Thank you! Really…thank you.

Ken and I met originally on JDate in February '04. We went out a few times and nothing much came of it. We had a good time when we were out and then he would drop me off at my door. I was 38 and "didn't have time" to chase after anyone.

I contacted E-Cyrano to revise my essay that summer. I also joined datemypet and Match.com. Following your rewrite, I had tons of "hits", more than ever. One day I received an email from Ken (on Match) that read, simply, "Great essay". I filed it and moved on. About a month later I passed him on the street and we exchanged quick hellos. The next morning, I wrote him back on Match.

Six weeks after we started dating, he proposed. We were married six months later! Now I have the MOST amazing husband and two adorable stepsons... all before I turned 40! I couldn’t have done it without you.

Warmest regards,

Mrs. Ken Portner aka Lisa Taxin Portner

Here's the E-Cyrano profile that helped Lisa meet her husband

About Me

I drank grappa shots with the Canadian secret service before meeting the Prime Minister, whose name I did not know. I caught a plane at 1am to avoid Hurricane Floyd in Palm Beach, but it caught up to me in Philadelphia. I know what music I like, but don’t know the names of many songs. I got a BFA in fine art with a major in fibers and actually used to own my own loom. I enjoy fiction, such as the internet dating profiles of ex-boyfriends, and chick-lit (the equivalent to chick-flicks, except no men are scarred in the process). I own a Shiba Inu, which often gets mistaken for a red fox. I’m happy with my sales job but family comes first. I take off when I want any day, to go hiking in Fairmount Park, for dinner at Matyson, or for tea at The Point in Bryn Mawr. I come from a long line of matriarchs and great cooks. I like to prepare holiday meals, and not only have many different ways of disguising chicken, but can also make a helluva brisket. My neighbors benefit from my eye for interior design, my mom benefits from our trips to Talk Cinema at the Ritz, and, if you play your cards right, you’ll be the beneficiary of a night at my place, some surf & turf, and some classic 70’s dance music which I probably couldn’t identify if you paid me.

About The One I'm Looking For

Likes small, intimate restaurants where the chef comes out to meet you. Can cook and does not need to follow a recipe. If not, knows that Chocolate Godiva Cake at Morton’s is the ultimate. Would rather be at a BYOB off the beaten track than caught up in Rittenhouse Square. Appreciates timeless fashions over trends. Can explain the stock market to me. Knows where the hamper is. Always says good night. Admires my Raku Clay sculptures and decorative masks and can suggest a place with a reasonably priced kiln. Thinks Sundays are about food, jazz, the New York Times and sleeping in. Looks for seaglass on the beach in Ventnor. Tells me I’m beautiful and sweet without being asked. Calls just to hear my voice. Has an infectious laugh. Feels like family. Gives the neighbors a jump start at 6:30am. Arrives early at the movies. Will watch the Style Channel and sometimes prefers it to ESPN. Doesn’t get mad if it takes me just a little bit longer to get ready. Realizes that spooning is the best, but not practical for sleep and still touches my feet with his.

E-Cyrano.com changed everything for me in the world of online dating. Previously, I had dated via the internet off and on for several years, with disappointing results. It was hard to attract the right person, hard to get people that I was interested in to write back, and hard to create a profile that showed me for who I really am.

However, after you helped me, everything changed.

I felt so much confidence after working with you that I immediately emailed a woman whom I’d thought was beyond my reach before. Armed with my new profile, I sent her a quick note; short, funny, & original, just like you recommended in our phone sessions. And that same day she wrote back! She and I emailed each other several times in the next few weeks, and later on we met and fell in love. This June, we got married, and have been delighting in each other’s company ever since.

And we have you to thank for it, Evan. Really. You have excellent intuition about dating, matchmaking, and how to attract a person who will be your best friend and companion. And you are at expert at helping someone express themselves in writing and show their true nature. After your help, my profile made me stand out from the crowd. My wife told me she received hundreds of emails from men all over the country, but my email to her and my profile stood out from all the others and piqued her interest in me.

And it wasn’t just your profile-makeover that helped me. Your advice about how to use search criteria, how to weed out likely incompatible matches, and how to make “first contact” via email was right-on and just what I needed. You helped me correct things I was doing wrong, and you opened my eyes to a whole new fun way of online dating. I had a great time contacting, meeting, and getting to know my wife-to-be, and you helped make the whole process fun.

