by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Site Technology
This one is for the IT people out there running dating and social networking sites. Baseline Magazine, has written about the technology which drives Myspace. Fascinating look into the plumbing and infrastructure responsible powering one of the largest websites on the...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Marketing
Although Match.com, made up less than 5% of his holding company IAC’s $6.5 billion in sales last year, it accounted for more than 10% of the company’s $464 million in profits. In the past two years, Match has boosted the number of paying customers by a...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Profiles & Matching
Scientific American has taken online dating to task, applying various research methodologies and coming up with some interesting conclusions in an unfortunately titled article, The Truth About Online Dating. I’ve talked with some of the researchers mentioned....
by David Evans | Dating Research
In November 2005, Court Rye wrote a Match.com case study. I stumbled across it doing a random Google search for industry information. His portfolio states he worked with Match.com employees to identify alternative business strategies, marketing techniques, and...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Social: Dating & Networking
Are dating site operational costs higher than social networks? Markus at PlentyOfFish says “operational costs of a dating site significantly higher then social networking sites.� I doubt that 100%. Come on Markus, enough with the hype, or at least back up your...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Social: Dating & Networking
Launched in 1999 by music marketing entrepreneur Clark Benson and Northwestern University fund-raiser Karen DeMars, eCRUSH was designed with viral marketing in mind, as members can send email “crushes� to non-members, who must then register with eCRUSH to...