Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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Hannah Schwartz of RSVP in Australia says membership is up 31% due to the recession. She didn’t mention any increase in marketing spend though. Recession-based growth hype or reality? The have a neat widget for sites and blogs over at Widgetbox.
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Louis Gray has a guest post by Micah Baldwin, Online Transparency Leads to New World of Group Dating, about how dating has been changed by social media.
Connecting the dots between how transparency leads to group dating is proving difficult and I can’t say that I agree with premise that group dating is “clearly the answer [...]
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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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Match.com announced Q1 2009 financial results today. Don’t worry, It’s Ok To look. Match.com has had a busy past few months. In December, Match.com Experiences Strongest November in Seven Years. With the launch of the Daily5, which introduces five new matches daily to every member, Match.com members initiated 400,000 more connections with other members this [...]
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Developers are starting to go crazy with the Google Analytics API.
MailChimp has integrated Google Analytics into their email marketing platform and ShufflePoint® provides a service for adding Google Analytics data into PowerPoint® presentations. See how youcalc has created apps that allow you to mashup Google Analytics, AdWords, Salesforce.com and other enterprise data.
Check out more customer [...]
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Look at how SinglesNet velocity has gone down. Velocity reports the relative change in daily Attention and is used to determine the relative growth of a domain over a particular timeframe or compared to other sites. this is usually what happens when your traffic is banned from social networks, or ad spend drops, or [...]
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Quinn Lipin is the CEO of SinglesNet, which is based outside of Boston in Needham,MA. He is also the CEO of Enesun, a company which places medical professionals that he founded in 1995.
The comments on this Center Networks story about SinglesNet advertising are interesting to say the least:
A woman saying that it’s her photo [...]
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In a previous post I mentioned that Friend Finder Networks had an amazing advertising solution right under their nose but are distracted with the IPO plans. I went back and re-read some of the commentary about the IPO and thought it would be interesting to share some of it.
For people who think starting a dating [...]
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Adam Berger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Spark Networks, Inc. had this to say about their recent performance:
2008 was a mixed year for us. We achieved moderate annual revenue increases in Jewish Networks and Other Affinity Networks, improved Contribution margins to 74%, cut Operating Expenses by 19%, drove annual Adjusted EBITDA to record levels [...]
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