Spotlight: Charlie!

It’s nearly the weekend, which can mean only one thing…Spotlight! Everybody, please meet Charlie :-)

WHAT DO YOU DO?
I’m part of the Moderations Team. My job is to monitor the content that is uploaded by our members including profiles, photos and messages. I need to make sure that I am efficient in making decisions in order…

Friday, September 30th, 2011

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Our 8th Birthday Bash!

Amy from the Partner Team reports on our 8th Birthday Bash!

On the 31st August Global Personals turned eight so in true Global Personals fashion, we set aside some time to celebrate. Hanging up our working hats for the day, we took to the streets of Windsor to begin the first part of the action packed…

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

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Eight Years On – How It All Began (Part Two)

(Please click here to read Part 1).

Between 2003 and 2007 we slowly grew the business launching our first own-branded site, Singles365.com, primarily to acquire members while we went out attracting partners to the WhiteLabelDating.com platform such as Yours Dating.

We continued to juggle credit cards, reinvesting funds as soon as they became available- but it was…

Monday, September 26th, 2011

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Congrats to David Walliams On Thames Swim!

It’s official, David Walliams is an absolute legend. He took on and completed the toughest challenge of his life by swimming 140 miles of the Thames in eight days – all for Sport Relief. Whilst he swam near our Windsor HQ, quite a few of the team went down to cheer him on and the…

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

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Spotlight: Holly!

Time for another Spotlight, where we put one of the team through a quick-fire question round. Next up, Holly!

WHAT DO YOU DO?
I work in the Support team as a Customer Care Executive helping our members with any queries they may have.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH THE COMPANY?
Just over 3 months– I’m still a bit…

Friday, September 9th, 2011

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Eight Years On – How It All Began (Part One)

As I sit here writing this, reflecting on the last 8 years, I’m looking out over alluring Arizonian mountains whilst the sun shines in a baby blue sky and pool water laps gently at my feet. Enjoying the comfortably dry 40 degrees Celsius weather, I ask myself – where did it all go so right?…

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

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Dispatch from Affiliate Summit East 2011, NYC

‘By the way, we own 250,000 domains as well. We can sell you direct traffic from them you know. Let’s line up a separate meeting about that…’ Welcome to Affiliate Summit East NYC, where even giant affiliate networks have side ventures and any kind of traffic is for sale.

Entering the main hall at Affiliate…

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

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A New Chapter…

Four years ago, I was asked by Ross and Steve to head up our in-house Support team and become Customer Care Manager. I can still remember to this day thinking how great an opportunity it was, I couldn’t wait to have my very own team! Initially, the Support team consisted of me and one other…

Monday, September 5th, 2011

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