If you like to flirt, and to write, you could be our next Flirt Blogger!
Yes, Cheri is no longer writing the Flirt Blog, so you could work for
Skout (and be paid! Cash in addition to all the Skout Points you can
spend)….just send a sample of your writing to jobs@skout.com, with your
contact info, and one of our Staff Skouts will get back to you…Even
better, include your idea for your first Flirt Blog post, and you could
have the gig almost as quickly as you can find a flirt…

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

Congratulations to the following three entrants for their terrific entries into the Win a Free Pro Account contest! We selected these entries as a team and will be emailing each of you individually to remind you that you’ve won! Hoorahhh!

Nice But Not Good Looking:
Well, this is a proven fact,
You just need to have a good look on yourself, then anything works!!!
I mean I have tried literally everything “ALL OF THE ABOVE” to start a conversation…
Cut to the chase, Be myself, Nice comments and compliments, good nature human conversations, phycological tactics, find their interests through girls profile and talk about them, telling my good stories, Being a comic, Long and near distant, just start with Hi, how are you? to build up a relationship…
but nothing has worked, but if you are a good looking then, Boom, anything works if a girl likes what she sees.

So I am begging you, give me the free account so I can up my game more and try more to see if a not good looking guy still have a chance!!!

Dustin:
Start off by saying something unusual so you stand out. I like to say, “Aloha, how art thou?” Tell them something like “Fat penguin. [What?] I just wanted to say something to break the ice.” Introduce yourself. “My name is [your name]. What’s yours?” Compliment on a great asset of theirs, such as their smile. Start a conversation. Try to be genuine, flirtatious, and funny. Tell that person that it would be great if you had a chance to get to know them better. Try to be yourself instead of coming across as trying too hard.

Michael:
The #1 rule to getting a date is to put yourself out there!!! It’s as simple as just saying hi to someone and if they want to respond I’m sure you will get a hello back. With the thousands of people on this site I’m sure someone will respond to you so just have paticence. Once you’ve established a good base of comunication with someone don’t be scared to ask them out to dinner or some sort of activity that will give you some one on one face time. Always be yourself and always be confident in yourself!! And if their not the person your looking for then on to the next one!!! Never give up on the search for happiness!!!!!!!

What’s this?! A fourth winner?! Oh yes we did!
Jill:
Easy. Be a reasonably attractive girl and the men on here will come to you. As long as you know that most of them are saying the exact same thing to any other women within their search results, just go with it. A little conversation can’t hurt…unless they’re super blunt. Ignoring those messages is totally acceptable.

Again, congratulations!
Thanks to this awesome turn out, you better believe we’ll be hosting more contests in the future.

But for now, stay tuned and come visit us here at the Flirt Blog to check out more awesome news about an upcoming feature with Skout that is sure to make your hottie-hunting experience even better!

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

Guess what, Skouts?
After scrounging around for ideas for our next Skout Blog, my awesome team (you met them last week in our previous entry on “How To Make A Skout Blog“) came up with the terrific idea to throw a contest!

Prize:
Up to 3 winners will receive a free pro membership for a year! Well, if we get more than 3 good answers we’ll give more prizes. We reserve the right to be arbitrary and unfair. Extra points for funny. Really extra points for prurient details. WOAH! But what exactly do you get with a pro membership? I’ll tell you! The ability to find out who checked you out, who thinks you’re hot stuff, dibs on premium placements in our listing, unlimited chats (yeah, these are already free on our iphone and Android apps, but web members have to pay), and unlimited “winks”.

Rules:
To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this entry with your best advice on how to pick up a date through Skout (actual experience would be awesome). Do you start a conversation? Do you cut to the chase? What has worked for you, or what have you been trying? Let us know!

Please provide your correct email address when commenting to be notified when you win! The deadline is Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 at 11:59pm Pacific Time , so get those entries in now!

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

First and foremost, writing this article was actually incredibly difficult for me because every time I popped open the application to reference it, I would get distracted by all of the hot guys in my area. Heheh!

To give you some background, at the time of writing this I’m on a business trip for one of my companies, crafting this blog post from a hotel room in Southern California — land of beautiful beaches, gorgeous people, amazing weather, and epic sunburns (you should see my shoulders right now, holy crap!).

You think I’d be out and about running around soaking in the sun or off at this huge, exclusive beach party with my boss that has an open bar, tons of free food, and a crapload of activities, right? But instead I’m here in my room, curtains swung shut, typing up this dang piece because I’m on a tight deadline! No distractions!

