Starting a Dating Website

Well attracting a core of active members is a trick at hand that is not learned easily. You have hundreds of not thousands of dating websites, and most get their core members by tapping onto a shared database of users such as Eharmoney,match.com, and others. I guess you should run some serious ad compaigns promoting whatever you claim makes your dating service different than the others.

This is not a profitable market... not unless you're doing something truly unique.

Dating sites are populated with fake profiles for the most part. I did a lot of research into this, four or five years ago.

For example, one "white label" site I looked into offered 30,000 profiles to choose from to start your site. They send out fake messages, create fake profile views, etc.

If I were you, I would look into affiliate opportunities for existing sites. They generally pay pretty well.

Starting one from scratch would be tough.

I do think I can put together something unique that stands out from the crowd. But the fake profiles and difficulty attracting the early core audience concerns me. It makes you wonder how all these huge social networks and dating websites got started. It's kind of amazing actually

I would suggest going more into the dating events side of things, much more money to be made as opposed to the online dating model which is highly competitive and unless you truly come up with something original will be hard to break into.

Start a site where woman are free to join. Make men pay if they want to send messages to woman. Nothing wrong with creating fake profiles to start with. Once a man signs up (free) use one of the user woman profiles to send the man a message. Men fall for that crap all the time. They then sign up and pay to respond to the woman. Trick is making your woman user profiles believable. Match the looks of the woman to the man. Lean to make believable messages. I think it would work great if you can get just a little traffic.

That's your advice? Make a fake dating site and scam guys out of their money?

I've been married for 10 years, glad the online dating craze was still considered "something weirdo's did" when I was dating and wasn't so mainstream like it is now... I would hate to be a single guy with friends like you.

Whilst the above might work this surely comes down to morals, you are creating a fake website where you are conning your members. Long-term they will not renew their memberships as they will soon realise that these females are not genuine.

Lol, ok so not ethical at all. But how many dating sites are ethical... maybe 3

I never planned to create fake accounts and send fake messages, etc. The whole purpose is to deliver real value to people. Plus creating all that fakeness seems to be a lot of pointless work. However, it does appear to be the norm. I think I read somewhere even Reddit admitted they used a bunch of fake users in the beginning.

It's the usual dilemma for any social website. How do you attract people into an empty room and get them to stay so their presence attracts more people? Imagine being the owner of an empty club and trying to get people off the street to be the first ones in. Probably would be very difficult. If it was a packed club, there'd be a line out the door of people waiting hours to have the honor of paying to get in.

hey start a dating site for internet marketers, lol. i can see the "upsells" (first to second date), "continuity" (marriage proposals), "backends" (there's a joke in there somewhere). .. and the rest of it

The dating niche is responsible for a big part of my business these days. It is
definately profitable but depending on what exactly you are planning to do, it
can be really competitve as the others already mentioned.

But if you are passionate about something, consistend and disciplined you can
achieve a lot of things, even becoming a big player like match.com. It might
take some time though, but this is one of the things were investing a lot of
effort can be really rewarding, espescially in the dating niche.

The best way would be to go with someplace like whitelabeldating.com. They already have a database of members, and you basically become an affiliate. Each member you refer becomes "yours" and when they get premium or other upgrades you get a commission for it. But you're able to personalize it, so if you their "gaming" niche memberlist, it'd be the same members that every single gaming-niche site from whitelabeldating's affiliate network, but the site would be branded with your particular theme.

Here is the deal:

1. You cannot start a dating website without paying for lots of marketing. The rate users leave an almost empty site is very fast, you need to be pushing in new users FASTER! Impossible with SEO, being completely FREE isn't going to help either. You will need to drop bucks on marketing. Once you have users, then you can cool it down, you now have a sustainable site.

2. See 1 above.

There isn't much else to say other than that. So I suggest you only go for it if you are going to pay for marketing. If you are, I can get you tons of cheap and active users. See sig to reach out.

Yep, sharpay and brentb are on the money.

You either go whitelabel or you spend the bucks on marketing.

If you have the marketing budget, start in one local area and spread out from there. You can often get a lot more mileage advertising offline than online too.

Giving away my secrets....Check out these guys: datingfactory.com

if you start from scratch right now, I don't think it is a good idea. Because it is a highly competitive niche where people will have to join in your site. Making people join an empty dating site is a tough thing to do. But every big people will have to do this too, so you should find out how they do this. I suggest you to create a fake profile and find a way to increase your traffic, the traffic doesn't have to targeted because dating niche have a very general audience.

Definetely you were chose a correct and best niche in online to make money, By the way competition is still tough to rank indeed if you try to rank it perhaps you could earn more than $1000 per day indeed. From Dating "POF" is the best.(Plenty Of Fish)

Dating sites are a dime a dozen these days.

