How to start your own dating site? Find your answers below.
Dating/personal Business Questions |
| With over 33% percent of Internet surfers being single in one way or another, it would be wise to assume that these people would appreciate intimate human company at some point. The term "dating" was searched 4,300,740 times in average in a month at Overture.com, and that is just one search term at one engine. |
| Online personal/dating services have become the most profitable businesses on the internet. According to the Online Publishers Association "The Personals/Dating category surpassed both Business/Investments and Entertainment/Lifestyles to become the largest paid content category in 2002 with $302 million in revenues, up from $72 million in 2001." MarketData Enterprises, Inc., Nov. 2002 - Matchmaking social networks have proven big business with earnings in the $900 million mark in 2002. Projections of $1.14 billion in 2003 and $1.46 by 2006. There is great room for growth and new uses of social network applications. According to CNBC on January 15, 2003 - "Software dating services are the #1 pay services on the internet...up to 87 million in the last quarter, the industry will be a 1 billion dollar industry by 2005" |
| Only $29.95 per month to start a Dating website with us. There's no hidden fee and no software to purchase. |
| No. You only pay us $29.95 per month. That's all. |
| No. The profiles are from our network and they do not count towards your disk space. |
| Your account will be setup instantly once your payment is approved. |
| No. You do not have to sign any long term contract. Our service is month-to-month which you can cancel at anytime without cancellation fee. |
| We no longer provide demo. You can signup with confident with our 30 days money back guarantee. |
| Yes because we don't deal with your website and members directly, we only provide software, hosting, and technical support. However, your website must be legal in your country and internationally. |
| Yes. We provide 30 days money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with our service, we give you full refund within the first 30 days. |
| Yes. You can create as many Dating sites as you want. First Dating site is $29.95 per month, additional site is $10/month with reselling capability. No other costs. |
| You can use your own merchant account, PayPal, or other 3rd party processing. We will help you to apply if you don't have any of them. |
| Yes. You will need to send us it's Website and documentations. We will review them and see if it can be integrated. As long as they provide 3rd party's buy now or subscription button, we will be able to support them. |
| No. Each of our customer will have it's own members database. |
| Yes, you can join our Profile Network. So you don't have to start from zero. Jump start your dating site with million of real profiles. |
| You can ask your current provider to convert the profile database into a text file with username, password, email, gender, birthdate, etc. together with their photos, then send to us. We will import them into our system for you. |
| Yes, we will send you all your customers and their media files. |
| Yes. You can use your own domain name. We provide free hosting and support. |
| Yes, only with Yearly plan. We will register a domain name for you, it's included. |
| Yes, you can. If you have a domain that's parked at Yahoo or other registrar, you just need to change the DNS or nameservers to: ns1.datingsitebuilder.com (66.232.97.39)
ns2.datingsitebuilder.com (66.232.97.40) We can also help you to transfer for free. |
| Yes. You can ask your hosting provider to point the subdomain's IP to our server 66.232.97.44. |
| No. We provide easy-to-use web-based control panel for you to manage your Dating website. |
| Yes, you can create as many web pages as you like. |
| We provide Word like WYIWYG Web Editor that allows you to edit site content on a fly. |
| Yes. You can choose to use our pre-designed templates. |
| Yes. You can use your own template. You can provide either JPEG or HTML file. |
| Yes. You can upload your own graphics to our server and use them on your Dating site. |
| Yes, you can upload your own header graphic or you also can use Flash header. |
| Yes, you can upload and insert your flash files using the Web Editor. |
| Yes, you can even upload your own HTML header & footer, and home page. |
Datingsite Features Questions |
| Yes. We will review and implement them if they are compatible with our software. |
| Yes. You can select the countries you provide Dating service in. |
| We currently support English, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Croatian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, and Japanese. If you don't see your language here, don't worry, you still can customize all the texts in your own language using our Language Manager. |
| Yes. You can select the gender group you provide Dating service to. |
| Yes. For couple, they can create two seperate profiles under one single account. |
| Yes. You can set the pricing and plans using our member panel and change it anytime you like. |
| Yes. You can setup Free Trial for your members for example 30, 60, or 90 days. After that if they don't cancel, they will start paying you. |
| Yes. You can create Free or Paid plans and specify which gender group can access to each plan. |
| Yes. You can create a free plan, then after you reach 100, change your plan to paid plan, and upgrade those 100 members automatically. |
| Yes. We provide complete traffic reports for your Dating website. You can see how many visitors, visit time, visited pages, referrals, and more. |
| Yes. We do have Banner Management built in. |
| Yes. We do support Google Adsense. You can add your banner codes easily to your dating website. |
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| Yes. Our servers are very stable and reliable as we use Pentium class servers and we monitor our network 24x7. |
| We do daily backup in addition to the RAID configuration. |
| Our uptime guarantee is 99.98%. |
| Yes. If you use your own domain name, you will have mail.yourdomain.com for both SMTP and POP3 servers. |
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