strong rate of growth from the current financial position that eHarmony is in. The growth objective for eHarmony is to grow steadily to about 3% per year through the end of 2016. In fact‚ revenue has slowed from 70% in 2006 to suddenly only 10% by 2008. eHarmony is a privately held company‚ so unlike Match.com‚ which is publicly owned they do not have to release any public financial statements. However‚ it is estimated that eHarmony earned about $250 million in revenue last year and has about 13
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Daniel Penetar Professor Cummings MGT 509: Business Policy 28 June 2015 E-Harmony Case Should dating be primarily a search or an experience (as defined in Economic terms)? What are the pros and cons of each? Dating has been one of the most ever changing forms of communication in the past fifty years. In the past it was commonly for most woman to marry around the age of 22! While times have dramatically changed‚ so has the dating industry. The introduction of the Internet in the early 1990s brought
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An analysis of eHarmony‚ including the five forces according to Porter 1.1 The threat of new entrants The biggest threat to eHarmony and other paid dating sites was the free dating sites that were the newest entrants into the market. These sites did not have major restrictions to joining and did not necessarily do the match-making for the members. According to Piskorski‚ Halaburda & Smith‚ very many people subscribed to such sites as witnessed by the rise of “Plenty of Fish” in 2007 to become
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February 16‚ 2012 SWOT analysis/Competitive advantage In 2007 eHarmony was faced with four options concerning the future of the company; defending their superior position‚ opening up the site to casual daters‚ starting a new business venture‚ or geographic expansion. In order to understand what made them successful‚ a SWOT was conducted to analyze both the internal and external environments. Strengths Everyone has seen an eHarmony commercial on television and most can tell you what kind of service
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What kind of a platform business is the online personals market? What kind of network effects (direct‚ cross-sided‚ positive‚ and negative) does it leverage? How structurally attractive is it? The online personals market is a specific niche of social networking‚ and it is a sole-sponsor‚ proprietary platform business. In terms of network effects‚ it could be seen as a one-sided network (users can instigate an interaction‚ or can have someone else instigate an interaction with them)‚ but is better
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a large overseas market‚ which is an advantage over eHarmony. In 2006‚ Match launched Chemistry to compete on a better level with eHarmony‚ because the fact that Match focuses on short to medium-term relationships makes it harder for them to become a serious competitor to eHarmony. Match realized that consumers who were looking for serious relationships were more likely to pay for memberships. A major distinction between Chemistry and eHarmony
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3.0 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 3.1 Rivalry among existing competitors: Padini is currently facing the highest level of rivalry from its competitor due to a large number of competitors operating in the same industry as the company. Nowadays‚ more of the company has expanded its scale in order to rivalry fit. Many companies now are more advanced in terms of scale‚ they will have to compete for the similar products and services such as brand image‚ customers’ loyalty‚ and other factor. This would
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eHarmony Memo Given the October 2007 conditions‚ it is imperative that eHarmony expands their membership to those interested in medium-term relationships. Its unique matching algorithm‚ central to its integrated system‚ represents significant differentiation among the competition. Welcoming members who are not specifically marriage-oriented can‚ in fact‚ strengthen its position of “serious” relationships within the personals industry. In addition‚ it is a key moment in the industry history‚ and
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eHarmony If you are single and looking for long-term love‚ eHarmony.com Inc. wants to find you the "perfect mate." With traditional values and modern matchmaking possibilities‚ eHarmony.com has taken the electronic dating scene by storm. eHarmony has united more than 10‚000 couples in marriage in its short history and‚ during 2008‚ had more than seven million registered users. Background In 2000‚ eHarmony was founded by Dr. Neil Clark Warren an evangelical Christian who worked for 30 years
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determine the attractiveness of the market.There are many features of an industry in which a company competes that determines the level of competition it will face and the profits it will get. The most famous classification was done by Michael Porter‚ known as Porters Five Forces framework which can help a company determine its potential profits by looking at five sources of competitive pressure. The five sources of competition are: 1. Threat of new entrant 2. Threat of substitutes 3. Rivalry among existing
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