into the tank across the board and while things seem to be getting a little better, that was certainly a wake-up call for me when it came to my spending habits.
When I first started checking out online dating sites, I quickly learned that most of them fall into two categories; the ‘one-size fits all” bunch, and the ‘hidden costs’ bunch. With the first group, you have these mega-sites that charge you a small fortune for your six-month or 1-year membership and for that price give you all these goodies. The problem I had with those sites was simple – I didn’t want all the goodies and, since I didn’t want them, I sure didn’t want to pay for them. I didn’t want their machine “matching” me with my “perfect mate”, I didn’t care about ‘date-tracker’ services (if I meet someone and it doesn’t work out, why on earth would I want software to remind me of that) and I couldn’t care less about any ‘compatibility inventory’. Half the fun of dating is finding out about compatibility for yourself! The other kind of service doesn’t charge much of anything initially – or, at least, that’s what they tell you. But with these sites, I’ve had a couple of friends (who, admittedly, didn’t read their Terms and Conditions as closely as I would have) who found HUGE charges on their credit cards for doing things on the site that they thought were free. With both these kind of sites, the idea seems to be that you are made of money (which I’m not), and that you really don’t care how much you spend (which I do).
Dream-marriage doesn’t do business in either of the two above ways. In the first place, they offer a wide range of membership options – starting at FREE and working up from there – and then let you buy the services you want to use, while not forcing you to pay for things you don’t want to use. You know, like you were an adult or something! In the second place, not only do they tell you what the various services you might want to use (introduction video, live streaming video, etc) are going to cost up front, they also provide a confirmation box that you have to click OKAY on before they even let you spend your money – so there can’t be any accidents on your part. In other words, you buy what you want to buy when you want to buy it, and you are in complete control of not only how much you spend, but also what you spend it on.
The way they do it is through a ‘credits’ system – which is something else that just makes a ton of sense to me. Basically, after the free trial once you create an account, you can start buying credits (anywhere from 50 to 500 at a time – and the more you buy at one time, the less they cost), and then that’s it. The credits are how you buy the services you want. Your credit card is only charged at the “buy credits” stage – never directly for the individual services – and then the credits act as currency on the site. No hidden charges, no multiple credit card billings – everything right there out in the open. For me, not being an accountant, that system makes it real easy for me to not only keep track of how much I am spending, but also control what it is I am spending it on. To give you an example, while I really like their live chat service, there have only been a couple of instances (so far) when I’ve been interested enough in a girl to want to use their live streaming video service. So, since I don’t want to use it all the time, I don’t have to pay for it all the time. It just makes sense – I mean, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant that charged me for things I didn’t order, so why would I do that on a website?
Anyway, the bottom line is that unlike most of the other sites I have looked at, Dream-marriage not only doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to use, but also lets me decide how I want to spend my money. You would think that would be a no-brainer for just about any site, you know – but it isn’t.
Okay, that’s about it for now. Next time, I’ll tell you about some of the girls on the Dream-marriage site but, until then, if you want to check it out for yourself, remember their three-day free trial.
In my last blog, I wrote about the security set-up they have on Dream-marriage.com because, being in IT, security is very important to me. You can go back to that entry to see what I found in depth. Suffice it to say, these folks take their security very seriously and, judging from the things that they post on their site that they are doing, continually upgrading their systems. They not only take care of the technical concerns on their end, but also have a huge database of articles relating to anti-scam strategies, and how to stay safe online. All in all, I give them 5 out of 5 as far as their security is concerned.
Now while security was my primary concern about the site (just as it is about ANY site I choose to use for anything, not just dating), running a close second to that was cost. Let’s face it, guys, money is tight these days – I don’t care who you are or what your story is. The economy went into the tank across the board and while things seem to be getting a little better, that was certainly a wake-up call for me when it came to my spending habits.
