Connecting Hearts: An Interview with Jill Crosby
Hi Jill, it is such a pleasure to be speaking with you today. It is also so very appropriate to be featuring you in our “Love” Edition in February, especially when you consider how many couples you have connected. You are the creator of the Conscious Dating Network, which is a group of conscious-themed on-line dating sites such as Ascending Hearts and Spiritual Singles. Did you ever imagine you would be the #1 Matchmaker to the Conscious Community? How did it begin? What is your story? Thanks for speaking with me, it is a pleasure to be featured in OM Times Magazine. To answer your question, yes, I did imagine having the largest, exclusively spiritual/conscious online dating site on the Internet! Since day one, I’ve been spiritually guided to do this and I’ve always envisioned it being a big success and helping so many. Back in 1998 I was working for the largest “bricks and mortar” dating company in the US. I was living in San Diego at the time and I was single and dating online myself. The men I was meeting were very nice, but not conscious or “metaphysical” as we called it back then and we didn’t have much in common. I felt like there had to be a more streamlined, effective way to meet spiritual men. I thought, “Why isn’t there an online dating site for conscious/spiritual singles to meet? How cool would that be?” Already working in the dating industry, along with playing matchmaker for friends, I loved helping singles meet their life partners, so I already had the matchmaking bug!
Soon after having those thoughts, I was meditating on the plane coming home from a trip to Boston (I love meditating on planes) and the name “Spiritual Singles” came to me, loud and clear. When I got back home I called a friend that was pretty Internet savvy and asked him how to register a domain name. It’s funny to think back because now I own a lot of domain names! SpiritualSingles.com was the first and only site until I got the idea to have privately labeled sites, like AscendingHearts.com where incredible people like you promote them. Having privately labeled sites helps us grow even faster which benefits everyone, especially the members. I think it’s important to make the distinction here, that your readers only need to join www.AscendingHearts.com since all of the members in the network share the same database.
Nice. So, how did you get it off the ground? What happened next? Back in 1998 I knew absolutely nothing about starting an Internet business, but I did know dating and I did know what spiritual singles needed and wanted! I also didn’t have any capital investment to start a business, but I had motivation and guidance. The synchronicities that started happening to line things up were incredible, especially looking back.
