by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
John Tierney writes in the New York Times, Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening. Suppose, during a date, you casually say, “The sugar maples in Harvard Yard were so beautiful every fall term.” Here’s what you’re signaling, as...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
Let’s say a single person wants to try out a handful of dating sites, kick the proverbial tires to see which one performs best for their certain circumstances — geographic location, age, sexual orientation, niche, etc. Insanity is often defined as...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Profiles & Matching
AllFacebook says that there is a growing market for purchasing Facebook Profiles. This reminds me of people who contact me looking for dating profiles. Pre-populating a dating site with fake profiles is a really bad idea. Short of acquiring a dating site and merging...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
The Google Blog post Search for “me” on Google caught my attention. To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we’ve begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Profiles & Matching
Free dating site Youandme has integrated Honesty Online and iovation as part of their safety and security measures. Steven Sikes, one of youandme’s founders says: “We easily could have over 50,000 online dating members, but we’ve banned thousands of...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
Niche dating sites can be incredibly effective if you’re Jewish, Black, Gay, Athletic or belong to any number of groups where it makes sense to self-identify as part of a particular group of people. Matchmaker was the first site to have many different...