March 2009
40 posts
Marketing a Dating Site is More Expensive Than you... →
In a previous post I mentioned that Friend Finder Networks had an amazing advertising solution right under their nose but are distracted with the IPO plans. I went back and re-read some of the…
Mar 25th
Is Advertising Killing Free Online Dating? →
TechCrunch has a guest post from Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School. The article, Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet, talks about…
Mar 25th
Online Dating Links for March-23-2009 →
Match has launched an iPhone application. Downloading it now, will play around with it tonight and review tomorrow. Dilbert loves using his phone on dates. Fewer Ads Can Boost…
Mar 24th
Why Dating Sites Should Care About Virtual Goods →
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…
Mar 20th
CoverFlow, Profiles on Television →
Mac fans are no doubt familiar with Cover Flow, which features a horizontal scrolling window displaying the contents of files. It’s a fantastic way to browse photos and is doing its part to…
Mar 20th
Who Knew ComputerWorld Could Write about Online... →
Robert Mitchell is worth adding to the blogroll. He has written some great stuff recently about the online dating industry when it comes to © 2008 - visit OnlineDatingPost.com to view…
Mar 20th
Seeking Datingsitebuilder Feedback →
Has anyone used Dating Site Builder? I need to know if they are worth considering. Site says the have created $850,000 in revenue per month. Not bad for a $30/month product. Feedback has ranged…
Mar 20th
Waiting for My Omnidate →
I want to give OmniDate a fair shake. I looked at several other Flash-based casual environments and wanted to compare them to the OmniDate experience. Obviously the other sites are not…
Mar 20th
Company Updates: Tweetlove, Boonex, Mokugift, It’s... →
Twitter Dating With Tweetlove: Adam at Ignighter wrote in to announce that they have launched a Twitter dating application called Tweetlove, basically an aggregator of Single Twitterers. …
Mar 20th
Are You Interested Launches iPhone Application →
SNAP has launched it’s first iPhone application, based on it’s popular Facebook Platform dating app ‘Are You Interested?’, which presently has more than 12 million users. SNAP’s new…
Mar 20th
eFUEL Launches outRAGEousEncounters →
Watch out Fling, there is a new adult dating site in town. I talked with eFUEL in December and it seems like they officially launched a new site today. With approximately 17 million profiles…
Mar 20th
Unfit to Date, and Yes, It’s All About The Robots →
I saw these Plenty Offish ads all over the T in Boston yesterday. I skipped several trains and loitered by this ad at Park Street Station to hear what people had to say about it. If the…
Mar 20th
Facebook Update, Dating →
Facebook had announced a whole slew of changes, including improving the ability to share and connect, pages for public figures and organizations I was pleased to see the heading “The Social…
Mar 20th
Is Twitter Going to Replace SMS? →
Twitter is blowing up in a big way. Serious media coverage happening. Early adopters are going from majority to minority in a short period of time. I don’t like relying on 8-12 external services…
Mar 19th
No Love for LOV: Spark Networks 4Q 2008 Financials →
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…
Mar 18th
Datehookup and OKCupid are Neck and Neck →
Look at how closely Datehookup is tracking OKCupid. © 2008 - visit OnlineDatingPost.com to view original post. Related posts: Online Dating Insider Consulting, Subscriptions…
Mar 18th
Down To Earth, Let’s get Down With Math →
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 …
Mar 18th
Online Dating Insider Links: March-16-2009 →
This is for Skout: Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech. Please integrate into Skout mobile, thanks. Yahoo…
Mar 17th
Help Me Avoid Email Blacklists →
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….
