Do you find it interesting being a matchmaker? Do your colleagues treat you as a smart matchmaker? Do you have at least twenty percent success rate in your efforts so far in the offline mode? If your answer to any or all of the above questions is "YES" and if you enjoy your hobby of matchmaking in a big way, then you are just about perfect to start with an online dating service.

Current Popularity of online dating service:

Online dating service is definitely one among the most popular services on the internet. According to a recent research conducted by an independent agency in Florida, more than 800,000 unique hits are being generated by the web's 20 most popular dating sites per day on an average over 30 days. This should definitely confirm our comment on the popularity of the online dating service.

Starting with a script:

It is always a better idea to start with an online dating script, when you first try to conceptualize your idea of starting an online dating site. There many good number of free online dating scripts available on the internet. You should first do a bit of online research before zeroing down on a single dating script. Research will equip you with quite a bit of knowledge about the available dating scripts and the features which are quite common in the market place of dating scripts. This helps you in getting to a conclusion on which features you want, which you don't and which features you want in an advanced stage.

Starting a dating site:

After choosing a right free online dating script try and install it on your existing website. Most of these free online dating scripts come with a very easy to use and web based installation service. So, you don't need any programming experience (normally) to install these online dating scripts. After the installation, you should always play around with the features of the script so that you get used to the script in a very good fashion. If you have any knowledge of programming, then it is always recommended to play around with a bit of code as well.

After setting up your won online dating business with the free online dating script, you will be paid by the hit. You can make it a subscription type of site where members will pay you to use advanced services like contacting a member through your dating site or getting the contact information of the interested member and so on. So, the show is entirely yours. You should get your passion of match making into this business and use the available data base to make as many match fixings as possible so that your online dating business will become very productive. The success mantra lies here definitely.

Choosing a Niche Market:

You can even concentrate on a specific niche, like you can have a dedicated dating site on your dating script for senior online dating or only for teenagers or for people with similar tastes and so on. There are many advantages in this approach. If you concentrate on a specific niche, then you can understand your audience in a much better way. This way you can streamline your website and the dating site services in way that is more suitable to your audience. If the visitors find the web site interesting for them then your online dating business should be a big hit in your online dating business.

Providing consistent and valuable information through something like a newsletter is always a very important thing to do. This will increase the interest of your visitors and may create good mouth publicity. However, it is very important not to spam their inboxes with the unnecessary and unwanted information. So, you should try and find out a right balance.

Moving to a customized solution:

If you can keep these things in mind, then you can definitely start very well with your own online dating business with a free dating script. As and when you feel comfortable of going to the next level you can choose a high quality, feature rich dating script from a large available pool on the internet or you can go for a custom built dating script for you. Either of this approach should be fine. Hence, put in perfect efforts to make some serious cash with the existing demand for great online dating services.