by David Evans | Uncategorized
The Linden Lab PR team is seeking Second Life love stories. Did you meet your significant other in SL? Do you meet up for inworld dates while apart from each other in the physical world? If you’re open to sharing your story (and some RL info) with journalists, please...
by David Evans | Marketing
Without further ado, the Online Dating Insider Premiere of the new Zoosk commercial, which you are going to see a lot of starting May 31.
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Wedding season is here. Instead of dealing with that third cousin with the gluten issue, drunk bridesmaids and all of the other wedding ballyhoo, why not throw your big bash in SecondLife? The New Generation Menu Driven Wedding Ceremony caught my eye, only $24999...
by David Evans | Dating Markets
By now everyone knows about the wild-west nature Chatroulette, where you are just as likely to be greeted by a guy playing guitar as you are thousands of naked people doing all sorts of bizarre stuff. There are scores of clone sites which have tried to capture on the...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Online dating has two major problems. Member inauthenticity and the inability to search across dating sites. Until these issues are addressed, much of the industry will remain stagnant and in many cases continue suffering ongoing declines in traffic, with few...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Several years ago I built a blog for Chemistry.com’s Helen Fisher. At the time, Match had an on-again-off-again CEO blog, which faded away after a while. Match just wrote in to say that they have re-launched their CEO blog, and Gregg Blatt has stepped up to the...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Everyone knows that a great profile photo does more to attract people on dating sites than anything else. Lately I’ve been working with Datingheadshots to offer their VIP photo shoot and photo review service to dating sites. I always scratch my head when dating...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Today’s guest post is by Ross Felix. Ross has been paying close attention to Spark Networks for quite some time and is well-versed in the challenges it faces today. For those of you who aren’t that familiar with Spark Networks, it’s made up of several...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
It’s mobile app mania in the dating world this week. Christian dating goes mobile with iPhone app: ChristianCafe.com, a Christian-owned online dating service, launched an iPhone app for Christian singles this week. SpeedDate is launching an iPad app tomorow....
by David Evans | Marketing
If a dating site landing page does not immediately appeal to a visitor and get them to register, PPC ads can get expensive, fast. Behold these testing anecdotes from the Conversion Conference. We’ve seen a single security icon (i.e. a lock with a checkmark on it)...