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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Dating Advice: Love Shouldn't Hurt
by: Terry Hernon MacDonald
"Because when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain." -Gloria Steinem, "Revolution from Within."
If you tend to attract men who disappoint you (by cheating on you, not showing up when they say they will, or just refusing to get off the couch), you may be confusing love with pain.
So many of us have been brought up to believe that pain is normal, even expected, in a love relationship. Without it, the relationship seems flat, boring. We crave drama. (Why is it that so many women have great sex after a fight with a significant other?)
A happy, loving relationship eludes us because we don't recognize it when we see it, or because we simply believe it's not possible (News Flash: According to a recent Today Show, all men lie. All of them! I wasn't aware that men have a monopoly on lying or other bad behavior. I know some women who are breathtaking liars. Don't you?).
According to the media, men are incapable of remembering birthdays, being monogamous, getting through a weekend unless they're transfixed before a marathon of football games. Women internalize these messages: That's the way men are. That's the way life is. Get over it.
And while the media is happy to sell us the myth of the unattainable happy relationship, some of us have come to believe in it because of our own experiences.
Some of us:
(a) Had parents who treated each other indifferently, (b) had parents who outright hated each other, (c) had fathers who ignored us as children, (d) had a parent who suffered from alcoholism, (e) had mothers who would rather have been doing something else, or (f) had a parent who suffered from a mental illness.
And so, we learned to associate love with pain. It's all we knew.
Others among us grew up in perfectly happy homes with parents who loved each other and delighted in us, but we still managed to:
(a) Internalize negative messages we heard from our friends' parents who were unhappily married, or
(b) Internalize negative messages we saw elsewhere (I know a woman who, during her impressionable teenage years, babysat for a couple who gave each other the silent treatment and expected her to relay messages. She also babysat for another family, where the father once came home early and started reading a porn magazine!).
As a result of this programming, we set low bars for the behavior we'll accept from boyfriends or husbands. Hey, it's better than being alone, right?
Wrong.
If you're putting up with substandard behavior from men, make decision to stop. Refuse to date anybody until you attract a man who makes your happiness a priority. Trust me; such a man will come into your life and stay there.
Treat him as you have come to expect him to treat you, which means with affection, respect, and consideration. Does this sound boring to you? If it does, please examine your feelings about relationships and see if they haven't determined the kind of men you attract.
You see, once you stop dating men who disappoint you but excite you, you can make room for a guy who loves you the way you deserve to be loved--and who excites you. Love and excitement are important, but if they're accompanied by pain, something's wrong. You'll never be truly happy with a guy who lets you down.
Ask yourself, "Where did I ever get the idea that love has to hurt?"
Give yourself time to come up with the answers. Take stock of whether your relationship is worth saving. If you speak up, will it make a difference? If not, are you willing to make room for a man who will love you and make you laugh instead of cry for a change?
"Because when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain." -Gloria Steinem, "Revolution from Within."
If you tend to attract men who disappoint you (by cheating on you, not showing up when they say they will, or just refusing to get off the couch), you may be confusing love with pain.
So many of us have been brought up to believe that pain is normal, even expected, in a love relationship. Without it, the relationship seems flat, boring. We crave drama. (Why is it that so many women have great sex after a fight with a significant other?)
A happy, loving relationship eludes us because we don't recognize it when we see it, or because we simply believe it's not possible (News Flash: According to a recent Today Show, all men lie. All of them! I wasn't aware that men have a monopoly on lying or other bad behavior. I know some women who are breathtaking liars. Don't you?).
According to the media, men are incapable of remembering birthdays, being monogamous, getting through a weekend unless they're transfixed before a marathon of football games. Women internalize these messages: That's the way men are. That's the way life is. Get over it.
And while the media is happy to sell us the myth of the unattainable happy relationship, some of us have come to believe in it because of our own experiences.
Some of us:
(a) Had parents who treated each other indifferently, (b) had parents who outright hated each other, (c) had fathers who ignored us as children, (d) had a parent who suffered from alcoholism, (e) had mothers who would rather have been doing something else, or (f) had a parent who suffered from a mental illness.
And so, we learned to associate love with pain. It's all we knew.
