Improbable iDate sessions

by David Evans on December 21, 2005 in Dating Conferences

  • Hints and tips on how to identify fake profiles.
  • What did you do before you got into the online dating industry? (Closed door session.)
  • Why Christian dating sites shouldn’t share server space with p0rn sites.
  • Why social networking is finally getting a business model and take your business away unless you take off the blinders and start innovating.
  • 40 million singles meeting online, why settling for 50% of a market is ok.
  • The role of breasts in affiliate marketing.
  • Growing market share with pop-unders, toolbar spyware, splogs, affiliate marketing and good old fashion spam.
  • How to buy a CD full of fake profiles to seed your startup dating site.
  • How to trick someone into opening a US bank account for your Foreign dating service.
  • How to successfully offer “more than just a date” on your site and stay within obscenity laws.
  • How to run a dating site with a room full of sentient robots.
  • Pick up your free “how to sue a dating sites” starter package in the lobby.
  • Guess how many free months of service Match and Yahoo will have to give up as part of a class-action lawsuit. Closest to the real number gets a free iPod.
  • How to attempt to win back customers who defected to another service that trounced you with exhaustive personality profiling, a huge ad spend and religious fervor.
  • Free vs. paid dating sites, or why Canadian dating sites are the best in the entire world no matter what anyone says, period.
  • Why attempting an IPO just to get rich usually backfires.
  • Phonesex, is it making a comeback?
  • How to appear higher in Alexa rankings, sponsored by the SEO industry.
  • The secrets behind how to weather an ill-fated acquisition, have millions of people turn against you, and still not care because you still make more money than God with your other dating sites.
  • Niche sites, we barely knew you.
  • How to re-design your home page so it’s doesn’t look like the cover of a men’s magazine.
  • Customers are not sheep and you are not a shepard.
  • Let’s pretend we’re shocked that the credit card industry has raised our rates into the stratosphere and figure out how to make more money on transactions.
  • Why safe dating is overrated, how to date fun people have criminal records.
  • Background checks, why sealed court documents covering up that unfortunate incident in Tijuana during college are sometimes necessary.

What else am I missing?

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    Bill Broadbent December 21, 2005 at 1:14 pm

    Not dating related Dave, but industry related:

    1) Make sure you check your spam filter, it might be time to update your Paypal, eBay or banking account passwords.

    2) You can make big money helping royal Nigerian families transfer money – all they need is your ID

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    Sam Moorcroft, ChristianCafe.com December 21, 2005 at 1:41 pm

    Dave, you should be a comedy writer!

    I esp. liked the one about Christian dating sites & p0rn, as in bigchurch.com with adultfriendfinder, alt.com, outpersonals. et al…

    Sad, but true.

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    markus December 21, 2005 at 2:50 pm

    “Free vs. paid dating sites, or why Canadian dating sites are the best in the entire world no matter what anyone says, period. ”
    ***************
    Funny, I don’t think Plentyoffish is the best.

    I think that eharmony is hands down the best “serious” dating site, they also hands down have the cleanest database. I think that myspace and facebook are hands down the best and biggest general dating sites. I define “best” by how many unique logins a day a site has, and by how much that number grows as well as session time per user. People seem to have the tendency to define “better” as sites having the “coolest” features that no one actually uses.

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    John M December 21, 2005 at 8:10 pm

    Hello,
    Most sites get yoou hooked with all the Hotties in your area and hit you up for a membership..
    Most of all stay away from Russian Based Sites.
    Total Rip Off..
    John M

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    Luke December 22, 2005 at 5:03 pm

    How about there two:

    How to make it easier for your members to cancel their profile or recurring membership fees.

    Educating your members about nigerian and foreign scammers so they don’t get taken.

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