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Luton Hoo

Preparations for the Partner Conference

This weekend, the luxurious Luton Hoo Hotel will play host to the 4th annual WhiteLabelDating.com Partner Conference. WhiteLabelDating.com is Global Personals’ multi-award winning B2B platform. It’s been a hectic few weeks at WhiteLabelDating.com HQ, as we’ve frantically battled with PowerPoint, perused wine lists at length (always a fun job!) and ordered partner prizes, all in the name of the… Read more

Spice Girls

Windsor Drag Race

Friday morning was no normal morning at Global Personals Windsor HQ. We were lucky enough to receive a surprise visit from none other than the Spice Girls! (They were, without doubt, better looking than back in the day). What could possibly bring ‘Spice Fever’ to the Global Personals office, you may ask? Well, to tell… Read more

iDate

iDate – Not long to vote!

The 2013 iDate Awards represent the ‘best of the best’ across the industry. There’s not long left to nominate your site to become a nominee, as well as voting for the industry’s elite. WhiteLabelDating.com, the B2B branch of Global Personals Ltd, has been lucky enough to win the iDate Award for ‘Best Dating Software Provider’ for the… Read more

Global Giving

‘Global Giving’ donate £20,000 to charity in last 12 months

Global Personals are lucky enough to have experienced a fruitful nine years with the business continuing to grow and raise profits. Global Giving is our chance to give something back to the wider community. Managed by a team of employee volunteers, a range of fundraising events have taken place throughout the year as part of… Read more

PlanetRock

Planet Rock Success

It’s always great to hear from members who have left the site after finding love. Receiving feedback, success stories in particular, from our members is what makes the whole thing worthwhile. After all, we’re here to help people find love. Back in March, we received an email from Lesley and Malcolm who met on Planet… Read more

Gavin

Spotlight: Gavin!

Happy Friday! You guessed it, it’s that time again already; this week, we’re shining that oh-so-bright spotlight on GlobalDev‘s very own Spiderman, Gavin. What do you do? I design wicked, awesome interfaces. Well, at least that’s what we like to think, here in the User Experience team. We look at the user’s needs and how… Read more

Brand

You can’t be everything to everyone…

A little while ago when I was immersed in the, quite frankly, bizarre world of wedding planning, some wise words were said to me, most probably from my dad. Whilst I worried about the potential fallout from our small guest list or the food that we picked for everyone’s menu, he told me, ‘you can’t… Read more

Awards

Hack Day in the Press

Last week, a crop of our Development Team’s finest were seen looking radiant in the Windsor Observer. The team were clearly over the moon about the success of this year’s second Hack Day, and who can blame them?! The ideas generated from the hack have opened up some exciting pathways for our platform, moving forward…. Read more

Emma

Spotlight: Emma!

After a short break from the blogosphere, Spotlight is back and brighter than ever! This week, we’re introducing the lovely Emma from our Moderation Team. What do you do? I’m a Customer Care Moderator. I work in the Moderation Team to make sure that every member that makes it on to our sites is legitimate…. Read more

Love

5 steps for finding love in a traffic jam

It’s 5.45pm, you’re sat in traffic, there’s nothing good on the radio and all you’re thinking about is getting home to dinner and a glass of wine. But hold on, who’s that? You look over to your right and see the driver of the car next to you is checking you out… and this is… Read more