Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Breaking News: Christian online dating services ChristianCafe.com and Single Christian Network have merged.
Sam Moorcroft, CEO of ChristianCafe.com, and I are talking on Skype right now. He is filling me in with some additional details of the deal. Sam is going to guest post here next week to provide additional depth to the story.
Single Christian Network [...]
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Media interest in online dating is surging this month, the recession-driven upswing in dating was a lot of smoke and mirrors for the most part, time to re-focus on what’s really important.
I was quoted in the Washington Post talking about Online Dating Aggregators. I’m working with Canoodle as well. I spoke with The Globe and [...]
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I’m trying to find an authoritative source for the often-mentioned statistic that dating profiles with photos have a 15x increase in responses. Does anyone know where this stat came from? A url link would be helpful, thanks.
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Over the weekend a woman was kidnapped after a third date with a man she met on Craigslist. WTOP in Washington DC interviewed me about what singles can do to keep safe in today’s dating environment. Here’s the audio.
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Nation’s Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: ‘Let’s Move In Together’
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John Tierney writes in the New York Times, Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening.
Suppose, during a date, you casually say, “The sugar maples in Harvard Yard were so beautiful every fall term.” Here’s what you’re signaling, as translated by Dr. Miller:
“My S.A.T. scores were sufficiently high (roughly 720 out of 800) that I [...]
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I used the new super-special search Engine Wolfram Alpha to seek out the term “dating”. I was not impressed, zero results. The founder’s book, A New Kind Of Science, at about 96,000 pages, props open my door nicely when it gets windy. Sometimes people can be too smart for their own good, know what I [...]
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New Zealand Launches Hookup Airways: Love is in the air — Air New Zealand, that is. The Kiwi carrier has launched Matchmaking Flight to bring lonely travelers together. After all, what better way to get to know The One than sharing a 13-hour flight on your first date?
Update: A Dating Site Picks a Marketing Strategy [...]
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Today’s guest post is by Eddy Ankrett. Sixteen years ago, Eddy set up Elite Introductions – an offline dating service with a strong focus on personal contact with members. Today, Eddy is Chairman of Dateline PLC, one of the UK’s most established dating companies, which offers online and offline with a personal offline home interview. [...]
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