Others among us grew up in perfectly happy homes with parents who loved each other and delighted in us, but we still managed to:
(a) Internalize negative messages we heard from our friends' parents who were unhappily married, or
(b) Internalize negative messages we saw elsewhere (I know a woman who, during her impressionable teenage years, babysat for a couple who gave each other the silent treatment and expected her to relay messages. She also babysat for another family, where the father once came home early and started reading a porn magazine!).
As a result of this programming, we set low bars for the behavior we'll accept from boyfriends or husbands. Hey, it's better than being alone, right?
Wrong.
If you're putting up with substandard behavior from men, make decision to stop. Refuse to date anybody until you attract a man who makes your happiness a priority. Trust me; such a man will come into your life and stay there.
Treat him as you have come to expect him to treat you, which means with affection, respect, and consideration. Does this sound boring to you? If it does, please examine your feelings about relationships and see if they haven't determined the kind of men you attract.
You see, once you stop dating men who disappoint you but excite you, you can make room for a guy who loves you the way you deserve to be loved--and who excites you. Love and excitement are important, but if they're accompanied by pain, something's wrong. You'll never be truly happy with a guy who lets you down.
Ask yourself, "Where did I ever get the idea that love has to hurt?"
Give yourself time to come up with the answers. Take stock of whether your relationship is worth saving. If you speak up, will it make a difference? If not, are you willing to make room for a man who will love you and make you laugh instead of cry for a change?
Taken from Authority Site, www.prozinearticles.com
by: Terry Hernon MacDonald
"Because when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain." -Gloria Steinem, "Revolution from Within."
If you tend to attract men who disappoint you (by cheating on you, not showing up when they say they will, or just refusing to get off the couch), you may be confusing love with pain.
So many of us have been brought up to believe that pain is normal, even expected, in a love relationship. Without it, the relationship seems flat, boring. We crave drama. (Why is it that so many women have great sex after a fight with a significant other?)
A happy, loving relationship eludes us because we don't recognize it when we see it, or because we simply believe it's not possible (News Flash: According to a recent Today Show, all men lie. All of them! I wasn't aware that men have a monopoly on lying or other bad behavior. I know some women who are breathtaking liars. Don't you?).
According to the media, men are incapable of remembering birthdays, being monogamous, getting through a weekend unless they're transfixed before a marathon of football games. Women internalize these messages: That's the way men are. That's the way life is. Get over it.
And while the media is happy to sell us the myth of the unattainable happy relationship, some of us have come to believe in it because of our own experiences.
Some of us:
(a) Had parents who treated each other indifferently, (b) had parents who outright hated each other, (c) had fathers who ignored us as children, (d) had a parent who suffered from alcoholism, (e) had mothers who would rather have been doing something else, or (f) had a parent who suffered from a mental illness.
And so, we learned to associate love with pain. It's all we knew.
Others among us grew up in perfectly happy homes with parents who loved each other and delighted in us, but we still managed to:
(a) Internalize negative messages we heard from our friends' parents who were unhappily married, or
(b) Internalize negative messages we saw elsewhere (I know a woman who, during her impressionable teenage years, babysat for a couple who gave each other the silent treatment and expected her to relay messages. She also babysat for another family, where the father once came home early and started reading a porn magazine!).
As a result of this programming, we set low bars for the behavior we'll accept from boyfriends or husbands. Hey, it's better than being alone, right?
Wrong.
If you're putting up with substandard behavior from men, make decision to stop. Refuse to date anybody until you attract a man who makes your happiness a priority. Trust me; such a man will come into your life and stay there.
Treat him as you have come to expect him to treat you, which means with affection, respect, and consideration. Does this sound boring to you? If it does, please examine your feelings about relationships and see if they haven't determined the kind of men you attract.
You see, once you stop dating men who disappoint you but excite you, you can make room for a guy who loves you the way you deserve to be loved--and who excites you. Love and excitement are important, but if they're accompanied by pain, something's wrong. You'll never be truly happy with a guy who lets you down.
Ask yourself, "Where did I ever get the idea that love has to hurt?"
Give yourself time to come up with the answers. Take stock of whether your relationship is worth saving. If you speak up, will it make a difference? If not, are you willing to make room for a man who will love you and make you laugh instead of cry for a change?
