In case you didn’t make it to iDate, here’s the conference organizer mud-wrestling some women. Nope, I’m not going to say anything, nothing at all.
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He is celebrating he earned over USD150,000 in his pockets and has 4 more conferences planned for the rest of the year.
It is customary for the attendees of that conference to go there to discuss stupidities, like if Annie is pregnant or not, but not talking about Innovations, Legislation, ID verification, background checks, Quality Norms for the Online Dating Industry (the Big Agenda).
Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony/eDarling, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia’s Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, etc). The market remains enormous for new players.
NO INNOVATIONS SINCE YEARS IN THE ONLINE DATING INDUSTRY.
Have you noticed the Obsolescence of Dating Sites offering Compatibility Matching Methods ?
eHarmony, eDarling, Chemistry, True, PerfectMatch, Parship, MeeticAffinity, MatchAffinity, FriendScout24 BQ check, PlentyOfFish (POF) Chemistry Predictor, Be2; all of them are all RUBBISH for serious daters!
C level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry. Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
Paid online dating sites have high acquisition costs, they can not abandon the attracting, converting and retaining marketing stages; the automatic renewal of their members’s subscriptions with dirty credit-card billing trickery.
Moreover they did not pay the attention the Latin American Market deserves.
Same old cut and past comments from five years ago, sigh. Maybe if you went to an event and participated instead of complaining about things you know nothing about you might learn about the amazing things going on in the industry.
To be fair to Marc, it’s good to lighten things up a little. Too much talk of payments, optimization, algorithms, chargebacks, scammers, matching, free vs paid, leaving money on the table etc. can do your head in :)
Lossen up Dave. It was funny.
A Mark on Marc match would have been funny. Or eHarmony vs. Fling.com :-)
Despite all criticisms launched against online dating sites, no one can ignore their stories of success. Some websites like Okcupid and http://www.freakin-out.com are providing good services to their members…