Your service is easily worth thousands of dollars — a small investment compared to the tremendous benefit of finding the person you truly love, and are truly happy with.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Your very satisfied customers,
—Jon (& Patricia) Tardiff

When your work hours are 48 hours on/4 days off for 30 years, you end up with a lot of time to broaden your horizons. As if being a medic wasn’t reward enough, I’ve been blessed with a large family (I’m the first of 8), which is spread out over the country, and a great bunch of friends. My nephews bring out the paternal side in me, playing basketball and watching G-rated romances on my laptop, while I invariably get consumed arguing about Donald Rumsfeld over Izzy’s Pizza buffet with my work buddies. You might not know it by looking at me, but I’m equal parts biker (ask my motorcycle, Crazy Horse) and Trekkie (don’t ask). I brake for meteor showers, eclipses and Mercury sightings. I teach other medics and publish field guides to assist them, as well as firefighters and police officers. I’m learning Spanish by playing hoops with a group of twentysomething Mexican guest workers. I’ve adopted 4 stray cats. I pay my adopted son’s college tuition as long as he gets A’s and B’s. I can find all the faces in Bev Doolittle’s “The Forest Has Eyes”. I’ve ridden to Alaska and hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, but I can’t wait to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef. I wish I was Sheryl Crow’s “favorite mistake”. And I knew the Two Rules of Life BEFORE they published that book.

About The One I'm Looking For

She thinks Franken is right about Limbaugh. She likes making love under the stars. She uses me like a sherpa to carry her backpack when hiking. She likes Razor’s Edge with Tyrone Power more than the one with Bill Murray. She loves foot rubs, massages and falling asleep while I’m reading to her from her favorite book. She knows I’m not the Amazing Kreskin and tells me whatever’s on her mind. She knows why a red giant expands, then shrinks into a brown dwarf, or at least she’s curious about it. She votes, donates, and volunteers in her spare time. She dreams of the Outback (but not the Steakhouse). She’d be as excited as I was meeting Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in Plains, GA. She’ll read Black Hawk Down or Into Thin Air and marvel at how truth is stranger than fiction. She likes carpet picnics and real ones with wine, fruit and cheese on Rockaway beach. She’ll eat at any Mexican restaurant, but looks forward to the occasional five star meal at Higgins. She’s not afraid of hopping on my motorcycle and just GOING somewhere, anywhere, as long as I have her back to work five minutes before 9 on Monday.

Evan,

You are and always will be my hero! Cleve and I are now living together and we are looking at diamond rings. We couldn't be better matched and it all started with your assistance! It's hard to believe it's almost been a year already.

And it is DIRECTLY attributable to your efforts on my behalf. He keeps quoting lines from my profile that interested him enough to contact me in the first place. Lines that YOU helped me find inside and then wrote with such panache!

My sister is now thinking about the internet dating thing. I'm sending her my copy of your book and when she's REALLY ready, I'll recommend she get in touch with you and your service.

Thanks again for everything and I'll send you an invitation to the wedding!

Love always,

Bobbi McIntyre

Here's the E-Cyrano profile that helped Bobbi fall in love.

About Me

I still laugh at the Jerk. I’ve got good rhythm for a middle aged white girl, and I’ll dance wherever there’s music, even if it means a muzak version of Footloose on the elevator. I’m retiring from the Navy after 26 years, but will continue to work in the Department of Defense because a girl’s gotta work. I’ll work the concessions stand at a kid’s ballpark to raise money for charity. I’ll play hooky from work just to browse a bookstore and drink chai tea. I’ll go to Jake’s whenever The Stringer Folk is playing, if only to hear the Unicorn Song. I’m particularly close with my oldest sister, whether we’re checking out street fairs, horse farms, or bowling on New Years Eve. I’m positive that my border collie is smarter than most elementary school honor students and I’ve got the sheep herding medals to prove it. I own a quarter horse gelding and often go riding on the Manassas Battlefield National Park equestrian trails. I’ve lived in Naples to deliver medical supplies to Sarajevo and in a trailer with no running water to break my attachment to material things. Then again, I do enjoy my TiVo. I’ve spent the last twenty years in pursuit of spiritual knowledge and growth, and if I’m not entirely living by Jesus and Buddha’s teachings, at least I’m getting closer.

About The One I'm Looking For

He’s friendly before his first cup of coffee in the morning. He’s looking for a woman like Dagny Taggart. He’s comfortable around animals. He’s dying to make it to Parma, Italy and Mallorca, Spain. He’ll let my 95-year-old grandmother win at penny-ante poker. He finds that he’s the only Democrat surrounded by Republicans. He laughs at South Park, enjoys the poetry of Robert Service and can operate the spell check on his computer. He’ll pull off the highway on a long road trip, just to get me ice cream. He’ll offer to buy a drink for a security guard. He thinks I look great whether I’m in a Navy uniform or a black spaghetti strap dress. He thinks there’s nothing better in this world for a weary soul than puppy breath. He’s a subtle flirt. He’ll play Marco Polo in a pool. He was moved by The Shawshank Redemption. He likes the organization of my “God-conscious” house, because he knows it keeps me calm. He’s able to put up with my sweet, gentle, completely untrainable Australian Shepherd. He works to live, but doesn’t live to work. He’s looking to make a spiritual connection, or at the very least, have a few laughs together.

