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Category: SeekingArrangement

The Internet Dating Conference Agenda :: My Top Three Picks!

Posted on December 22, 2016

Idate2017OPW – Dec 22 – iDate Miami is happening January 25-26. Are you going? The top people in the dating business will be there. Marc tells me there's a great representation from senior management this year. That's good. So here's my top picks from the agenda. Here's the sessions I'll definitely be sitting in on and taking notes on.

  1. Geoff Cook, the CEO of publicly traded company MeetMe is speaking first on the 25th. His company is doing well, and they bought the hallmark early mobile dating service Skout this year. Amazing. Got to see that.  They're going from strength to strength and their stock is way up. Doubled this year!
  2. The marketing director for Zoosk is giving us his thoughts on marketing to a relationship on mobile. Great!  Zoosk gets 20 million hits a month on their website, and way more on mobile. They're doing well again. Why?  How? What's next? Let's find out.
  3. I'm interviewing the CEO of Hinge. Justin McLeod is going to give us insights on mobile dating for the people looking for meaningful relationships. i.e., the other end of the market to Tinder. Does it work? How's he doing it? I'll also be visiting Justin's office in NYC the week prior. Watch OPW. I'll run a video review on OPW prior to my iDate interview with Justin. 

Also, Brandon Wade is speaking. He's talking about how he went from niche to mainstream. We're talking SeekingArrangement here. Highly controversial of course. What's inside this man's brain? What's he going to do next? I certainly will be listening in and asking some tough questions.

So there we have it, and here's the agenda in full. Hope to see you there. This will be the 41st iDate that I'm speaking at! Prices go up December 23rd so best to pick up your tix now, so you can write them off in this tax year.  ;-)

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SeekingArrangement CEO To Speak At iDate Miami

Posted on December 14, 2016

WEBWIRE – Dec 13 – Brandon Wade, founder and CEO of SeekingArrangement.com, will speak at the iDate Online Dating Industry Conference at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens on January 24-26, 2017. He will be talking about the challenges he faced while taking his niche dating site mainstream.

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Seeking Arrangement Hosted Sugar Baby Summit In LA

Posted on August 19, 2016

NEXT SHARK – Aug 19 – Once a year, women pay to attend a conference where they are taught practical skills on how to lead a life as a sugar baby. The second annual Sugar Baby Summit, hosted by Seeking Arrangement, took place in LA.

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Sugar Daddies Are Funding Higher Education

Posted on February 18, 2016

DiplomasHUFFINGTON POST – Feb 16 – Great academic programs get cut, tuition goes up, and students compensate by sleeping with older men for money. Students are forced to find alternative and unconventional methods of funding. According to SeekingArrangement.com, a dating site that connects college students with wealthy benefactors, the University of Texas is the fastest growing campus adopting this relationship.

by Xavier Rotnofsky
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SeekingArrangement Sees Increase In College Student “Sugar Babies”

Posted on January 22, 2016

InfographicOBSERVER – Jan 22 – The site, which boasts over 5M active members in 139 countries, has seen increasing use by college students in recent years, with 1.9M college students registered. The average sugar daddy or momma on the site is 45 years old, average sugar baby is 26. The majority of the sugar babies on the site are female. Sugar babies receive an average of around $3K per month. 1/3 of the sugar daddies on the site are married. Around 36% of the average sugar baby's allowance is spent on tuition, while 23% goes to rent, 20% to textbooks, 9% to transportation, 5% to clothing and 7% to other things.

by Julia Bianco
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How A Nerd Who Got His First Kiss At 21 Built A $30M Dating Empire

Posted on May 10, 2015

Seekingarrangement brandon wadeNEXT SHARK – One of the best ways to create a great product is to simply come up with a solution for your own biggest problem. For entrepreneur Brandon Wade, his problem was relationships. "In 11th grade, I wanted to approach a beautiful girl at school. I didn't know how to do it. My dad said: Just do it! So I walked up to her and I tripped and fell. I stepped on her foot as I was standing up. She was laughing the whole way." Seeing that his father's advice didn't work, he consulted his mother, who said: "Just focus on school and study. Someday you'll be successful, and all the girls will be there." With that in mind, Wade continued working hard and eventually went to MIT for college.

Q: What inspired you to create SeekingArrangement.com?
A: "After college, I was successful but I was still awkward. It was time to take matters into my own hands. SeekingArrangement was born.

Q: Did you aspire to start a company before college?
A: At MIT, my first goal was to become a millionaire by the time I turned 25. I was very entrepreneurial. One of the businesses I launched back in 1999 raised $10M from VCs. I've failed many times, and I picked myself right back up and restarted again.

Q: Regardless of SeekingArrangement, would you say your mom’s initial advice was correct?
A: It's not necessarily about wealth, it's about confidence. Wealth makes you more attractive and therefore gives you the opportunity to build up your confidence.

Q: What challenges did you face building SeekingArrangement?
A: We have experienced a lot of issues with HR in the past two years.

Q: How have mobile sites like Tinder affected your business?
A: I think Tinder is at a very high level raising the tide for everyone.

by Benny Luo
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SeekingArrangement Breaks The Rules, Police Have Warned

Posted on March 2, 2015

Seekingarrangement screenshot1THE NEW DAILY – Mar 1 - SeekingArrangement claims its Australian membership is growing exponentially and that it has 154,537 people signed up. “These types of websites are of concern because they may breach the law and they may also place people in dangerous situations,” South Australia Police said in a statement. In Victoria escorts must be registered, and in South Australia it is illegal to pay someone for sex. SeekingArrangement spokeswoman Brook Urick denied the website was used for illegal purposes. “There’s not really an exchange of money for sex, it’s about building a relationship. At least two violent crimes in the US had been linked to arrangements made on the website. Alix Tichelman, 27, was charged with killing Google executive Forrest Hayes in November 2013.

by Ashlynne McGhee
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Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Schools Of 2015

Posted on January 13, 2015

Seeking-arrangementNEW YORK DAILY NEWS – Jan 12 – New York University and Columbia University have been recognized by SeekingArrangement.com among a list of 20 schools where Sugar Daddies are said to serve as students’ financial donors. Between the two Big Apple schools, 585 new students registered with the dating site last year, according to the site.

by Nina Golgowski
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SeekingArrangement.com Traffic Soared After Google Executive’s Homicide

Posted on July 18, 2014

Seekingarrangement brandon wade1SILICON VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL – July 17 – In the days after a prostitute named Alix Tichelman was arrested for allegedly injecting a fatal dose of heroin into Google executive Forrest Hayes, people flocked to the site where they met, SeekingArrangement.com. Traffic to the site doubled, according to CEO Brandon Wade. "Bad news ends up being good news when it comes to traffic for our website," he said. He also said the site should generate twice the $10M in sales it brought in last year.

by Eric Van Susteren
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Seeking Arrangement Hit With Pimping Lawsuit In France

Posted on April 7, 2014

Pimping lawsuit picTHE LOCAL – Apr 4 – The group Équipe d’Action (Action Team) is suing SeekingArrangement, which they accuse of operating a disguised prostitution racket. A landmark bill that aims to punish clients of prostitutes with hefty fines is currently snaking its way through the French parliament.

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