SOUTH BEND TRIBUNES — Feb 8 — I’d met up with Kate through eHarmony in early November. We’d communicated extensively through e-mail for about a month, and I’d been down to visit her in Chicago twice. When it came close to Christmas, I bought a computer part I knew she needed as an early gift. A few days later, she called me and said although she’d be happy for me to come down and visit, she just didn’t think "the spark" was there. I appreciated her honesty and thought we could remain friends. So even knowing this was a dating dead-end, I still drove down to see her that evening — and fixed her computer. Then, the last week of December, I started communicating with Lisa from Indiana, who I’d met through Cupid.
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Breakup Blues
SOUTH BEND TRIBUNES — Feb 8 — I’d met up with Kate through eHarmony in early November. We’d communicated extensively through e-mail for about a month, and I’d been down to visit her in Chicago twice. When it came close to Christmas, I bought a computer part I knew she needed as an early gift. A few days later, she called me and said although she’d be happy for me to come down and visit, she just didn’t think "the spark" was there. I appreciated her honesty and thought we could remain friends. So even knowing this was a dating dead-end, I still drove down to see her that evening — and fixed her computer. Then, the last week of December, I started communicating with Lisa from Indiana, who I’d met through Cupid.
iDate 2005 Photos
OPW — Jan 24 — The online personals industry signature conference was a grand success again this year. Industry execs from eHarmony, Cupid, Date, True, FriendFinder, Community Connect and local Miami mover and shaker WebDate rubbed shoulders with mid sized players such as MingleMatch and ChristianCafe.com and smaller players such as PlentyofFish, DateMyPet and MyeMatch. Periphary services companies such as LookBetterOnline and SafeDate, and advertisers such as MetricsDirect joined the tour de force. The convention enjoyed double the attendance of 2004 in it's plush new quarters at the Wyndham Resort Miami. Please post comments if you attended. Here are the photos from iDate 2005
3rd Internet Dating Conference to be Held Jan 19-20 in Miami
NEW YORK — Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces the third Internet Dating Conference, to be held on January 19-20, 2005 in Miami at the Wyndham Miami Beach Resort. Internet personals, which includes both online dating and social networking, continues to be one of the fastest growing online businesses. The 3rd Conference and expo will focus on management, technology and marketing for the industry. Speakers at this event include executives from: Love.com, America Online, Cupid.com, Friendfinder, MingleMatch, True.com, Weblogs Inc, Userplane, Trilibis, Keynote, Market Data Enterprises, ComScore, Hitwise, Relationship Exchange, DatingRev, Spring Street Networks, One Real World, Online Personals Watch, Look Better Online, Did-It.com, SoHo Digital, Trufina and RevShare.
Mark Brooks: I'll be presenting on the most notable OnlinePersonalsWatch listed news in 2004. See you there.
Cupid.com Acquires #1 Speed Dating Company
NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Cupid.com, a leading online dating service, today announced its acquisition of PreDating, America's largest speed dating company. PreDating is the leading provider of speed dating events for single professionals in the U.S. and run local events in more than 70 cities around the country. "There's no turn downs and no pressure at these events. We searched for the perfect singles event and PreDating is it!," commented Mark Brooks, Cupid.com's VP Marketing & Business Development.
Mark Brooks: I joined Cupid to make this happen. An industry first. ;-) No other online dating site has integrated singles events into their offerings like this. Match dumped their events division recently. It's far more efficient just to focus on one event format that plays into online dating. Match actually used my club http://www.ace-club.com as part of their inspiration set. Ooops. ACE is very unwieldy. Works fine as a little club. It's a pig to scale.
Cupid.com Hires Mark Brooks, Online Personals and Social Networking Guru, as VP Marketing & Business Development
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Online personals guru and marketing consultant Mark Brooks has joined Cupid.com, Inc. as VP Marketing & Business Development. Cupid.com expects to announce a significant acquisition very shortly. This acquisition will further Cupid.com's promise of uniting local singles in the real world. Cupid.com, which started in 2001, is unique; promoted on radio stations. "Cupid.com is unique in the way it drives user satisfaction by homing in on local markets with radio advertising. Singles don't want to meet singles that live a thousand miles away. They want compatible local singles. The closer the better."