Got to find a super specific niche like "LGBT Site for entrepreneurs" or something super specific. Otherwise there simply is to much competition.

The market is super profitable because the big companies like match, eharmony, cupid, etc do a lot of marketing for you explaining to the public on how well online dating works. Just find the right niche!

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Starting a Dating Business is Not a Easy task, because there are lots of Established sites and the competition is too much high.

This is one of those things where- if you have to ask a forum for advice, you're probably screwed, because you'll have to REALLY know your stuff in order to even have half of a fighting chance.

You need to know your audience inside out, and you'll need to find a way to get their interest. We can give you generic advice like "start a blog and write about things that are interesting and relevant to your audience", but that isn't likely to be very helpful to you.

You should really do your research- how did all the existing dating sites start out? What is it about existing dating sites that you're not satisfied with, that you believe you can deliver? What works and what doesn't? YOU'LL have to know this stuff inside out- you can't ask other people about it! And we can't do your research for you, either. Read up about all the sites on Wikipedia. Hang out on their forums and ask people what they're dissatisfied with.

This is a hell of an uphill battle though. There are bound to be hundreds of people smarter and more talented and better-connected than you who're working on the same problem. I'll bet that we'll see a top engineer from Facebook or Google break away to start his/her own dating site, and they'll naturally get a lot of media attention...

You're better off focusing on littler problems, until you really, really, REALLY know what you're doing.

probably craigslist marketing would do well to gain new members

Oh yes, I have some experience. There is still some room. Look at dating simulator games. Most are known as dating sims. I made a lot of money. Took me six months to create the gaming engine. After that it was easy. Basically, these games draw in a certain crowd of men. There are many expenses. For example, creating the graphics and music.

Still, it is a worthwhile niche to be in. Most of us know that these games pull the audience in. Competition will no doubt increase. Still, there are many niches and sub niches in the dating sim arena.

I make sure that my games are PG to prevent trouble, but many of these games fall into a gray zone. Better to be safe than sorry. Currently many web hosts frown on games. This is due to high bandwidth use as well as processor power.

Hey,

First contact or look at her site, maybe do a search on her and read some of her stuff is Rosalind Gardner. I believe she got her start with dating sites. For a site like this you will need a lot of traffic. Try using Facebook and Youtube and other similar sites.

Sure it is a profitable niche but you should plan how create that site unique from the existing dating sites. You should come up with unique ideas that will stand out from the rest.

i think that niche is saturated

I would not waste your time on the niche bro - so much more $$ to be made in unsaturated markets why even waste the time or $$ ? I feel like dating sites are so 01'

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I would stay away from generic website builders especially in a vertical niche as you'll end up with a site similar to 100 of other sites in your specific niche.

if you really want to create a business and not just some fly by night money maker ( at best ) I would go for a custom design and graphics.

on a different but related note - Dating Portals are a very saturated market - it's very hard to compete with the big players and I think that without having a really distinct USP and a big advertising budget it would be almost impossible to get the impact needed to get this venture off the ground...

Use fake profiles... really.

If you're providing value I don't see how using fake profiles to kickstart the website is unethical at all. Like a club owner mass inviting friends to make it look like that the club is popular, it enhances the experience for everyone.

My biggest advice is to niche down! Focus on a small specific group of people (dont try to be the next match or POF, that can come later AFTER you've conquered a subniche within the dating market)

I guess you will need to provide an incentive to attract genuine users or find a creative way to reach that audience.

best is keep ads on facebook and select each and every country... then in a matter of time you will have millions of people registered on ur site

i thought it might be a good niche for my wife to start a business in, years ago, til I found out:

a) unless you're super micro-niched it's too hard to compete against big multi-million dollar dating sites, who have a legion of affiliates and Very deep pockets for ad spends

b) liability concerns, about what if someone gets attacked from someone they met on your site?

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start your own dating site

Just reading this thread, I agree it's hard to try and launch the new match.com without a huge advertising budget.

To make money you have to think niche, even micro niche, launch a few websites (it just cost the price of a domain name) and see which work.

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Dating business is very hot and I think it's the second niche I would target after IM or Weight loss.

Make the site a free site but then charge for upgrades. By upgrades I mean for chat, or for certain features like to see when a message you send to a lady is read by the lady. Look apof dot com and okcupid dot com

I built a dating site last year. It makes some cash, but it's a hard industry these days. If you can't build the site yourself then you'll be looking at spending $2-3000 before you make a cent of it back. And there's ongoing maintenance, marketing and keeping off the scammers.