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RT @sixsentences: Lunatic http://bit.ly/5xBspP #
RT @thecreativepenn: Top 10 Myths about Ebooks http://is.gd/53Xob Great post from @NathanBransford #
RT @glynmoody: What the Queen didn't say – http://bit.ly/4WlhOT truly, a political dog that didn't bark #digitaleconomy #uk #copyright #
RT @AdviceToWriters: Quote of the Day, by George V. Higgins: http://bit.ly/2SSgng
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RT @mlvalentine: Puking Content, Plagiarism and Too Much Free. New on my blog: http://bit.ly/5OjsI7 #

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RT @selfpubreview: Eat Me, Jonathan Safran Foer http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2009/11/ostensibly_a_post_about_books.php #
RT @lauraeno: RT @MermaidHel: should writers get a higher percentage of the net on ebook sales? http://straightfromhel.blogspot.com/ #
RT @scifirules: Near-Immortality Within the Next 20 Years? Life-Extension Scientists Hope So [Life Expectancy] #scifi http://bit.ly/4KsVkI #

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RT @chrisguillebeau: the new Unconventional Guides site is now in live beta: http://bit.ly/8ApZxS #
RT @namenick: #Writers, think of your mobile readers » 15 free tools to mobilize writer's blog http://ow.ly/FE3O #mobile #
RT @AdviceToWriters: About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve is to steal with good judgment.JOSH BILLINGS
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RT @sixsentences: Comfort Zone http://bit.ly/74vbag #
RT @scifirules: Dr. Michio Kaku explores the science part of science fiction in Physics of the Impossible #scifi http://bit.ly/8sGnhe #
RT @thebookwright: RT @mgimena: The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. – W. C. Fields #
RT @inkyelbows: 3 Self-Publishing Paths Every Writer Should Understand (whether you spend zero or thousands): http://bit.ly/6×2lzZ #
GeoCities, Scribd and Your Content http://bit.ly/8WY2Nz via @Ditchwalk #
Writers, publishers, bookish tweeps, check out: Publetariat http://linkr.us/j4P #

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A fantastic domain name for sale just came across my desk, imin.com. If you’re interested, contact me. Serious bids around $100k entertained.
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Online advertising has always fascinated me. Back in 1994 I was part of the group that posted the (arguably) first paid banner ads on a major network. The AT&T banners, part of the “You Will” campaign, had a 78% clickthrough rate on WIRED Magazine’s Hotwired network.
Lately I’ve been talking to a lot of people about the lack of optimized dating site advertising. It’s surprising how few sites do thorough A/B testing. We’ve all seen the ads, whether you’re single or not. Try as I will, it’s impossible for me to get these ads off my Facebook pages, maybe I just need to say I’m in a relationship, but something tells me even that will not be enough to stem the tide of nubile women wanting to meet me tonight.
Recently I had lunch with someone who has bought tens of millions of dollars of dating industry advertising and they said that [...]

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I had a super first trip to Toronto last weekend where I spoke at an FICP conference about social media and social tools. Thanks to Kris Covino at Date.com for showing me around town and taking me out for a great lunch. I got to meet up with a few other people but unfortunately wasn’t able to meet everyone I wanted to (sorry Sam!)
Love this Google/Match.com mashup, courtesy of Adam Richardson.
Skout is using Crowdflower to manage user created content. Crowdflower is a very cool company which, among other things, is built on top of Amazon Turk. Crowdsourcing done right.
A though for the day: The problem with hosted white label dating solutions is that you get what you get, can’t change course midstream, as often happens with custom development. The services which allow customers to change around the look and feel, features and offer the best marketing advice and back-end CRM [...]

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Yesterday I drove south of Boston to visit eLove formerly known as Together/The Right One. Terry, Paul and I talked about the matchmaking business and how it’s slowly coming to terms with the fact that the offline folks need to start paying attention to online, and vice versa. In this regard, eLove really gets it and has taken steps to bridge the gap between online and off.
eLove has a long-established matchmaking services and over the past few years have made company acquisitions and technology upgrades to make up-selling online daters to matchmaking a fairly seamless process. The real-time CRM system they have in place is far superior to the old way of doing things and the transparency into the process of selling, matching and managing members has greatly improved their efficiency and bottom line.
I sat down with some of the matchmaker team and looked at the profiles they build, the [...]

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For Sale: online dating site. Launched in 2006, the world’s first dog lovers dating site was born with a mission to bring single people together from all over the world who shared a passion for dogs.
Niche: Dog lovers.
Potential Market size: 43 million single dog lovers in the US alone.
Membership: Thousands of active members.
Revenue model: Subscription based, free to join.
Subscription fee: $9.95 per month recurring (less for 3 month, 6 month and 12 month subscriptions)
Why selling: Owner fell in love with a member, buying a home together!
SEO: Google Search Engine Ranking – First page, first and second positions on Google search result for “dog lovers dating” and “dating for dog lovers”. First page, ninth position on Google search results for “dog lovers”.
Background Information: Owner started site after tragic early death of their dog Monty. Identified importance of sharing life with another dog lover – someone who could understand exactly what it [...]

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RT @mlvalentine: My review of the dark science fiction novel CRYSTAL RAIN by @tobiasbuckell is now available on http://bit.ly/7zThoK #
RT @AnasaziStories: Green. Just sayin'. RT @jmstro: My #fridayflash, Mashed Potatoes, is now up. http://jmstrother.com/MadUtopia/?p=207 #
Instead of writing I've been making music http://djdjs.com/ #
RT @AdviceToWriters: Susan Sontag on writing and reading: http://bit.ly/pI6P1
#novel #writechat #writetip #
RT @glynmoody: Copyright Extension Moves To Japan – http://bit.ly/zOIFv the ratchet effect: always copyright *extensions*, never reductions #
RT @sixsentences: I felt so lonely http://bit.ly/33ChTW #

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Instead of posting link-dumps to the blog every few days, notable nuggets of news will be published to @datinginsider. Fear not the Twitter-averse, those tweets will show up in the sidebar of Online Dating Insider as well. You can scroll back through the most recent 15 posts and easily click through to the full tweets on Twitter.
If you are involved in the online dating industry in any way, subscribe to @datinginsider and I’ll follow you and if I think you make the cut, I’ll add you to one of the Twitter lists I’ve started. Right now the only lists are marketing , safety & security, and onlinedatingbiz. I’ll probably make some changes to the lists, but this is a solid step in the general direction of posting long-form articles on the blog and moving quick hits to Twitter.
I still need to figure out how to add tweets to the RSS [...]

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