When I first started checking out online dating sites, I quickly learned that most of them fall into two categories; the ‘one-size fits all” bunch, and the ‘hidden costs’ bunch. With the first group, you have these mega-sites that charge you a small fortune for your six-month or 1-year membership and for that price give you all these goodies. The problem I had with those sites was simple – I didn’t want all the goodies and, since I didn’t want them, I sure didn’t want to pay for them. I didn’t want their machine “matching” me with my “perfect mate”, I didn’t care about ‘date-tracker’ services (if I meet someone and it doesn’t work out, why on earth would I want software to remind me of that) and I couldn’t care less about any ‘compatibility inventory’. Half the fun of dating is finding out about compatibility for yourself! The other kind of service doesn’t charge much of anything initially – or, at least, that’s what they tell you. But with these sites, I’ve had a couple of friends (who, admittedly, didn’t read their Terms and Conditions as closely as I would have) who found HUGE charges on their credit cards for doing things on the site that they thought were free. With both these kind of sites, the idea seems to be that you are made of money (which I’m not), and that you really don’t care how much you spend (which I do).
Dream-marriage doesn’t do business in either of the two above ways. In the first place, they offer a wide range of membership options – starting at FREE and working up from there – and then let you buy the services you want to use, while not forcing you to pay for things you don’t want to use. You know, like you were an adult or something! In the second place, not only do they tell you what the various services you might want to use (introduction video, live streaming video, etc) are going to cost up front, they also provide a confirmation box that you have to click OKAY on before they even let you spend your money – so there can’t be any accidents on your part. In other words, you buy what you want to buy when you want to buy it, and you are in complete control of not only how much you spend, but also what you spend it on.
The way they do it is through a ‘credits’ system – which is something else that just makes a ton of sense to me. Basically, after the free trial once you create an account, you can start buying credits (anywhere from 50 to 500 at a time – and the more you buy at one time, the less they cost), and then that’s it. The credits are how you buy the services you want. Your credit card is only charged at the “buy credits” stage – never directly for the individual services – and then the credits act as currency on the site. No hidden charges, no multiple credit card billings – everything right there out in the open. For me, not being an accountant, that system makes it real easy for me to not only keep track of how much I am spending, but also control what it is I am spending it on. To give you an example, while I really like their live chat service, there have only been a couple of instances (so far) when I’ve been interested enough in a girl to want to use their live streaming video service. So, since I don’t want to use it all the time, I don’t have to pay for it all the time. It just makes sense – I mean, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant that charged me for things I didn’t order, so why would I do that on a website?
Anyway, the bottom line is that unlike most of the other sites I have looked at, Dream-marriage not only doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to use, but also lets me decide how I want to spend my money. You would think that would be a no-brainer for just about any site, you know – but it isn’t.
Okay, that’s about it for now. Next time, I’ll tell you about some of the girls on the Dream-marriage site but, until then, if you want to check it out for yourself, remember their three-day free trial.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Online Dating Sites - Verify! Verify! Verify!
Hi there, and welcome to my blog – or back to my blog as the case may be. This is only my second blog entry, so I am going to guess that there are probably a lot of you who missed my first posting a couple of weeks ago. As I said, I am a guy with a not-so-great American story which, when you boil it down, goes something like this: Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy and girl have a couple of kids and a dog; girl gets bored, girl dumps boy for ‘something else’, boy gets to visit his kids, dog, and money every other weekend. Yeah, I know – you can hear the violins from there. If you want any more details you can go back and read my first blog entry, but that’s pretty much all I am going to say about that.
A couple of weeks ago, I started checking out an online dating/marriage service called Dream-marriage.com. Hey, after a couple of years more or less alone, I was pretty much ready to try anything. Now Dream-marriage specializes in getting guys like me together with Russian women; and I’ll be up front with you, at the start I didn’t think too much of that idea. I mean, I’m from Philadelphia! What the hell am I going to have in common with a girl in Russia? Well, as it turns out, more than you might guess – but I am still new to the site, so I’ll let you know about the girls in a later blog. One thing I will say, however, is that they are friendly, they speak English ... and, man, they are HOT!
Anyway, Dream-marriage has a three day free-trial which, I’ll admit, is probably the real reason why I tried it out. Between mortgage, rent and alimony, I need to watch my money. Most other sites I’ve looked at want about two month’s pay and a year commitment before they’ll even start explaining what they’re all about. Not these folks – the free trial was FREE – as in gratis, no charge, leave your money at home. And it gave me access to the whole site: ladies’ profiles, FAQ’s, even a couple of hundred articles on everything from how to strike up a conversation with a Russian woman to how to guard against scams. I mean, there is a LOT of information (not to mention a LOT of hot girls) on this site, and in future blogs I’ll be telling you about some of it (unless you decide to go and check it out for yourself). But today, I wanted to talk about security, because that’s part of my business.
