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Friday Weekly Wrapup for 5/18/07

by David Evans on May 18, 2007   in Marketing

Nelson Rodriguez at Love Access in a dating scammer tell-all. Moving from typical Nigerian Ghana to mail-drops to Russian mail order bride scammers. Why didn’t I think of making profiles on Match via my own affiliate ID and taking the money for myself? Those scammers are smart! Nelson mentions a common database of scammer [...]

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Did You, Inc? I Don’t Think So

by David Evans on January 9, 2007   in Dating Sites, Marketing, Social Networking

A new year, and like clockwork a whole slew of unintelligible press releases right before iDate. This one is a real winner. Go take some aspirin before reading any further.
Did You, Inc. Releases an All New Social Networking Website Called DidYouDate.com Which is Creating Controversy Over Extra-Martial Affairs.
Did You, Inc., a New York Corporation since [...]

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Interesting Factoid about JDate Founder and JLove

by David Evans on November 29, 2006   in Dating Sites, Marketing

I was not aware until I read this press release that Alon Carmel, one of JDate’s founders, became a JLove investors in June 2006.
The release is question is a clear Seinfeld, which I am making an official category. A Seinfeld is a press release about nothing, although I’m extending that to other mis-steps as [...]

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Match.com Members Remain Anonymous

by David Evans on November 28, 2006   in Audio Video, Marketing

Match.com reports the initial response to the new anonymous calling feature has been “extraordinary�?.
Jane Thompson, a Match.com vice president (of what?):
275,000 people already have used the feature, which is being offered as a freebie to Match.com’s 15 million user base through the end of the year.
One surprise: Match.com had expected the service to [...]

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Online Dating Declines as Traditional Dating Service Gains Expected

by David Evans on November 6, 2006   in Marketing, Offline

Hows that for an ambigious press release headline? I went to a workshop hosted by the Social Mdia Club Boston last week where we talked about Press Release 2.0 and other ways the PR field needs to get with the program in this tagged, metadata, blogged, influencer-driven media world we live in.
After reading some [...]

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