MASHABLE – Jan 13 – Sites like Friendlylook, TheDatable and Circl.es let you browse your friends' friends. With Friendlylook, users have the ability to create private social events to meet people in real life. Members also have a "singles stream," that is kind of like a Facebook News Feed. Currently, the team behind Friendlylook is seeking funds on Indiegogo, the crowd-funding platform, in order to build more features. Circl.es and TheDatable have similar ideas — except with these sites you actually connect with Facebook to see friends of your friends.
Month: January 2013
Quick Review: HowAboutWe For Couples
OPW – Jan 9 – After entering mine and Irena's contact info HAW presented me with a list of date ideas called the 'DateBook.' For a membership fee we can get up to 75% off every date in the 'collection.' We can go for Trivial Pursuit night hosted by Huffington Post, or various other games nights…drinking, eating, painting, and terrarium-building fun. The 'Built For Two Membership' is $22. Cool! But, that's it?
Internet Dating Jobs Listing Update – January 2013
OPW – Jan 12 – New iDating jobs listing is live on the Internet Dating Jobs blog.
Below see a couple of this month's most interesting offers:
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From our esteemed Courtland Brooks clients:
POF.com
Customer Service Representative
Global Personals USA (Webdate, Fling, WealthyMen)
Product Manager
GuySpy
iOS Developer
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Avid Life Media
Director, Business Development, Europe
Grouper
Director of PR/Communications
Match.com, Chemistry.com, People Media
Director, West Coast Advertising Sales
MeetMe Corp
Director of Product Development, Growth
Zoosk
Director of Site Operations
To see more open positions go here.
Do you have an idating industry job offer which is not included? Please, send it to petra@courtlandbrooks.com and we will add it to the list.
Agenda Finalized For iDate, Las Vegas
WEBWIRE – Jan 11 – The 10th Annual Internet Dating Conference will take place on January 16-19, 2013 in Las Vegas. Over 75 speakers are on the roster for the event, including senior people from: eHarmony, US Federal Trade Commission, Ashley Madison, eLove, Friendfinder, Perfect Match, Yandex, Cupid, and many others. Today is the last day to register online for the event.
A Great Philosophy On How To Build A Startup
About OkCupid Blogging
FORBES – Jan 11 - OkCupid’s most popular blogs
posts were read by millions of people, and that was excluding existing
OkCupid users. Startups who are hoping to fill in the “how do we grow?”
blank by saying “Well, we’ll just write a blog, like OkCupid did.” Maybe
hire a “data scientist.” But:
- OkCupid’s blog worked because they had sexy data.
- Christian Rudder, an amazing writer who also studied math at Harvard,
wrote the blog. The posts each took him four to eight weeks of full-time
work.
ChristianMingle.com Growth
WASHINGTON POST – Jan 10 – ChristianMingle is owned by the same company, Spark Networks, that owns JDate, the wildly successful Jewish dating service. Indeed, JDate has been the engine behind ChristianMingle’s “God” campaign this year. Spark has plowed revenue generated by the older, more established JDate into promoting the Christian site. ChristianMingle is now the biggest of Spark’s 28 dating sites, each for a specific subset of singles. The company says ChristianMingle is the nation’s leading Christian-based dating site, with ~8M registered members. Spark Networks' Christian dating division had revenue of $22.9M during the first nine months of 2012, an increase of 111% over the same period the year before. (Its Jewish division had revenue of $19.4M, down 5%). Spark poured ~$30M into marketing and advertising for the division, more than double the year before. Overall, Spark lost $4.45M over the first three quarters of 2012 after a loss of $503K during the same period of 2011. ChristianCafe, which says it is the only Christian-owned dating site among the major players, has a marketing tie-in with Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian group founded by author and radio preacher James Dobson. Focus on the Family once had ties with eHarmony.com and its founder, Neil Clark Warren, but eHarmony has moved away from a Christian-centric approach in a bid for a broader market.
by Paul Farhi
See full article at Washington Post
See all posts on ChristianMingle See all posts on ChristianCafe.com
See all posts on Spark Networks See all posts on eHarmony
See all posts on JDate
79% Of Girls Make The First Move Online
PRESS RELEASE – Jan 10 – New study of MySingleFriend's users reveals that 79% of girls are happy to make the first move online but 71% will leave boys hanging before returning texts. Only 29% of girls are happy to reply to dates texts immediately. 65% admitted to trying to get more information about a potential date by looking them up on Facebook before going on a date. MySingleFriend was created by TV presenter Sarah Beeny in 2005 and now has over 200,000 users in the UK. The site has also recently launched in Ireland at www.mysinglefriend.ie.
Grouper: New Dating Concept
CHICAGO NOW – Jan 9 – Grouper, the new dating site or "social club" acts as a dating liason between tro interested parties. Users sign up via Facebook, Grouper scans their profiles and suggest matches and also pick the spot they'll meet at and the $20 each person pays to meet up, covers the first round of drinks. Each person brings two friends along on the date.
Sugar Daddy Site: It’s Better Than Sex Work
SALON – Jan 9 – According to SeekingArrangement.com lates press release, their sugar babies make more money than prostitutes. Seeking Arrangement makes the following calculations: “The average Sugar Baby dates 1-3 men annually, receiving an average yearly allowance of ~$36K. If a prostitute makes on average $250 per transaction, she would have to have sex with presumably 100 men, performing over 144 sexual transactions.”