 Ideas for Monetizing?
nickFaraday: Seems to me that your somewhat limiting your revenue... The problem I see is no one wants to make the first move, so everyone would want to be the "featured" date and let everyone else do the "dating work" for them.In this structure I'd think you want to charge the dater not the prospective dates.My suggestion would be lower the barrier for prospective dates to contact your featured "date" by making it free.1. Charge your featured dates for the "feature" service.2. Charge more for "localized or placed features"... AKA I want to be featured in LA, and site-wide.3. Make the entire database searchable, your featured dater functionality is your hook, but no need to limit what who your members could find.  (Maybe this is an extra pay feature)4. One thing I have always wondered about dating sites is why none of them have used alternate payment mechanics?  For example, buy a date flowers from (FTD, with your affiliate code) and get 20 free contacts, sign up for netflix get 10 contacts, etc, etc...