PRWEB - Feb 21 - SawYouAtSinai.com, the Jewish Dating and Matchmaking service, announce their 700th engagement. The couple are from England and New York. SawYouAtSinai was created in 2004 and primarily serves the Orthodox Jewish singles community.
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SawYouAtSinai Announces 700th Engagement
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iDateXSW: iDateStartup.com Event During SXSW, March 10, 2012
WEBWIRE - Feb 21 - iDate By SouthWest in Austin is a business networking event for the online dating industry during the South By Southwest (SXSW) event. The networking event will take place on March 10 from 6:30 PM to 8PM at the Driskill Bar. There is no fee to attend the event and pre-registration is required at http://www.idatestartup.com.
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10 Questions For Snap Interactive CFO Jon Pedersen Sr.
PC WORLD - Feb 20 - Jon Pedersen joined Snap Interactive late last year as its CFO.
Q: Where did you start in finance and what experiences led you to the job you have today?
A: I started my career as an accountant with Price Waterhouse. After two years with Price Waterhouse, I spent ten years in banking where the main lesson I learned is high-level financial professionals need to be skilled in both the technical accounting and broader finance aspects of the businesses they run.
Q: Who was an influential boss for you and what lessons did they teach you about management and leadership?
A: Steve Macri, whom I worked for at Warner Music Group. Over the six years we worked together, I learned a great deal about how to manage and lead large and diverse groups of people over multiple geographies.
Q: What are the biggest challenges facing CFOs today?
A: Dealing with internal versus external priorities. Communication strategy is critical. In a complicated business environment, having a proper and coordinated IR / PR strategy is key to getting your message across.
Q: What is a good day at work like for you?
A: A good day for me is a busy day. I love to be in the mix, solving problems and adding value.
Q: How would you characterize your management style?
A: I'm focused more on results and less on process.
Q: What strengths and qualities do you look for in job candidates?
A: Smart, motivated people can learn what they need in order to be successful.
Q: What are some of your favorite interview questions?
A: I really want to know what's on their mind and why they are interested in a particular opportunity.
Q: What is it about your current job, at this particular company, that sets it apart from other chief finance positions?
A: I think that CFO jobs are each unique in their own way. You need to react to the situation that you are in, and work with senior management to build a plan that is accretive to both the organization and the shareholders.
Q: What do you do to unwind from a hectic day?
A: Spend time with my family, enjoy a great meal, or catch the UConn Huskies or the Green Bay Packers in action.
Q: If you weren't doing this job, what would you be doing?
A: I come from a long line of educators, and I've often thought about getting involved in higher education as my career winds down. A mix of teaching and philanthropy would probably keep me busy enough.
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TOWIE Star Lauren Pope Partners With WLD.com
WLD.COM - Feb 21 - Lauren partnered with WhiteLabelDating.com, the award-winning software and services provider to the online dating industry, with the desire to set up her own dating site and so 'Hope with Pope' was born.
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Ashley Madison Targets Mobile Domain
DOMAINNAMEWIRE - Feb 19 - Avid Life Media, the company behind affair personals site AshleyMadison, has filed a UDRP complaint to get the domain name AshleyMadison.mobi. The domain is owned by someone in China. The registrant has listed the domain for sale on Sedo with an asking price of 10K GBP.
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SinglesAroundMe: Heterosexual Grindr
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - Feb 17 - SinglesAroundMe is assisting more face-to-face meetings, replacing chat-up lines in bars with messages from the GPS-enabled app. Launched in 2010, 550K messages were sent between singles all over the world last year alone. Most of SinglesAroundMe's users are between the ages of 25 and 50, with the USA home to nearly a quarter of a million downloaders. The potential of the gay market is not lost on the founder, and two months ago he launched GaysAroundMe - more squarely aligned to compete with the likes of Grindr.
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Seeking Arrangement Link Young Men To Rich Men
8NEWS NOW - Feb 19 - Men simply say what they're net worth is and what monthly allowance they're willing to give. SeekingArrangement.com founder Brandon Wade started the website in 2006. A few months back, the Las Vegas-based business topped one million users. There are 10 women for every man on the site. The website says that 15% of their client base are gay and lesbian, and sugar mommy's are on the site too, looking for young men.
by Nathan Baca and Alex Brauer
See full article at 8News Now
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Revenues Of eHarmony & PlentyofFish.com
OPW - Feb 17 - Privco is a source for financial data of major privately-held companies. They've estimated revenues for eHarmony, PlentyofFish (POF), Zoosk and OKCupid, to and other Internet dating companies. According to Privco, eHarmony's 2010 revenues were $255M with projected 2011 revenues of $265M. POF revenues were estimated at $19M with $14M operating income in 2010.
Download the full reports for $99 at Privco.com.
We also learned from the POF report that IAC offered $175M for POF in 2008.
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See all posts on POF.com See all posts on OkCupid
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POF Takes Top Spot In Brazil
OPW - Feb 16 - The Plentyoffish.com team have been busy with their Portugese. Here's the top ten dating site rankings in Brazil. POF is in the top spot now.
| Unique Visitors | |||
| 1. | POF Sites | 1,078 | |
| 2. | C-Date | 785 | |
| 3. | MSN Dating & Personals | 755 | |
| 4. | Meetic-Match | 607 | |
| 5. | be2 GmbH | 558 | |
| 6. | Chifrevirtual.com.br | 488 | |
| 7. | Twoo.com | 484 | |
| 8. | Baixocidade.com.br | 396 | |
| 9. | 1001 Cartas de Amor | 242 | |
| 10. | eHarmony.com.br | 147 |
(Source: Comscore)
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WWL Radio Interview With POF's Dating Coach
WWL RADIO - Feb 14 - WW Radio has interviewed POF's dating coach recently.
