If you have a plan before you start, you will be more successful than if you walk in there like a teenager at his first dance.



At the social, time is the most important resource you will have. Your short-term goal is to meet as many women as possible at the social. Do not get cornered by talking to only a few women that you happen to hit it off with.

It's wonderful when you meet a woman and you both appear to enjoy each other's company. Make a note of her name and phone number. If you know she is a member of a particular local marriage agency, take a picture of her and they can get in touch with her for you if you have trouble reaching her.

If you could somehow use the rational selection criteria you used in perusing the websites of Russian women looking for Western men -- and you combined that search strategy with the opportunity that the tour presents for you to meet a lot of women at one time -- the situation might be ideal.

In other words, if you knew who was coming to the social, and through a rational selection process, you would be introduced to the fifteen to twenty five women who most matched your selection profile, it might allow you to make a better match than one based on appearance alone.

You have two weeks to meet the woman of your dreams. Do you want to leave that to the whims of fancy or the luck of the draw?

If possible, I recommend that you spend the better part of the morning before the social finding out who is coming to the social. Do they have profiles of the women attending?

Use your age criteria for selecting a subset of women you want to meet. Use the other search criteria we spoke of before, such as whether they have or want children, what they are looking for in a man, et cetera.

Narrow your search down to fifteen to twenty women you want to introduce yourself to at the social. Enroll the tour group staff to help you in this process.

At present none of the tour companies conducting tours to CIS countries have the ability to provide information like that prior to the socials. The reason is that they do not actually know who is coming to the socials.

They place ads in Russian newspapers announcing the socials, they contact local marriage agencies so they can alert their clients, and of course, by word of mouth from one woman to another.