Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
ReadWriteWeb says:
Online reputation company Rapleaf has released a new study of 49.3 million people, revealing gender and age data about social network users. On most of the main social networks – including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 – women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women [...]
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Scott Olson, VP marketing at iovation, has written about how easy it is to bypass background checks. Scott outlines precisely why I believe background check and fraud-detection companies should work together. They are pitching their services to the exact same people at dating and social networking companies and should be collaborating and teaming up to [...]
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Senior dating site Lavelife Prime is about to begin charging it’s 40,000 members. It will be interesting to see what the attrition rate is once the paywall is in place. Wait, it’s for people over 45, not exactly seniors. Then why does search start at 40? Confusing. Depressing that I am eligible in five years.
Compete [...]
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Match has hit the wall in terms of US growth, continuing slight increase in revenue per subscriber. 1% subscriber growth to 1,326,500.
Revenue growth was driven by a 4% and 15% increase in international subscribers and revenue per subscriber, respectively, and 3% growth in revenue per subscriber in North America where subscribers were flat year-over-year. Chemistry.com [...]
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I was reading about Chinese neocon nationalists in the New Yorker and came across this:
Parents shopping for suitable mates for their children gather in the city’s parks most weekends to scrutinize and discuss the resumes of candidates, handwritten on bits of paper and torn sheets of cardboard taped to trees, resting on benches, and leaning [...]
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OnlineSpeedDating.com is available, a great strategic asset to an online speed dating company or one that’s about to enter that space. Contact vladravin at gmail dot com for details.
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Summer vacation has been very good to me this year. Fishing on Cape Cod, an unexpected trip to Nantucket and a few days in the Adirondacks has put my head in a good place and I’m recharged and ready to get back to work. I didn’t bring laptop with me, just checked email on my [...]
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Number 8 on Paul Graham’s Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund:
Dating. Current dating sites are not the last word. Better ones will appear. But anyone who wants to start a dating startup has to answer two questions: in addition to the usual question about how you’re going to approach dating differently, you have to answer [...]
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Once held up as a shining example of how to succeed by working as little as possible, PlentyOfFish founder Markus Frind made a series of stunning announcement this week which have sent shockwaves of despair through the global get-rich-quick and affiliate marketing communities.
Entrepreneur fanboys, Microsoft programmers and bloggers were also saddened to learn that founder [...]
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Back from a few days on Nantucket. I feel like I’ve been away for a month. Next week I’m taking a few days off as well, need to get in some summertime fun while it lasts.
ReadWriteWeb says:
More than 10% of the searches for the top 10 dating search terms were URLs (match.com, plentyoffish.com) and almost [...]
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