https://www.siriusventures.com/tags/marketing/ Recent content in Marketing on Sirius Stuff Hugo en-us Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:11:11 -0700 https://www.siriusventures.com/excellent-case-study-and-analysis-of-hotornot/ Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:11:11 -0700 https://www.siriusventures.com/excellent-case-study-and-analysis-of-hotornot/ <p>Nisan Gabbay has an excellent analysis of the site at <a href="https://www.startup-review.com/blog/hotornotcom-case-study-mixing-free-and-premium-services.php">HOTorNOT.com Case Study: Mixing free and premium services</a></p> <p>My wife and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary a few months ago. I&rsquo;m happily married, so I haven&rsquo;t visited HotOrNot in years. I was fascinated by the description of the dating service, which I don&rsquo;t think they offered when a friend first told me about the site.</p> <blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Thus HOTorNOT was able to fill some pretty basic human needs in a way that no other online service had before. This would later translate into financial success once HOTorNOT offered its premium dating service because their cost of customer acquisition was so low - zero. The largest cost associated with operating a traditional online dating site is the cost of customer acquisition, which even for successful sites can be 50% (or more) of revenue. Because HOTorNOT attracted users with its free rating service, it could offer its dating service for the low price point of $6 per month. This is a price that traditional dating sites can’t compete with because it generally takes $15-$30 to acquire a subscriber for a traditional dating service.&rdquo;</p>