Such is the life of your favorite Skout.com blogger, Cheri.

Typically, I’ll miss my deadlines by a day or two and get shot an angry email by Robin Wolaner (one of my bosses here at Skout) saying something like, “Cheri! You need to be on a more regular posting schedule! I’m really annoyed right now!” LOL! Sorry to be such a headache, Robin! But she’s just doing her job, of course, and I do realize that I can be a huge pain in the ass. Especially since all of my articles are supposed to be in by Wednesday!

I bet none of you really knew that, huh?
Well now you do! I’m on a constant time crunch! And with everything that I do for a living, it’s some pretty stressful stuff!

But it’s difficult to consistently dish out articles when the ideas I have left are lackluster as hell! For instance, when coming up with ideas for The Flirt Blog, I usually ask myself the following questions, “What do people want to read about? What’s the latest in hook up gossip? What are people gabbing about on Skout?”

Y’know.
Typical brainstorming stuff.

Every once in a while I’ll get thrown a bone.
Like some cool press release about how Skout is the bomb dot com will be thrown out on the web and I’ll get to brag about how we’re the sh*t. Sometimes I’ll just brainstorm with my team about what we want to get out there, and they’ll shoot some cool ideas at me. Or I’ll even reach out to my own fanbase (not that I’m famous or anything, eheheh) and ask what everyone wants to hear!

But of course it’s not always guaranteed that I’ll land a good topic. Especially something that’s worth writing about that I feel you’ll all actually want to read (and after being a blogger for 8 or 9 years, I’m pretty sure I have a good grasp on what people enjoy reading)!

Fortunately, we usually end up with something passable. At which point I’ll type up the article, grammar-nazi the crap out of it to make sure everything flows and sounds absolutely perfect, write and rewrite the various paragraphs, then shoot it over to Tobias who manages the “picture inserting” portion of the blog!

Hey, Tobias. XD

For example.
You see all these nifty pictures here on the post? It’s all thanks to Tobias (who is actually working from overseas and is nowhere near me here in California)! Amazing how we pull together like that, isn’t it? So thanks, buddy. I’m way too swamped to run those photos myself, and these articles wouldn’t exist without you! Haha. I can’t take all the credit, right?

After he shoots the pictures over to me, it’s my job to insert them into the article, save the draft onto the Flirt Blog, then send over that same draft to Robin who will then read over my piece and let me know what she hates or loves about it, what I need to change about the article, or if it’s good to go!

And then I can finally post this thing. Phew!
And even then, what’s the guarantee that anyone will even read it, right?! For a process as long as this and for something that involves so many people, we sure don’t put a lot of time into getting the word out about this blog (which defeats the purpose, I think).

But no worries. Word on the street is that we’ve got something good cooking up that immediately lets you know when a new article is posted. And if not, I will make it my duty to push the idea on our team. Eheheheheh.

But okay!
My tip for this week is — are you traveling? Going on a road trip? In a new area of some sort? Pop open the Skout app and check out all of the hotties in your area. You’ll be pleasantly surprised! For me, constantly checking Skout in Stockton is like, “Yawn! Gimme something fresh!” So it was way exciting to see a ton of gorgeous people in SoCal on Skout when I traveled down there over the weekend!

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

Why hello there, Skouts! Did you miss me this week?

We usually try to have a new blog post up by Thursday at the latest, but this time the delay works out!

I’ve just received word that Christian (the big boss man) has credited all of your accounts with 100 points! Whaaaaat?! You’re rich! You’re all stinking filthy rich! Ha.

But what does this mean, exactly? What are these points for? Well! Allow me to give you a quick walkthrough.

Have you been talking up a cutie? Maybe you’d like to show him (or her) some extra special lovin? Well. Use that new stash of points to pick her up a Skout gift! Pick her up some flowers, a drink, or impress her with a treasure chest for those money loving types. Ha! Skout has a virtual playground of fun gifts to send her (or his) way!

Or maybe you’re just in the mood for a quick ego boost, or want the world to know how dang cute you are? With Skout’s “Look at me” service, you can actually place a bid for a spot on our featured users list! Watch the picture comments and messages flood in, you little attention whore you.

Or maybe you’re not into all that competition nonsense and would rather custom select the Skout users that you receive attention from? There’s a feature for that too! With a wink bomb, you can send an attention grabbing wink to multiple hotties at once (at only 5points a wink)! You won’t know what to do with all the new faces you’ll be able to flirt with!

