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Posted by Rob Lewis on Tue, June 19, 2007 3:17 PM · Filed under Vancouver · Comments

POF LogoRajan Sodhi of BIG Marketing for Small Business point to a humorous clipfrom NBC's Today Show featuring Markus Frind, founder of the popular free dating site Plentyoffish.com. The Vancouver-based dating site is now the #1 online dating site in both Canada and the UK and recently hit #3 in the United States, closing in on Match.com.

Markus is a one-man operation working out of his condo and charges nothing for users to sign up and use the service. Instead, he collects $1 million cheques from Google for their Adsense program - nice business model. You can follow Markus' progress and his insightful commentary on the online dating space on his blog.

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