by David Evans | Marketing
Details are slowing coming across the wire. Red Herring and a bunch of news outlets have contacted me today trying to make sense of the deal. One of the questions I get asked most often is what is FriendFinder’s real traffic ranking? 12M visitors is what is...
by David Evans | Marketing
Adrants mentions the recent Logoworks viral marketing scheme where they created a billboard to look like some guy named Lance who is looking for a date. The website mentioned on the billboard, datelance.com, actually goes to a LogoWorks recruiting page. Clever use of...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing
I’m working on a few items related to dating site spam. While I put things together, here s my current favorite opening line from Russian Brides. “hi, I very much liked your structure and me more…” I’ve received 25 emails like this on...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Marketing
Date.com is sponsoring it’s second cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean “Majest of the Seas, October 14-17. The ship will stop for fresh singles in Nassau and Cococay. Details here. Are any other dating sites doing live events and cruises? Ever since Match...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Marketing
Much ado about Alexa rankings lately. It’s time to take a hard look at developing an industry standard for ranking dating sites. This is a first pass, hopefully it can be refined over time with feedback and turn out to be something helpful to the industry,...
by David Evans | Marketing
I decided to merge my thoughts on WebDate and Alexa into one post. The Interview contains lot’s of talk about mobile dating and the future of Webdate. Let me tell you about the mobile dating. Nobody is doing it, yet. In iDate Miami we learned that mobile dating...