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Press Releases as Advertising Method

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I remember in 2000-2001 when I started my first projects, I posted some Press Releases but the impact was disappointing. In the last 3 weeks I tried press releases again with my new project, Mondinion.com International Real Estate. I have to say that although the traffic received directly through the source is minimal, this kind of advertising can be a greay branding. My 2 press releases are syndicated on many real estate related websites and I already received some interview requests from onlie publications.

Mondinion on Google News

Alexa Top 100k sites

Monday, September 8th, 2008

TradeHolding.com B2B Network is in Alexa Top 100k since 2004, in fact we have many sites on TradeHolding.com B2B Network with a Top 50k Alexa ranking, or even Top 20k Alexa ranking.

Last month, in August 2008, 2 more websites we launched recently reached the Top 100k Alexa ranking:

Also, Mondinion.com International Property Listings Portal, covering a more specific niche reached 300-500 uniques every day and more and more real estate for sale and real estate for rent listings are posted day after day.

Overall, this summer was very good in terms of traffic for all our websites, our Quantcast measured websites are close to 1 million uniques / month, a traffic that place our network to a ranking of 6658 among all Internet destinations: “Premier World Sites is a top 10,000 destination that reaches over 976K monthly people, of which 226K (23%) are in the U.S.”

AOL buys BEBO for $850 Million

Friday, March 14th, 2008

A new big internet sale:

In an unexpected move, AOL has acquired social-networking site Bebo. The price tag: $850 million in cash…. AOL has made it clear that buying Bebo is a move geared toward international growth, as the youth-oriented social network is wildly popular in the U.K., Ireland, and New Zealand. AOL reported that it has launched “17 international web sites over the last year and has plans to expand to 30 countries outside the U.S. by the end of 2008,” as well as international versions of its home page and some services. Bebo, meanwhile, plans to launch five localized versions of its service this year (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands), and AOL will make it a major part of the company’s international expansion strategy.

Bebo is the 3rd largest social network in the US. and the number 1 in the UK.

The entire article about this deal on news.com.

Singles are so… Romantic

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Yes, just take a look at the top movies section at OneLoveNet.com Free Online Dating Site. What do we see? Titanic, Romance, Friends, Romantic, 4 clearly “romantic” tags from the Top 10 used sd preferred movies by Singles. It looks like we all need love and romatism…

Other popular movies preferred by singles: Action, Comedy, Prison Break, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, Matrix. I do not have such statistics but I guess that Gladiator and Matrix are most probably preferred by the machos.

See the Full List of Top Movies here.

Most active cities for Dating

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Based on the number of users on OneLoveNet.com, here is a list of the Top 25 most active dating cities:

Free Dating Dubai
Free Dating Bucuresti
Free Dating Mumbai
Free Dating Delhi
Free Dating Nairobi
Free Dating Chennai
Free Dating Kolkata
Free Dating Bangalore
Free Dating Karachi
Free Dating Hyderabad
Free Dating Lahore
Free Dating Pune
Free Dating New Delhi
Free Dating Abu Dhabi
Free Dating London
Free Dating Toronto
Free Dating Cairo
Free Dating Dhaka
Free Dating Islamabad
Free Dating Kampala
Free Dating Iasi
Free Dating Constanta
Free Dating New York
Free Dating Bucharest
Free Dating Coimbatore

So, what do we see here? The top is Dubai from UAE. The second position is occupied by Bucharest, the capital of my country. Considering the fact that when I launched OneLoveNet.com I promoted it aggressively in Romania, this might not be that relevant. Then on the top 10 there are many cities from India and Pakistan, countries with big populations. The best “western” cities are London from the UK and Toronto from Canada, positions 15 and 16. Then, on the Top 25 we also see cities from African countries like Kenya or Egypt and another big city from UAE, Abu Dhabi. The best US city is of course… New York. Good luck on finding your One Love on the Net!

TradeHolding.com B2B Network 5th Anniversary

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Over the past five years, proudly left behind, 170,000+ companies joined TradeHolding.com B2B Network since 20 November, 2002. TradeHolding.com B2B Network is The Biggest Business to Business Network used everyday by thousands of buyers and sellers from all over the world.

On our 5th anniversary, we are proud that we reached a few more milestones. We had a record number of visitors (42,267 unique visitors) in November, and it looks like our traffic is growing every month.

 

TradeHolding.com November Stats

Some other milestones:

  • record number of contacts in October 2007
  • record number of new Top Members in October 2007
  • record number of revenue in October 2007. 

We are working extremely hard to keep a clean B2B Network and eliminate scam and fraud as much as it is possible. Our number one goal is customer satisfaction. We try to keep our premium service fees low (compared to our competition we are a lot more cheaper and I can say without any hesitation that some active free members are even getting better results than paid members at our competition….), but at the same time we try to offer the best services.

So, Thanks to all our Members and hopefully, we’ll all use (an even more improved) TradeHolding.com B2B Network at our 10th Anniversary as well!