Online dating can be brutal but knowing that I had E-Cyrano on my side helped in more ways than I expected. Their in-depth approach to researching their clients shows a depth of understanding of online dating that I had been looking for. After 7 years spent searching for the woman of my dreams, I found her only four weeks after I posted my new profile.

There was nothing false or misleading or deceptive in any way. E-Cyrano just has a knack of knowing what to say and how to say it.

I'm now engaged to marry a woman I never dared wish for. She has fulfilled my dreams and surprises me every day by being more than I ever thought a woman could be.

Shaun Nielsen

Here's the E-Cyrano profile that helped Shaun meet his wife.

About Me

The laws of physics must be different in my homeland of Australia, which is apparently why I have to get a second engineering degree from OU. So while I may be the only 35-year-old freshman, at least I know I can hold my liquor. Part student, part teacher, part software developer, I get my thrills being physical: building model helicopters, racing motorcycles, doing random home improvement projects. I love arguing about religion with my sister, but communicate best with friends over rebuilt engines. Emotionally, I’m a glass-half-full person. I appreciate what I have most when I see someone who is perfectly happy having less. I find spontaneous people fun but flaky people disrespectful. I enjoy the highs from Space Mountain to making love in a secluded clearing in Yosemite. I’m never more at home than when I’m on the beach. I even know the cashier by name at the Pita Pit. I think nice guys finish first, putting on a front doesn’t get anyone anywhere, and there’s nothing a person can’t achieve if they want it bad enough. I live by the Golden Rule, yet I give without waiting to receive. I’m just looking for the right woman to whom I can give everything.

About The One I'm Looking For

She thinks Dune was a masterpiece, David Brin is a genius, and Student Film is a band to be reckoned with. She’ll teach me to salsa and won’t laugh when she has to lead at first. She doesn’t need a relationship to feel whole – but she sure wants one. She’ll grab on tight when I’m racing around Lake Draper or maybe even hop on a bike herself. She’ll marvel at work by Jean-Leon Gerome and the Brothers Wachowski. She’s fascinated by the world we live in and wants to know the same things that I do: Why is the sky blue? Why do comets have two tails? Why do Republicans feel the way they do? Why do so many marriages fail these days? And why do women think so much about relationships and men so disproportionately little? She may not know all the answers but she definitely asks the questions and wants to find someone to figure it all out together.

Within days of my new profile going on Match, I went from one or two "winks" to trading emails with two men - and one of them was the love of my life!

When I met Jason, he couldn't stop talking about my profile. I felt a little guilty about having to tell him that I didn't write it… then I realized that they were all my words. You had put together the profile that I couldn't because you had listened to me and had confidence in me.

Thank you, Evan, for bringing out the real me!

Courtney Vance Alexander

Here’s the E-Cyrano profile that helped Courtney meet her husband.

About Me

If I can't find a good, blue-collar, hole-in-the-wall bar on every corner, there's something wrong with a city. Which is why I left Cleveland for Baltimore instead of San Francisco. And although I came out here to get my PhD two years ago and I liked the challenge of prepping protein in less than 4 hours, I wasn't crazy about having lab rats as my best friends. I now work in another biotech field that rewards me for simply being my normal anal-retentive self. Little do they know that I'm a pop culture fiend who can quote both Chappelle and Aladdin, depending upon the context. My Chihuahuas are Sissy and Bruiser, and that was before Legally Blonde came out, so I don't want to hear anything about ripping off their names. I'm totally hooked on Survivor and even lurk on the message boards during the season. I will avidly listen to Jehovah's Witnesses just to understand their world view. I think there's nothing like Led Zeppelin or AC/DC to bring me back to my rural Ohio childhood. I don't like small talk, I don't like playing games (not like anybody claims to like small talk and playing games), and I refuse to talk about the weather if there's a white elephant in the room. And despite my research background, I'm decidedly not bacteria-friendly, and refuse to touch the trash can if I'm throwing out something. Oh, like you don't have your quirks…

About The One I'm Looking For

He understands my feelings for Eddie Izzard and Jon Stewart even though one is gay and the other is married. He counts EW and US as guilty pleasures. He'd be willing to take a Latin dance class, no matter how bad we both were at it. He shows me he loves me more than he says that he loves me, but he still says that he loves me. He's as responsible as I am, and sometimes even more responsible. He's a minion of the Buffyverse. He misses Soul Coughing. He calls me out on my b.s. He is on the same side of the political spectrum, but is not a rabid debater. He is not faint of heart and will not be offended when I used profanity as a term of endearment, as it runs in my family. He knows where to go camping around here and will plan for a fun weekend away without telling me in advance. He's more HBO than PBS, more Comedy Central than CBS. He does what he says and says what he means. He would rather see the stars and a distant glimpse of the neighbor's house than to be able to hear them having sex at night.