"Plenty of Fish" Markus Frind Makes it Big! This is What Success Looks Like!!
A fellow Canadian entrepreneur from Vancouver, British Columbia has created an extremely popular 'Dating Empire'..... AND IT'S FREE!
Markus Frind (founder/owner), who single-handedly runs the 'Plenty of Fish' website (with a little help from his beautiful girlfriend Annie and a group of voluntary moderators), generates huge amounts of income using a minimal server infrastructure, while monetizing his website using Google Adsense.
For the first 8 months (official launch was 2003), Markus ran his site from his own home computer, but as things progressed, he bought a small server and moved his site to a hosting provider. According to one interview, he has five or six servers; one database server, one web server, an image server, a mail server and explains (in his own words) that "it's a dating site; it's not rocket science. You don't need thousands of servers".
Although Plenty of Fish admittedly isn't a particularly attractive site, it functions extremely well and is very easily navigatabe. In fact, it's simplicity is refreshing!
From all accounts, the sign-up process is quick and painless and all onsite services are absolutely 100% FREE to the user .... yup, that means no cost whatsoever! Furthermore, the system appears to work effortlessly and without any annoying 'glitches' .... from the general dating information to the "hot or not" rating system, compatability matching and testing, the forum, the instant messaging/chat sections and smiles and then right on down to the profile preferences and bans section .... seamless.
Markus Frind, the self-made Canadian Millionaire, credits his phenomenal success to lots of long days, hard work, research, timely market positioning and viral marketing.
I don't care what he calls it, I call it pure geneous! Congrats, Markus!
Almost Paradise?
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Drumroll please ........ Here are the numbers for 2007 re "Plenty of Fish":
Number of page views a day: 30+ million
Number of page views per month: 1.1 billion
Active users: 500,000 logins per day
Registered users: 600,000
Dating site ranking in the U.S.: 2
Dating site ranking in the U.K.: 2
Dating site ranking in Canada: 1
Google AdSense earner ranking: 1
Revenue: $5 - $10 million per year
Over 13 million page views per day
Remember the now famous 'Google' cheque which represented just two months of Adsense revenue and totaled a staggering $901,733.84!! If you missed it, you can see it here . The CHEQUE
Great work Markus!!
Now Fast Forward to 2008 and "Plenty of Fish" has broken many startup records and is now one of the world's largest dating sites with over 600,000 users logging in daily, along with 9.3 million user postings in some 200+ forums, generating $10+ million in paid advertising ..... and the site is STILL FREE! Not bad for a man who still works out of his Vancouver apartment!!
You Can Learn More About Plenty of Fish and its founder Markus Frind Here. Markus and His Phenomenal Success
Still want more .... another great article written by Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal can be found here. Perfect Bait for Huge Success
How about The New York Times Business Article by Randall Stross published January 13th, 2008. From Ten Hours A Week, $10 Million A Year.
Success Is A Beautiful Thing!
When someone succeeds, we all win!
However, I find this story very appealing and exciting from two totally different perspectives. First of all, my children are of dating age and have in fact used internet dating sites .... which in all honesty, I used to think of as a 'very scary' proposition, but now find quite intriguing.
Secondly and from a purely entrepreneurial stance, I find it tremendously encouraging that "Plenty of Fish" has had such atronomical success both commercially and with reference to its simplistic infrastructure.
Markus Frind reinforces the fact that dedication, hard work and commitment, combined with a timely 'product' is the key to success! The potential for phenomenal abundance and growth can indeed be stratospheric, despite the overwhelming competition in any given arena.
Kudos Markus!!
Love is a Many Splendored Thing!
Online Dating and Social Networking Sites
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- One of the world's largest online dating sites, not to mention a fantastic social networking site and did I mention .... it's 100% FREE.
- EHarmony Dating Site
- Founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren has devised a revolutionary new system that uses actual relationship psychology and psychological testing to come up with appropriate and interesting matches.
- Match.com Dating Site
- One of the largest online dating services in the world, so if you're looking for a serious, meaningful and long-term relationship, this is the place to go.
- Date.com Dating Site
- This site records a success rate of a quarter of a million users a month and one wedding per week! Wow!
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