If you follow these basic steps, this will save you time, money and aggravation on following up to someone who responded to your personal ad/online dating listing. My advice is based on my own personal (no pun intended) experience which led to many pratfalls which hopefully you’ll avoid by reading this as well as 3 great looking girlfriends (at different times) and 2 live in relationships. I’m pretty sure women can apply much of my advice as well. If nothing else this will give them an idea of the male prospective of things.