Match.com Mobile Dating, Chemistry in France
I received an email from Match pitching their matchMobile offering. With matchMobile, you don’t need to wait by the computer – wink, flirt, get free text alerts – all on the go. I see the word “free” and I click through to the website....How to Demo Your Startup
TechCrunch has a great post from Jason Calacanis talking about how to demo your startup. I see product demos several times a week and I’m always more impressed with a live demo, not something running in WebEx. Items number 5, 7 and 9 are particularly important....Meeting Up At Affiliate Summit In Boston
Several clients and friends are going to be in town for the Affiliate Summit here in Boston next week. If you’re attending, contact me and we’ll try to get together.Outsourcing Dating Site Design
I found a company using 99 Designs to hire a designer to develop a home page and landing page for a dating site. It sounds like the company is creating an affiliate marketing site to drive traffic to another site. Setting up affiliate marketing program, free. Website...PlentyOfFish Profile Review Forum
As you may or may not know, several years ago I started a company called ProfileDoctor. We built a service that enabled live editors to review dating profiles and make suggestions in improvements. While I thoroughly enjoyed building up the company I ended up getting...Chemistry.com Running Olympic Commercials
Chemistry.com will be running media during the Olympics starting tomorrow. They will have several prime time spots on NBC and will be all over their supplemental network coverage as well. Any other dating sites leveraging the Olympics via affiliate programs or...Missing Your Market: Super Fabulous Shoes
I received an email stating that 3,000 women had joined Y! Personals in Boston in the last month. Clicking through the link, I found an article about men’s shoes. Meeting a really super fabulous woman can be as easy as wearing a pair of really super fabulous...Online Dating Fraud Detection and Identity Verification Services
In Buying a New Online (Device) Reputation, HonestyOnline talks about recent posts concerning how easy it is to circumvent background checks. I think image management, fraud detection and identity verification are going to be a key offering to dating sites. So much...Lessons Learned: HotOrNot
Before everyone became enamored with PlentyOfFish, HotOrNot was the primary focus of the get rich quick crowd. At a recent Startup2Startup event HON founder James Hong dispensed with the story of how his startup took off and how they bootstrapped in the beginning,...
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