Promotions

The first month of the New Year to Valentine's Day is the season where online dating is usually is at its busiest. The owners of Date.com and MatchMaker.com have a promotion which gives singles a 10 day free trial to try out their dating services (the original promotion was 7 days). The free trial acts just like a paid membership and gives you full email and instant messaging access. Just type in this coupon code when you sign up as a new member:

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For more information on these 2 online dating sites, read our Date.com review and our MatchMaker.com review.

On Wednesday January 7th Lavalife announced their search for Canada's 10 most eligible singles. This is the third year in a row for the event.

All singles have to do is sign up for free to become a member of Lavalife.com, have a great photo and a creative and engaging "In My Own Words" profile. The deadline to enter is Tuesday, February 3, 2009.

On February 18, the judges will announce 30 semi-finalists. At this point the public can visit Lavalife and vote for Lavalife's 2009 Top 10 finalists. On March 11th Lavalife will announce the 10 winners.

The winners will receive a 3 day trip to Toronto and tickets to Lavalife's Red Hot Affair. The grand prize is $10,000 and the runner up will receive a all-inclusive trip for two to Negril, Jamaica, courtesy of Bel Air Travel.

For the full press release, read it at Newswire. For more information on this online dating site, read our Lavalife review.

eHarmony is planning an extra long Free Communication Weekend this New Year. Starting next Thursday, January 1st to January 4th 2009 new members of eHarmony will be able to not only review matches for free but communicate with them as well (just like a paid member).

Since we started counting, this makes it, Free Communication Weekend number 14 for eHarmony. The last two were in November, 2008. This would be a good time to see if eHarmony is the type of dating service for you as the next time this promotion most likely will be available (if history is any indication) is in February, on the Valentine's Day weekend.

Read our eHarmony review for more information on this award winning dating site.

eHarmony is planning a Free Communication Weekend this Friday November 21 to November 23. This is the second free promotion this month for the dating service with the last one running from Oct 31 to Nov 2. This makes it the, lucky number, 13th Free Communication Weekend in total for eHarmony.

With this promotion, you can do the same things on eHarmony as a paid member for 3 days. This means new eHarmony users can review and communicate for free with any matches. If you were thinking of trying out eHarmony, this would be a good time to see if the dating service meets your expectations without spending any money.

Read our eHarmony review for more information on this award winning dating site.

eHarmony is planning another Free Communication Weekend this Friday October 31 to November 2. New eHarmony members will have complete access to the dating site, which includes reviewing of matches, photos, profiles and the ability to communicate with other members. The last Free Communication Weekend was Labour Day (see story).

Visit our eHarmony review for more information on this popular dating service.

According to the unofficial eHarmony blog, eHarmony is planning its eleventh free communication weekend this coming Labour Day. It starts Friday, August 29, 2008 and ends on Monday. September 1, 2008 at midnight. On these 4 days new members of eHarmony will be able to communicate for free and really test drive the dating service. This promotion will be available for both the US and Canadian eHarmony sites.

Visit our eHarmony review for more information and user opinions about this dating service.