by David Evans | Marketing
Shayan at Zoosk turned me onto this article – What could Facebook do to increase its digital goods revenue. Fellow Zoosk’er Alex Merh says The economy of social advertising simply doesn’t work. If you run a dating site and are not actively blogging,...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
If you’re not aware of Comcastcares on Twitter, that’s what happens when someone deep within a big corporation gets a clue and starts Tweeting and quickly becomes a case study for using Twitter as an instantaneous customer service channel. Match.com has...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Marketing
Adam Berger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Spark Networks, Inc. had this to say about their recent performance: 2008 was a mixed year for us. We achieved moderate annual revenue increases in Jewish Networks and Other Affinity Networks, improved Contribution...
by David Evans | Marketing
Let’s take a look at how DownToEarth is doing in the Boston area. There are 250,000 DownToEarth members according to Compete. Within 50 miles of Boston, has photos: 220 Women between 18-30 80 women between 30-40 140 women over 40. Within 250 miles of Boston, has...
by David Evans | Marketing
Look at how closely Datehookup is tracking OKCupid.
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Dear readers, I need your help. I have been using digicraft.com as my primary domain since 1995. An associate told me today that he looked in his spam filter and found 4 months of my emails. Digicraft.com has obviously been used to spam in the past, as almost all...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Mobile Dating
This is for Skout: Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech. Please integrate into Skout mobile, thanks. Yahoo has launched the Friends On Fire Facebook application. FOF is based on and built by the Fire...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
I survived the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade and can only imagine how much fun people are having at SXSW in Austin right now. Lots of discussion surrounding Plenty of Fish charging for special profile bling. There is even a video comment (more please)....
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Boonex has released a public preview of Dolphin 7. Called Hookie, it’s actually based on Dolphin 6.1 but with serious re-working under the hood. Read the comprehensive Dolphin 7 Release Notes for more information. The number and scope of the new features are too...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups
I’m tired of hearing people complain about online dating software. What are we going to do about this? For years I’ve made half-hearted attempts at looking into various online dating software packages. From what I’ve learned, most of them I...