Online Dating Business: More Ways To Enter The Game
I have listed a few options to enter online dating business but they are unlikely to make you a fortune, sorry.
There are certainly more ways: for example buying relatively cheap established (preferably niche) dating related websites.
In a couple of years – depending on your investment budget and performance of your dating property you can become an owner of a nice dating network. Though I again am doubtful you will be able to compete with any of the top industry players, you can get a nice income of revenue from multiple income sources – ad space sales, contextual ads, subscription revenue.
What sort of dating sites can you buy and where? Just a few samples below of the recently put on sale dating related sites:
* URL: datinglink.org/
* Page views/month: 1,000
* Monthly Revenue: 20
* Google Pagerank: 1
* Uniques/Month: 1,000
* Winning Bid: $100.00
DateYard
Fully developed web 2.0 dating site with cool features, great revenue potential and close to zero running costs
* URL: dateyard.com
* Established: Mon Jul 31 2006
* Page views/month: 17,000
* Monthly Revenue: 10
* Google Pagerank: 3
* Uniques/Month: 1,100
* Bid: $350.00
Social Network (14,000 members) - Premium teen community for sale
#1 Teen dating site - Unique and custom designed
* URL: www.mylol.net
* Established: Fri Nov 17 2006
* Page views/month: 5,960,556 (!!!)
* Monthly Revenue: 500
* Google Pagerank: 3
* Uniques/Month: 43,741
* Bid: $6000.00
So, you have got an idea. Does it work or not with dating? I am not 100% certain, but have friends who run website networks in other competitive niches - pharmacy, adult, etc - and they do nicely…