| Make a list of 'essentials' for the special person online dating services should find!
You probably think that you know who you are looking for, but now you will need to define this person in details. Any online dating agency or professional matchmakers will have thousands of members on their books. Unless you give them enough details they will find far too many singles who you will not like. It is therefore very important that you know from the very start and in details, exactly who you are looking for. It is easier to define your ideal partner using the services of an online dating agency or professional matchmakers who will help you during this task. Generally they will ask you a number of multiple choice questions about the person you are looking for, making sure that nothing important is left out. However if you choose to use a lonely heart column type dating agency you will be on your own, and you will need to divide your wish list into sections of 'must have' and 'less important' and 'not important' to you, then under each section enter your expectations. These may be minimum and maximum age, height, sexual orientation, distance to travel, marital status, ethnic background, physique, looks, smoking and drinking habits, qualifications, attitude about children, religion, political views and many more. Professional matchmakers, free dating services or an online dating agency work only with the information their members give them about themselves. They will, in due time, find you a prospect that will match your wish list very closely. But one needs to be careful not to be too restrictive. If you have, for example too many entries under the 'must have' section you might be eliminating far too many people from your search, who in any other way would be perfect for you and your search will take much longer. | 