Short interview summary:
Q: What would you advise people when it comes to do’s and don’t’s.
A: I always recommend to put an hour aside and spend time thinking about why you’re on the site and what you’re really looking for. Images are really important. You want to show yourself in a way that represents you. Giving details/examples of what you like to do is a great way to get a conversation started online.
Q: If you were a couch potato? How would you clean that up?
A: Take a picture outside. Don’t ever take a picture of you in the bathroom mirror holding up your cell phone. Avoid any professional shots or upload 6 other images. It gives a better representation of what you look like.
Q: How do you make sure you don’t put a picture up that makes you seem a little loose?
A: If you are a woman, avoid too much cleavage. Men put a shirt on.
Q: What do you think a woman can do that will make a man not be interested in her profile?
A: If the woman is trying to be too sexy in images/profile description. Women have a bit more advantage on online dating sites and can get away with a little more than men.
Q: So women can sometimes be too sexy?
A: I think so. Remember that whatever you portray yourself as that what you’re going to get.
Q: Do you know how many successful unions your website has produced?
A: Millions. We have a page on our site where couples that met on POF can submit their stories. Every week we receive hundreds of submissions from people now married/engaged/have kids. So a lot of success stories.
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Aussies Lost $21 Million To Online Dating Scams In 2011
HERALD SUN - Feb 16 - The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is acting on online dating scams after receiving more than 2100 complaints in 2011. Australians were cheated out of $21M by online dating scams last year, up from $15M in 2010. The ACCC has released guidelines that call on dating websites to clearly issue warnings and information about fraudsters as well as publishing examples of scams.
See full article at Herald Sun
Mark Brooks: The ACCC is very active on the issue of scamming in Australia. The Aussie idating industry and the ACCC formed these guidelines for dating sites. Should dating sites in the USA and UK (and beyond) do similar?
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Boston iDate Startup Meetup, Feb 22, 2012
OPW - Feb 16 - The next iDate startup is scheduled for February 22nd, 2012 in Boston, 6pm - 10pm at the Seaport Boston Hotel (Ballroom). The event is free. Don't miss the opportunity to network and build relationships with a diverse group of dating industry professionals in the dating market space.
Agenda:
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Reception
7:00 - 7:30 PM
Paul Falzone (CEO, eLove): The Offline Dating Market
7:30 - 8:00 PM
Adam Towvim (Senior Director, Biz Dev., Jumptap): Dating and Mobile: Ad-Networks for Downloads and Leveraging 3rd party Data
8:00 -10:00 PM
Networking
eLove, Optimal Payments, PaysafeCard, Courtland Brooks and iDate are sponsors of the event.
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SNAP Interactive CEO Clifford Lerner Featured On CNBC
PR NEWSWIRE - Feb 14 - SNAP Interactive CEO Clifford Lerner was interviewed on CNBC's Worldwide Exchange. Cliff discussed trends in mobile and social dating. As of February 14, 2012, AreYouInterested.com has 6.6M Monthly Active Users on Facebook, per AppData.com, and 15% of AreYouInterested.com logins occur on a mobile device.
The full article was originally published at Sacramento Bee, but is no longer available.
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Plentyoffish Fires Darts At eHarmony, Match.com On Valentine's Day
IT BUSINESS - Feb 14 - Plentyoffish has released a white paper indicating that its social media dating formula may be more effective at hooking you up than the matchmaking algorithms employed by other dating sites. “Traditional online dating sites provide a very linear and singular experience,” said Mark Brooks, principal analyst of Courtland Brooks, a media relations and marketing company that does work with POF. Brooks released a whitepaper titled What is Social Dating? Courtland Brooks released a graph showing that feature-for-feature it outguns both Match.com and eHarmony. Brooks said the process of making users browse through numerous profiles based on specific criteria with the intent of finding a potential date or partner is too time consuming and requires “significant commitment.” With most online dating systems, he said, users have to create profiles to “sell” themselves to others. “This leads to misleading information or a frustrating experience.” On the other hand the social networking focus such as that employed by POF offers a “more relaxed environment,” Brooks said.” Social networking is very much centered around activities and interest, which give excellent representation of who a person really is.” Brooks also pointed to as study authored by Dr. Eli Finkel, associate professor of social psychology at Northwestern University, in New York, who pointed to several “pitfalls” of online dating. “To date, there is no compelling evidence that any online dating matching algorithm actually works,” Finkel said in statement. “Our report concludes that that it is unlikely that algorithms can work, even in principle, given the limitations of matching procedures that these sites use.”
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Valentine’s Day To Be ‘Starting Gun’ For Investment In Online Dating
PRESS RELEASE - Feb 14 - This year Valentine’s Day will mark the start of a business boom across the online dating world with more companies seeking to capitalise on the millions of people turning to online dating. Over February 13 & 14 in 2011 Global Personals.co.uk saw a rise ~30% in subscriptions across its sites. Global Personals expects these figures to rise again in 2012 by 150%. Global Personals operates its own dating sites including Singles365.com, DatingAgency.com and JustSingleParents.com, whilst its B2B service, WhiteLabelDating.com, offers a platform for brands and individuals to power their own dating sites.
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