Being #1
A huge congrats goes out to Markus Frind creator and owner of Plentyoffish –
“VANCOUVER, Canada, July 29 /PRNewswire/ — The latest comScore Media Metrix numbers now rank the free dating site Plentyoffish.com as the leading dating site in both North America (U.S.A. + Canada) and the United Kingdom.”
Take a look at his competition, they are spending millions of dollars a month on advertising. If they stop spending, no one would come close to touching Plentyoffish.
Its not all fun and games, Markus blogged “This morning I spent 30 minutes on the Phone with someone from the US Department of Justices Antitrust division.”
Webpublishing Blog probably over focused on Plentyoffish. Why? Because I loved the business model. Low overhead, simplification, automation, a hideous design to slide under the radar. To this day I have applied those basic concepts to nearly every one of my projects — and its paid off.
Unrelated, but yeah, this blog is officially dead. Though I reserve the right to post here if something interesting comes up.
Unrelated to the post, but the line “To this day I have applied those basic concepts to nearly every one of my projects — and its paid off.” intrigued me. I am usually pretty anal about my design and programming when developing websites and it takes me a good deal of time to complete them. Can you share some sites that you’ve applied these concepts and how/why they’ve paid off in your opinion?
Comment by Kevin — July 30, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
I still hang around here in the hopes that you post when you feel the urge.
Comment by Marc — July 31, 2008 @ 10:23 pm