ONLINEDATINGSITES.NET - June 18 - At CheckHimOut, women do the browsing, and only those men whom she chooses are allowed to contact her.
Q: Where did you come up with the idea for CheckHimOut?
A: From our observation. Women are submerged with outrageous numbers of more-or-less appropriate messages. And men spend hours writing thoughtful messages only to be discarded.
Q: How do you get men to join?
A: Men will not face this type of rejection, since they can be assured that the women that they are in contact with were interested in them in the first place.
Q: What is the gender ratio?
A: Female:male ratio of 60:40.
Q: Are there any ways in which a male member can try to initiate contact?
A: Not until a woman has chosen to start contact with them. Before communication is unlocked, men can send a crush alert or a virtual gift. They can also advertise themselves by bidding for a chance to become the product of the day.
Q: What ways do women show their interest in another member?
A: Women may directly communicate with any man via private messaging, chatting and sending personalized gifts.
Q: What kind of feedback have you gotten from your site?
A: The feedback we get from women is extremely positive.
Q: Men can earn credits to purchase virtual gifts. How a man goes about earning credits and what virtual gifts are used for?
A: Men must purchase credits in order to connect or send gifts. Women only need credits to send virtual gifts; all other type of communication is free for them. Virtual gifts could be a bouquet of flowers or a diamond ring. They vary in price, ranging from 0 to 1000 credits. We reward users for being active.
Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: We aim to earn our first million members by Valentine’s day 2013. We will be launching our mobile app soon.
by Tonya Vrba
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Women often *prefer* to initiate contact, but they won't join a site where they can't field inbound inquiries. Never, never never. This looks like HerWay all over again. Will cost maybe $500k to get to a million profiles, if they have the cash, great. But thats not counting the quality of the profiles, will cost a lot more for higher quality. Kudos for the effort and all, know how difficult it is to launch a site, but this is an old idea that doesn't work, regardless of virtual gifts.
Posted by: Datinginsider | Jun 22, 2012 at 03:58 PM