"Because when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain." -Gloria Steinem, "Revolution from Within."
If you tend to attract men who disappoint you (by cheating on you, not showing up when they say they will, or just refusing to get off the couch), you may be confusing love with pain.
So many of us have been brought up to believe that pain is normal, even expected, in a love relationship. Without it, the relationship seems flat, boring. We crave drama. (Why is it that so many women have great sex after a fight with a significant other?)
A happy, loving relationship eludes us because we don't recognize it when we see it, or because we simply believe it's not possible (News Flash: According to a recent Today Show, all men lie. All of them! I wasn't aware that men have a monopoly on lying or other bad behavior. I know some women who are breathtaking liars. Don't you?).
According to the media, men are incapable of remembering birthdays, being monogamous, getting through a weekend unless they're transfixed before a marathon of football games. Women internalize these messages: That's the way men are. That's the way life is. Get over it.
And while the media is happy to sell us the myth of the unattainable happy relationship, some of us have come to believe in it because of our own experiences.
Some of us:
(a) Had parents who treated each other indifferently, (b) had parents who outright hated each other, (c) had fathers who ignored us as children, (d) had a parent who suffered from alcoholism, (e) had mothers who would rather have been doing something else, or (f) had a parent who suffered from a mental illness.
And so, we learned to associate love with pain. It's all we knew.
Others among us grew up in perfectly happy homes with parents who loved each other and delighted in us, but we still managed to:
(a) Internalize negative messages we heard from our friends' parents who were unhappily married, or
(b) Internalize negative messages we saw elsewhere (I know a woman who, during her impressionable teenage years, babysat for a couple who gave each other the silent treatment and expected her to relay messages. She also babysat for another family, where the father once came home early and started reading a porn magazine!).
As a result of this programming, we set low bars for the behavior we'll accept from boyfriends or husbands. Hey, it's better than being alone, right?
Wrong.
If you're putting up with substandard behavior from men, make decision to stop. Refuse to date anybody until you attract a man who makes your happiness a priority. Trust me; such a man will come into your life and stay there.
Treat him as you have come to expect him to treat you, which means with affection, respect, and consideration. Does this sound boring to you? If it does, please examine your feelings about relationships and see if they haven't determined the kind of men you attract.
You see, once you stop dating men who disappoint you but excite you, you can make room for a guy who loves you the way you deserve to be loved--and who excites you. Love and excitement are important, but if they're accompanied by pain, something's wrong. You'll never be truly happy with a guy who lets you down.
Ask yourself, "Where did I ever get the idea that love has to hurt?"
Give yourself time to come up with the answers. Take stock of whether your relationship is worth saving. If you speak up, will it make a difference? If not, are you willing to make room for a man who will love you and make you laugh instead of cry for a change?
Taken from Authority Site, www.prozinearticles.com
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Monday, June 27, 2011
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Social Dating Is The Big Story of 2011
Social dating is a hybrid of social networking and traditional online dating. A popular topic on this blog ever since Facebook really started to take off, social dating is officially The Hot Idea” for 2011.
Given the dearth of dating sites trying to take advantage of a presence on Facebook, its is amazing to see a site like Badoo crushing it in terms of popularity, seemingly coming from nowhere to outpace social dating sites like Are You Interested and Zoosk. Badoo.com has grown to 100 million users, 4 million daily users and 32 million monthly users.
The primary issue with Badoo is one of definition. Badoo is a social network that has a presence on Facebook and enables people to talk to each other about anything, including dating. Is that social dating? You be the judge.
Casual dating sites are a large and lucrative market that make up a decent amount of revenue in the dating industry. There is money to be made, but OTOH, just survey your friends and ask how many of them have connected on a social dating site. People try them tend not to stick around long enough to be considered active users.
The high churn rate, brand perception, lack of customer service, fake-ness of many of the profiles and overall quality of the people on the sites are the primary detractors, yet the market segment continues to grow.
The dichotomy couldn’t be any clearer between traditional dating sites and social dating on Badoo. Badoo is a social network that has a presence on Facebook. Its not really a dating site, because its far too social/casual. There is nothing wrong with this, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call this social dating.
