Breaking News: Christian online dating services ChristianCafe.com and Single Christian Network have merged.
Sam Moorcroft, CEO of ChristianCafe.com, and I are talking on Skype right now. He is filling me in with some additional details of the deal. Sam is going to guest post here next week to provide additional depth to the story.
Single Christian Network launched way back in 1991. Started as a snail mail operation and evolved into a web-based site around 1994.
The two companies have engaged in co-opetition since day one, helping each out with traffic swaps and other business-related activities like shared spammer lists.
Single Christian Network always kept the organization small, as online dating continued to become more competitive in recent years, they decided to get out and they called Sam to see if a deal could be done between the two friendly competitors.
The hope is that the companies will be stronger together than apart. Only time will tell, the Compete numbers are only up to the end of April, will take a few months to see the effects of the merger.
The two companies have spent the last several months working on merging the database, facing several technical hurdles, as would be expected when combining databases and other back office system.
There is much more to write about the story, I’m looking forward to Sam’s guest post next week to clue us into the deal in greater detail.
Link to full press release.
