by David Evans | Marketing
Love.com is offering two weeks free when you subscribe for 30 days. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger version of the image. The 30-day subscription is $14.95. Interesting to note that most SpringStreet partners charge on a credit-to-connect basis yet the AOL...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Marketing
Quest Personals affiliates now earn commissions for the life of a Quest member. Quest boasts of over 100,000 unique visitors. “The advantage to dating affiliates,” explains Susan Arts, Product Manager for Questpersonals.com, “is that new members...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing
I received an email from Match to participate in their survey. Mark Williamson, Director of Research at Match.com, is responsible for the survey. I took it, and here are my initial comments. Ideas they are testing 1) Ability to turn off ads on the Match.com site 2)...
by David Evans | Marketing
The personals business is warming up to the concept of viral marketing. Last week I heard from Tom Jaffe, President of 8minuteDating. 8minute has a promotion that goes like this: if you can get three people to register for one of their speed dating events,...
by David Evans | Marketing
AmericanSingles introduced a special offer to help U.S. military personnel, currently on active duty, connect with its members for companionship, dating, or friendship with a complimentary one- month Premium Membership. While I’m all for supporting the troops,...
by David Evans | Marketing
On a more personal note, the WSJ did not include ProfileDoctor in their article on writing personal ads which came out today. (Disclaimer: I’m the founder of ProfileDoctor) . I can’t wait to hear from the editor about how she totally blew us off. So much...