Dating S.O.S

Psychologist and dating expert, Dr. Diana Kirschner, has been a frequent guest on The Today Show, and the Morning Show. She has also appeared on Oprah and Good Morning America. In addition to being a featured dating expert at Yahoo! Personals, she also has her own website called lovein90days.com, for which she ordered this ReviewMe review.

The website features a blog with dating tips, daily love affirmations, and information on Dr. Kirschner’s upcoming book, appropriately titled “Love in 90 Days”. Lovein90Days also has features a dating forum. Currently it has twelve topics posted, and only a handful of responses. Clearly this should grow as the website becomes better known, but it looks like the discussion might have certain overtones: the book and the website cater exclusively to people (mostly women) who are currently single and looking for a meaningful relationship. It doesn’t address any concerns women have who are already in a relationship. There is nothing wrong with this, but it is important to note that the website focuses on one particular aspect of dating: finding a partner. 

One area where Dr. Kirschner could improve is her response time on the forum. It seems from the Blog that she has a blogging assistant, so although we do not expect Dr. Kirschner to respond to all discussions herself, it is too bad that one woman with a dilemma posted her problem on the dating forum on October 24th, and has yet to see any response from either the community or Dr. Kirschner herself. As mentioned before: we do not expect Dr. Kirschner to be able to respond to all questions, but at this stage of her website where the forum community is remarkably small, it would reinforce her image as an expert if she would address these questions personally. This would encourage these posters to come back and actively participate in the discussions to come.

Dr. Diana says, “I’ll be posting the latest techniques, dating tips and relationship advice for successful online and off-line dating, research on love relationships and up-to-the-minute discoveries that can help you create the love you want. I invite you to become regular readers of my dating blog. Most importantly, I want to have a dialogue with those of you who are courageous enough to make a love relationship a high priority in your lives. My purpose is to help you on your journey as I’ve been helped on mine.”

If you are interested in Dr. Diana’s book, the website offers a great opportunity to pre-order it at a discounted price. Visitors can also sign up for free for the Love in 90 Days e-tips, which deliver Dr. Diana’s tips to your mailbox. As far as the website goes: it is an interesting tool for people currently looking for a partner. The blog offers very general dating advice geared at people who are single, and the website itself focuses very much on Dr. Diana’s upcoming book. All in all it is a good resource for this niche of the dating market, keeping in mind that the website is build to promote the book and Dr. Diana herself. She offers some good advice in the blog, but the overtone of the advice relates to ways you can feel more confident and better about yourself. There is no active discussion, yet, of how you could find your dream partner. For this, perhaps you would need to look at the book.