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chiefsurf · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

Does anyone have any idea how much dating sites sell for? I own a local community dating site that has been around for 18 months. there are currently just under 10000 members. We also have something different on our site that brings in more women then men. Members are increasing daily but not at the rate i would like. We are high in search engines and are averaging a few thousand hits per day. I have invested alot of money and time in this, but had tp put it aside due to other projects. I am curious if something like this would sell.

Thanks....

yorktown · Guest

If you have a site with a ommunity and traffic, then there is value to the business so that you can sell it. No traffic and no community is almost valueless, unless you have a killer domain name (under 7 letters).

Those with traffic and community range in prices. They are so varied that there is no set rule, other than the larger the community, the more value. Some execs wont buy anything less than 100,000 users. Some 1 Million.

Best of luck selling it.

Marc Lesnick
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mark_brooks · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 24 Location: New York, NY

Can you tell us more about the site stats? How many people do you have login each week right now? How many new users registered in the last month? Do you have any interesting distribution partnerships? What's the site domain?

The more active your userbase, the more it's worth to an existing site owner. Your best bet is selling to an entrepreneur who would like to enter the market and pick up a site and membership seed. It's tough building and seeding a site from scratch. It's less tough to build from where you're at. As long as you have some happy users and a nice site/service.
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lionpac · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 1

I work with a newly launched dating site and we may be interested in some type of j/v with you and your 10,000 members site.

lionpac

LouisvilleMojo.com · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Louisville, KY

I'm currently looking at a possible acquisition target so I for one would be very interested in a discussion on valuations and the various criteria being used today.

Is registered members the only metric used in acquisitions these days or do unique visitors (but not necessarily registered) play a role in these deals? I only ask because we have a very high amount of unique (non-registered) visitors versus registered members to our city sites, about 75/25 split, respectively.

Best,
- Chuck
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austin81 · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:52 am Post subject:

If you have a site with a ommunity and traffic, then there is value to the business so that you can sell it. No traffic and no community is almost valueless, unless you have a killer domain name
If u'r having a good responce form the market then there is no need to sell the site you can simply earn form that site..,.so thisn about it and best of luck./,.,,.

Romeo719 · Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 2

I would be interested in speaking with you regarding the sale of your 10k members. You can email me at kamran717@gmail.com

Regards,

Kamran

jasonvan · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 10

Can you give us the name of the domain? I would need to check it out carefully before I could give you a fair offer. If it is indeed getting a couple thousand hits a day, this is indeed worth something. My dating site http://www.ustillup.com is about a year old now and only getting about 400 hits a day. It's a PR4 and ranking well for terms like "Singles Chat". Of these 400 hits, I get about 200 new visitors and about 100 new members a day. This sounds like a lot, but it's really not that much. I thought I would be achieving at least 1,000 new members a day by the time my site passed the one year mark.

I would be very interested in knowing more about your domain. If you're getting so many visitors a day, why don't you charge a few dollars a month for your services. This would at least bring you in a nice, tidy little income.