meetagreek.com----what would you think?
 

Since so many people have been mentioning it, I figure I'd go ahead and let the cat out of the bag to some degree.



For the past month I've been taking bids from developers and designers on coming up with a web site that will allow Greeks to meet each other and connect. It'll be designed, to some degree, after match.com. It takes a while for something like this to go from the drawing board to being a reality. And its not cheap, believe me. There are all sorts of things that have to be done, many of which hurt my brain just thinking about them, inorder for it to happen. However, its not just for greeks but also for non-greek college age people. It'll have chats, message boards, many forums for a specific GLO that interests you as well as profiles for you to view and tests you take to match up your interest. Its a big task. I'll keep you guys posted on the progress of it.


Craig

I'd come up w a different name, or Greek Nationals would be flooding the site. And I would not limit it to college age, as its the alums that most often have harder time meeting like minded people...

The name i used was just something to grab peoples attention to the thread....I have yet to come up with a name and have yet to work out all the specifics on who/what age group it'll be aimed at.

Is there room within the market for something this specific? Obviously there's collegeclub.com, (albeit not really a dating site exactly) for example.

Richard, there is room for everything on the net.

meetagreek.com vs collegeclub.com vs match.com vs hotornot.com etc...?
 

I didn't intend to be negative and dampen enthusiasm, I just wondered about market feasibility? Given the dotcom boom and bust we all saw. Those were generally business to consumer sites too.

That sounds like a really good idea. Good luck with it and keep us posted!

did you reserve a domain yet?

Well, I'm just doing it for a little extra cash. If I make back the money I put into it, I'll be satisfied.

Thats being worked on as we speak. I've also got a couple of webmasters who are anxious to get it going.

would you charge people to register or would it be ad-based revenues?

If they want to actually contact each other they'd need to buy a membership. We're thinking of having 1 week trials, 1 month meberships, 6 months memberships and year memberships. The longer membership you buy, if you did buy one, would naturally be cheaper depending on how long you want to be apart of it. However, if all you want to do is view the profiles and flirt there would be no charge. But if you want to contact someone via email or by other means, you'd need to buy one of the trial memberships. There would be no charge on becoming a member of the site inorder to just view it

That sounds realistic. As I understand most websites in that 'genre' operate on a similar model e.g. hotornot.com. mu_agd brings up a really good point, I know Yahoo moved in the last two years over from ad-based revenues. The market for those dropped (we all hate pop-ups!) so now there's premium packages etc. Adding extra features for extra $$ would keep the margins looking good.

So as I'm understanding, it's like match.com etc but geared specifically to collegiate age students unlike existing ones which are for all ages but generally cater to professional people with less time for bars and whatnot. And, you plan to innovatively offer a greek element so they can search for/specify GLOs etc?
So if I was a female and logged into it I could browse Pikes? Or as a guy I could look for ZTAs in Cali interested in whatever. Obviously the details will all come later but broadly speaking have I understood what you're planning?

Yes, you have an understanding of how it will work.

Best suggestion I have if you haven't done so already is find an attorney experienced in Intellectual Property (trademark protection law and whatnot) and set about protecting those parts of your idea that require it. But maybe that's just the lawyer2B in me speaking. :)

Maybe he'll have a category on there called "Imaginary Fraternity" and you can look for girls in there that match you.

-Rudey
--Get your Hobbit friends to join while you're at it.

There are websites called www.meetgreeks.com and www.meetagreek.com which is down for maintenance.

It sounds like a great idea! Good luck! :)

Following a quick query on each domain...

With regard to meetagreek.com, the domain is owned by one Christos Poulloura living in England. Most likely assumption is this one is (to be) set up as a site for meeting ethnic greeks, given the name and location of the domain owner (outside N. America).

The first one, www.meetgreeks.com, does mention (mainly) NPHC orgs (for e-greeting cards) but as well as being down for maintenance doesn't look as if it's been updated in a long time (given dates on site etc).

Doesn't look as if they're in a similar vein to your proposal so like Peaches-n-Cream said it sounds like a great idea and seems a pretty unique one too. Good luck!

lol

well i think there are already college dating sites but i am 99% sure they don't ask anything about Greek affiliation.

i think its a great idea because as an active greek I find non-greeks definitely don't understand why people become so involved in the GLO and why its such a time committment. i actually prefer to date greeks, the only problem is the greek community at my school is so small that everyone always finds out all your business.

Girl, even at big schools that schit happens. Its gonna happen regardless. I'm infamous in a couple of house at UF, and UF has a big Greek community. If you're popular amongst certain circles at your college, your buisness is going to be found out. It doesn't matter if you hooked up with a chick in the frat house, that schit is gonna get out to other chicks and/or your girlfriend in some way or form. After a while you just don't give a rats a$$, I started liking the idea of bouncing from to house to house to house. It got to the point where, if i saw a girl I liked....I'd introduce myself to her at a party and tell her I'm going to seduce her before its all said and done....most of them thought it was funny. In a lot of cases it was true.

LMAO!!!!!

I don't think Richard likes that comment. You guys shouldn't pick on Decadence. I think he's trying to get a frat started over there.

Question, why would nationals get pissed at this?

CTFU. omg, this was funny.

Word. The dating pool becomes a puddle after a certain age. ;)

Rudey, you always manage to crack me up!!

Yea even at my school, with a huge greek system, you can't avoid this. And like my little sis says people here "never die!!!" ie you will still run into EVERY person you ever date/casually see/have a one night stand with ALL the time. It really does suck. And in most cases once you've dated a guy from one fraternity chances are you are not going to date one of his brothers later on down the road. HOWEVER, that doesn't apply to randomly making out and I think in a few cases even dating. :rolleyes: :p :D