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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 safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Tools & Services directory, useful to anyone running dating [...]

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What a week, spring reared it’s head, we hit the 70’s, and now is going to rain all weekend.
Markus at Plenty of Fish Rickrolled me on April Fools day, nice one Markus. Read his post so you have a context for my response.
Many niche sites make plenty of money, several make as much or more [...]

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What the heck is this? I found it stumbling around the nether regions of Match.com.
Local Singles in Roselawn Finance; Roselawn Finance Online Dating
Find an online single in Ohio or the Buckeye State today. Match.com brings Roselawn Finance daters together. Start searching for Roselawn Finance, Ohio singles looking for love just like you. Online dating in [...]

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Single Parent Love Life is a new online community created for single parents and the enlightened singles open to meeting them. The founders are ex-Lavalife alumnae. I love the niche, single parents are a whole market to themselves, and are totally under served in the dating market.

I’m a bit of a design snob. There [...]

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Mobile Alibi is good if you need to get out of a bad date. Phone rings, pretend it’s your sick roomate, excuse yourself and off you go.

For those married people on dating sites (30% according to some), Alibi Network is here to help you with all your lying, cheating homewrecking needs.

Alibi Network is a cutting [...]

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Where did the week go? I’m busy with all sorts of client work, hence the slow posts. I’m building the next generation of online dating and social networking sites and helping solution providers build out their value proposition for top dating sites. I can’t talk about much, you’ll just have to see the fruits of [...]

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I was clicking around Match recently and see that members can now search by state, major city and various communities: religion, non-smoking, teachers, liberal, athletic, etc.

Match is taking a play from the Matchmaker and many other dating sites (and Facebook), by creating smaller user communities out of it’s date warehouse. I never received notice [...]

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I received an email from PodDater saying that someone had left me a message. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was a spam from the Clown Dating Agency.

Circus is a magical business, but it can be difficult to meet new people and form lasting relationships when you’re on the road performing.

The Clown [...]

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Lawless Luvoo.com: Missouri residents on the Do Not Call list are receiving telemarketing calls from dating site Luvoo.com. Reader Renaldorv says I have been living under a rock, that Luvoo is not the real deal. I put Luvoo and Mate1 in the same category. Site that will be around for a while, but how good [...]

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Much of my work in the online dating industry involves working with startups looking for a way to leapfrog their way into a market-leading position in a particular niche. Other times it’s developing new growth strategies for established sites that are looking to crack the top 10, or struggling to stay there.

I’ve spoken with many [...]

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