Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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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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Tech Crunch 50 is today. Practically everyone who matters in the Internet space is there. Why should you care? If you’re a dating site executive, you are are probably focused on driving traffic and conversion rates. But do you ever actually stop and think about how your service functions or how it could be improved? [...]
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Using Utterz for today’s today’s podcast.
Today’s audio blog topics:
Gender-bending Match.com thinks my women are men.
Match.com powers Penguin books dating site. Via Mynameiskate.
Speed Dating Goes White Label with Randodate.
DatingAdNetwork blog: Dmitry from RussianFlora talks about foreign brides scam fighting, while Julia from Pilot Group shares her thoughts on dating start-ups and more. http://blog.datingadnetwork.com/
I received this from [...]
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I was greeted with these error messages while browsing Match this morning. The ongoing downtime at Match is unacceptable for a service I’m paying for. This isn’t an overloaded social network with a million features, it’s a dating site, albeit a large one but they have had years to get this working properly, it’s not [...]
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Match.com will start advertising to affluent singles.
The new Honesty Online blog.
I grow weary of signing up for new dating sites. Does anyone actually think to ask if their questions are any good? Why don’t dating sites link to popular photo-sharing sites? I have to open up iPhoto, find a photo crop/export it to desktop, then [...]
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My Match testimonial us up. I understand now why I see so few testimonials on Match. Getting friends to write something is like pulling teeth, similar to getting a testimonial on LinkedIn. I’ll let you know if I notice a difference.
Match needs to fix the email you receive when the person writes your testimonial. Mine [...]
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Alexis at Whywasidissed wrote in to say:
Dating can be difficult, and watching a relationship – or something that could have been a relationship – come to an end is even more difficult. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that often, you’re left without answers.
Calls go un-returned. Emails, unanswered. It’s like one half of the [...]
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This indicator of how complete my OKCupid profile is was perplexing at first. To get to the next level of completion, I can either answer another 204 questions or add a single comment to someone else’s profile. Now I get it, they want you to leave more comments, because people aren’t doing that much. [...]
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