Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
E. Jean Carroll is at it again with yet another overhyped dating service, this time it’s GreatGirlfriends.com. It’s remarkable at how much press this woman is able to drum up for these types of services, which have yet to prove themselves. Does anyone else cringe at the tone of E. Jean’s emails?
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Found some Quick Facts at the website. DreamMates was launched in 1999 with a mission to create a high quality, safe, fun and effective personals web site.
DreamMates has approximately 3.5 million users.
Approximately 5,000 new members join DreamMates each day.
DreamMates%u2019 members are youthful and educated.
Approximately 77% of DreamMates%u2019 members are between the ages of 20 [...]
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PBS Newshour segment about online dating. Covers an couple who met on match.com back in the stone age as well as the de rigeur psychologist interview.
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Meet your Match.com date for a TV pilot and get an all-expenses paid date in New York City. Match.com is giving one lucky couple who feel like they’ve found a love connection online an all-expenses paid first date in NYC.
If you’ve already developed sizzling online chemistry with another Match.com member, have corresponded with them online, [...]
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MatchLive is a unique and interactive events program for busy Boston singles, offering a wide variety of social events and parties where you can have a great time, while meeting other interesting people. More…
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But what about the plight of the single guy? According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, it’s single men, not single woman, who now face the longer odds of making a match. For every million thirtysomething single women, there’s a ”man surplus” of some 80,000-with things looking even worse for men holding [...]
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The battle in the online dating service business has become as competitive as the contest among looking-for-love singles angling for that final rose from “The Bachelor.”
Market leaders like Match.com, a unit of USA Interactive, and Yahoo Personals, are now turning to well-known creative shops and significantly increasing marketing budgets. Their ads are now showing up [...]
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In the San Francisco Bay Area, where lots of single engineers, programmers and Web developers lurk, finding a date can be a daunting task.
That’s why Jim Wald, a 37-year-old technical writer in Burlingame, California, turned to online dating services like Match.com and the personal ads on craigslist. Wald estimates he has scored between 15 [...]
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