I bought the first SneakyFeelings.com ads last Friday on two separate blogs, dcist.com and wizbangblog.com. So far, dcist.com has been the winner in terms of traffic. (3 times the visits in 1/2 the page views) We've had 10 people sign up in about 2 days now; I think blogs are more a weekday, should-be-doing-work-instead type of thing, so next week will see more traffic.

An interesting thing I've been noticing: of the 10 people to sign up so far, 3 have filled out full profiles, and two have posted a picture. I think that many are just filling out the demographic data to get to the point where they can do a search, only to be stopped by the "subscribe" page when they click through the account setup. SneakyFeelings is unique amongst personals sites in that you can't view the profiles without becoming a subscriber; our thinking is that the free month trial and low $5.49 subscription rate should make it pretty affordable. We are striving to be different from the other sites that have separate "member" and "subscriber" access, since they require more oversight on the part of the site operators (thereby raising prices since they need monitors to approve profiles and prevent profile spam) and provide an bad experience for users, who can never be sure if the person they are writing to has an account that permits them to respond to emails. Then they end up sending personal email addresses in their messages and profiles, and lose out on the security that the personals site can provide.

In case you are one of those people who signed up but didn't do the PayPal thing, let me reassure you: You will not be billed for the first month of service. There is absolutely no risk in signing up, and you can cancel at any time on PayPal.com. Thanks for your patronage, and best of luck finding that special someone! :)