The majority of people on Badoo have Spanish-speaking profiles. The service feels somewhat spammy and overall the user experience is middle of the road. Reminds me of Orkut.
Don’t take my word for it. Go make an account on Badoo, Are You Interested and Zoosk. Use the sites for a few weeks and let us know how many useful email conversations you have and how many dates you go on.
Perhaps these sites are generating real relationships, but I haven’t seen much evidence to support this.
The big question is, who is going to be successful creating a social-powered dating site that’s for serious daters?
Related posts:
Social Dating Site Traffic By The NumbersSocial Dating Site Zoosk Secures $30 Million in Series D FundingOnline Dating Industry Links 1-14-11Online Dating Insider Links 3-14-2011Online Dating Industry News May 10, 2011Online Dating Industry News 6-24-11
Single Edition is helping brands build chemistry with single consumers. In a few short months, their vision for creating a singular focused digital agency has exceeded all expectations. Single Edition Media now yields more than 2 million monthly impressions based on partnerships with multitudes of editorially-vetted lifestyle bloggers, connecting brands with single women and men in a way no other social media company can. That’s millions of singles who travel, entertain, parent, date, cook, dine out and own homes with whom your brand should connect.
Talk to Sherri Langburt and tell her Online Dating Insider sent you. She is awesome and totally on top of her game, servicing People Media, HowAboutWe and many other dating sites. Sherri will be at eAmore next week, along with many other dating industry startups and veterans from around the globe.
Cupid plc has acquired 75% of two German online businesses, OnlineLiebe GmbH and WomenWeb GmbH, for €2.75m (£2.5m). The two companies are run together by the same team in Munich, led by founder Andreas von Maltzan, who is recognised as one of the pioneers and leaders in the German dating market, having established Neu.de, Germany’s most popular dating site, which was sold to Meetic in 2007. Andreas has a track record of producing successful German online businesses and will continue to run the German sites, becoming a valuable addition to Cupid’s management team.
Build big dating site, sell, rinse, repeat. Nice job Andreas and the team.
The founder of CatholicSingles found his wife on his site. I can’t tell you how many people say they started a dating site to find their wife.
Match is on a real tear lately. New photo display, broken-out profile sections and much more. This caught my eye. Is my profile complete or not?
People are always talking about advertising on Google and Facebook, but it seems like every time I settle into a Youtube session I see a ton of Plentyoffish ads and no other dating sites. Last year I remember emailing Markus because the POF ads on YT were all pixelated, he had forgotten all about them.
I wonder how many members POF picks up every day from YouTube?
My friend has a dating blog called Flirting With Disaster. She signed up for Plentyoffish and received 500 emails in 12 hours. Blog fodder for weeks to come.
The Anatomy of a Fundable Startup by Naval of AngelList. Good stuff for dating entrepreneurs.
Why Optimus Prime Is Still Single: WIRED Magazine talks to OkCupid about determining the best approach with your dating profile.
Here’s a couple of screenshots of Flowbar, a new dating/social site on Facebook. Nice badge system and earning/sharing drinks and other social features. Still trying to figure out how it works, lots of features to explore.
Related posts:
Online Dating Industry News For March 31, 2010Online Dating Industry News For May 5, 2010Online Dating Industry News 6-13-11Online Dating Industry News 5-12-11Online Dating Industry News 5-27-11
View the original article here
Talk to Sherri Langburt and tell her Online Dating Insider sent you. She is awesome and totally on top of her game, servicing People Media, HowAboutWe and many other dating sites. Sherri will be at eAmore next week, along with many other dating industry startups and veterans from around the globe.
Cupid plc has acquired 75% of two German online businesses, OnlineLiebe GmbH and WomenWeb GmbH, for €2.75m (£2.5m). The two companies are run together by the same team in Munich, led by founder Andreas von Maltzan, who is recognised as one of the pioneers and leaders in the German dating market, having established Neu.de, Germany’s most popular dating site, which was sold to Meetic in 2007. Andreas has a track record of producing successful German online businesses and will continue to run the German sites, becoming a valuable addition to Cupid’s management team.
Build big dating site, sell, rinse, repeat. Nice job Andreas and the team.
The founder of CatholicSingles found his wife on his site. I can’t tell you how many people say they started a dating site to find their wife.
