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SkaDate Dating Software Niches 101: Geek Dating

Friday, May 18th, 2012

by Zima

SkaDate Dating Software Niche 101: Geek DatingWelcome back to the SkaDate Dating Software series on online dating niches. Check out this list for our past entries. Today I want to do something different, and instead of looking at obvious top-tier choices in the selection of categories, I’ll dig deeper.

After all, you don’t have to be a brainiac to make a sugar-daddy service work. How about a website for geeks? Can it make money and become popular? Well, yes of course it can. Everything is possible with a little bit of thinking and a handy copy of the SkaDate dating script.

Remember when Rick Moranis was the epitome of geekness? Yeah, that time has passed. And if you are asking who’s Rick Moranis, than you are not geek enough to read a post about geek dating niche. The geekness of Rick Moranis was trendy before it was mainstream. Only in his time he was just that – a geek and little more. (Mr. Moranis, please come back, we need you).

Before continuing further, we should come to terms with the fact that we have to readjust our values a bit. Things that were considered ‘geek’ in high school are actually hip now. That’s right.

Do you even know who’s considered geek these days? Let’s see. Natalie Portman, Jessica Biel, Thora Birch, Ellen Page, Jordana Brewster, Emma Watson, Zooey Deschanel, etc.  And these are just Geek Chics – the girls who openly embrace their geeky stereotype (with the exception of Deschanel, of course, who is actually a Geek Goddess).

Also, look around you – we live in a real geek renaissance, with sci-fi and comic book movies setting box office records, fashion industry incorporating traditionally nerdy elements in their collections, tech development becoming a standard water cooler topic, and genuine geeks turning into millionaires and ruling the world.

That’s good news to you, the owner of a geek dating website. Because geeks pay. Indeed, people like Thomas Lennon’s character in 17 Again are no longer a hyperbole. Just ask anybody in Palo Alto. Or anywhere else outside the set of the latest Sylvester Stallone’s movie.

So basically, by setting up a geek site you’ll score anyway. It will attract both, real and proud geeks, as well as a much larger crowd of people who think that it’s hip to pretend to be geek.

Look, in the past geeks posed as being someone else on the Internet just to attract attention. Now it works the other way around. The toughest of your former classmates don huge-frame glasses, brush up on Star Trek and Marvel heroes, and dust off forgotten Hasbro merchandise to venture online. Girls dig this stuff at the moment. And that’s a clear opportunity to capitalize on the trend.

In fact, I think I found more geek dating sites while doing research for this post than I did while writing about any of the past Niche 101 articles. GeeksMeet, Geek 2 Geek, Soul Geek, Sweet on Geeks, Nerd Passions, Geek Love, etc., And then there’s Geek is Single, which openly states on the front page that it’s a site, “Where the girls chase the geeks”. You get the picture.

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SkaDate Dating Software: Statistics and Hard Facts

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

by Zima

SkaDate Dating Software: Statistics and Hard FactsWriting for SkaDate Dating Software blog and viewing numerous websites created with our award winning dating solution on the daily basis, I know for a fact that a lot of our clients out there have succeeded big time. Nevertheless, I know that some of you feel frustrated during the initial  uphill battle of getting the first few members to sign-up. Don’t.

You have SkaDate dating script – one of the best tools on the market, and believe you me, the potential members are out there. The proverbial sea still has plenty of fish in it, and I’m going to prove it to you with some hard facts. I will also give you statistics you can share with your members or potential clients. The thing to remember – Online Dating works! Both, as a business model, and a matchmaking mechanism.

First of all, let’s get to the bottom of it. Without any dubious insider sources, let’s look at the real number of singles in America. According to Reuters and Washington Herald, there are 54 million of them. And 90% of that number are willing to try, or already tried online dating.

Just think about it: there are over 40 million people out there who can be your clients in the US alone. And no, they won’t vanish in the generic ocean of Match.com users. Because Match.com has only 15 million members. And a half of them (if not more) have accounts with other dating services.

Also, I want to make sure you understand that all these single people are not just sitting idly in front of their computers. In fact, they are actively spending hard earned money on dating services. How actively? To the tune of $1.049 Billion per year! That’s over $200 per each customer annually. And if you see some of them leave shortly after signing-up, don’t worry. It’s a fact that 10% of all users step off the Internet dating train within the first 3 month; others continue to ride along.

So, now let’s see what actually keeps these users returning to online dating sites. Again, not to give any questionable info, I’ll use the research data of the Stanford University and the City College of New York.

According to them, 30% of all new couples in the US met through the Internet matchmaking services. The figure is twice as big for gay pairs, and we are talking about the three-year-old research. The numbers have been steadily climbing since then.

Now, couples are good, but how many of them tie the knot after meeting on a dating site? The answer is a whooping 17% for the last year alone! This figure adjusts to an even more impressive 20% for  committed relationships.

It gets even better  if your members are looking for something less serious. Did you know that 33% of women are ready to have sex on the first online dating encounter? You’d think that with a stat like that matchmaking sites will be awash with men. Wrong again.  47.6% of all singles on online dating sites are females. How about that?

Well, there you have it. Online dating is big and isn’t going anywhere. So drop your doubts and any shades of frustration. Once you get through the obligatory 10% benchmark, you’ll be on the way to profit. Good luck to you and your members!

 

 

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SkaDate Dating Software: Looking Into The Future

Friday, May 11th, 2012

by Zima

SkaDate Dating Software Looking Into The FutureThe explosive release of a Sebastian Thurn’s photo of his kid, taken with Google’s Project Glass prototype, suddenly reminded everyone that we just might make it to that shiny hi-tech cinematic ‘future’ after all. SkaDate Dating Software will be there as well, changing along with the technology.

