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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Free online dating and chat rooms…..

One of the first and easily the most successful free online dating sites ever established is plentyoffish.com The owner Markus Frind is an entrepreneur from Canada. His free online dating site boasts one of the biggest in the world with around 8 million members and 45 million visitors per month. Marcus has mainly run his free online dating service from his house on his own up until now. This will soon change with around 25 employees set to begin. Marcus is currently the largest ever single Adsense earner making an incredible 10k per day. But like any great idea, this concept has been duplicated many times and the free online chat dating industry now has just as many competitors as the paid industry.

If you have ever wondered how they can give their services away and still make a dollar, its pretty simple. These webmasters make their money from advertising. So when more members join up the greater the potential there is for them to make money.

Singles who are looking around to choose which free dating site catches their attention will notice that many of the free online dating services have all the up to date features that the paid sites have - Have you ever stopped to think why singles keep paying for dating sites? Some free dating sites provide Instant messenger, web cam chat, video feature, private chat rooms and general chat rooms. In fact you would be pushed to find a paid dating and chat service that can offer better features than many free sites offer.

These days when you hear something is free normally there is a catch involved. No, they are just that,free no catch, just register, join, browse/meet and chat to singles all for free. Whilst alot of the free online dating sites have state of the art features, and the webmasters who create them think its a good idea at the time, however there is a big over supply of free online dating services so most have a small data base. Sure its fantastic something is free but without many singles to choose from its really no help. The search engines have pages and pages of paid and free dating services but only a small number of them are successful. The race to reach the top of the search engines sees many free dating site owners fighting a losing battle.

There are certainly some great free dating and chat sites out there that do in fact have decent numbers in terms of their data base so spend an hour or two searching them out to locate one that stacks up.

Paid online dating services.

The big question is why do paid dating sites continue to see growth when there are free dating services hungry for your membership?

The free online dating method has not been around for as long as the paid method. As with many competitive industries the most successful players - like Marcus from plentyoffish have the talent to come up with new ideas to divert away from the main stream market. It boils down to first in best dressed.

The more established dating sites who were one of the first in the race seems to be where most singles eventually end up heading for, paid or free is basically irrelevant. The established dating services have massive member numbers. Many singles are searching the free dating sites and are usually disappointed with the lack of members and end up paying a subscription on one of the more well known dating sites. Subscription methods vary. Some dating sites sell monthly subscriptions and the average is around $25.00 a month. Others sell their memberships on a stamp or credit method where by you are charged each time you initiate contact with another member. The monthly payment concept works out alot cheaper so if you have no joy finding a decent free online dating site search for an established paid dating site that offers a competitive monthly rate.

Look around and you will soon find what your looking for.

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E - Speed Dating for Busy Singles!

Monday, September 28th, 2009
Speed dating is all the rage nowadays among city singles. This article talks about what virtual speed dating is, and how can it be accomplished through online singles sites.

So what is E - Speed Dating? Believe it or not, speed dating began in the late 1990’s by an orthodox rabbi as a method for unattached Jewish singles to meet other Jews  therefore to avoid them from marrying outside of their religion. Jewish singles could meet other Jewish marriage candidates in a safe environment. The idea worked really well and was so popular that the secular community latched on to it, then a movement of sorts began.

In today’s speed dating, prospects meet at a pub or café, usually on weekdays during dinner hour,  participants are given a name tag and a notepad. Singles are matched up, and the “game” is off and running. Everyone sits down with their first possible match and five to seven minutes of getting equated ensue. A bell rings when time is up, each single marks on their card whether they decided if this person is somebody whom they wish to meet again, and the males move on to the next date, and introduce themselves to the next female. Later, if both people are agree, the organizers of the event hand out phone numbers. Usually everyone makes ten contacts during an evening, and around 50 per cent of all participants leave with at least one phone number.

So how can this be achieved online? There are at least two methods that a form of speed dating can be ran on an online dating service. The first involves using emails or private messaging through an online dating service, the second involves live chat rooms. Both need a little bit of time spent preparing them so that they go ahead without any hitches.

 

For e-mail online speed dating, you would include nine or eleven other singles, an equal mix of male and female, with the leftover single being the opposite *** from yourself (if you are not participating, use an equal number of singles, eg, five males, five females).

Arrangement as follows:

• allow five days for the “speed dates”to finish.

• All males would receive the e-mail or PM details of all of the participating females, and vice versa.

• Each online participant agrees to send a message to all of their potential dates within three days, requesting three questions (decide the number before inviting participating singles!) where they consider to be “must knows” regarding the singles they are considering to meet.

• Speed daters should then answer those questions no later than two days of receiving them.

• When the five days is up, each participant sends the administrator the list of their five or six contacts, together with a note beside every name whether they wish to communicate more with that person or they don’t. The administrator sends responses back to each single with the number of their possible matches who have indicated  mutual attraction. From there, it’s up to each person to continue contacting or not.

Chat room

Chat rooms are in now time, so a day and a time would need to be arranged, together with determining which singles you will invite. Keep the group small,  around ten to twelve couples, and if you decide to join in, be sure there is an odd number, and the odd one out being the opposite *** from yourself.

There are free Australian dating sites allowing groups which can be set up solely for this purpose:  An internet speed date would work something similar to this:

• Determine the amount of time for the speed dates . Five or six minutes is suitable.

• You need to arrange the pairings in advance. For example, female number one meets with male number one, male two, male three, male four, and male five,in that order.

• Each person meets in the chat room at the agreed time, and the dates commence. At the organizer’s signal, every couple goes to private messaging for the length of the five to seven minute meeting.

• As each date finishes, each person private messages the administrator with a yes or a no for each date they’ve just met with. At the administrators signal, the whole group then moves on to a private message dating session with the next person on the list.

•When the speed date ends, the organizer privately lets every participant know who is mutually interested in getting to know them better, issuing each person the e-mail details for their potential future matches. It’s as easy as that!

Why do virtual speed dating?

Those singles whose lives are hectic and who find themselves with little time to meet many other singles, speed dating is a fantastic way to establish a wider range of singles to select from, in a short period of time. Using one of the online methods of speed dating in conjunction with your favoured online dating service, you can dig  much deeper than personal profiles offer and get a better idea of whether these singles are interesting enough to look into alittle more. And besides which… it’s fun and you might gain some new friends!

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