SkaDate: How to Start Online Dating Business (The Right Way)

Posted in Misc | January 24th, 2012

SkaDate: How to Start Online Dating Business Right?
Would you look at that? A few hours after SkaDate Dating Software Blog posted about the dangers of SOPA, Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of the controversial bill pulled it. Pure coincidence you say? Well, sure, but I still love to think that we did our part and added one of the last straws to help the common sense outweighed the ridiculous proposition.

Now that’s out of the way, let’s return to our scheduled programming – we have some fairly important topic to talk about today. Namely, a question on the minds of anyone with the goal of starting online dating business on a budget: How do you not screw up? How do you do it right from the start? There is no universal answer, of course, but I’ll try to give you some useful heads up anyway.

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SkaDate Dating Software Explains SOPA Danger

Posted in Misc | January 20th, 2012

SkaDate Dating Software Explains SOPA Danger
If there was one hot topic widely discussed by the new media last week, it was anti SOPA and PIPA protests all over the web. SkaDate Dating Software fully supports the sentiment, since the passing of these controversial bills can severely cripple the Internet in general, and majorly harm the online dating industry in particular. I’m going to explain why.

Let’s quickly get the terminology out of the way for those not in the loop. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill currently moving through the US Congress, which claims to “promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of US property, and for other purposes.”

Sounds good, doesn’t it? Well, in reality it will do none of that – it will not stop piracy, and will definitely not promote creativity and entrepreneurship. In fact, it has the potential to break the very fabric of the Internet, and put all of us out of business in the process.

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SkaDate Dating Software vs White Label Dating Solutions

Posted in Misc | January 17th, 2012


SkaDate Dating Software is one of the most popular and acclaimed dating scripts on the market, and there is a good reason why it is chosen again and again over various white label solutions for the past seven years. Nevertheless, many new clients who want to start online dating business often compare the two options at hand, and we are here to help them.

‘White label’ refers to a product or service produced by one company and than re-branded and sold by other companies as their own. The term comes from the world of vinyl records, where prior-to public release promo copies were sent to DJs, bearing no official artwork but a simple white label instead.

In general, white label is seen as something mass-produced and generic. Think low-end electronics or supermarkets with store brand goods – these are usually just re-brands made by someone else. And there’s nothing wrong with that – sometimes white labels can reduce costs and save time. The same works for white label online dating, but not quite.

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SkaDate Dating Software Update: Word from Developer

Posted in Misc, Release, Support | January 13th, 2012

SkaDate Dating Software Update: Word from Developer
SkaDate 9, the new version of the acclaimed SkaDate Dating Software was released less than a month ago, which means that once again we are getting a lot of requests to simplify the updating procedures.

Rather than repeating the same answer over and over in blog comments and private support correspondence, we decided to get one definite explanation about the issue, right from developers of the SkaDate dating script. Here’s what they had to say:

Frequent requests for simplification of the update procedure mean only one thing – not everyone fully understand what PHP software is, and how it works.

SkaDate software is written in PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor scripting language, which is open source, so anyone can modify it in any way. Most SkaDate customers do just that by hiring outsourced developers or introducing various modifications themselves. Consequently, numerous modified SkaDate versions on hands all differ from our original default version.

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SkaDate Dating Software: Mobile Edition Explained

Posted in Misc | January 10th, 2012

SkaDate Dating Software: Mobile Edition Explained
SkaDate Dating Software has been recently upgraded to its 9th version, and as many of our clients have already learned, this was a major step forward for our acclaimed dating solution. This feat was accomplished in part due to the success of the SkaDate iPhone/iPad Application, developed jointly by SkaDate and SOD Technologies. Let’s talk mobile for a while and see why it is so important nowadays.

But first I want to dispel some confusion about SkaDate Mobile terms, versions, and prices. What we have on offer as great additions to the basic SkaDate dating script is SkaDate Mobile Browser Version and SkaDate iPhone/iPad Application. Slap them together and you’ll get what we brand as SkaDate Mobile Edition. Before SkaDate 9, Mobile Edition consisted only of SkaDate Mobile Browser Version, and was sold for a regular price of $150. But now our clients get even better value for their money, since both Mobile Browser Version and iPhone/iPad Application have a joint price of $200.

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