When I started working on CatholicSingles.com, I truly wanted to fill a void and bring like-minded Catholics together. While finding my own match was a goal, I never would have guessed how that journey would unfold,” says David Nevarez, President of Catholic Sites, Inc. ”With so many wonderful couples having married with our help, it’s very satisfying and a privilege to have my opportunity as well. As far as I know, CatholicSingles.com is one of the only dating sites to have married off its founder!And you thought filtering scammers on dating sites was difficult: New Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans With News–She’s Not Real.
Match is on a real tear lately. New photo display, broken-out profile sections and much more. This caught my eye. Is my profile complete or not?
People are always talking about advertising on Google and Facebook, but it seems like every time I settle into a Youtube session I see a ton of Plentyoffish ads and no other dating sites. Last year I remember emailing Markus because the POF ads on YT were all pixelated, he had forgotten all about them.
I wonder how many members POF picks up every day from YouTube?
My friend has a dating blog called Flirting With Disaster. She signed up for Plentyoffish and received 500 emails in 12 hours. Blog fodder for weeks to come.
The Anatomy of a Fundable Startup by Naval of AngelList. Good stuff for dating entrepreneurs.
Why Optimus Prime Is Still Single: WIRED Magazine talks to OkCupid about determining the best approach with your dating profile.
Here’s a couple of screenshots of Flowbar, a new dating/social site on Facebook. Nice badge system and earning/sharing drinks and other social features. Still trying to figure out how it works, lots of features to explore.
Related posts:
Online Dating Industry News For March 31, 2010Online Dating Industry News For May 5, 2010Online Dating Industry News 6-13-11Online Dating Industry News 5-12-11Online Dating Industry News 5-27-11
View the original article here
Dating Industry Links 6-3-11
A few weeks ago I had a beer with Adam Gilad. Adam is part of the Ultiimate Men’s Tele-Summit. The free event is being billed as a historic virtual gathering of more than 75 teachers, authors and elders who will offer their hard-earned, no-holds-barred wisdom about manhood, masculinity and personal development and it is an honor.
If you are interested in being a more conscious, loving, evolved man — leader, lover, father and/or friend — or if you want that for the men in your life — join Adam and other global teachers ……. https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/umsAG/AGilad/.
Have you heard about Grubwithus? Its a Chicago start-up that brings groups of people together for shared meals, is launched in Boston June 1st. The site’s recipe combines four things I love: checking out new restaurants, family-style dining, saving money, and dinner conversations with new people — the more eclectic, the better. Some meals have tags that tell you they’re for people interested in start-ups or the real estate industry or single, for example. Like Dinner for 8 without all of the pressure. Great, and I mean great, idea. More at Boston Globe.
HowAboutWe.com launched their new location-based iPhone app. The innovative mobile app lets people instantly connect with singles in their area based on the places they want to go for dates. The HowAboutWe App features real-time access to thousands of nearby date ideas from local singles, making it a fun and easy way to reinvigorate users’ dating lives and help them find the relationship they’re looking for. Additionally, the app offers sleek user profiles that include full-sized photos, personal interests and easy access to messaging. The app is available for free from the App Store.
Will dating sites add the new Twitter “Follow Me” button to dating profiles? Great way to receive updated information about someone, anything to avoid the stale profile problem.
Why it’s smart for consumer startups to grow first and make money later.
Cellphone data can uncover hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease and much more. Researchers believe their findings hint at basic rules of human interaction. Again, more information to help describe yourself and the person you seek.
Craigslist ad seeks loveless end-stage relationship.
The most disturbingly hilarious dating profile ever created by a non-murderer.
Bad luck dating? You meet a great guy or gal, things seems to be going well, but then one day for apparently no reason they stop returning your calls? Was it something you said? Or was it your bedspread?
The good news is, it’s not you, it’s your apartment and using the “Feng Shui For Love With Augmented Reality”iPhone app, your dating record could improve instantly!Home andLifestyle Experts Laura Carlin and Alison Forbes created the app to guide singles as they create a home that will attract the love of their life.
Using an overlay technique known as “augmented reality,” users can use their iPhone viewfinders to literally look around a room, while the app shows them exactly which part of the room is represented, such as the love, wealth or health areas. If your love area is where the bathroom is, you need to be careful so your relationship doesn’t go down the toilet.
