OPW — Apr 15 — Courtland Brooks is a team of 15 internet dating industry professionals and experienced advisory executives who focus entirely on serving the internet dating industry. We believe that idating and 'social dating' will profoundly shape the way we meet, date and mate. We are launching a new blog that will feature handy analysis and our views on the business of internet dating.
Great news Mr. Brooks!!!
Is it going to be an online market research for all dating proposals (offline and online)?
Like:
Dating services is USD1.800 million business in the U.S.
Offline Proposals USD900 million
Online Dating sites USD900 million
U.S. market becomes saturated with more than 1.500 sites and free dating sites and competition from popular social networking sites attracts cost-conscious singles.
but
* popular social networking sites did not hurt at all top 5 online dating sites.
* more than 1.500 sites:
– Top_5_sites_by_revenue have a revenue of USD816.1 million (90% by subscriptions, 10% by ads)
. Match&Chemistry
. eHarmony
. Yahoo!Personals
. True
. PerfectMatch
2 sites with a revenue less than USD10 million per year <= USD 20 million 3 sites with a revenue less than USD5 million per year <= USD 15 million 7 sites with a revenue less than USD1 million per year <= USD 7 million 23 sites with a revenue less than USD100.000 per year <= USD 2.3 million 260 sites with a revenue less than USD10.000 per year <= USD 2.6 million 400 sites with a revenue less than USD5.000 per year <= USD 2 million 800 sites with no revenue at all. - All_free_sites (PlentyOfFish, OKCupid, SinglesNet, DownToEarth and others) have a revenue less than USD35 million. * Online Dating sites are not making their job well: - Online Dating sites could not kill Offline Proposals not even hurt them. - Divorce rates are still high. - Owners and CEOs of Online Dating sites are more worried about: . attract prospective customers, . convert them into paying members, . retain them as paying members as much as possible, if not, leave them as free users to increase database. Nonetheless: * The U.S. market (and the world market) remains enormous, there are more than 92 million singles but all paying members (subscribers) are not more than 5 million. * Top_5_sites_by_revenue offers some kind of (a proprietary) compatibility matching method. The only way I see to enter the market is offering a high quality compatibility matching method to dissatisfied/past customers of online dating sites, trying to steal their users; and to prospective customers of Offline Proposals. Regards, Fernando Ardenghi. Buenos Aires. Argentina. ardenghifer@gmail.com
Great news Mr. Brooks!!!
Is it going to be an online market research for all dating proposals (offline and online)?
Like:
Dating services is USD1.800 million business in the U.S.
Offline Proposals USD900 million
Online Dating sites USD900 million
U.S. market becomes saturated with more than 1.500 sites and free dating sites and competition from popular social networking sites attracts cost-conscious singles.
but
* popular social networking sites did not hurt at all top 5 online dating sites.
* more than 1.500 sites:
– Top_5_sites_by_revenue have a revenue of USD816.1 million (90% by subscriptions, 10% by ads)
. Match&Chemistry
. eHarmony
. Yahoo!Personals
. True
. PerfectMatch
2 sites with a revenue less than USD10 million per year <= USD 20 million 3 sites with a revenue less than USD5 million per year <= USD 15 million 7 sites with a revenue less than USD1 million per year <= USD 7 million 23 sites with a revenue less than USD100.000 per year <= USD 2.3 million 260 sites with a revenue less than USD10.000 per year <= USD 2.6 million 400 sites with a revenue less than USD5.000 per year <= USD 2 million 800 sites with no revenue at all. - All_free_sites (PlentyOfFish, OKCupid, SinglesNet, DownToEarth and others) have a revenue less than USD35 million. * Online Dating sites are not making their job well: - Online Dating sites could not kill Offline Proposals not even hurt them. - Divorce rates are still high. - Owners and CEOs of Online Dating sites are more worried about: . attract prospective customers, . convert them into paying members, . retain them as paying members as much as possible, if not, leave them as free users to increase database. Nonetheless: * The U.S. market (and the world market) remains enormous, there are more than 92 million singles but all paying members (subscribers) are not more than 5 million. * Top_5_sites_by_revenue offers some kind of (a proprietary) compatibility matching method. The only way I see to enter the market is offering a high quality compatibility matching method to dissatisfied/past customers of online dating sites, trying to steal their users; and to prospective customers of Offline Proposals. Regards, Fernando Ardenghi. Buenos Aires. Argentina. ardenghifer@gmail.com