Maximize your Skout experience by taking these free points that we’ve hooked you up with for a test run. And if you find yourself wanting more? You can both purchase points, as well as earn them for free!

Yeah. I know.
It doesn’t get much better than that.

But you guys, I’m way curious. What are you planning on spending your new Skout points on? We here on The Flirt Blog would love to know! Leave a comment telling us what you did!

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

The climate is cooling, the breeze is picking up, and the clouds are forming overhead — Summer is almost over and we’re at the point where you’re more likely to find your potential mates snuggling up inside on the couch in front of the TV instead of out and about and on the beach!

But is it too late for a summer romance?

We at Skout hardly think so.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — Skout’s service provides a unique and more convenient way for you to meet and flirt with a fresh face while taking away the hassle of having to scope out your potential mate while at someplace like, say, a bar. In fact, we’ve made it so that you may never even have to step foot out the front door to meet someone you’re interested in. It’s the future of dating in the palm of your hand, doing what website-based services can’t by bringing you dating on the go.

Some of our favorite Skout users have found each other while running around outside and enjoying the sunlight. But with the oncoming chilly weather, most of us are choosing to warm up inside rather than frolic around during the day. But in this darker, cozier atmosphere, you’d better believe that singles are out to romance more than anyone else!

If you’re on Skout, you’re probably in the mood for a little cuddling, right? Guaranteed that someone in the over 1.5 million people who use our service is probably feeling the same exact way that you are.

So why not check it out?
New people, new faces, and new personalities join us every single day. And each one is open to the possibility of meeting someone new!

And who knows? That belated summer romance might blossom into something more.

But hey.
That’s just what we do here at Skout.
Bringing people together with likeminded interests in the hopes of a fun story in the making. And if you have one to share, be sure to let us know! We’d love to get in touch with you (and possibly feature you here on our blog!).

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

Why not give it a shot?

For Aisha Ballie, meeting her soul mate was as easy as pulling up the Skout application and noticing Brian Gettleman’s handsome smile. Two years later and they’re on a flight to Paris where Brian proposed to Aisha with his grandmother’s diamond wedding ring.

Sounds like a modern fairytale romance, right?

But with Skout trending across the globe, over 1.5 million users are finding meeting the love of their life that much easier and more convenient.

Check out this video clip from our recent mention on ABC News:

It’s exciting to see couples finding true love through Skout’s high tech dating service, and even more exciting to know that we’re leading the way in this new trend!

Do you have a similar story to share? Don’t be shy! Leave a comment or get in touch — we’d love to hear from you. And who knows? Maybe you’ll be featured here on The Flirt Blog?

Also, my boss is looking pretty buff in that video clip! Has he been working out in preparation for all the screen time he’s been getting lately with Skout? What do you guys think? Don’t lie to us, Christian. We’re onto you.

EDIT @11:45AM PST:

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

Have you heard?!
Skout has just been annointed as the #1 way for New Yorkers to hook up this summer (PR Web).

With over 350,000 New Yorkers logging in, checking their messages, updating their profiles, and putting their most “come-hither” faces out there? Skout has pretty much become the free flirting capital of GPS Dating.

Flirts, singles, and heartbreakers are all flocking to Skout to try out the newest dating technology craze that actually works. And lucky for you? You’re already a part of it!

Skout represents the pioneer of dating technology.
We’re leading the way to what hooking up in the modern world should be: Convenient flirting at your fingertips. Casual dating in the palm of your hand. Hooking up last minute when the urge strikes you.

The possibilities are endless!

So share the wealth. Tell your friends how much fun you’re having on Skout and get them hooked on the latest dating trend. We’d love to hear your success stories!

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

We’ve been loving the positive feedback and helpful suggestions that our favorite flirts have been sending in. Our community is one of the best and fastest-growing that you can find here in the mobile dating network. And you’ve all definitely been on the ball with letting us know what you like and don’t like about Skout.

But now it’s time for us to ask for a little help!

Did you know that we have a “Report” button?
You can find it in your chats with other Skouts, in profiles that you surf through, as well as on the public pictures of flirts that you check out.

Basically, it helps us keep track of who the “bad guys” are.
But we can’t do it without your help!

If something fishy is going on (someone’s harassing you, someone has inappropriate information or photos on their profile, etc), just click that report button, and our Skout team will work towards investigating your report, and quickly banning and deleting the perpetrator.

But you’re a big part of making that happen! So don’t be afraid to let us know when something’s going down.

We want to keep our community real!

So have fun. Enjoy yourselves. And keep that little “Report” button in mind just in case.

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