I’m an IT guy – you know, the one at work who moves you out of your office or cube when your computer “just crashes” (sorry, but they never just crash) and finds that the email you opened from LeggyLinda254 actually carried the KissOfDeath virus. I am real hyper about security, because every day I deal with some bonehead who crashed their system because they didn’t pay attention to basics. So, as you might imagine, before my three day free trial at Dream-marriage ended, I decided to do a little poking around on the site, to see just how safe I was going to be using their service.
From a computer standpoint, it is obvious that these folks take security VERY seriously. All financial transactions are secured via VeriSign, which is pretty standard for any legitimate online business, but the site itself is verified secure by both GoDaddy Secure, and McAfee Secure Daily Testing – both of which are a couple of the best services in the business, neither of which screws around and, as a side note, neither of which is inexpensive. Whether you are interested in Dream-marriage or not, if you check them out, you don’t need to worry about any worms or tracking programs planting themselves on your PC.
The next thing that impressed me – and this is a real rarity (at least in my experience) in the online dating world – is that there aren’t any downloads anywhere on the site. Everything they have to offer (and it’s a lot) is a click away, and comes to you via the site’s servers as opposed to you having to download any programs directly onto your computer. I can’t begin to tell you how many times in the last 20 years I’ve had to scrap a computer’s hard drive because somebody downloaded something from a site they “trusted” onto their computer. What a lot of people don’t realize is that it is cheaper for a company to make their customers download applications and functionality programs onto their PCs so that, in effect, it is the personal PC and not the company’s servers that have to do most of the work. Well, at Dream-marriage.com, everything happens through the site; nothing, including their email, live chat, video introductions or streaming video services requires a download. Speaking as a geek, I like that. A lot.
Of course, as any IT guy will tell you, while that kind of security is VERY important, most of the things that either destroy computers or lead to identity theft problems come from people not being careful. The more the internet works its way into all areas of life, the more scumbags there are going to be who try and take advantage of honest folks. I read an article in one of the IT journals I get at work which said that over $1 billion is lost by people every year due to internet fraud and scamming. It didn’t mention the online dating industry, but I have GOT to imagine that a lot of that money is lost there, and that most of it is stolen by people who pretend to be someone they aren’t. A lot of sites that I have been to either completely ignore the problem, or have little warnings that say something like “Never give your personal information to someone you don’t know”. Well, no kidding! The problem is, especially on sites where romance is involved, people think that they know someone who turns out to be someone else altogether, and then disappears after they have robbed them blind.
This is where I think Dream-Marriage really stands out. Not only do they have dozens of articles on how to identify scammers and avoid scams (all free, by the way, whether you are a member or not), but they also have a zero-tolerance policy for scammers on their site that allows users to report any suspicious behaviour. While that’s better than most of the sites out there, these guys take it all a step further – they actually have their representatives physically verify that the women on their site are not only who they claim to be, but also look like the pictures they post on their profile pages. When you go to a woman’s profile page, there is a red check-mark on the top right corner of the page which confirms that a representative of Dream-marriage has actually confirmed the woman is who she says she is. I haven’t looked at every profile (there are thousands of them!) but I haven’t seen one yet that hasn’t been confirmed. I have even heard that they are going to start confirming passport information, as an additional layer of security. Bottom line here, guys, is that while you still need to use your common sense, Dream-marriage is doing everything they can to make sure that when you are using their service, you are getting what you pay for, and not getting taken.
Okay, that’s it for today. Time for me to switch from IT guy to Single guy, and see how many of the ladies I emailed last night through Dream-marriage.com wrote back. Feel free to post any comments or give any feedback -- ‘til next time!
A couple of weeks ago, I started checking out an online dating/marriage service called Dream-marriage.com. Hey, after a couple of years more or less alone, I was pretty much ready to try anything. Now Dream-marriage specializes in getting guys like me together with Russian women; and I’ll be up front with you, at the start I didn’t think too much of that idea. I mean, I’m from Philadelphia! What the hell am I going to have in common with a girl in Russia? Well, as it turns out, more than you might guess – but I am still new to the site, so I’ll let you know about the girls in a later blog. One thing I will say, however, is that they are friendly, they speak English ... and, man, they are HOT!
