One of the co-founders at Zoosk just noticed that we are now one of the top 500 most visited websites on the web according to Quantcast.
This makes us bigger than Mate1, Date.com, OkCupid and a lot other dating websites.
We recently launched a few competitive offers for affiliates which will help us grow from 500 to top 100 over the next couple of months.
Zoosk.com — the second largest paid dating site in the UK (no big deal) is hiring in its marketing department.
I don’t know if I mentioned this in a previous post so just in case… shoot me a note and we’ll see if you’re a match for our online marketing team.
I want to thank the team at Clickbooth for sending me some free stuff yesterday. I received an instant-message from Eric (twitter: @clickbooth) making sure that I was at my office and about 30 minutes later FedEx knocked on the door.
SpeedDate.com is a pretty shady company. Less than 24 hours after my first post covering how shady speeddate is they took down their subscription page. When I noticed that their new subscription page looked familar I asked myself why… then it occured to me that SpeedDate has now stolen the MyLife subscription page. You can read the post about it from Chris Watkins, the UI Designer for Zoosk.
So my blog was listed in Affiliate Summit’s Affstat as an affiliate marketing resource. When you weed out the networks there are about 50 blogs left written by actual affiliates and my blog was one of them.
What interested me is that rather than referencing the author (Nick Abramovic) like many of the other personal blogs, they called my blog “Many Body Theory” — is that my new brand?
Remember that Affiliate Summit East will be August 9th, 10th and 11th in New York this year. If you have not planned your trip, start now because it is less than two months away.
Match.com is being sued again. Here is an except from Reuters:
“despite the emotional vulnerability inherent in the dating process, fraught as it is with fear of rejection and anxiety, Match defrauds the consumer of his/her time, labor, and emotional investment” by not telling them that someone they are contacting does not have a subscription.
“Because the writer has no way of knowing this, he or she may experience profound personal anguish, suffering which is easily preventable by Match,”
Apparently this guy is suing Match.com/IAC for $5 Million Dollars because Match.com told him to contact a user who was not able to read/reply to his emails.
Other news sources have covered this include: Daily News, NBC Dallas and New York Magazine.
This weekend was my birthday. Things started out with a benefit for inner city children on Friday night where the after-party lasted until 6AM. After sleeping for about 6 hours I spent the afternoon Saturday at Maiden Lane in San Francisco — this is a super-secret spot in the city where you pretty much feel like you are in Europe. Saturday evening was a limo ride that went over the Golden Gate Bridge and to a huge yacht where we partied until midnight (before heading to a bar back in the city for the after-party). I personally drank over 3 bottles of champagne just in the limousine (no glass, just straight from the bottle like a champ). Open bar and dinner on the boat made everything amazing.
I just got back from a 10 mile jog with the puppy where we went from my apartment to the Golden Gate Bridge and back. We stopped twice, once at Fort Mason and again at Crissy Field. It goes without saying that I am completely exhaust and will post pictures/videos up shortly.
Until I get the pictures uploaded, here is the video that was the inspiration for the yacht…
SpeedDate.com has ripped off Zoosk’s subscription page - the text, images, layout, javascript functions, you name it –http://tr.im/flattered
It is one thing for some 20 year old affiliate to copy another affiliate’s fake blog to market acai berry pills but SpeedDate.com is a VC-funded company.
This is a clear sign that they are not making any revenue.
Following up with people is without a doubt, my biggest flaw. It will be the end of me.
I’m writing this because this is true for almost everyone in the working world. It does not matter how challenging a problem is, execution is key. I don’t care whether you are signing a contract for a new apartment or doing a research project — if you don’t execute, you loose.
I could write more and make this a long and motivational post but instead both your time and my time should be spend executing the tasks at hand. If you have enough time to read this blog, you do not have enough items on your task list.
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