Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
From Boing Boing:
A while ago Friendster integrated a spectacularly useless search engine feature. They also added a woefully ill-considered little widget to go with it, which occasionally displays a box on profiles that lists the top 10 searches in the user’s network. Click through to see an example. I wonder if you can block this [...]
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Criterion Capital Management, a San Francisco based Investment Firm further invested in shares of Spark Networks plc (MHJG: Prime Standard Frankfurt). Criterion currently holds 11.07 percent of Spark Networks’ outstanding 25,540,982 shares.
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I received the usual quarterly email today asking if I wanted to advertise ProfileDoctor on AskMen.com. I clicked through the site and found this ad from True. For a company that supposedly is 60-something percent female, I was amused at the porn-like quality of this skyscraper ad. I ordered my copy of Doc Love’s Mastery [...]
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A woman is suing Yahoo! for $3 million over the fact that they didn’t remove nude photos of her that her ex boyfriend posted on several free Yahoo! profiles site. Not personals, profiles. Yahoo has millions of them, you get one for free if you sign up for any sort of Yahoo service. After posting [...]
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From Yahoo News: Friendster logged 703,000 visitors to its site in April, a 15 percent drop from the year-ago month and the average visitor spent 14 minutes on the site that month, down 65 percent year over year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. By contrast, MyPlace boasted 8.2 million visitors in April, who spent an hour and [...]
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I think this is day 19 of rain here in Boston. Please make it stop. I have a bunch of topics that probably won’t make it into posts on their own so here they are.
Networking startups are also struggling to overcome fickle users, who switch between Friendster, Myspace, LinkedIn, Meetup, Tribe.net and other similar sites, [...]
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I just tried to leave a comment on Mark Brook’s blog and his spam filter is asking me for my personal phone number for “customer support” reasons. How ironic given my last post. Perhaps I should get a g*number or MyPrivateLine anonymous number? Mark, just go get TypeKey, it’s a lot less invasive and annoying [...]
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Mark Brooks notes that a safety expert is urging consumer to use a new phone service, MyPrivateLine.com, that provides a safe, private way to receive phone calls while protecting the identity of your real phone number. The press release says that the newest online directories include cell phone numbers, not just landlines. Can anyone [...]
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This was in my mailbox this morning. They never promoted this service. I think I got one email about it. I posted my audio clip when they started the beta. I never receive a “hows it working out for you” type email which was a shame. Match spends all it’s resources attracting new customers meanwhile [...]
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MarketingVox says:
An eROI study of emails sent, read and clicked on shows that the market has finally evened out into a sort of stasis where the number of emails sent out on a particular day of the week is only that which won’t overload the reading rate. This has also reduced the volatility of click [...]
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