by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
eHarmoney is offering a a 12-part CD series featuring online self-assessments called Finding the Love of your Life. Pricing is $14.95 a month for 12 months or $179.95. Certain dating sites are currently exploring the infomercial angle to pitch similar concepts. Keep...
by David Evans | Dating Research
TouchGraph has a free service where you can enter in the address of a dating site (or any site for that matter), and a Java window pops up displaying the site and all sites that link to/from it. The clustering is fascinating, and it’s a lot nicer than pouring...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
10.1 million members up from 8.5 million a year ago 235,000 paying subscribers Average revenue per subscriber was $75 Average subscriber acquisition cost was $41 Revenue in the third quarter of 2004 was $17.1 million, an increase of 8% compared to $15.8 million for...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
The Boulder office of San Francisco-based Enlaso is localizing Match.com into 15 languages. While some of Enlaso’s projects may be for medical or tech companies, the programmers also get to work with the lighter side of technology. Yves Lang, V.P sales and...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Personals grew revenue by 3% to $49.7 million, driven primarily by a 9% increase in paid subscribers, partially offset by a decrease in average revenue per subscriber. International subscription growth was strong, with paid subscribers up 68% over the prior year,...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Standard Payments, LLC, the majority-owned merchant services subsidiary of Dallas-based payments services company Transactional Technologies, LLC, has enabled its proprietary JetPay™ real time BIN blocking utility for Beverly Hills, CA-based MatchNet plc....
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
Big changes are happening here at Socialpeople. As you read this, I am moving this blog to Corante.com. Corante is a leading news and business intelligence service on technology and science that’s read by many of the sector’s top entrepreneurs, executives,...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
Looks like scammers using Webdate to troll for victims to save ‘damsels’ in distress. Link
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
I was cleaning out my Yahoo! Personals mailbox and re-found a useful feature- the ability to easily let people know that you are (not) interested in them. Most times people either delete the email or send a generic wink and move on, depending on the circumstance. At...
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...