So for the last week or so, since the days got lighter and warmer, I’ve been thinking about whether I could run or cycle to work. I’ve always struggled with my weight and fitness generally, to be honest it’s the only area of my life that I’m not happy with and want to improve. With [...]
Archive for March, 2009
31 Mar
Jonathan Miller, Who’s Taking Over MySpace, Doesn’t Have A MySpace Profile
A good report from Techcrunch today about Jonathan Miller, the new CEO of Digital Media for News Corp, not having a MySpace page (by far their biggest digital property): http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/30/jon-miller-whos-taking-over-myspace-doesnt-have-a-myspace-profile/ There’s not really any excuse for this – how can you understand your users if you don’t use the product they use? There are many [...]
30 Mar
Online dating shows growing revenues in the economic downturn
A nice piece about online dating generally (but with a rather nice plug for match.com) on the US show Nightline recently. Our revenues have continued to increase by 5-10% per month over the last 6 months whilst most other companies have struggled. There’s some nice footage of the match.com offices as well – we’re considering [...]
25 Mar
Should you love your users? Do users or staff know best?
There’s an interesting article on Techcrunch today commenting on the widespread dislike for Facebook’s new site design: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/24/no-never-surrender-to-your-users-facebook/ This is something I’m all too familiar with – in the most basic terms, users don’t like change even if it’s for the better. That’s not a surprise as throughout human evolution the more risk-adverse people are [...]
25 Mar
The death of Free Dating?
There’s an interesting discussion going on David Evans site Online Dating Insider about how the drop in advertising revenue could kill free dating sites: http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2009/03/is-advertising-killing-free-online-dating/ I applaud David for offering opinion and being slightly controversial – so many people in this industry are very straight and corporate, when the very industry we work in is [...]
25 Mar
Working lunch feature on YouTube
Thanks to one of our partners Greg for pointing out that the Working Lunch video I did is now on YouTube
13 Mar
Video from iDate 2009
My company WhiteLabelDating.com has been the Platinum Partner for iDate over the last few years. This year the main event was again held in Miami, Florida and we were there in force supporting our aggressive growth into the USA. I always have mixed feelings about sponsoring an event – as the iDate photos show, we [...]
13 Mar
Plenty of Fish decides who is unfit to date..
As OPW reports, Plenty of Fish has recently started advertising on the New York subway and on transport around Boston using a campaign declaring that they delete users unfit to date: I commented on OPW, perhaps rather provocatively that: As someone generally terrified of US litigiousness, I’m surprised that Plenty of Fish is suggesting that [...]
13 Mar
New RossWilliams.com now live…
Thanks very much to the hard work of the Pand Man, my new site is now live The content is pretty much the same but the design has been toned down a little bit from the old site and provides me with a better way to blog more regularly. You can subscribe to the RSS [...]
10 Mar
Featured on Startups.co.uk
I was chuffed to find out I’ve been featured on Startups.co.uk discussing payment terms: http://www.startups.co.uk/6678842908773571349/waiting-game.html We’re very fortunate in a B2C business where we receive money from our consumers generally within 3-5 days after they pay using their credit card on our sites. We’re also lucky that 70% of our revenue is through rebills where [...]
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