{"id":37633,"date":"2025-11-04T03:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/stop-using-passport-photos-and-one-liners-in-your-dating-profile-coffee-meets-bagels-ceos-give-3-tips-to-stand-out\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T03:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:21:13","slug":"stop-using-passport-photos-and-one-liners-in-your-dating-profile-coffee-meets-bagels-ceos-give-3-tips-to-stand-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/stop-using-passport-photos-and-one-liners-in-your-dating-profile-coffee-meets-bagels-ceos-give-3-tips-to-stand-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop using passport photos and one-liners in your dating profile &mdash; Coffee Meets Bagel&#8217;s CEOs give 3 tips to stand out"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69095d9a599d46a4ccc1633b?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Photo collage featuring Coffee Meets Bagel dating profile, blurry profile photo, and a photo of a coffee date.\"\/><figcaption>Coffee Meets Bagel is a serious dating app, used by people who want to find a life partner.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee Meets Bagel; Getty Images; Alyssa Powell\/BI<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a strong dating app profile is not rocket science, said Coffee Meets Bagel&#039;s CEOs.<\/li>\n<li>Shn Juay and Quincy Yang said that to date seriously, it&#039;s important to attract the right matches.<\/li>\n<li>Their advice: think twice about the photos, prompts, and dealbreakers you choose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You might want to spruce up your dating app profile after reading this.<\/p>\n<p>Shn Juay and Quincy Yang, the co-CEOs of Coffee Meets Bagel, told Business Insider the app has around 20 million users worldwide. But many users don&#039;t put a strong foot forward in their profiles, hindering them from finding good matches.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, creating a strong dating app profile is not rocket science. Juay and Yang said there are three easy guidelines for creating a profile that attracts &quot;the one.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>1. Include at least 2 good pics<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68fad482c007ca8c27378bf0?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Coffee Meets Bagel&#039;s user interface.\"\/><figcaption>Passport photos, photos with other people, and half-naked photos are not a good idea, the executives said.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee Meets Bagel<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A photo tells a thousand words, and having more than two photos ups your chances of getting a solid match, the CEOs said.<\/p>\n<p>Juay said that photos give people important information that helps them make a smart decision about whether to swipe right, so CMB users have to upload at least two pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The first order of business is to ensure that all pictures are of yourself, or risk getting barred from the app.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Users who put out images that are not human \u2014 that means it could be anime photos, part of a scenery, or a backdrop \u2014 they get hidden and banned,&quot; Juay said.<\/p>\n<p>And for the two pictures, Juay and Yang have strict dos and don&#039;ts.<\/p>\n<p>Juay said ensuring that your photos don&#039;t show a side view of your face, or obscure your face, is the &quot;lowest hanging fruit.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Then, of course, if you want to stand out, it cannot be just a passport photo of yourself, where you don&#039;t look attractive at all,&quot; she said. &quot;If you like to cook, if you like to do gardening, you like to do rock climbing or kayaking, show yourself in the photo doing the activity.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Juay added that users should not have other people in the photos they have on their dating app profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Yang recommended keeping the photos more conservative for serious dating apps like CMB.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some of those selfies that I see on the other apps, where they&#039;re taking a picture in the mirror, almost half naked, that&#039;s probably not appropriate for the community that we have,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>2. And add at least one prompt<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68fad912599d46a4ccc0c3b1?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Including prompts in dating profiles increases the chances of finding a match, per Coffee Meets Bagel.\"\/><figcaption>Including prompts in dating profiles increases the chances of finding a match, per Coffee Meets Bagel.<\/p>\n<p>Screengrabs\/Coffee Meets Bagel app, Coffee Meets Bagel<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Supplementing photos with some fun facts about yourself is also important, the execs said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Even if you go from just zero to one prompt, there&#039;s a very big difference in connection rates,&quot; Yang said.<\/p>\n<p>Daters with longer prompt answers that contain more than one sentence get 54% more likes, and daters with at least one prompt filled out are twice as likely to find a match, CMB&#039;s press representative told Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The more you fill out your profile, the more people who read your profile can understand about your personal interests, your traits, and your aspirations. It&#039;s more telling about yourself,&quot; Juay said.<\/p>\n<p>The key is for the prompts to be substantial.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you say, &#039;I am a Virgo,&#039; and you stop at that, it doesn&#039;t say anything,&quot; Juay said. &quot;You have to actually extend it out a little bit with at least one more sentence, like &#039;I&#039;m a Virgo who likes to do something.&#039;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>3. Choose deal breakers very carefully<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68fad8b4c007ca8c27378c08?format=jpeg\" alt=\"A list of filters that Coffee Meets Bagel offers its users.\"\/><figcaption>The CEOs encouraged users to choose dealbreakers carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Screengrabs\/Coffee Meets Bagel app<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The executives&#039; last bit of advice for dating app profiles was to be judicious with dealbreakers.<\/p>\n<p>The app allows users to set several dealbreakers, such as gender, age range, height, ethnicity, religion, relationship goals, and proximity.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Examples of dealbreakers would be, say, religion,&quot; Juay said. &quot;If you&#039;re a Christian, and you only want to date a fellow Christian, that is fair.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Or relationship goals, some people especially filter out for marriage because they have marriage in mind. Or people are very clear about family goals, like whether they want children,&quot; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Other filters, like height or education, should be applied thoughtfully, Juay said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;ve seen so many happy couples where there&#039;s a mismatch in height expectations, but they have been happily married because height really doesn&#039;t matter,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Education or job titles, too, should not make or break the match. The bulk of CMB&#039;s users, she said, are between 25 and 32 years old, a stage in life when education and jobs are transient.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You can always go for a higher degree or you get promoted along the way, but not at age 28 years old, where everybody&#039;s probably still really early in their career,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said, &quot;I know of users who are very strict; they have a really, really long list of filters, which is not helping them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee Meets Bagel is a serious dating app, used by people who want to find a life partner. Coffee Meets Bagel; Getty Images; Alyssa Powell\/BI Creating a strong dating app profile is not rocket science, said Coffee Meets Bagel&#039;s CEOs. 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