Announcing SantaMatch Affiliate Program

It’s about time! This affiliate program is open to all website owners, Google AdWords publishers and legitimate email marketers who comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (i.e. not spammers!).

Just sign up! SantaMatch has the highest conversion rates in the business! The link is here: http://www.santamatch.com/idevaffiliate/

The full press release can be seen here:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/santamatch/online_dating/prweb2370774.htm

Yahoo Personals Copying SantaMatch Features

Yahoo Personals has blatantly copied some of our features without acknowledgement or request for permission.  Should we be complimented or outraged? Either way, they will never match SantaMatch (no pun intended) in effectiveness, efficiency and price! We have many features coming up which are all designed with one thing in mind: to help you find and connect with your perfect match with minimum hassle. In that, no relationship site can compete with America’s #1 Introduction Site.

New Features On SantaMatch

We have incorporated some of your feedback into our matching module. As of November 27, we are allowing members to set their own matching radius with the minimum radius set to 50 miles and the maximum to 5000 miles (”any distance”). We do believe that love is worth traveling for a bit over an hour… but apparently for some of you it isn’t so there you are. You can set your matching radius by going to My Profile and scrolling down. Just keep in mind that if you set your radius to 50 miles and you do not live in a large metropolitan area, you may be limiting your number of matches.

We have also incorporated smoking into the matching algorithm. From now on, members who request only 100% perfect matches and do not date smokers will not be introduced to smokers, social smokers or smokers who are trying to quit. Checking “almost matches” though will override that feature.  In the past smoking was not part of the matching algorithm for the simple fact that it is a changeable lifestyle/habit.

SantaMatch – Hassle Free Online Dating

It’s Been a While…

Okay, we’re back. So there it is, a few common rants we hear and the answers to them:

1. No, we do not guarantee that within 24 hours you will be hooked up with the love of your life. What the hell are you thinking? Even Santa cannot deliver that quick. Although it can happen, it sounds ridiculous that some people expect in one day, what sometimes takes a lifetime to achieve: finding a truly perfectly compatible partner.  What we can say with confidence, is that if you are patient enough, you will be introduced to someone you like and likes you back. We do our best.

2. Why do people who claim to be seriously looking not take a few minutes to read? SantaMatch is not a “search and bombard with emails” type of dating site. In fact, it’s not a dating site. There are a few difference but it’s not rocket science to figure them out. There is plenty of information on our website explaining every aspect of how it works and what you should do to maximize your odds of finding someone compatible. Take a few minutes to read, it will make a world of difference.

3. Yes, you are introduced also to “almost matches” by default but you can easily disable that. The reason for “almost matches” is that many people do not fill their profile criteria properly and unintentionally narrow their matches too much, then complain why they don’t get enough matches.

SantaMatch is 99% free but not 100% free

SantaMatch is 99% free but not 100% free – and that’s a good thing. 100% free dating sites – well, there are tons of them out there. Sounds like a good idea, right? Wrong! How do we know? We tried it. Currently, SantaMatch has a one time admission fee (”profile approval fee”), which if you compare it to traditional dating sites, represent a saving of 90%-98%. We think that’s cheap enough, especially considering the efficient and scientific introduction module that saves you time and hassle. After all, your time is worth something, isn’t it?

So what’s wrong with 100% free? In a perfect world, it would be a great idea. However, in the real world it is equivalent to leaving the door to your house open and expecting only nice people to show up. Unfortunately, that is not realistic. 100% free dating sites by nature will attract the lowest common denominator in society and people who shouldn’t be on dating sites in the first place: married people, teenage pranksters, scammers, spammers, stalkers, etc. Harrassment, bullying, scamming and spamming can be pervasive.  In addition, many sites make your profile public, i.e. your ex, your stalkers, your office-coworkers, etc. can all view your profile. Being familiar with the online dating world, that’s not something you’d want. So you do all that and for what? to save a few dollars? Worth it only if you are on welfare checks.

So what we say: if you are serious about dating and meeting someone special, spend those few bucks and go to a place which is both safer and has people who are seriously looking like you. And no, you don’t need to spend $30-$60/month like most paid dating sites. SantaMatch offers you the best features of any relationship site at a ridiculously low one time admission fee.

Transparency

To begin with, I’d say that I truly hate writing blogs. Frankly, I never understood why people write blogs and who in the world would even bother reading, unless there’s something uniquely informative about it – like this one…. Oh well, I got the order from the boss (i.e. “Santa”) to write this blog and so I’ll do it, like any good elf.