Free Dating Sites

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

It looks like there are many new free dating sites lately. We also launched a new dating site a few months ago: www.onelovenet.com and although it is quite hard to enter the free dating market, it is extremely challenging and if you have the knowledge and the right budget, the results will be showing up. I am talking from my own experience. :)
It is fun creating an environment where new loves are created and you can actually find your soulmate. Although in today’s world, when more than 50% of the marriages are ending with a divorce, someone can have more than one soulmate in a lifetime.

My free dating industry predictions for 2008:

  • POF and OKCupid will share the 1st place in terms of visitors in the free dating industry, POF will lose its domination.
  • There will be at least 3-4 more strong players (including my site OneLoveNet.com, we already hit the nail and in less than 4 months since we are launched, we are well ahead of what we have planned, things are looking very good now…).
  • I believe Markus from POF will regret that he did not sold POF when he had some really good offers, his profit margin will be much lower, the competition will be much higher.
  • Paid websites will offer more free services just to get more and more members.
  • Some of the dating sites will continue their qustionable marketing tactics (Markus and Andy from collaboradate blogs a lot about this). And the small players will lose their interest and will be bought by bigger players.
  • Meetic will continue its Europe domination and possibly buy other dating / social networking sites.

More to come.

AGLOCO - viewbar release in March?

Monday, March 5th, 2007

I just read on AGLOCO blog that the viewbar will be most probably released in March. It looks like they are quite under pressure to do so, they are pressed by their shareholders… the members…. :)

“The March target, and all the dates we have projected for the Viewbar release, have been based solely upon our Engineers’ best estimates. I have asked our head techie for a firmer date, but he hasn’t given one to me. If I press him, he can give me an estimate, but he cannot be sure. Anyone who has worked with software engineers knows that they don’t like giving estimates because they know problems come up all the time in software development. For instance, we could give you an exact date only to get a bug in the last day of QA that would blow up that date. When we started the Viewbar software we had one engineer working on it. We now have six. We have incentive - we know that the Viewbar release is the real launch of AGLOCO.”

Also, some members are questioning the success of AGLOCO: “AGLOCO sounds too good to be true. Why am I getting paid without putting anything into it?”. And, let’s see the response he got from an AGLOCO official: “If being “too good” is our only problem, I think we’re in great shape!

Joking aside, seeming “too good to be true” is probably the number one reason people DON’T sign up for AGLOCO. It seems strange to “get something for nothing.” The truth is, you’re not getting something for nothing. You’re giving the Viewbar a small share of your computer monitor, which we (and apparently many advertisers) consider extremely valuable. You are also choosing us as your partner for commissions, referrals, and fees accumulated through everyday browsing. So, instead of some other middleman making this money, AGLOCO makes it. We win, you win, and the advertisers/companies win for getting your business.

Also, if you decide to refer other Members and build the community, you get more because YOU have built the community and provided it with its most valuable resource: more Members. By providing value to AGLOCO, we provide value back to you for your efforts.

So, essentially, AGLOCO doesn’t cost you any money to join, but you are “putting something in it” to reap the returns AGLOCO will provide you. If it’s worth it to share about 3/4-inch of your screen with the Viewbar and possibly to take the time and effort to build our network, you have earned every cent of your AGLOCO payout.

I believe in AGLOCO success, mainly because I see how much money is in online advertising, and I believe that I won’t lose anything by spending about 2-3 hours of my time every month to promote this idea and my business + recruiting more members. Yes, AGLOCO is my business and it can be yours as well. All you have to do is to Join AGLOCO.

You can also read more about AGLOCO on my blog.

Dating sites with … fotomodels

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

If you check my about page you will notice that I am running a free dating website: OneLoveNet.com. Well… it is quite new but already having lots of members and the traffic is growing day after day.

Well… I compared my site with some other dating sites. The strange thing I noticed that on many sites, the homepage contains photos with singles who look like fotomodels… Come on, is this the real life? Who do you try to fool? “Register now and meet this beautiful girl from…” or “Join now and chat online with Nicole… she is waiting for you.” The photos are usually professional photos that were made in a studio by the respective dating site… Come on, most of these profiles are fake profiles. Do you really think that a fotomodel will use a dating site to meet a guy??? To meet you??? Give me a break…

OK, let’s suppose they are real woman not just fake profiles, what are your chances of dating with them? There will be hundreds if not thousands of man who will want to date with her… Will you be the one?

Real life and real dating is different. It doesn’t matter how you look or how professional is your photo, there has to be a spiritual connection between you and the one you want to date. At OneLoveNet.com, you can meet real singles locally with real photos who do not look like a fotomodel. We do not select good looking profiles to our homepage and we do not post fotomodel pictures to our site. Most of our singles are simple with a real life, trying to find the one. But, one of them can definitely become your fotomodel.

Happy New 2007

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

I wish all of my readers, partners and clients a Happy New 2007! A healthy & wealthy new year all together with your friends and family.

And just a few new year quotes:

  • Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  (Oprah Winfrey)
  • We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.  (Edith Lovejoy Pierce)
  • Glory to God in highest heaven,
    Who unto man His Son hath given,
    While angels sing with tender mirth,
    A glad new year to all the earth.

    (Martin Luther)
  • It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.  (William Thomas)

Happy New 2007!