Welcome to our September newsletter! We hope you’re having a fantastic month, we certainly are –read on to find out more! Plus remember to visit us at Ad Tech (stand 402) and iDate: both major exhibitions are taking place in London next week.

Announcements

• Major New Global Partners

Apart from securing our position as the industry’s leading supplier of pure Whitelabel dating solutions, we are delighted to announce that major global brands including Dating.com, Matchlink, Essential Publishing, Cellcast, Hearters & Perfspot have chosen to partner with us! This is fantastic news for us and we would like to take this opportunity to welcome them on board!

• New International Offices

We recently announced that we’ll be opening new offices in both Australia and North America before the end of 2008. If you know anyone who works in these markets, be sure to recommend them using your two tier affiliate link (obtainable when you log-in, or click here to sign-up now).

• Exhibitions in London

As mentioned above, we’ll be exhibiting at both iDate and Ad Tech next week in London, so do pop by for a chin wag!

Major New Marketing Strategy

In my newly appointed role as in-house Online Marketing expert, I’ll be using all of my previous experience of working in roles such as Online Marketing Manger at InterCasino, Jackpotjoy and Aardman Animations,   in developing a major new marketing strategy for World Dating Partners, which I plan to launch by the end of the year. I can’t give too much away at this stage, but what I can tell you is that our new strategy will create significant improvements in the overall functionality, usability and marketing of our partner sites. Watch this space!!

Continued Growth

New member numbers have tripled since the beginning of the year as a result of our ever increasing partner network and our recent recruitment of 3 new sales managers. We expect this figure to grow even further as we embark on a major hiring campaign to find 22 new members of staff to support our continued growth.

Monthly Marketing Article

As promised, we are bringing you an article each month, which we hope will help you improve your website effectiveness. Click here to read these articles on our forum. If you haven’t already created an account, then what are you waiting for? The forum is the ideal place to exchange tips and gain advice from us and other partners.

Summary

Our sites continue to perform outstandingly well, which means more members and more revenues for you. You may also have noticed that we have recently made a number of upgrades to the system These vital upgrades have enabled us to ensure the continued security and efficient operation of our websites. As you know, our advanced platform is the most robust in the industry, therefore periodic maintenance is required to keep it that way.

Projections for next year present a stark contrast to other industries, we are thriving and will continue to do so, credit crunch or not!

Robert Fathers, CEO, Commented

“I am really proud of all the efforts that our team have put in since the beginning of the year and it is a fantastic feeling to look back and see how much we have achieved in such a small space of time. We are now in the process of implementing brand new hardware and investing in 22 new members of staff to keep up with the demand. This is truly a magical time for us, we are already in the top 2% of fastest growing UK companies and there is no sign of slowing down.

We have an “open doors” approach, so if you want to contact us, please just pick up the phone or drop us an email at anytime! Here are our contact details:

Daniel Vincent, Affiliate Manager, d.vincent@worlddatingpartners.com

Mark Edwards, Affiliate Manager, mark@worlddatingpartners.com

Tel:  +44 (0) 1278 588 340

Address: The Exchange, Express Park, Bristol Road, Somerset, TA6 4RR”

Remember to pay us a visit at the conferences next week! In the meantime thanks for reading and be sure to check next months’ newsletter for some even more exciting announcements!

Welcome to our new look monthly newsletter! Read on to find out about all of our exciting news, plans and developments – all aimed at benefiting you!

New!

Monthly Marketing Article!

Each month we will bring you one exclusive and free online marketing article aimed at helping you improve your websites effectiveness! The article will be written by our in-house marketing expert Clifton Fathers and uploaded onto our forum at http://forum.world-dating-partners.com.

If you haven’t already created an account then what are you waiting for? It’s the place to exchange tips and get advice from us and our partners!

This Months’ Article

How to improve your Google Ad Words Campaign: Beginners guide to generating maximum impact from your Ad Words campaign!

Don’t miss out! The forum is the place to be! Click here to read our free article and introduce yourself to other partners TODAY!

FREE Facebook and Microsoft Ad Centre Advertising!