And the subject of today’s post, my little minions, is transparency. Anyone of you who has ever tried a traditional dating site will tell you how much more transparent SantaMatch is compared to those dating sites (we will not mention by name). There’s a reason for that. SantaMatch was designed to take the hassle out of online dating, and a part of it is by making the site as transparent as possible. Here are a few examples (but not all because I am not Dostoyevsky):

1. Did you ever notice that on traditional dating sites you have to dig 9 pages deep and search with candle light to find the cost? Just look at the home page of SantaMatch and you will see the difference – we have nothing to hide. After all, it costs 90%-98% (!) less and provides a superior experience.

2. We mark approved members so you know immediately who is for real and who is just looking (”separating the wheat from the chaffe” as we call it). Most of the profiles that you see on traditional dating sites are of non-paying members, but you have no way of knowing. Therefore, you send an email and never get a reply. Guess what? That member may have canceled his account or stopped being a paid member years ago. On SantaMatch there is no such thing. You know exactly who is active, when they were active and not only we don’t try to keep people as long as possible but we encourage them to cancel their accounts when they are inactive.

3. SantaMatch is the only relationship site that tags profiles that are suspected to be inactive. What do we mean by “suspected”? Because there is no way of knowing. These are profiles of valid members (i.e. members who did not cancel their accounts) who for some reason didn’t check their mailbox for a couple of weeks. There can be a few reasons for that (for example, member is not getting our notifications for some reasons)  and many times those members become active again. Either way, that’s another hassle that we save our members.

4. We spend a significant part of our resources and time to fight the plague known as the Nigerian scam/scum to save you from having to deal with those low-lives. Small, less known dating sites will typically have hoards of scam profiles because they help them fool people into paying. No such thing at SantaMatch. We spend a significant part of our time and resources to fight that cesspool, and although they are rarely approved so you can easily avoid them, we still don’t want our members to become prey to those wretched criminals. This is a subject for another blog post but either way, if you only knew how much effort we make to weed out those scumbags, you’d probably appreciate SantaMatch even more. It’s not as simple as you might think – most African countries are blocked from accessing SantaMatch but the scammers use proxy servers and possibly even full time employees in the US to keep creating those fake profiles that we delete (we believe we delete about 99% of them before any of you even gets to see them – the rest are flagged by you folks and get deleted).

Anyway, enough for now, I think you are getting the gist of it: SantaMatch has the highest transparency of any dating site that you may have tried and please challenge us if it’s not the case.

Is It Real? Why Santa?

Yes, it is real and 100% of profiles are real by real people who signed up just like you! I guess we get that question fairly often because of Santa, which some of you believe is not a real person…  but would you ask the same question if the site was called cupidmatch.com? Cupid is not real either.

So now to the second question: why Santa? Well, you try to pay your bills and making ends meet working 2 days a year with those ungrateful kids. Add to that soaring heating bills and quite understanbly good ole Santa was broke and looking for ways to complement his income, so we offered him to introduce singles. He took us on the offer.

Next question, please.

And now another one of my favorite videos but you probably have seen it already (and if not, where the hell have you been??): Leave Britney Alone

First Post

So here we are SantaMatchers. I was given this task of writing a blog for SantaMatch, but if one of you has better writing skills and has a few minutes to spend every week, contact me through the comments here or through our santamatch.com email address and maybe you could help.

Anyway, this blog was just created to help communicate, explain and address your issues, SantaMatchers.

The most important thing we wish to communicate is how SantaMatch works. Although it is on our website (http://www.santamatch.com/gd.php?content=include/howitworks.html), I suspect few of you bothered reading, so here it is in short:

SantaMatch was created as an improvement on traditional dating sites. We tried dating sites like match.com and Eharmony and decided that we can combine the best features of each, get rid of the annoying features and add add some improvements of our own and come up with a more effective system. The result: an introduction site.  What it means is that instead of searching for hours and writing/receiving hundreds of emails to/from people you have nothing in common with, you are introduced to perfect matches (”almost perfect matches” was added later and you can change that in your member settings) on a one-on-one basis. You either indicate interest or remove that match and move on. The idea was initially to have only one active introduction at a time but we figured that would be too much pressure. So 5 sounded like a nice number so we arbitrarily set the maximum number of active introductions to 5. This is as hassle-free as it gets and since we assume that your time is worth money – SantaMatch will save you a lot of time and hassle. In traditional dating sites, the fact that people bulk mail, results in a lot of frustration since over 80% of emails get no reply.

You will see the the words “hassle” and “hassle-free” are mentioned frequently on SantaMatch. That’s because we believe that “hassle” on traditional dating sites, the fact that people spend too much time, writing too many emails – is what causes frustration which in turn makes people rude and offensive all too often. Add to that monthly membership fees (there are none on SantaMatch) and you can see why most people typically leave traditional dating sites after a short time.

Well, this is it for now, I am already getting tired from writing so much.

Oh yes, and read this if you just joined: http://www.santamatch.com/gd.php?content=include/howitreallyworks.html

Now to my favorite internet video (no, that’s not really related to anything): Charlie Bit Me