November 13, 2010 @ 6:29 pm
The Inside Track Within Online Dating
Mike Muson, CEO & Founder of My Online Dating Consultant. being born on the East Coast, educated in the Midwest and living on the West Coast has afforded me a diverse and balanced experience in life. Since childhood, I’ve always been an entrepreneur. Whether it was my own newspaper which I wrote, printed and distributed at age 9 or my café where I made and served after dinner treats for neighborhood kids at age 10, I loved making people happy with my creativity.
After college, I took my talents to the corporate world and tasted the glamour and financial reward that came with it. However, after 12 years I knew that was not my life’s passion. I wanted to make people’s lives better on a daily basis. My Online Dating Consultant utilizes my extensive experience, writing expertise and inclination to help people every day. You will get online dating advice from someone who is actively successful "in the game" and knows what you encounter today. I am humbled and honored to follow this mission with you.
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Interview:
Eric Michaels: What was the inspiration that was behind the creation of MyOnlineDatingConsultant.com?
Mike Muson: Well, you know it was an idea that I had been kicking around for a number of years. I started writing a book just for fun about my experiences that was, with a fun tone with some what of an an instructional piece as well. As I started to develop it I really felt that there was something more here. It was shortly after I began writing the book that I had my big AH HA moment. That moment was a friend coming to me and saying that was just starting his online dating experience and he said you know Mike, I have seen you out with all these really attractive women that really seem to have their act together, intelligent, confident and you really seem to be enjoying your interaction with them and he said I am not having that experience you are having. Could you sit down with me and take an hour and kind of show me what you do, maybe read through my profile and make some suggestions. I thought to myself, there has to be tons of people out there just like my friend that are really good people that are just struggling with this unique medium and making it work for them. So I took a little more time, dug a little more deeper and looked around and saw literally hundreds of online dating sites out there catering to every preference for religion, ethnicity, cultural background but they all had one thing in common: They take your money and leave you to figure it out on your own & to be successful with it. So I developed this concept of what I like to call bridging the gap from sign up to success. That's taking you from that point where you sign up for an online dating site and making you successful and making you efficient and how you approach the process and getting the results you desire.
Eric Michaels: I see you offer consulting for online dating - where do you start with your consulting individuals whether its a man or woman?
Mike Muson: You know I usually have two kinds of different customers or clients. I like to call them the newbie or the soured apple. The newbie is someone who has never tried online dating before, they are really brand new to this process and they know they want to be involved in this kind of growing avenue to meet people that now is comprised of some 40 millions people in North America but they are overwhelmed with the process and they're really struggling to figure out how to present themselves very much like my friend that came to me and inspired this business. The other type is the soured apple what has the experience but has a different set of needs. They have been online dating for some time perhaps through a few different online dating sites but they are just not getting the results that they want. They are at their last straw and they are ready to have an expert look at their profile and process with a fresh set of eyes and make some constructive adjustments. Now whether it is the newbie or the soured apple and whether it is a man or a woman, my first goal is really to sense what that person is really like at their core. What makes them unique, what are their goals in online dating and I look to strip away all of the window dressing and really understand my client so I can cut out wasted time and their process with mostly bad targets.
Eric Michaels: Your friends are amazed at the quality of women you attract and develop relationships with through online dating. Is there one tip that you can share that made you so effective?
Mike Muson: That process was certainly not an easy one. The method and the process that I have developed is really the result of ten years of sometimes painful trial and error of seeing what works and what doesn't. My clients really get to benefit from my experience in making mistakes and also having successes along the way. They get the advantage of hyper-spacing through the online dating learning curve and skipping having to figure out what works and what doesn't. The key for me is that I really try not to make my clients me. I really believe that everyone has a unique set of qualities that makes them exciting and interesting and what I do for my clients is that I help customize a winning strategy that truly fits their individual style.
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Mike Muson discusses & answers:
- In your opinion, what would give one an advantage to opt into online dating as opposed to the traditional methods?
- What is the best advice to give to help make one comfortable in meeting new people and especially on that 1st date that leave little room for error?
- Special tip of advice...
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