What a fantastic opportunity to start driving FREE traffic to your site immediately! Don’t waste any time: click here to receive your free Facebook credit (type in the following promotional code T5V6-1JKV-TNH9-2MRH) and click here to receive your free Microsoft Ad Centre credits (no promotional code required just click on the link). What have you got to lose?

That’s all from us for this month, but watch this space or check out our forum for more exciting announcements over the forthcoming weeks.

With best wishes,

The World Dating Partners Team

With more major brands joining World Dating Partners every month, we are continuing to outperform any other dating technology platform worldwide. Read on to find out more about our latest exciting developments…

Major Recognition for CEO of World Dating Partners

We’re delighted to announce that our CEO, Robert Fathers, has been selected to appear in the new edition of Who’s Who of Britain’s Business Elite. Who’s Who is the most prestigious directory of living noteworthy and influential individuals from all walks of life worldwide, and the latest title in this genre of Who’s Who publications identifies the UK’s eminent business leaders.

Robert has been selected for inclusion in this year’s edition on the basis of his outstanding business achievements. His biography reads “Robert is the CEO of World Dating Partners, the world’s largest and fastest growing online dating services provider, and is responsible for the overall management of the company and its outstanding software and design subsidiary company…”

Join World Dating Partners at Internet World

Entry into the exhibition is absolutely free…

…so please come along to pay us a visit at our stand, and find out more about all of the great things we have lined up for 2008. You’ll also have the opportunity to talk face to face with our team of marketing and technical specialists, to discuss strategies and ideas to make your dating business even more successful.

Internet World Has to offer…

…Internet World is the UK’s largest gathering of internet and digital suppliers, and as you will learn from its website, with over 200 inspirational hours of free seminars and hard-hitting keynotes, it’s the one and only place you’ll hear the ultimate digital business insight and understanding.

It’s also your chance to meet over 300 companies who can provide solutions to strengthen your online strategy and improve your return on investment. And all located in dedicated zones with seminar streams covering key areas including Search, Email, Web 2.0, IPTV, Online Advertising, eCommerce, Mobile Marketing, Connectivity, Content Management, Analytics, Usability, Affiliate Marketing and much more.

Awarded best business exhibition at the 2007 Event Awards, the show is designed to educate business decision makers on the latest developments in the market and introduce them to the suppliers who can help them implement their online strategies.

For more information about Internet World, or to register visit www.internetworld.co.uk

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

Majour New Brands Choose the World Dating Partners Platform

Matchlink.com and Webfriends.com

Matchlink.com and Webfriends.com are owned and operated by Spark Network Services and Advanced Telecom Services, one of the largest suppliers of personals services to newspapers and radio stations in North America and Europe.

Matchlink supplies dating websites to a growing network of over 100 radio stations across the US, and Webfriends provides similar services to US newspapers. Both organizations chose to join the World Dating Partners platform based upon our unrivalled functionality and our outstanding conversion rates.

SinglesCanada.com and Dating.ca

We are delighted that 2 of the major players in the Canadian dating market have joined the World Dating Partners platform. SinglesCanada.com and Dating.ca are both growing rapidly, and one of the many reasons that they chose to work with us was based on our ability to help them grow even further and cater to their niche using World Dating Partners unique filtering system.

World Dating Partners will be exhibiting at yet another major event this month. From 29th April to 1st May we will be exhibiting at Internet World at Earls Court in London, when once again we’ll be leading the way with our ultimate dating technology platform.

Best wishes,

World Dating Partners Team

We’re working incredibly hard to help you keep the momentum going to generate ever increasing revenues and profits, and this month we’re delighted to announce some major new developments for you, your members and your partners…

New Improved Members Homepage Goes Live!

We’re always looking for ways to help you continuously improve your conversion rates, and this month our development team has launched a great new design for the members Homepage (formally known as the MyCrowd page). The new Homepage features more profile pictures and more “calls to action” for members than ever before, and tests have shown a great response with even higher conversion rates. As always, we welcome any feedback or comments you may have on the new design!

