It’s become a bit of a tradition at Global Personals to do fancy dress for Hallowe’en – this year alas it fell on a Saturday so we decided to have our own day on Friday instead!! In total the company and staff raised a whopping £670 for our chosen charity Cancer Research UK. Some pics [...]
Archive for October, 2009
30 Oct
Recession has doubled my business
Good bit of PR from one of the journalists I’ve spoken to recently – great article about how the online dating market is booming in a recession. We’re responsible for a big chunk of the UK online dating market and it’s good to see people realising the business opportunity here. Well worth reading the article [...]
29 Oct
Huge success at WLD 2009 Partner Conference
From 22-24th October I was up in Oxford for the inaugural WhiteLabelDating.com 2009 Partner Conference – and what a great event it was! Our business has grown tremendously over the last few years – and it’s all down to hard work of our partners, whose own businesses have also grown exponentially. To celebrate, we invited [...]
28 Oct
Aston Martin Performance Driving Course – wow!!
So yesterday I treated myself to a post-conference present – charging around Millbrook Proving Ground in an Aston Martin prepared DBS (so I didn’t need to thrash my own) on a one-day Aston Martin Performance Driving Course. Now I’ve done similar courses before – both track days and advanced road driving. In particular, I remember [...]
26 Oct
Do you make money while you sleep?
I’m now back from the WhiteLabelDating.com 2009 Partner Event (more news on that soon!) and just reflecting on a remark made by one of our Gold partners – one of the things they like most about our business is that they “make money while they sleep”. I love waking up on a Sunday morning and [...]
20 Oct
What charity should we support?
Over the years, we’ve helped to support local charities and good causes with some fun initiatives – one of the regular ones is fancy dress for Halloween every year. One of the things we’re doing this year is a commitment from the business to donate £10 to charity for each member of the team that [...]
19 Oct
Web2.0 Summit
The Web2.0 summit is on in lovely San Francisco this week: http://www.web2summit.com/web2009 Sadly I won’t be attending this year as we’ve got a major partner event on this week (will tell all next week!) but I will be attending LeWeb in December and will certainly try to make the summit next year.
19 Oct
New DatingAgency.com Live
We’ve been making some great progress on our own-brand portfolio dating sites with the newly redesigned DatingAgency.com homepage which went live last week: These own-brand portfolio websites help us understand what does and doesn’t work for consumers and act as a test bed for new ideas and technologies before rolling the successful ideas out to [...]
17 Oct
More prenatal scans…
Okay I just have to share the news – a new scan has been released of my baby and she’s due in less than 5 months!! At the moment am expecting delivery in April 2010 – never had to wait this long for a car before, think it’s a Morgan thing but will definitely be [...]
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