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Today I received a Happy Holiday email from Engage (disclosure: a past client). This was the only dating site that sent out a holiday greeting to it’s members, at least of all the sites I belong to. A nice touch. They have a few job openings as well. Engage was co-developed by former Match.com [...]

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Mark Brooks interviewed Evan Katz, founder of e-Cyrano. Worth reading, as Evan is one of the most visible value-added service providers in the dating space.

The majority of online daters write unappealing, ineffective, generic profiles. Helping people write better profiles increases the chances they will meet someone, and overall, increases a dating site’s value.

As someone who [...]

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Dating and social networking sites spend a lot of resources on customer service reps that manually review profiles and photos. Larger sites employ sophisticated skin filters that can differentiate between a nipple and a nose, which is important for sites that have millions of photos uploaded a week. Every site has a different set of [...]

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Dating and social networking sites spend a lot of resources on customer service reps that manually review profiles and photos. Larger sites employ sophisticated skin filters that can differentiate between a nipple and a nose, which is important for sites that have millions of photos uploaded a week. Every site has a different set of [...]

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On the heels of the confusingly-named MindFindBind featuring Dr. Phil, Match.com is offering the Match Starter Kit, free, for a limited time only.

First up is a marketing pitch featuring a perky, doe-eyed “relationship expert” going over all the features of the site. The Cleavage meter was pegged at 11, very distracting.

Next up, a John, Stewart [...]

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Remember when Monster.com bought Tickle? Tickle spun off the relationship part of the site into LoveHappens.

LoveHappens has never done anything for me, not a single email from any member and not much going on otherwise. Nobody there seems to be paying attention to it, so I removed my profile. Or at least I tried to.

The [...]

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