Damona Hoffman

Damona Hoffman, aka “Dear Mrs D”, was an early adopter of the online dating trend in 2001. At the time she was working in television casting for CBS and teaching courses at night for actors on auditioning and marketing techniques. The classes were focused on personal branding and making a good impression in an audition room. She led many actors to career success and several are now regulars on some of TV’s most popular series.

She began applying her techniques for actors towards her own online dating “career” and realized that the better her branding was and the more prepared she was to make the first impression, the better her results. In 2003, she met the man who would later become her husband on a dating site. Shortly after, friends, rel

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