The Marry Well community is up and running — and growing! Last night when I asked Steve for an update, he said the membership has topped 600 already. And the male-to-female ratio is moving in the right direction: it was 10-to-1 at the start of the beta period and now, just one week later, it's 4-to-1. The gap is closing now that word is getting out beyond this Women Praying Boldly website!
Thanks to all of you you who've emailed your suggestions for improvement using the "Report Bug" button, sent notes of encouragement, and offered to help us spread the word. The MW team has made it easy with "share" and "invite a friend" buttons on the homepage as well as member homepages. If you haven't already, please take a minute to visit the site, and if you like what you see, share the link with your friends via email, Facebook and Twitter.
Incidentally, the community isn't just singles. I'm there as a reference — screen name "AuthorMama" — and you can invite your parents, pastors, and married friends to join, too.
If this is all news to you, or if you're curious but not convinced, there's a handy podcast you can listen to for a lot more detail. During a recent meeting of the founding partners — Steve, Motte, and Kurt — we talked about why we're doing this and what makes our service distinct. And our conversation is available as a podcast. If you listen, you'll hear me talking about the benefits the service offers to women, though I stepped behind the lens for the following post-podcast photo shoot.
And now, back to the to-do list!
I love the site thus far, doing a lot of girl talk right now:) Which I don't know about how other dating sites work but don't imagine that sort of things happens at least not to the degree it is on MW. Came across some individuals that I'm already familiar with from WPB and some new faces and it's just been really encouraging talking to them I see even more possibilities in building relationships with some of the female members and getting feedback from them concerning a guy that's showing interest and that I may be considering, along with references.
So I'm really excited about things to come, I currently have myself in preparing as I deal with some areas I believe I could be stronger in/better prepared. Love the option to do this as well. Loving the articles just loving the site period praying and looking forward to seeing it grow and hearing about connections within the site and marriages to follow:)
Posted by: donna | January 12, 2010 at 05:29 PM
Donna,
Thank you so much for this very timely word of encouragement--we SO appreciate it!! Thanks for taking the time to let me how Marry Well is blessing and serving you.
Candice
Posted by: Candice Watters | January 12, 2010 at 07:49 PM
Absolutely and I thank you all Candice!!
Posted by: donna | January 13, 2010 at 05:42 PM