Zoltan’s Business News & Blog

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.

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!

Yes, it looks like we beat ourselves every month with TradeHolding.com B2B Network. In January, we announced a record number of visitors: 60,489 visitors in just one day. Well, February has been even better. We had 88,952 visitors in just one day: February 26. The next target is 100,000 visitors in just one day. Obviously the number of messages exchanged between our members is increasing as well and the number of new companies that join our network every day. And yes… our revenues are also growing month after month. Considering that I run this network mostly alone (with the help of a few devoted site-partners… and some technical and customer care help…), I think I can not complain… Some of my competition claim that they invested $20 million in a similar site… well I have to say that my investment was in a much much smaller scale… Not to mention the biggest player in the B2B Marketplace Alibaba.com, which was partly sold to Yahoo (I guess 40%) for $1 billion…

Our free dating site, OneLoveNet.com is also growing and things are looking very good here as well. Most of the free dating sites do not have limitations, and it looks like our kind of hybrid model is working very well and although spamming and scamming is still present on our sites, it is on a much smaller scale than on other free dating sites. Thanks to the community as well, our team of moderators are doing a great job. Want to join us? Just read more here.

Regarding our future plans, we will soon launch Mondinion.com, a Free Real Estate Property Ads & Listings website. The goal is to make this website the number 1 destination for international real estate and property classifieds where property owners (and real estate agents as well…) will be able to sell their homes, lands, houses, castles, etc. while international real estate investors will search for real estate ads that will be classified based on various criteria.

According to a survey published by Datran Media, 8 in 10 marketers cite email as the best-performing medium. Also, 82.4% of respondents stated, that they will increase their usage of email marketing. 63.5% of the respondents stated that they target based on demographics and / or geography.

Another interesting thing is that 81.2% of the respondents stated that they already use targeted email campaigns.

At TradeHolding.com B2B Network, we already have a feature for Targeted Mailing Campaigns, our members can send Targeted Selling offers or Buying requests based on selected keywords and / or regional filters. Our database is full of B2B Buyers and Sellers from all over the world, Members who stated what products and services are they regularly buying and selling. Want to try it out? Just login to your account at TradeHolding.com and send your Target Offer.

This is my first post in 2008, I have not been quite active lately (blogging)…

Couple of things happened this January (and not only):

• we bought a new server for TradeHolding.com B2B Network and put it into production
• launched www.chinatradeholding.com, a specialized website mainly focusing on Chinese Manufacturers, Chinese Wholesalers and Chinese Products; China is a big market and we thought we need tp have a site that is targeting the cheap Chinese B2B Market
• we generated a record revenue for December 2007, so far it looks like 2008 January will be even better
• added Internal Messaging between members
• yesterday (24 January, 2008) we get to another milestone: 60,489 visitors reached our network in just one day
• working hard on making the B2B Network more user friendly
• working on OneLoveNet.com free dating site as well, the installed Forum software might not be the best solution for us, at least we could not integrate it too well with our existing membership structure; the number of members looking for love is also growing day after day, our database now have more than 15,000 single profiles.

More news when I’ll have time.

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.

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!

We, at OneLoveNet.com, just launched the Dating & Singles Forum. We intend to make this place a busy community where you can discuss about many aspects of dating and relationships and not only.

We kindly invite you to login to your OneLoveNet.com account (or join if you do not have an account yet), visit the Dating & Singles Forum and start interesting Topics or participate in existing Topics.

We also have a board exclussively for our Moderators. We already added some guidelines for Moderators, if you are a Profile Moderator, you can read the guidelines here after logging in your acount. If you would like to become a Moderator, please contact us.

It is summer… the weather is hot…. today, there is 40 grade C in Satu Mare…. But, I am working hard.

I am proud to introduce OneLoveNet.com Web 2.0 Community… part 1… many more new enhancements will come in the near future. The goal of this part is to eliminate fraud and scam as much as we can from OneLoveNet.com free dating site. So far, this has been done by me alone… but I realized that the community should decide who’s a scammer and who’s not. So, I need you, I need Moderator members.

Moderators are volunteers who optionally and periodically review profiles and photos and collectively decide if a profile is a scam profile. As a Moderator you can freely contact as many members as you want and based on the communication with the member or your own intuition, you can decide if the profile is real.

Interested? Read more here and apply to become a Moderator.

Just a short summary of June so far, from my point of view:

• TradeHolding.com B2B Network traffic up to an average of 14,000 unique visitors / day
• OneLoveNet.com is now averaging 1,200 uniques / day, the site is in page 1 in search engines for many competitive terms
• Working hard on keeping both TradeHolding.com and OneLoveNet.com spam and scam free…
• The Romanian Internet Market received its first significant venture capital investment (10+ million Euro invested in 2 jobsites: www.bestjobs.ro and www.ejobs.ro), too bad these sites were the 2 biggest email spammers in 2000-2001… but anyway, congrats to the owners
• a new partner joined TradeHolding.com B2B Network: www.southafricab2b.co.za will mainly focus on South African market and hopefully our B2B Network will have a stronger presence in this region
• still working on the real estate portal, it will be launched soon!

I was quite busy in the last months with some technical problems and did not have the chance to write.

Now, I am writing to ask you, the bloggers to review some of our websites: OneLoveNet.com Free Dating Website, European Business Marketplace & Directory or Middle East Business Portal. Write a short review with 1-2 links about any of these sites in your blog and we will reward you with a free link on our high quality business links directory, TradeHolding.org. If you added a review to your blog, just post here and I will add your link.