Related posts:
Online Dating Industry Links 1-19-11Online Dating Industry Links 8-13-09Online Dating Industry Links 3-25-11Online Dating Industry Links 9-30-09Online Dating Industry Links 10-14-09
View the original article here
If you are interested in being a more conscious, loving, evolved man — leader, lover, father and/or friend — or if you want that for the men in your life — join Adam and other global teachers ……. https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/umsAG/AGilad/.
Have you heard about Grubwithus? Its a Chicago start-up that brings groups of people together for shared meals, is launched in Boston June 1st. The site’s recipe combines four things I love: checking out new restaurants, family-style dining, saving money, and dinner conversations with new people — the more eclectic, the better. Some meals have tags that tell you they’re for people interested in start-ups or the real estate industry or single, for example. Like Dinner for 8 without all of the pressure. Great, and I mean great, idea. More at Boston Globe.
HowAboutWe.com launched their new location-based iPhone app. The innovative mobile app lets people instantly connect with singles in their area based on the places they want to go for dates. The HowAboutWe App features real-time access to thousands of nearby date ideas from local singles, making it a fun and easy way to reinvigorate users’ dating lives and help them find the relationship they’re looking for. Additionally, the app offers sleek user profiles that include full-sized photos, personal interests and easy access to messaging. The app is available for free from the App Store.
Will dating sites add the new Twitter “Follow Me” button to dating profiles? Great way to receive updated information about someone, anything to avoid the stale profile problem.
Why it’s smart for consumer startups to grow first and make money later.
Cellphone data can uncover hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease and much more. Researchers believe their findings hint at basic rules of human interaction. Again, more information to help describe yourself and the person you seek.
Craigslist ad seeks loveless end-stage relationship.
The most disturbingly hilarious dating profile ever created by a non-murderer.
Bad luck dating? You meet a great guy or gal, things seems to be going well, but then one day for apparently no reason they stop returning your calls? Was it something you said? Or was it your bedspread?
The good news is, it’s not you, it’s your apartment and using the “Feng Shui For Love With Augmented Reality”iPhone app, your dating record could improve instantly!Home andLifestyle Experts Laura Carlin and Alison Forbes created the app to guide singles as they create a home that will attract the love of their life.
Using an overlay technique known as “augmented reality,” users can use their iPhone viewfinders to literally look around a room, while the app shows them exactly which part of the room is represented, such as the love, wealth or health areas. If your love area is where the bathroom is, you need to be careful so your relationship doesn’t go down the toilet.
Related posts:
Online Dating Industry Links 1-19-11Online Dating Industry Links 8-13-09Online Dating Industry Links 3-25-11Online Dating Industry Links 9-30-09Online Dating Industry Links 10-14-09
View the original article here
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Crowdsourcing Dating Industry Metrics
Recently I have had a number of people asking about specific data pertaining to the online dating industry to help them better understand the market, identify opportunities for growth and discuss current and future trends.
In the past I would sell them the Dating Industry Study, but those numbers are getting stale and the 2-3 companies out there currently offering other expensive reports have not impressed me enough to recommend them.
To help people outside of the dating industry better understand it, I’m crowdsourcing an initial set of online dating industry statistics on Quora. Please take a few moments to share whatever data you can and add questions and lets make the Quora thread the defacto place for dating industry metrics.
A consultant making their secret sauce public? Thats crazy! A Dating site sharing their data? Even crazier! A number of you will laugh at this attempt to better understand how the industry operates, and thats fine. For the rest of you, think about how a centralized set of industry data will *help grow* the dating industry. Thats mean money and exposure for everyone in the form of investor dollars, media coverage, M&A activity and other benefits.
If you have any doubts as to the power of Quora, I urge you to check it out and look at what the CEO’s investors and others are saying about other Internet and subscription-based services.
Related posts:
Dating Industry Market SizeThe Dating Industry Needs To Shift to Benefit-Driven MetricsTwitter Brings Richness, Depth and Immediacy to Dating ProfilesVisualizing the dating industryLocation-Based Dating Startup Seeks Place Data for a Check-in App
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