Anyway, Dream-marriage has a three day free-trial which, I’ll admit, is probably the real reason why I tried it out. Between mortgage, rent and alimony, I need to watch my money. Most other sites I’ve looked at want about two month’s pay and a year commitment before they’ll even start explaining what they’re all about. Not these folks – the free trial was FREE – as in gratis, no charge, leave your money at home. And it gave me access to the whole site: ladies’ profiles, FAQ’s, even a couple of hundred articles on everything from how to strike up a conversation with a Russian woman to how to guard against scams. I mean, there is a LOT of information (not to mention a LOT of hot girls) on this site, and in future blogs I’ll be telling you about some of it (unless you decide to go and check it out for yourself). But today, I wanted to talk about security, because that’s part of my business.
I’m an IT guy – you know, the one at work who moves you out of your office or cube when your computer “just crashes” (sorry, but they never just crash) and finds that the email you opened from LeggyLinda254 actually carried the KissOfDeath virus. I am real hyper about security, because every day I deal with some bonehead who crashed their system because they didn’t pay attention to basics. So, as you might imagine, before my three day free trial at Dream-marriage ended, I decided to do a little poking around on the site, to see just how safe I was going to be using their service.
From a computer standpoint, it is obvious that these folks take security VERY seriously. All financial transactions are secured via VeriSign, which is pretty standard for any legitimate online business, but the site itself is verified secure by both GoDaddy Secure, and McAfee Secure Daily Testing – both of which are a couple of the best services in the business, neither of which screws around and, as a side note, neither of which is inexpensive. Whether you are interested in Dream-marriage or not, if you check them out, you don’t need to worry about any worms or tracking programs planting themselves on your PC.
The next thing that impressed me – and this is a real rarity (at least in my experience) in the online dating world – is that there aren’t any downloads anywhere on the site. Everything they have to offer (and it’s a lot) is a click away, and comes to you via the site’s servers as opposed to you having to download any programs directly onto your computer. I can’t begin to tell you how many times in the last 20 years I’ve had to scrap a computer’s hard drive because somebody downloaded something from a site they “trusted” onto their computer. What a lot of people don’t realize is that it is cheaper for a company to make their customers download applications and functionality programs onto their PCs so that, in effect, it is the personal PC and not the company’s servers that have to do most of the work. Well, at Dream-marriage.com, everything happens through the site; nothing, including their email, live chat, video introductions or streaming video services requires a download. Speaking as a geek, I like that. A lot.
Of course, as any IT guy will tell you, while that kind of security is VERY important, most of the things that either destroy computers or lead to identity theft problems come from people not being careful. The more the internet works its way into all areas of life, the more scumbags there are going to be who try and take advantage of honest folks. I read an article in one of the IT journals I get at work which said that over $1 billion is lost by people every year due to internet fraud and scamming. It didn’t mention the online dating industry, but I have GOT to imagine that a lot of that money is lost there, and that most of it is stolen by people who pretend to be someone they aren’t. A lot of sites that I have been to either completely ignore the problem, or have little warnings that say something like “Never give your personal information to someone you don’t know”. Well, no kidding! The problem is, especially on sites where romance is involved, people think that they know someone who turns out to be someone else altogether, and then disappears after they have robbed them blind.
This is where I think Dream-Marriage really stands out. Not only do they have dozens of articles on how to identify scammers and avoid scams (all free, by the way, whether you are a member or not), but they also have a zero-tolerance policy for scammers on their site that allows users to report any suspicious behaviour. While that’s better than most of the sites out there, these guys take it all a step further – they actually have their representatives physically verify that the women on their site are not only who they claim to be, but also look like the pictures they post on their profile pages. When you go to a woman’s profile page, there is a red check-mark on the top right corner of the page which confirms that a representative of Dream-marriage has actually confirmed the woman is who she says she is. I haven’t looked at every profile (there are thousands of them!) but I haven’t seen one yet that hasn’t been confirmed. I have even heard that they are going to start confirming passport information, as an additional layer of security. Bottom line here, guys, is that while you still need to use your common sense, Dream-marriage is doing everything they can to make sure that when you are using their service, you are getting what you pay for, and not getting taken.
Okay, that’s it for today. Time for me to switch from IT guy to Single guy, and see how many of the ladies I emailed last night through Dream-marriage.com wrote back. Feel free to post any comments or give any feedback -- ‘til next time!
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