PR WEB — Aug 3 – SeekingArrangement.com has released Seeking Arrangement: The Definitive Guide to Sugar Daddy and Mutually Beneficial Relationships. Author Brandon Wade, the founder and CEO of SeekingArrangement says the new book will serve as a guide to anyone curious about or already practicing the sugar lifestyle and the art of negotiating mutually beneficial relationships. Website officials also hope the book will clarify the difference between sugar and prostitution – once and for all. To purchase the book, visit the Sugar Daddy Book website. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
Category: SeekingArrangement
Internet Dating Industry Weekly News – 6 Mins
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Internet Dating Industry Weekly News – 5 Mins, Venice
Spark Networks acquires Engage.com. Sugar Daddy sites criticized. New Facebook apps from GenePartner and DateRaters.com. eHarmony lawsuit and Compatible Partners criticism. Matchmakers doing ok according to CNN. Virtual singles marry online, and Courtland Brooks blog launches.
This weeks news from Venice, Italy.
Keeping Up With Being Kept
NY TIMES — Apr 10 — Critics say SeekingArrangement.com is at best a convenience store for adulterers and at worst a virtual brothel, but Brandon Wade, Seeking Arrangement’s founder and CEO, is unperturbed by the criticism. “We stress relationships that are mutually beneficial,” he says. “We ask people to really think about what they want in a relationship and what they have to offer." The site now claims more than 300,000 registered members. About 30% of arrangements on the site involve the daddy paying an “allowance,” usually $1000 – $2000 a month, though the site claims some reach $10,000. Sugar relationships amount to prostitution is hotly debated among the site’s members. Some sugar babies insist that wives who stay in miserable marriages for an American Express black card, mansion or country-club membership are more like prostitutes than they are. FULL ARTICLE @ NY TIMES
Mark Brooks: SugarDaddyForMe.com and Sugardaddie.com are the other two leading Sugar Daddy sites. WealthyMen, MillionaireMatch and MillionaireMate (part of the FriendFinder Network) and the newly launched EstablishedMen, are for well healed guys and the women who would like to date them, but not necessarily sugar daddies. I was rather surprised at the kinds of advertisements MillionaireMate.com is running on their home page. These are great ads for the brainless, but hardly on target for their upper echelon target audience.
Still, when I joined Cupid.com in 2004 they were running banner ads for wheelchairs on their home page, among other equally untargeted and inappropriate ads. Showing these kinds off-target and inappropriate banner ads on dating sites just show that the hand's not on the wheel, for that particular site. (Full Disclosure: WealthyMen is a client of Courtland Brooks)
Still, when I joined Cupid.com in 2004 they were running banner ads for wheelchairs on their home page, among other equally untargeted and inappropriate ads. Showing these kinds off-target and inappropriate banner ads on dating sites just show that the hand's not on the wheel, for that particular site. (Full Disclosure: WealthyMen is a client of Courtland Brooks)
Dating Site Caters To Wealthy Men
GREENWITCH TIME — Mar 28 — Looking for a sugar baby on SeekingArrangement.com turned out to be a nightmare for one Greenwich man who was blackmailed out of ~$100,000 by a 28-year-old woman he met on the site. "This is the first time we've heard of an extortion plot. We do a lot to prevent something like that happening," said Brandon Wade, the website creator. "We have very clear warnings as to what's legal and things members should or should not do."
The full article was originally published at Greenwich Time, but is no longer available.
Love’s Great, But Sugar Pays The Bills
PRESS RELEASE — Jan 12 — Finding a 'sugar daddy ' is becoming a popular alternative for many daters in today's ruff economy. "We've seen a significant rise in new memberships says an official at SeekingArrangement.com. About 50%" of their users are married. The ration is 10 women to 1 man.
The full article was originally published at Prudent Press Agency, but is no longer available.
Sugar Babes For Cash
KOMO NEWS — Nov 19 — On SeekingArrangement.com, people are expected to be perfectly blunt. Prospective sugar babies let potential sugar daddies know right up front how much they expect to get — anywhere from $2,000 to upwards of $20,000 per month. The site says it brokers "mutually beneficial relationships," and not only between rich men and younger women, but between rich women and younger men as well.
The full article was originally published at Komo News, but is no longer available.
VIP Party Connecting Sugar Daddies With Gorgeous Girls
PR WEB — Sep 25 — SeekingArrangement.com, the sugar daddy dating site announces "SUGAR", the exclusive VIP party for wealthy sugar daddies, millionaires and gorgeous girls seeking arrangements. The event will be held in Las Vegas on December 3, 2008. Event ticket for men at the door is $2000, for girls $300. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
SeekingArrangement & SeekingMillionaire Launch Affiliate Program
PR WEB — Feb 21 — SeekingArrangement.com (130k members since 2006) and SeekingMillionaire.com (60k members since 2007), cater to millionaires and beautiful girls and has launched an affiliate program. "While other online dating websites pay a commission only when a customer pays, our affiliate programs pays when a visitor registers, and each time the customer pays to upgrade," said Brandon Wade, CEO of InfoStream Group Inc, which operates the sites. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
Mark Brooks: WealthyMen, MillionaireMatch, FriendFinder's MillionareMate.com and SugarDaddyForMe.com also compete in the high niche. The current rankings for this niche can be found under the Niche Internet Dating Rankings under the Official Internet Dating Rankings on this site.
Sugar Daddie, Alexa ~ 1/08
1 SugarDaddie
2 SugarDaddyForMe
3 WealthyMen
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Looking for a Sugar Daddy or Sugar Mommy?
CTV.CA — July 30 – SeekingArrangement.com (100,000 users) offers to facilitate relationships between an older and wealthy individual who gives a young person expensive gifts or financial assistance in return for friendship, intimacy or sex. "Sugar daddies" pay $35 a month to access profiles of "sugar babies" on the site. The sugar babies can join for free if they complete a profile and submit a photo. Diamond members pay $1,000 to have their wealth verified.
The full article was originally published at CTV, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: Sounds like a form of prostitution really. WealthyMen.com is the category leader.