If a high-net-worth mate is your ideal, a plethora of dating sites offer an inventory of men who say they earn at least six figures annually. You can troll sites such as MillionaireMatch.com....., actor Charlie Sheen was a member of MillionaireMatch for a few months. Steve Kasper, marketing vice president at San Jose, Calif.-based MillionaireMatch, says the company never reveals the identity of its members, and that Sheen was outed by another member. Despite the drop in visitors, online-dating industry revenues have grown as companies raised monthly membership fees and membership lengths increase. Total US industry revenues rose 10 per cent to $659 million in 2006, and Jupiter forecast a compound annual growth rate of 8 per cent through 2011.

Online dating has revolutionized the traditional meet & greet of relationship set-ups, blind dates and barhopping and is becoming convenient, empowering, fun and interesting. In today's environment, busy professionals do not have enough hours in the day to complete normal everyday task let alone try to find that special someone or casual acquaintance. Dating alone can be a difficult mission and finding that right individual who fits your unique needs is even more challenging. Millionaire dating is on the rise and single professionals are seeking dating resources in order to meet that successful man or woman of their dreams. Here are three of the hottest online dating services that cater to professional individuals with busy lifestyles. MillionaireMatch.com is a premier service that provides successful professionals with a place to meet quality individuals. MillioniareMatch.com prides itself on upscale clients such as CEO's, doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, celebrities and professional athletes and has just implemented a certification service of millionaire members. The initial membership is free to sign up however there is a gold membership for selected clients that requires a fee. The free membership includes a profile post, email and conducting profile searches. MillionaireMatch.com members can enjoy online chats and can create their own blog for extra exposure.

Is Your Soul Mate Search on Target? The following Internet Dating Services article is a guest submission, by Ian D. Klein. When a new member registers with an online dating community, there are no rules stating that they must stay exclusively with that service. It is perfectly appropriate to join more than one community in an effort to increase your odds of success. I suggest at least two. The first should be an all-inclusive, mainstream website like Match.com or Yahoo Personals. This will place your profile in front of the world's largest audiences, for better or worse. Unfortunately, in such mammoth communities, some members may be more likely to disappear amongst the crowd. To counteract this common downside of mainstream dating websites, an additional community should be chosen. The second community should have more focus and increased relevance to you and your individual soul mate searching needs. These highly specialized personals websites are commonly referred to as "niche communities", and they play an integral role in online dating. Niche dating communities are as diverse and unique as the individual members who use them. Since these communities cater exclusively to very specific audiences and their common needs, a new member is likely to find more suitable candidates, receive more invitations to connect, and experience an unparalleled comfort level throughout the process. Please consider the following ten questions that have inspired many popular niche dating communities, and decide which of these are most important to you and your soul mate search. Be aware that while some of these questions focus on areas that may seem shallow or superficial to you, beauty and compatibility are defined differently by different people. I have followed each of these questions with several example websites. For some sites, I felt that the name spoke for itself and required no further explanation. ... What is your education level, career path, or salary level? MillionaireMatch.com - clients include CEOs, professional athletes, doctors, lawyers, etc.

The Online Dating Industry Journal reported earlier this week that Matthew Perry, best known for his portrayal of Chandler on the hit TV sitcom Friends, may be using online dating site Millionairematch.com to find a partner. The Journal also stated that NOW Magazine outed Matthew Perry's online dating intentions with an online dating profile that says he is, "cute and adorable, though pained and lonely." This isn't the first time a celebrity has used an online dating site to find love. Joan Rivers has a online profile, Halle Berry chats online, and Alec Baldwin intimated to People Magazine that he's thinking about writing an online dating profile.

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, many of you are looking for love. But is love enough these days? There are a lot of Jacksonville ladies out there looking for cash to go with their crush. And there are a lot of men out there ready, willing, and able to accommodate. CBS47/FOX30's Leslie Coursey takes a closer look at singles searching for a sugar daddy online. Web makes your millionaire match search easy You go to the same bars, you see the same people, you interact with the same people, says local single Shannon O'Donnell. And it just gets old." Like so many people in her situation, Shannon turned to the internet for dating. "I started off and met tons of people, she says. I probably went on 100 dates. And then one day, I had a little pop up that said to go to millionairematch.com, and I said, well, I'm dating all these guys. I might as well date one with money." She logged on, and after a few emails and phone calls, Shannon snagged herself a sugar daddy. They had a series of weekend rendezvous. He definitely had a lot of money, Shannon says. He showed up in his escalade and had already rented me a suite in a hotel and he had stayed in a hotel away from mine, which was nice, not presumptuous. Despite the mutual interest, Shannon says the relationship eventually didn't work out because he lived in Atlanta. We went out to great dinners, went to some shows, went shopping. He was definitely a sugar daddy, absolutely." There are dozens of online dating sites aimed at matching men with money with women who want it. Rich men looking for arm candy, someone to spoil, even extra-marital affairs. If you find somebody that you like [...] and they happen to have money, why not?

