Archive for June, 2009

Women say: You wanna get with me, don’t bother with my friends… you gotta go mobile!

Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2009 by the3gdatingagency

Research from SRG’s Women and Digital Life study, involving interviews with 2,000 women in the USA, has confirmed the central role that mobile phones now play in younger women’s lives to keep them socially connected and organized.

“Greater mobile usage and smartphone ownership is allowing women to bypass the PC to upload their pictures to social media sites…. When asked “what technology had the most impact on your life in the last 2 years,” young women picked the mobile over the Internet and PC/Computer”.

NOT the spice girls

Top Gears Jeremy Clarkson gets excited about Location Based Mobile Social Networking…

Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2009 by the3gdatingagency

Watching BBC Top Gear and i was amazed to hear Stephen Fry and Jeremy Clarkson espousing the virtues of mobile location based social networking.

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Quite surprising promotion considering this was on a public broadcast commercial free TV programme and during a family TV show.

NOTE: The “Grindr” application is an 18+ NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK gay cruising community.

The Wait is Over… Nokia N97 Available now!

Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2009 by the3gdatingagency

Get the latest Nokia in white exclusively from Phones 4U from today… Visit a store or check out the fun areyoupopular? promotional site where you can get chance to win one of these hot handsets boasting a full 3.5-inch Touchscreen, massive 32GB onboard storage, 5MP camera and slide out qwerty board.

Win a Nokia N97 White

Make yourself even more popular by clicking here and ordering it now and we’ll give you an extra £30 of credit to spend on 3G Dating…

Can a business like mine make money via mobile marketing?

Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2009 by the3gdatingagency

This is a common question i get asked when out attending conferences. So i found it interesting to read at Cellular News how an US religious televangelist named Rev. Creflo A. Dollar is apparently making more than $50 million a year in revenue by sending out “devotional” or inspirational SMS text messages to his congregation.

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What Would Ryanair Do?

Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2009 by the3gdatingagency

Following an investment of up to 20 million pounds, Ryanair is now operating probably the worlds largest inflight Mobile Networks. So it was great to fly with them last week and experience how they think they’ll get customers to start spending for premium use of their mobiles during the flight…

Ryanair uses SMS chat to promote onboard services
“She’s expecting your message”

…Mobile Operators take note. This is how you market premium mobile content!

3G Mobile Dating… “Whoops…i thought you meant you wanted to date a 3G Mobile”

Posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2009 by the3gdatingagency

3G Mobile Dating on the Train

How important is it that Dating Profiles are Real?

Posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2009 by the3gdatingagency

At The 3G Dating Agency we use 3G Video Validation to ensure every member is 18+ and is genuinely advertising themselves in their profile. A day doesn’t go by when i’m asked why it’s so important that we include this time consuming and costly process to differentiate our Mobile Dating Community, so it was reassuring (in the comments to a TechCrunch article) to read how Brian Bowman, former VP Product Development at Match.com, considers the importance of profile validation:

“Basically, one of the deepest and most fundamental problems with online dating is … is the person real”

iPhone 3… rumours suggest it will offer 3G Video Calling

Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2009 by the3gdatingagency

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As the rumour mill starts turning again most pundits are expecting the next iPhone to feature a forward facing camera… must get the 3G Dating iPhone application ready to release.