silverglade Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Hi , I have a dating site and it is decent, looks nice, basic functionality of your average site. I was going to charge $5 per month for paid memberships that allow you full contact with members to date. the free version only lets you view the members. I read that plentyoffish.com is huge and free depending on advertising money, however places like eharmony and match.com charge a decent amount, too much in my opinion. I have also read that it is best to make your site free to attract visitors, and then start charging a fee. Does that mean you start charging only the NEW customers? and just give away those old accounts? Basically the problem is, I have a dating website, not niched yet if I ever find one, and I have no one there. Absolutely no one. I have another website that gets about 15-20 visits per day and put a link to my dating site on it. Does anyone know how I can get new members? The money problem will solve itself in a way after I get a large user base, because I can severely undercut larger dating sites, since I am a small guy. very small. 1 millionth of match.com income is what I could literally live off of. Please if anyone has ideas on how to get members I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you also, some people post tons of fake users, not sure if I will do that yet. I might have to initially. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/255221-my-dating-site-how-to-get-members/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 How about your niche be that you don't create tons of fake users? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/255221-my-dating-site-how-to-get-members/#findComment-1308594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Tell your friends and family, put it on social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc), try to advertise it locally with fliers and stuff, buy some Google AdWords credit (and equivalents for Yahoo and Bing if you want), make sure your SEO is in good condition. About the membership thing. What I generally see happen with startups is that it is free initially, but they make it very clear that on X date it will no longer be free, but that legacy accounts will have some sort of discount or benefits. This encourages users to try it out while it is still new and young, and also encourages them to stick around because they think they are getting a good deal. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/255221-my-dating-site-how-to-get-members/#findComment-1308612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Usually you need to spend money to make money (a.k.a. advertise) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/255221-my-dating-site-how-to-get-members/#findComment-1308797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterACE14 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 word of mouth is a good start. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/255221-my-dating-site-how-to-get-members/#findComment-1310259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamwest Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 How about your niche be that you don't create tons of fake users? Asians!!! Thats all a real man needs, a good cleaner and cook Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/255221-my-dating-site-how-to-get-members/#findComment-1310276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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