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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PlentyofFish members can now pimp their dating profiles with themes. Most of the themes have that distinctive early Myspace feel to them, when people figured out you could trick the layout into doing things Myspace never imagined (actually, it was a bug that turned into it’s biggest early feature).
Do daters at the worlds largest free [...]
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Today’s guest post is by Scott Valdez, founder of Virtual Dating Assistants.
It is really a privilege to have the opportunity to write a guest post for Online Dating Insider so early into the development of our company. For understandable reasons, we didn’t receive a considerably warm welcome to the market during the week leading up [...]
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Say goodbye to wasting countless hours on Match and eHarmony for dates. From TechCrunch:
VirtualDatingAssistants.com has launched a service to allow busy male professionals to fully outsource their online dating experience. At a price of $480 per month, the company’s virtual dating assistants will use “advanced internet dating techniques and strategies to create online dating profiles, [...]
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Periodically I purge my profile from all dating sites. It’s refreshing on a personal level and and a good idea for my consulting business.
Recently I deleted myself from all paid dating sites and all free sites except PlentyOfFish and OKCupid (a guy’s gotta date). I was spending thousands of dollars a year on dating site [...]
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I’m trying to find an authoritative source for the often-mentioned statistic that dating profiles with photos have a 15x increase in responses. Does anyone know where this stat came from? A url link would be helpful, thanks.
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John Tierney writes in the New York Times, Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening.
Suppose, during a date, you casually say, “The sugar maples in Harvard Yard were so beautiful every fall term.” Here’s what you’re signaling, as translated by Dr. Miller:
“My S.A.T. scores were sufficiently high (roughly 720 out of 800) that I [...]
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AllFacebook says that there is a growing market for purchasing Facebook Profiles. This reminds me of people who contact me looking for dating profiles. Pre-populating a dating site with fake profiles is a really bad idea. Short of acquiring a dating site and merging it’s population with a new site, companies like White Label Dating [...]
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The Google Blog post Search for “me” on Google caught my attention.
To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we’ve begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the [...]
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