Reach New Lucrative Markets: Translate Your Sites into More Languages

If you translate your site into a language you want we will have it intergrated into your own site for you. This is obviously a great way to reach new markets and audiences, so please make the most of this service and email us at d.vincent@worlddatingpartners.com with details of any sites that you’d like us to translate for you.

Fantastic New Marketing Tool:

Send Targeted Promotional Emails and Newsletters Direct to Your Website Members!

In our last newsletter, you may remember that we announced this great new, easy to use marketing tool, which enables you to send promotional emails, newsletters, communications and announcements direct to the members of your website(s).

Available through your admin area, its advanced filtering system enables you to target specific demographic groups for even more effective marketing, sorting people for example by age, location, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

Please take advantage of this fantastic tool: engaging your members via emails, newsletters and other communications is one of the best ways to create conversions! If you need help, advice or suggestions in utilizing it for optimum results, feel free to contact us at any time.

Earn BIG Cash for Australian Traffic!

What a bonus!! We’ll pay you a massive 70% commission on all payments for Australian traffic that you generate on your sites. What’s more, this will be for the entire life of the member, and we’ll be continuing this offer right through until the end of 2008.

Promote 2 Tiers:

Exponentially increase your income by recruiting new partners - anyone you sign up will receive a 10% lifetime bonus on all payments made by members who join their sites in the first 30 days of the partners’ registratio

Copy and paste this code to use banners on your sites (you will need to replace “refid=PRTNR-XXXX” to your own code)

Massive Success for WDP at Two Major International Exhibitions…

As you know, we attended 2 major international exhibitions in January and February. We were Gold Sponsors of iDate 2008 in Miami, which was the largest gathering of executives and representatives from the Internet Dating and Social Networking business, plus we exhibited at “Technology for Marketing and Advertising” in London. Thanks to all of you who paid us a visit at our stands: both events were massively successful for us, and enabled us to even further raise our profile in the international dating arena.

That’s all of our news for this month, but before I sign off, I want to personally thank all of you, all of our partners, who make World Dating Partners the unrivalled, vibrant, world-class organization that we are today. I want to thank you for all the exceptional work and incredible creativity that you put into your businesses, and I wish you continued success in 2008 and beyond.

With best
wishes,
Robert Fathers
President
World Dating Partners

A new agreement signed in December between two leading companies in the online dating industry has created one of the largest dating databases in the world.

Comprising over twenty one million members, the new database is larger than the entire population of Australia and has been created between Relationship Exchange and World Dating Partners.

Under the terms of the agreement, Relationship Exchange, owned by Think Partnership, will move all its partner websites onto World Dating Partners’ technology platform. It will also merge its database of over fourteen million members into World Dating Partners. The joint database will now top twenty one million members and will be available in eleven countries.

World Dating Partners has made a multi-million dollar investment in its IT over several years, which now comprises over thirty servers running Oracle RAC software, an enterprise-class IT system more commonly found in major corporations.

Freed from the constraints of managing its ‘back-office’, Relationship Exchange now plans to accelerate its growth and, according to its President, Brady Whittingham, expects to grow exponentially in the next few years.

He said, “We’ll focus our attention on helping our affiliates grow their businesses, safe in the knowledge that we’ve, together with World Dating Partners, created one of the largest dating databases of its kind in the world, containing the world’s most sophisticated compatibility matching system.”

Robert Fathers said, “This agreement signals our intent to continue expanding our business. We believe we’re firmly established as the number one dating service provider but intend to continue to broaden and deepen our service portfolio. We will be making a number of announcements in the next twelve months that will bear this out.”

With so many exciting new developments, we couldn’t wait any longer to tell you what we’ve been busy working on over the holiday season and the start of 2008…

Happy New Year!

First and foremost, before we launch into all of our news, we want to take this opportunity to wish you an (albeit belated) happy, healthy and prosperous 2008. Based on all of the fantastic new features, portals and enhancements that we plan to launch over the next few weeks and months, we can already see 2008 developing into one of the best years ever for our partners…

Massive News!

