It’s a new week here at Skout (at least according to our blogging schedule, anyway), and instead of bringing you dating advice, news coverage or contests, we have something even better. Something that will improve your dating experience with us to make it even more convenient for you.

I know, right? How can it get any better than this?
With our Skout application, you can meet up with cuties practically all over the globe just by toting your smartphone around with you! You can target who you want to meet by setting up your Mutual Match information, and even geographically designate who you’re allowing to view your profile. It’s impossible to not find someone that you’re interested in!

But after stumbling onto your new crush, how do you get in touch if you have no idea when they hop online?

Well, let me introduce you to our our newest features: Online Alerts & Notifications.

That’s right.
The new Online Alerts can be set up to alert you one or more times per day whenever your crush hops on! Now you can be perfectly in sync with your favorite hotties and set your application to alert you either by push notification or email whenever they pop online.

Pretty sick, right?

And not just that, but our new Notifications feature will keep you completely up to date when it comes to information like someone adding you to their hotlist, checking out your profile & commenting on your photos, or even with our new Online Alerts! In fact, we’ve even gone so far as to notify you when your Skout points have begun to run low.

It works like this: Whenever receiving new data, a discrete notification will pop up at the bottom of your screen, keeping you updated on all of the new activity related to your Skout account. And in order to access all of your notifications at once, it’s as easy as heading to the menu page and clicking through!

See? We’ve got your back.
With Skout, you can always count on us to deliver the most user friendly and inviting experience.

So keep the comments coming! Let us know what you want to see, what you enjoy reading here on the blog, and what suggestions for features, etc you might have in those creative minds of yours. Feedback is always welcome!

And as always? Happy flirting, Skouts.
XOXO Cheri XOXO

It’s that time of the year, folks! The holidays!
And what better way to put on a few extra pounds than to scarf down some turkey and gravy, right?

We here at Skout hope that those of you celebrating Thanksgiving have an amazing weekend and enjoy the piles of food that you’ll probably be shoving into your mouths over the next few days! And for those of you that aren’t? Don’t worry. I’ll save you some pumpkin pie.

Some suggestions from us:
Why don’t you pop open your favorite smartphone app (Skout, duh) and ask your favorite hunks and hotties what they’re doing for Thanksgiving. Better yet, send a holiday gift with all of the points that we’ve given you flirts over the past few months! There’s nothing more flattering than being able to show off how wanted you are, so go ahead! Splurge a little this season.

And don’t forget to tell us what you’re doing this Thanksgiving weekend, if anything at all. Black Friday is right around the corner, too! Sales galore!

And as always, happy flirting, Skouts!
XOXO Cheri XOXO

Guess what, everyone?
Not only have we decided on a winner for last week’s Skout contest, but we’ve also decided to hold it open for one more week so a few of you can get in your last few entries!

Don’t forget.

The rules are:
Tell us your worst flirt! What you said, and what the result was. Let us know your most embarrassing moment when it came down to hitting on your main crush. Bonus points if it happened on Skout. We’ll reward the best 3 with free Pro memberships! Don’t forget to fill in your email accurately so that we are able to contact you when you win.

Deadline is Wednesday, November 17 at 12pm PST, when our next blog entry goes up!

As for a winner from last week …
Bryan! Come on down.

Bryan said, “I once in a class I left a note on this guys desk, that I had wrote telling him how sweet everyone thinks you are and I wish I had someone that would be sweet to me. Let me know if your interested.
I return a few min later to find,my note now on my desk with not only the words no but that see had spell checked it. I find that I had been spelling swetie and not sweetie. I never went back to that study hall again”

Haahhh!
Hilarious. Totally sounds like something I would do (spell checking a secret admirer’s note — I’m a total grammar nazi). You’d be surprised how much spelling counts nowadays, yeah? Oftentimes, your spelling alone can make or break a relationship or even your reputation! Especially online, or when it comes to representing yourself through text.

The guy I’ve been dating recently sent me a letter to go along with a gift he’d made for me (hand made gifts?! Brownie points!), and he spelled candles as “candels”. I couldn’t get over it. I still can’t. And believe me, I totally took a picture of it, sent it to his phone, and laughed my ass off when he gave me a call to “explain himself”. I haven’t let him live it down yet!

I hope you’ve learned your lesson, Bryan. Lol.
But all is not lost! Your epic fail has landed you with a Skout Pro membership!

We’ll be in touch soon at the email that you’ve provided us with when entering the contest.

And to the rest of you? Don’t forget to tell us your embarrassing flirt stories! We’d love to hear them, and you might even win a Skout Pro membership! Have too much to share? Feel free to enter more than once, but don’t forget to use the correct email!

And as always? Happy flirting, Skouts.
XOXO Cheri XOXO

Hey Skouters,

Cheri is having too much fun to blog this week, but I’m checking in from Worldwide Skout Headquarters to tell you that the Big Guy, Skout’s CEO, gave you a gift you might not have noticed — 100 free Skout points, to make up for a system outage that you probably didn’t notice either. I’m the chief bean counter, so I didn’t think he needed to give out all those free beans, but go ahead, flirt with a Skout today. Send a gift — we have some great new ones.

And the new contest:

Tell us your worst flirt: what you said, what the result was. Get down — the more embarrassing, the better. We’ll reward the best 3 (or more if you surprise us) with free Pro memberships.

Happy flirting,
Robin