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hotornot,
twitorfit
by David Evans on November 28, 2008 in Niche
Pandora’s box has been opened. Gays weren’t enough, now eHarmony is in the hotseat for not catering to bisexuals. Where is the logical end to the types of people eHarmony must serve. Unhappy polygamists? (thanks to anonymous for this.)
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eharmony
The 8at8 blog, Tales From The Table, has reprinted a story about group dating from the Wall Street Journal.
Is group dating gathering steam in the 20-something set, or is this just a fad? One thing is clear, 20-somethings are not getting what they need from generic internet dating.
In many ways, 21st-century group-dating is a confluence [...]
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group dating,
Marketing,
pr,
teamdating,
trends
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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podcast,
speeddating
A warm welcome to our new sponsor, Dating Ad Network.
Match closed down their “match studios” service and re-opened it under the name of Match Profile Pro. You can see the ad unit if you go to “edit profile” it’s on the far left hand side of the page. It offers the same things as match [...]
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eharmony,
loopylove,
Marketing,
speeddating
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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consulting
by David Evans on December 4, 2006 in Niche
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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Niche
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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Dating-Site,
Niche
by David Evans on November 13, 2006 in Niche
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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Niche
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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Dating-Site,
Niche,
Partnerships,
Research