What, you didn’t think Online Dating will be forgotten by the time everyone will start flying cars to work, did you? In fact we are already working on integrating anti-gravity schematics into the SkaDate dating script. Seriously though, let’s take five steps into the future and see how it can change our world, and the world of online dating as well.

 

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SkaDate Dating Software Explains Tags

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

by Zima

SkaDate Dating Software Explains TagsThe wonderful SkaDate Dating Software Support Team is asked a lot of different questions on a daily basis. Lately, though, many of them deal with Tags in one way or another. What are tags exactly, how to use them best, and what benefits do they bring – I’ll try giving you best answers I can find.

Science first – a tag is metadata to classify a piece of information for easy browsing and searching. See that bunch of different-sized words to the right of this post? That’s a Tag Cloud, the words are tags, and I put them there for you to find related content quicker. Clicking on each tag will take you to a list of related posts.

In essence, tags are keywords that help label an appropriate piece of information (like a blog post), or content (like a video). And before you tell me you already use Categories to group your data, let me show you that the combination of both tags and categories is what makes this navigation formula a winner.

Categories are needed for a broader division of topics – Humor, Music, Movies, Food, etc. Now, tags are more personalized and less formal description of details in your blog post or video. Let’s have an example.

Writing about cooking Thai Roast Chicken with Mango and Apple Salad (you should if you don’t)?  Well, that obviously goes under the general ‘Food’ category, and maybe ‘Chicken’ if you’re generous, but as far as tags go, the sky’s the limit for the description. Thai, exotic, tasty, cooking, yummy, posh food, low fat, fresh taste, killer dish, stomach ache, dirty kitchen – it’s all about your online identity really.

So next time you find yourself writing a blog post about the nutritional value of insects, you could avoid the ‘Food’ category all together. Just slap the already used ‘low fat’ tag on it and call it a day. And when that happens, the ‘low fat’ tag will visibly grow in size in the tag cloud, since you will have two posts about the same subject.

You see, the more posts or content items are tagged with the same identifier, the more visible they are in the tag cloud. This significantly improves navigation, and if used together with categories, increases the chance other users finding content you actually want them to see faster.

That’s web 2.0 for you. Tags, unlike hierarchically-driven categories, are both, an aesthetically pleasing classification system, and a creative free-form navigation boost for your content.

Within SkaDate dating script, tags are used for blog posts and videos. Access tags settings by going to Admin Area/Global Configuration/Additional Setting and let your members enjoy the new-found flexibility.

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SkaDate Dating Software Scam Alert

Friday, May 4th, 2012

by Zima

SkaDate Dating Software Scam AlertWhile going through Internet articles for SkaDate Dating Software Monthly Roundups, I always stumble upon a few stories about online dating scammers. These things just never go away, since new people join new dating sites all the time, and then fall into the same traps.

Luckily, it seems that mainstream media no longer blames the industry itself for this unfortunate situation, and actually understands now that scammers will find a way to con others even without using online dating services.

Still, as an owner of a dating site (running on SkaDate dating script or not), it is in your best interest to know everything about scammers’ techniques, spot them on time, and forewarn your members about potential dangers. Here’s a few pointers to share with you community.

First of all, scams are virtually unavoidable in our business. In the immortal words of Dr. House, “Everybody lies”. But there is no need to weed out every single harmless untruth about your members’ age or look – those are a part of the game. It is when things are getting serious and money talks are involved, that your direct intervention is required.

Take for instance, the infamous Nigerian Dating Scam. It boils down to your potential partner working (serving in the military) in Nigeria (any other country but yours) and asking you for the money. It might not happen right away and wouldn’t be a direct request, of course, although cases like that have been documented as well.

Once the initial online relationship started and shows the promise of growing into something bigger, the match will display a sudden urge to meet in person, but will always encounter numerous insurmountable obstacles.

Said obstacles can be removed exclusively with your help, or more specifically, your ability to send money to Nigeria (alternatively, cash money orders, which inevitably end up counterfeit). Needless to say, anyone falling for this will end up both brokenhearted and with an empty bank account in no time.

This con is so widespread that even Wall Street Journal wrote about it. The details change from case to case, but the underlying emphasis on international money transfer stays intact in each sad story.

Then there are less obvious ‘Unfaithful Spouse’, ‘Russian Bride’, or “Gold Digger’ scams, which will milk your wallet slowly, or simply drive you insane. For a more comprehensive look at all the scams going strong at the moment, check out the Official Romance Scams Website.

Here is a quick reference check-list to see if you are becoming a target of a scammer’s plot:

  • Your match is quick to profess love to you;
  • Your match frequently pushes your emotional buttons;
  • Your match insist on communication via email or Skype (not dating site);
  • Your match says they are from the same country with you (US), but are currently abroad;
  • Your match is hit with a series of unfortunate circumstances;
  • YOUR MATCH ASKS FOR YOUR MONEY;

In the end, everything boils down to a couple of simple rules. Stay alert and don’t let the prospect of true love sweep you off your feet – be logical. No matter how intense your Internet love affair seems to be, a person isn’t likely to ask a stranger for finances – there are friends, families, and special services just for that.

Avoid starting serious long-distance relationships if possible. And of course, never wire money to someone asking for it on a dating site. No matter how kind or trusting person you want to seem, this practice is unlikely to result in the start of a healthy relationship anyway.

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