Ghostwriting Online Dating Profiles: The Hot, New Freelancing Gig

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Love is a battlefield, and online dating can often feel like trench warfare. For single folk, apps like OkCupid and Tinder have made dating accessible to anyone with internet access, but finding the right person can be overwhelming and unrewarding if you lack the time, energy, and skill to sell yourself the right way.

Fortunately, there are guns for hire who can help tilt romantic combat in your favor: freelance writers.

Enter online dating surrogates, hired wordsmiths who help craft the optimal copy for dating profile bios, and for the right price, can even ghostwrite emails and texts for a customer’s online relationship.

Profile Polish

Business Insider recently profiled Meredeth Haggerdy, a New York editor for the Date Report, who received $100 a week when she started ghostwriting a dating profile for Josh, a self-proclaimed “successful entrepreneur.” He chose to remain anonymous in his Craigslist ad to avoid the retribution for outsourcing his online dating dirty work. But more and more freelancers are offering their expertise, making this strange service slightly more mainstream. Lisa, a young freelance writer, editor, and “serial online dater with an eye for marketing people,” started Profile Polish(formerly known as Not-Just-OkCupid) in order to turn some of these digital daters into Don Juans.

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