We are very excited to announce that Relationship Exchange, one of the largest and most successful dating networks in the USA, are re-launching on our platform. This increases our database of members to over 21 million registered profiles – which is larger than the entire population of Australia, making it one of the largest databases of its kind in the world! This is, of course, fantastic news for you in promoting your sites, particularly for the US market, and fantastic news for your members.

In a recent interview, our President and Founder, Robert Fathers, said “By pooling our databases we can now offer all our members an unparalleled choice of potential ’soul-mates’, as well as a broader range of services. This agreement signals our intent to continue expanding our business. We believe we’re firmly established as the world’s No.1 dating service provider, but will continue to broaden and deepen our service portfolio, and will be making a number of announcements in the next twelve months that will bear this out.”

Watch this space!

Fantastic New Marketing Tool:

Send Targeted Promotional Emails and Newsletters Direct to Your Website Members!

Our developers have done a fantastic job in creating this new, easy to use marketing tool, which will enable you to send promotional emails, newsletters, communications and announcements direct to the members of your website(s). The tool will be available through your admin area within the next couple of weeks, so please get ready to take full advantage of it! Via an advanced filtering system, you’ll be able to target specific demographic groups for even more effective marketing, sorting people for example by age, location, gender, sexual orientation, etc. As always, feel free to contact us if you need help, advice or suggestions in utilizing it for optimum results.

Gold Sponsors of iDate 2008

Based on our high profile within the online dating world, we’re proud to announce that we are the Gold Sponsor of iDate 2008, taking place in Miami from 31^st January to 1^st February. The event is the largest gathering of executives and representatives from the Internet Dating and Social Networking business: if you plan to be there, don’t forget to pay us a visit at our stand…we’ll be delighted to see you!

TFM&A 2008

In addition to iDate, we’re also exhibiting at “Technology for Marketing and Advertising” in London next month. If you’d like to join us, we’ll be at Earls Court on 12^th and 13^th February.

Your Testimonials!

As we mentioned in our last newsletter, we’re currently looking for your testimonials to publish on our new corporate website. Many thanks to those of you who have already responded. Rest assured, we’re already working on getting them posted onto our site, however if you haven’t had chance yet to submit yours, it’s not too late! Those we pick will include your name and a link to your sites giving you more free exposure… Email lisa@datech.ltd.uk with your testimonial, which should include things like why you joined us, your experience of working with us, and why we are so marvellous!

That’s all from us for now. We’ll be in touch again next month with more exciting news and announcements….

With best wishes,

The World Dating Partners Team

Australian Traffic Bonus

From now until the end of the year we’ll pay you BIG cash for Australian Traffic

We’ll pay you a massive 70% commission on all payments for Australian traffic that you generate. What’s more, this will be for the entire life of the member, and we’ll be continuing this offer right through until the end of 2007.

Free Site Membership

We’ve also introduced a great new incentive for newcomers to World Dating Partners. We’ll give you a Free 6 Month Gold Membership on the site you are promoting as soon as you’ve generated just 20+ paying members.

FREE Credit

We’ve had little response on the free £50 credit from Yahoo – are you mad!? This is £50 of FREE traffic!

Don’t waste any more time: contact thomas@datech.ltd.uk for more details on setting up a Yahoo account and receiving your free credit to start driving traffic immediately*

*only applies to UK traffic

New WDP Site

We’ve created a new look, even more informative corporate website – please take a look and let us know what you think. The site includes more detailed information as to how you can make the most of our world-class system. Visit www.worlddatingpartners.com

We Need Your Testimonials!
We’re currently looking for your testimonials to publish on our new corporate site (see above). Just simple statements about how you love us so - around 150 words. Those we pick will include your name and a link to your sites giving you more free exposure… plus, if you’re brave, we could even include a mug shot! Email lisa@datech.ltd.uk with your testimonial, we hope to use as many as we can. They should include things like why you joined us, your experience of working with us, and why we are so marvellous!

Make Money Promoting World Dating Partners

Earn an extra 10% in revenue from sales made by partners that you recruit. This includes partners that join us via any WDP links on your own sites. You can substantially increase recruitment, and thus your income, by creating a WDP affiliate campaign - This easy tutorial in our partner forum will tell you how.