Mar 17th
How to Ask For An Upgrade →
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…
Mar 16th
Dolphin 7 Dating Site Software Public Preview →
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…
Mar 13th
Online Dating Insider Stories for 3-11-09 →
The Sweetheart Scammer- this was a decent article. If you send me a link, mention whether or not it’s ok to give you a shout-out. Sometimes people assume that I won’t mention their names or…
Mar 12th
Recommended Dating Site Software →
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…
Mar 12th
iDate Miami 2009 Photos and Videos →
iDate just sent out a somewhat confusing email about payment processors which included links to photos and videos from the January Miami event. If you read this blog regularly your…
Mar 10th
Online Booty Call Sweepstakes →
An astute observer wrote in questioning how Online Booty Call is running it’s OBC Million Dollar Sweepstakes. I can’t believe I just typed that. GRAND PRIZE DRAW: Within fifteen…
Mar 9th
Skout wins DEMOgod award at DEMO 09 →
Congrats to Skout, which walked off with the DEMOgod award at DEMO 09. Skout announced they will be running their mobile location-based dating service on flatscreen…
Mar 9th
DownToEarth Up to 250k Monthly Visits →
DownToEarth continues to drive impressive amounts of traffic, 250k visitors, 700k visits in the last month. Amazing. The site isn’t very sticky though, about three visits per month and 12…
Mar 9th
PlentyofFish Launches Serious Member Badges →
After remaining free since it’s inception, PlentyofFish has officially launched the Serious Member feature. I was able to add my badge, which you can see in the screenshot below. It’s…
Mar 9th
Today Show Targets Recession And Romance →
Sam Yagan from OKCupid was on the Today Show in a segment about the supposed recession-driven online dating uptick. Perhaps the current growth in online dating will erase some of the…
Mar 9th
Can Credit Card Comanies Predict Compatibility... →
Charlie Rose asks Marissa Mayer at Google about who owns their data. full story at TechCrunch. Marissa Mayer: Innocently, your credit card company knows a lot what you do. I was reading an…
Mar 9th
Dating Ad Network Talks to Makefriendsonline →
Dating Ad Network (disclaimer, sponsor) published an interview with Martin Bysh, who was very good on the European startups model panel at iDate. Martin runs Smooch and Makefriendsonline.…
Mar 9th
Is PlentyofFish Truly Free? →
Reader Brad bring up a good point. PlentyOfFish site still says it’s 100% free still on the site. Shoudl this be considered false advertising since there is an upgrade option? I would…
Mar 9th
Getting Flirty with viximo →
Boston-based virtual goods company viximo hosted a party last night to show off TrueFlirt, their iPhone virtual gifting application. I stopped by the say hello, catch up with Ravi…
Mar 6th
PlentyOfFish Starts Charging Premium Membership... →
Free dating sites have had a good run the past few years. Everyone starting a free dating site jumped, and continues to jump, on the free dating bandwagon. Meanwhile, top paid dating…
Mar 5th
Is there A Correlation Between Quantity of Profile... →
Not content with relying on Happen Magazine or any of the other dating site companion publications, consumers are adopting a more Do It Yourself approach by taking the business of online dating…
Mar 4th
European Dating Site Hosting →
A reader is looking for “professional and good hosted solutions that are also suitable for European companies.” If you have knowledge, leave a comment. © 2008 - visit OnlineDatingPost.com to…
Mar 4th
A Consumer’s Review of Chemistry.com →
A gentleman sent me his personal review of Chemistry.com. Reviews of dating sites tend to me somewhat negative, and this one contains it’s share of barbs, but it is much more detailed than most…
Mar 3rd
Skout Presenting at Demo Today at 2:30PM PST →
Just got off the phone with Redg at Skout. Skout is presenting at Demo this afternoon, around 2:30pm PST. Demo is a launchpad for emerging technology, similar to TechCrunch 50. Skout is…
Mar 2nd
The Unfortunate side of Recession-based Dating... →
Question of the day - What will happen to the indicated recession-based growth the online dating industry is currently experiencing when Team Obama and the US collectively gets ourselves back on…
Mar 2nd
Online Dating Screenshots from Around the Interweb →
Simple and clean PlentyofFish ads, eHarmony puts my usage data to good use, OKCupid gets a redesign and Chemistry.com took a nap for a few hours over the…
Mar 2nd