by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
Every year I like to write something about the Internet Dating Conference sessions I feel will be worth paying attention to, along with some personal commentary having been to iDate, spoken there and generally knowing a lot of the people attending and how it operates....
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
In honor of iDate, the Swedish interns at Online Dating Insider begged me to reduce my usual advisory call rates for the next week. At least thats what I thought they said, it always sounds like singing birds around here. Until January 19th, advisory call clients will...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
After years of blogging, we felt it was time to start a real newsletter. Blogging is great for certain types of stories and links, but we thought we would create a newsletter geared toward the needs of the online dating industry and the vendors, partners, financial...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
OKCupid has reduced the monthly A-List price to $4.95. Read all about the A-List Extras. Now thats how you do a freemium product right. Hard to believe no other dating sites are doing freemium upgrades, such a great way to monetize visitors.
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Site Technology
The New York Times has a nice piece,A L♥ng-Distance Affair, about how Skype has done more than just about anything else to positively influence long-distance relationships. Many of us are spending more time videochatting with family, friends and clients on...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Love this someeards Facebook relationship status selector.
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Social: Dating & Networking
Today’s Business Insider Chart of the Day features SNAP Interactive, the company responsible for the largest Facebook dating application, Are You Interested. SNAP is a penny stock that is up 1,000% in the last 30 days. Last week I was on Bloomberg TV talking...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Legal
It would appear that the new federal law Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act is going to affect the online dating industry a lot more than just data-pass (sharing of credit card information with third parties). This use of ‘‘free-to-pay conversion’’ and...