Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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A developer at SEOmoz built a dating site from concept to launch in 66.5 hours.
The first month of being online Mingle2 had around 90,000 unique visitors. By July the site’s popularity exploded, seeing nearly 700,000 uniques and 1.9 million page views for that month alone. Being the founder (and a user) of the website, [...]
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I received an email from 15minutedate.com. It’s a blind date, scheduled for Sunday night at 12 am. Who schedules a meeting then?
All the site says is “Match ID 42�. Waiting for me to confirm.
Why would I stay up until midnight to have a videochat with what at this time I would categorize as a [...]
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CTO’s IT Managers and CFO’s may want to take a look at Media Temple’s new Grid Server. I use Media Temple myself for my personal blog and am happy with the experience, after having 7+ hosts over the last 10 years it’s nice to see hosts begin to offer Google-like server farms and redundancy. [...]
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Engage, which is making a name for itself by allowing members to play matchmaker, has raised an additional $5 million in a round led by Advanced Technology Ventures and seed investors Revolution Ventures. The Founders Fund and Josh Kopleman also participated. The company was originally seed funded by Pay-Pal co-founders to the tune of $1 [...]
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GigaOM has details on activity-based matchmaker MatchActivity. I’ve worked with a few similar site in the past and remain somewhat skeptical about how the current crop of services are going to grow large enough to sustain customer acquisition costs. I use Upcoming.org, a Yahoo property for all of this. Millions of events, huge traffic drivers [...]
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Mark Brooks has published a number of dating and social networking executive interviews. His latest is with Mooble, yet another social networking site.
Quick thoughts:
Home pages full of half-naked women will get you a lot of spike traffic. Show me the revenue.
Mooble hope to make money by doing advertising differently, by making it more like content. [...]
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A new trend is emerging where free dating sites add the phrase Skype on their home page and call themselves the next generation of online dating. Let me say it here once and for all. Starting a new dating or social networking site with a core differentiator solely based on Skype or any other VOIP [...]
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