Plus we’ve just made it even easier for you to promote WDP and recruit new partners – anyone you sign up will receive a 10% lifetime bonus on all payments made by members who join their sites in the first 30 days of the partners’ registration.

Copy and paste this code to use banners on your sites (you will need to replace “refid=PRTNR-XXXX” to your own code)

<a href=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/?refId=PRTNR-XXXX” mce_href=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/?refId=PRTNR-XXXX” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/images/external/200×100/200×100.gif” mce_src=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/images/external/200×100/200×100.gif”></a>

Exciting times ahead to keep us all occupied during the coming months. You may have noticed some changes creeping in to your admin area

Post Moderation

You are now able to make any on the fly changes, no more waiting for moderation on HTML or content changes. We still keep a history of changes so it is possible to roll back, and the security is as safe as it was previously as all changes are still checked after they appear on your site.

HTML Template Editor

Greater flexibility from pre-designed templates. Don’t be restricted by the templates we have created. Log in, rip them apart and create your own HTML front page design or just tweak them a little to your requirements.

Gay Portal

We are very proud to announce that we have the launched the world’s first dedicated white label gay dating portal.
Following huge demand we followed the advice from our partners and customers to create a new portal exclusively for gay, lesbian and bi members. This gives us a unique White Label solution for the gay community without being tied to mainstream dating portal, where the user experience and expectations are very different.

Your lists of sites could have multiplied. This is because any gay members in existing sites have been moved into new gay and lesbian versions of the site they were in before. Contact lisa@datech.ltd.uk to find out how to move these members into a dedicated site under a new domain or sub-domain.

FREE Yahoo Credit

Want a free £50 advertising credit to spend on Yahoo PPC? Contact thomas@datech.ltd.uk to get more details on setting up a Yahoo account and receiving your free credit to start driving traffic immediately*

Make Money Promoting World Dating Partners

Earn an extra 10% from sales made by partners you recruit. They can already join from any WDP links on your own sites. You can also promote by creating a WDP affiliate campaign - learn how here. We’ve just made it easier to recruit and any one you sign up will receive a 10% lifetime bonus on all payments made by members who join in the first 30 days of the partners registration.

Copy and paste this code to use banners on your sites (you will need to replace “refid=PRTNR-XXXX” to your own code)

<a href=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/?refId=PRTNR-XXXX” mce_href=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/?refId=PRTNR-XXXX”> <img src=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/images/external/468×60/wdp_standard2.gif” mce_src=”http://www.worlddatingpartners.com/images/external/468×60/wdp_standard2.gif”/> </a>

Welcome to another World Dating Partners newsletter! It’s a little hard to believe our offices in the UK should be warming under British the summer sun, but we won’t let the weather dampen our spirits!

World Dating Partners will make the sun shine!

Have your sales peaked or dropped? Not making as much as you think you could? Speak to us!
Call Tim on +44 (0)20 8133 1537 to get some help. He can help you make sure you are promoting your sites effectively, targeting the right traffic for your site and have you making money in no time.
Make an appointment: email tim@datech.ltd.uk and have us call you when it suits you best.

Competition Winner!

Congratulations to Chris Dale, who won the most UK members competition. Your bonus is on its way. Lots more bonuses, competitions and prizes to be won and announced in the near future.

Changes are coming….

There are many exciting things planned for the second half of the year - starting with the new commission structure. We want to reward you even more for sending us traffic, the more you send the more we pay. The new tiers are set out below. This will allow you invest more in marketing, and see an increase in sales and profit across existing traffic.

