Mail
Order Brides and Marriage Agencies
Dating agencies
represent lonely people who are willing to start a
romantic relationship. They are normally specialized and
unite people belonging to one nationality, religion or
living in the same area.
Russian mail order brides would be more interested in marriage agencies,
which only represent women willing to find a marriage
partner. These agencies are quite selective in choosing
candidates to be represented, and are usually after
quality rather than quantity. They profit from selling
addresses of mail order brides and are not interested in
hosting profiles of women, which they cannot sell. The
cost of one address averages at about 10 dollars, there
are discounts when you buy in bulk. Such agencies usually
offer a number of complementary services, for example
email forwarding, translation, organization of marriage
tours, presents and flower delivery, etc. Some agencies
would have representatives in Russia, typically in Moscow
and St. Petersburg. An office in Russia proves that the
organization is serious and makes the process of dealing
with such an agency more comfortable for women.
Many agencies organize socials - dancing parties, which
host a few dozens of men and several hundred mail order
brides. The communication takes place in an informal
setting, and such an acquaintance could lead to marriage.
However, these meetings happen as a rule only in Moscow
and St. Petersburg, so that the ladies living in other
towns could not always make it.
Marriage agencies are your first target. In a number of
cases these agencies do not accept data through the
Internet so you would have to send your letter via mail.
If such an agency accepts your profile, you are sure to
get a lot of responses. Besides, the very fact that men
have to pay for addresses is proof to their serious
marriage intentions. The clients of such agencies are
normally quite well off, many of them are lawyers,
businessmen, programmers and doctors.
If you are young (not older than 35), slim and attractive,
chances are you will be placed in such agency’s catalogue.
The most important factor will be your photos. I saw a
very pretty young girl in some Russian marriage agency,
whose profile was rejected by an American agency. When I
took a look at her photo, I realized why: she evidently
did not attribute too much importance to make-up. Although
the photos were shot in a studio, they only had an empty
look and a tense smile, and none of the magic that
attracts men so much.
Take a critical glance at your photos: you have to look
sexy and attractive; the impression your photo makes is
more important than formal beauty. If your photos are not
good enough, you are only wasting your money on postage
expenses.
Mail
Order Brides and Dating Clubs
In dating clubs, placing
your information looks more like submitting a paper ad.
They allow you to send your info through the Internet, and
your personal would immediately appear on the Web page.
The agency does not publish your address, it only forwards
the letters received, or gives you an anonymous email
within the agency. This type of agencies does not select
the information they process, they rarely specialize in
one particular country. They are interested in attracting
as many clients as possible, and they publish all the data
they get. Major clubs like Kiss.com or One-and-Only have
hundreds of thousands personals in their databases.
To send a letter to mail order brides, a man has to obtain membership - to
pay a fee. The fee varies from 10 to 35 dollars a month.
Membership enables every member of the club to send
emails.
When mail order brides publish personals with such a club,
they may get a lot of responses, but their quality is
going to be very different. When men have an unlimited
ability to send emails, men try to contact a number of
women, and for them correspondence is more of a game than
a search for a marriage partner. The membership fee is
inexpensive, so many men with a low income level are
attracted.
Immediately after mail order brides publish their
profiles, they start receiving several emails a day (young
and pretty girls sometimes get a hundred and more). This
initial “tide” contains the most “rubbish” - letters from
men who enter correspondence just for the sake of
correspondence. In one or two weeks the flow of letters
will almost stop. The incoming letters would be mostly
from newbies, and the potential of these “late” letters is
much higher.
All its drawbacks considered, publishing your personal on
the pages of such club agency is still a very good option
for mail order brides. If you are not sure that your
personal will be accepted by a marriage agency, this
option would come in very handy.
Marriage
Agencies
Foreign agencies seem
far away and mysterious. Almost 100% of international
marriage agencies work through the Web (in fact, I do not
know a single one that works without a Web page, but it is
quite possible there are some). They receive information
about women willing to find a partner abroad and place it
online and in printed catalogues.
The quality of a Web page depends on the effort the agency makes and on
how much money was spent to design it, to create a working
database and an efficient search engine, allowing a man to
choose the parameters that matter most for him - age,
height, etc. - and to look through the list of suitable
mail order brides without having to browse the whole
catalogue. Internet does not have national and other
borders, which is why it does not really matter where the
agency is actually situated - the quality of the Web
engine and its advertising are much more important for its
success.
A good Web page works quickly, has a user-friendly
interface and navigation (which means it is simple to use)
and provides a wide choice. Having looked at the info, the
man can then order the addresses of mail order brides he
liked by just clicking on a button in their profiles. To
pay for the purchase, he only has to enter the number and
details of his credit card, and the necessary sum will be
drawn from his account.
Many agencies specializing on representing women from
Third World countries - Eastern Europe, South America and
South-Eastern Asia also send printed and video catalogues
via mail Meanwhile, the term “mail order brides”
originated in the West. It does not feel good to be
something that can be ordered through a catalogue, but in
reality this is the way things are.
To get into an agency’s catalogue, you need to submit your
photo and personal details (name, surname, age, height,
weight, color of eyes and hair, date of birth, family
status, the number of children if any, education,
religion, interests, hobby, personality description,
partner requirements). Foreign agencies will list your
info for free. The addresses of agencies could be found in
the “International” section of the newspaper “From hands
to hands”.
