I’m Exclusive with a Woman Who Won’t Let Me Call Her My Girlfriend
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Dear Evan,
I really need your help. Here is the deal. I have been dating this girl now for 2 and half months. We were good friends for 5 months before one-night things changed and we ended up having sex. I have known her all my life, since her parents and mine have been friends […]
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Dating a Doctor with a Scary Name
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Last winter a very close friend of mine named Abbie met a doctor online. He was perfect on paper, or should I say on computer screen. They were the same age, he was smart (obviously), he had a nicely written profile, and his pictures were cute.
After a couple of brief phone conversations they decided to meet at a popular bar after work. Immediately, Abbie was attracted. Not only was she on a date with a doctor, but he was hot.
Then he opened his mouth. Apparently he was more impressed with the fact that he was a doctor than she was. It’s all he could talk about. After 45 minutes Abbie was bored and thirsty. He was too busy thinking of more things he could say about himself to notice that she didn’t have a drink.
Finally, she grabbed her purse and motioned that she was going to the bar for a [...]
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Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks
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ReadWriteWeb says:
Online reputation company Rapleaf has released a new study of 49.3 million people, revealing gender and age data about social network users. On most of the main social networks – including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 – women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in that age group compared to 977,753 men. In MySpace, the same age group dominates, with 7,091,214 women and 5,226,788 men.
The only social networks studied that didn’t have more women than men in the 18-24 year old group were venerable old LinkedIn (where incidentally the 25-34 age group was tops) and a site called Perfspot.
See the complete article for a chart of various analysis of social networking users.
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Defeating Dating Site Background Checks
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Scott Olson, VP marketing at iovation, has written about how easy it is to bypass background checks. Scott outlines precisely why I believe background check and fraud-detection companies should work together. They are pitching their services to the exact same people at dating and social networking companies and should be collaborating and teaming up to create a stronger service offering.
The article is light on details about how to get around background checks, I’d like to hear more about how to actually do this, maybe with an example.
These days I’m feeling more and more like a B2B matchmaker in the dating and social networking space.
Disclaimer: iovation is a advertiser and a client.
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Lavalife Prime Starts Charging Seniors
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Senior dating site Lavelife Prime is about to begin charging it’s 40,000 members. It will be interesting to see what the attrition rate is once the paywall is in place. Wait, it’s for people over 45, not exactly seniors. Then why does search start at 40? Confusing. Depressing that I am eligible in five years.
Compete doesn’t have much on the traffic, probably because prime.lavalife.com doesn’t show up as it’s own destination. There are only 16 women between 40-45 within 25 miles of me in Boston and I recognize several from Match.
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Match.com 2Q 2008 Financial Results
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Match has hit the wall in terms of US growth, continuing slight increase in revenue per subscriber. 1% subscriber growth to 1,326,500.
Revenue growth was driven by a 4% and 15% increase in international subscribers and revenue per subscriber, respectively, and 3% growth in revenue per subscriber in North America where subscribers were flat year-over-year. Chemistry.com continued to grow subscribers strongly during the quarter. Operating Income Before Amortization growth reflects lower customer acquisition costs as a percentage of revenue, due to more efficient spending. Operating income for the current period reflects amortization of non-cash marketing of $3.1 million, versus $7.2 million in the prior year period.
I wonder what the Chemistry numbers are like after the massive marketing spend during the last year.
Full details here.
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Chinese Matchmaking Remains Old School
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I was reading about Chinese neocon nationalists in the New Yorker and came across this:
Parents shopping for suitable mates for their children gather in the city’s parks most weekends to scrutinize and discuss the resumes of candidates, handwritten on bits of paper and torn sheets of cardboard taped to trees, resting on benches, and leaning against the risers of stone steps. the personals (so specific that they include details like “hunts for girl 163 cm”) are written by other yearning mothers and fathers.
Talk about old school. Another reason why the Chinese singles market is wide open for more efficient matchmaking services. Just last week the total number of people online in China surpassed the US. I’m talking to several Chinese and Korean startups, lot’s of opportunities to explore. Maybe it’s time to translate the blog into Asian languages.
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The Lion Reunion
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Not all love stories are between people. Check out Christian the lion’s reunion with his former handlers. You might want to mute this one since the music is a little gag-a-rific.
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Online Dating vs. Social Networking: which is more popular?
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Alongside with Social Networking Industry development, we can see that Dating Online becomes popular again and Social Networking turns into Online Business Tool for marketing and management all over the world.
Just found an interesting post at Online Dating and Social Networking industry Forums regarding latest stats on internet search activity on main Dating and SN sites. The author notices, that EHarmony and Match.com recent searches are much higher than normal.
There’s also many TV ads for eHarmony over the last days. Meaning these companies are doing very well as they are able to take TV time during elections!
Interesting fact about Online Dating search request: “Online Dating as a search term had a boom in 2006, a falling down period in 2007, and a bottoming out period in 2008“. Moreover, “online dating as a search term is far more popular than social networking“.
So you can suppose that it’ll grow now [...]
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