Monetizing People Search: MyLife.com CEO Jeff Tinsley (Part 6)

SM: What is the benefit of having a paid personal profile? JT: By having a profile you can get access to the actual directory for your own benefit and be notified when people search for you. The demand for people finding each other is so huge it is shocking.

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Monetizing People Search: MyLife.com CEO Jeff Tinsley (Part 5)

SM: I have to believe that you could tell us what the top five reasons people pay to search on your site are. JT: Very broadly, the two primary reasons people search are because they want more information about a person and they want to get in touch with a person. About 60% of our

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SM: Essentially, you have created a search engine for people where you crawl the Web and put information together? JT: Correct. You can run a search in one place to get information about anyone. You can also find your own record and find out who has been searching for you. Some people who search for

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