Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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Online Dating Insider delivers cutting-edge insight and commentary on all aspects of the online dating industry. Topics include industry news, site reviews, emerging trends, analysis of dating site features, discussion about safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Startups directory, useful to anyone running dating or social networking [...]
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After remaining free since it’s inception, PlentyofFish has officially launched the Serious Member feature. I was able to add my badge, which you can see in the screenshot below. It’s gigantic, like the sun.
I don’t hold open doors for women, I kick puppies and regularly taunt old ladies, but I’m a serious member now. How [...]
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Dating site PlentyofFish has made some recent changes outlined in this blog post.
Spent some time this weekend and rewrote parts of the site…
1. Ditched the paid virtual gifts on the weekend not really core to what we are doing.
2. Instead of allowing you to remove people from searches I added a new search that removes [...]
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Match.com, the world’s largest online dating company, today announced the launch of DownToEarth, an innovative free online dating site. Last week I spoke with Jacob Solotaroff, the former Director of Product Management and Member Integrity at Match.com, who is tasked with running Down To Earth. Steve Hammer, who heads up marketing for Down To Earth, [...]
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Plentyoffish is now offering paid virtual goods. A lot of people seem to think that virtual goods/gifts on Facebook or HotOrNot aren’t a success. I’d say making over $250k a day selling icons of smiley faces is pretty good. Don’t get me started on the whole xbox/ps3 gaming world, where virtual goods and currency are [...]
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Match has gone through a pretty radical redesign. Nobody I’ve talked to is a big fan of what they did with the Connections page, but I like the new Daily 5 feature, which is similar to what OkCupid recently launched. I’ll dig into the new features and look later on this week. What do you [...]
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Facebook dating application Are you Interested has implemented a sharing feature where you can share people with your friends. The icon is a copy of the ShareThis social sharing application you see on blogs these days. I’ve always wondered how many people use the “Send to a friend” feature on dating sites. What person would [...]
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Are you interested has launched a new feature on it’s Facebook application. Now you can bid to be placed on a special spotlight page. Use points to place a 6 hour bid. The higher you bid, the higher up you’ll appear. Top row gets 41 clicks on average. You have to take survey’s to earn [...]
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If you can’t afford a celebrity for your website, you may want to check out VideoSpokesModel.com. Not a bad deal for a couple hundred bucks. I’ll take her over your pitch/Help/FAQ section any day.
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Communicating with people on dating sites and social networks is often accomplished by sending plain text messaging, generally the most fast and efficient way to dash off a message to a friend or potential date.
Sometimes you just want to leave a message or comment on a photo. Rich text editing lets you format text with [...]
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