Ann Powers makes unemployment glamorous. She's sassy and sexy, the kind of woman who jaunts off on a weeklong sailing trip to Antigua because it calms her nerves and costs less than paying for therapy. She dabbles in stand-up comedy because, well, why not? She's got time. Getting laid off really frees up the day. To Ann, looking for a job is a lot like dating. First impressions are so important. She still gets Botox just in case she snags an interview or a man, and takes care to maintain her size-2 figure and golden bob. Her adventures in labor and in love are chronicled every day on her blog. "The one good thing about being unemployed is that I can eat chocolate chip cookies with a glass of red wine at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, which is about the time I've hit the wall searching for my next 'big opportunity,' " Ann writes in one entry. In another: "I confess, I also signed up for an account on MillionaireMatch.com. The longer you're unemployed, the more you acquire a Cinderella-feeling about wanting to feel rich." The blog is called Girl On The Brink because that's where Ann resides, on the thin line between defiance and desperation, sarcasm and survival, laughing and crying. In Ann's world, she's not unemployed. She's "funemployed," in the new vernacular of the recession, among the thousands of white-collar workers who may be out of work but still make it to the gym. In this line of thinking, losing a job is like pulling up the anchor that once moored you to a mortgage, a daily routine and a career, setting you free to pursue your wildest fantasies. The only catch? Ann Powers isn't real. The name is a pseudonym for Jayne Lytel, who likes to refer to Ann as her "alter ego." A 53-year-old mother of two, Jayne lives in a tony Northwest Washington neighborhood, in a blue brick house with a white picket fence. Most of Jayne's life has been decidedly un-Ann-like. Jayne's younger son, Leo, was diagnosed with autism at age 2. Determined to help him battle the disability, she and her then-husband, David Lytel, undertook an elaborate rehabilitation program. Jayne orchestrated as much as 35 hours a week of specialized instruction for Leo with seven different tutors for seven years. She published a book about her experience, established a foundation devoted to early detection of autism and became a sort of celebrity among advocates. Leo, 10, is now the subject of a medical study of children who have "recovered" from autism, although many experts remain skeptical. But Jayne has no doubt. Leo can play soccer, solve math problems and shoot her a smile so big it makes her heart break. "I got my kid back," Jayne says. But the cost of Leo's therapies pushed the Lytels into bankruptcy in 2005, and the pressures contributed to the couple's separation in 2007 and divorce a year later. Jayne had quit her communications job to funnel her energies into caring for Leo. The sacrifice left a yawning hole inside her. Then, about two years ago, Jayne started dating a wealthy man from California and returned to work as marketing director for an educational nonprofit. Life wasn't perfect, but it was pretty darned good. Until last fall, when Jayne's budding existence got swept into the dustbin of our national economy. She was laid off seven days before Thanksgiving. Next, her boyfriend dumped her via e-mail, put off, she says, by the needy person she had become. Worse, her ex-husband also had been laid off from his job as a political consultant. So he moved back into the house with her, Leo, and their older son, Lucas, 12. He sleeps in the master bedroom upstairs near the children; she lives in the in-law suite in the basement. They split the bills. For months, Jayne stayed up at night in her underground hole, lying on her bed, watching reality TV and dreaming about all the ways life could be different. Then one winter morning, in the dark, silent hours before the kids or her ex had awakened, Jayne started tapping away at her computer in her makeshift bedroom, writing about the purgatory of unemployment and its unwelcome accoutrements:

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are gone. So is Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison. They're all no longer billionaire bachelors. But don't fear. If a high-net-worth mate is your ideal, a plethora of dating sites offer an inventory of men who say they earn at least six figures annually. You can troll sites such as MillionaireMatch.com to find deep pockets. (Men seeking sugar mamas on these sites typically have fewer choices because profiles of wealthy men tend to outnumber profiles of wealthy women.) Sure, these find-a-rich-guy sites might sound dubious, but they insist they provide a valuable service to wealthy people who are too busy running businesses to hang out at bars, clubs and other social venues. "These guys work a lot of hours. It's very convenient to sit in your office and look through a catalogue of women" on your computer. Lucky them. It's also cheaper than traditional matchmakers. For instance, MillionaireMatch charges members about $30 a month, while high-end matchmakers charge clients thousands of dollars. The sites also claim to have higher-profile members, such as CEOs, celebrities and major sports figures, than broad-based sites. For instance, actor Charlie Sheen was a member of MillionaireMatch for a few months. Steve Kasper, marketing vice president at San Jose, Calif.-based MillionaireMatch, says the company never reveals the identity of its members, and that Sheen was outed by another member.