Initial and Recurring Payment %’s:

Adult Portal
No new members but some traffic - 50 % initial + 25% recurring
0-25 New Members - 60% initial + 30% recurring
25-50 New Members - 65% initial + 30% recurring
50-100 New Members - 70% initial + 30% recurring
100-200 New Members - 70% initial + 35% recurring
200-500 New Members - 70% initial + 40% recurring
500+ New Members - 75% initial + 45% recurring

Dating Portal
No new members but some traffic - 50 % initial + 25% recurring
0-25 New Members - 60% initial + 30% recurring
25-50 New Members - 65% initial + 30% recurring
50-100 New Members - 70% initial + 30% recurring
100-200 New Members - 70% initial + 35% recurring
200-500 New Members - 70% initial + 40% recurring
500+ New Members - 75% initial + 45% recurring

Indian Portal
No new members but some traffic - 50 % initial + 25% recurring
0-25 New Members - 60% initial + 30% recurring
25-50 New Members - 65% initial + 30% recurring
50-100 New Members - 70% initial + 30% recurring
100-200 New Members - 70% initial + 35% recurring
200-500 New Members - 70% initial + 40% recurring
500+ New Members - 75% initial + 45% recurring

What do you think of this? Add your comments to the forum:
http://forum.world-dating-partners.com/index.php?showtopic=2522

Get the basics right for huge traffic.

Before you can start thinking about getting lots of traffic to your site, you need to make sure you have the basics taken care of.
Step one of this is editing your meta-tags. These are the title, description and keywords to your site which will help make it unique, and which should be targeted at the audience you are trying to reach.

This has been added to the site set up wizard to help you do this on new sites, but you should also make sure you have unique information in any of your existing sites.

In admin from left hand grey menu follow: My Sites -> manage -> Meta-Tag Editor -> Page to edit

What should I put in my meta-tags? This can sometimes end up being a complicated so to begin with – KEEP IT SIMPLE! Think about WHO your site is targeted at, what makes your site UNIQUE.
Keywords are typically the words and phrases people would search on to find your site/page. Titles and Descriptions should tell visitors what your site and specifically this page is about (if possible using some of your keywords).

Note about Domain Settings

Over the last couple of months we’ve had to update our procedures for putting sites live. For most partners we process payments under our merchant account, in order to process payments the domain ownership should be set to our company name and address

Datech Limited
Company number: 4305177
Address 1: Cossington Grange
Address 2: Middle Road
Town / City: Cossington
Country / State: Somerset
Post / Zip code: TA7 8LH
Country: United Kingdom

Partners continue to have full control of domain from the administration panel on registrar’s site. You can change these details at any time if the domain is not used for a World Dating Partners site.

We cannot put any sites live until this has been updated. When registering new domains for sites you create you can enter these details in the registration process. You should make sure all your existing sites show the correct owner details. If you need assistance email partners@world-dating-partners.com.

Feedback - As always we are interested in anything you have to say. We really appreciate the efforts each and every one of you goes to promoting your sites. If you can think of any improvements regarding our sites, program and service please email us at partners@world-dating-partners.com. We welcome all feedback, good and bad.

Best Wishes – The World Dating Partners Team

Welcome to the April newsletter

The spring is here - lambs bleating in the fields, bunnies bouncing and tulips sprouting up all over the place. If this in itself wasn’t enough to keep you happy, we have plenty of new announcements which should!

Prizes to top Affiliates

Every month we are going to be giving bonuses to our top affiliates.

For the month of April the partner who brings in the most UK members will get a 10% bonus on new sales. We will announce winner next month once we have verified all new members. Get promoting today because based on previous months its going to be a close run thing.

Video Chat

Video and audio chat will be going live in the next few days. Promote this to your members, its a feature very few sites have, only gold members can use it so will be a great way of getting more subscribers. Cam to cam anyone!?

Better registration pages are also being created, to further optimise sign ups across the whole system.

We have also made some changes to the XML sitemap generation. These have been restructured in a more optimised manner to help with Search Egines.

Top Tip from CEO

Here’s a great tip for singing up sub partners, and getting links posted on other sites - straight from Robert Fathers our CEO.
http://forum.worlddatingpartners.com/index.php?showtopic=1663

Feedback

There are many more changes coming over the next few months. All aimed at making the program better for you our partners. We really appreciate the efforts each and everyone of you go to promoting your sites. If you can think of any improvements regarding our sites, program and service please email us at partners@worlddatingpartners.com. We welcome all feedback, good and bad.

This concludes this months newsletter, don’t forget the competition - most UK members gets a big bonus!