There are a lot of people making major dollars as dating site affiliates. I believe that the founder of PlentyofFish, along with several others, got their start as affiliate marketers.
I predict that at some point affiliate marketing will replace the current resurgence in starting new dating sites. We’re already seeing this with networks such as White Label Dating, which is actually more of a dating/affiliate hybrid. If all you have to do is market a dating site, you’re an affiliate marketer.
After all, why go to all the trouble to start a new dating site when you can become an affiliate of an established company and start earning money right away? Affiliate marketing could potentially be more lucrative than running a dating site, at least for small operators. This is essentially the White Label Dating model. You don’t really own anything, you’re spending your own money to promote a site that someone else runs.
In the comments of recent posts someone called me out for some things I’ve said about affiliate marketing. I wanted to clarify my position once and for all. Some affiliate marketing is brilliant. It makes you smile, resonates internally, gets you to click. The majority of the online dating affiliate marketing I’ve seen is the exact opposite.
Case in point. Look at this affiliate email I received for Singlesnet. This is the number one dating site in the US in terms of traffic. Email pulled from spam folder, printed in its entirety.
Hello and thank you so much for getting to this message as quickly as you did….if you had waited about 3 hours to read this, then you would be kicking yourself… I have a copywriter who could condense this into 100 words which would deliver a 10x more compelling value proposition.
We urgently wanted to inform today that we are giving away memberships to our online dating community right now, this very minute, as you are reading this, for NO COST at all!
Yes, we have so many single women and men in your area that we need more and more people to date them! So if you like dating attractive single women or men, then please sign up right now for a dating membership. But you need to do it as quickly as possible! We are only offering memberships on a first come first served basis!
PRESS HERE TO JOIN FOR NO COST (MUST BE 18 and OLDER):No Credit Card Required:
http://checkpointbu.com/L2wucGhwPzEzMDkzJjQ4ODcyODE0JnNiamlkPTE4NTM1JmludGlkPTM4MQWith your dating membership, which won’t cost you a dime by the way, you will have access to all of the following:
* view pictures
* send e-mails to members
* receive e-mails from members
* reply to e-mails from membersNo Credit Card Required
Now, if we had to guess why you wouldn’t want this no cost dating site membership, our simple answer would be that you either do not want to date some of the best looking singles in your city, or you just don’t like hanging around other people that like to have fun.
Now, here’s how we can clear up your concerns……
You can search through our entire database of singles to see who your EXACT match is. You won’t be wasting your time dating someone that doesn’t want the EXACT same things out of a relationship that you do. You WILL find someone that wants to do the same things you want to do, both in the BEDROOM and out of the BEDROOM!
If you’re a wild lover, then you can date another wild lover. If you’re a tame lover, then you will meet and date a tame lover! Basically, your options are wide open!
The main reason why we are offering you this membership for no cost is because we don’t want you to feel any risk. We want you to enter…
It just keeps going on and on…
A year ago Singlesnet had 8.5 monthly visitors, that number is now around 4.4 million. How much of this drop in traffic do you think is attributable to email spam like this?
