has programmers all over the world whose
business is to construct complex sites.
The overall project was two years before our “soft launch” a few months ago.
One on One with the
Founder and Creator of
America's most popular
new relationship website
- for Latinos and Latinos
all over the world!
Latin Times Media: How and why decided to create LatinConexiones.com
Hig Rodriguez-Dillinger: The need was
actually defined by the communities that
LatinConexiones is designed to serve. I
have traveled extensively throughout the
United States, Caribbean and Central &
South America. So, I have had great opportunity to test many of the ideas that
form the mission of CEBCOR Corporation to serve the Latin, Hispanic and Caribbean communities. During the many
conversations I heard so many comments
that there really isn’t a relationship site
that serves those communities properly.
There have been some sites available but
the focus of those sites is almost strictly on the physical attributes, sexiness or
weekend adventures. As a result most
people have been completely turned off
by anything that resembles a dating site.
Among my observations during my travels were the very apparent traditional values, cultural pride, strength of heritage,
devotion to family, respect of relationships, the role of religion and the personal core values. It is a given that the communities in our marketplaces produce
handsome men and beautiful women that
trigger the attraction to one another. But
it is the core values and qualities that sustain a friendship or deeper relationship.
I already had a website designer under
contract who built the site for many other businesses including my contracting
business so we huddled and discussed the
design of www.cebcor.com and the construction of www.latinconexiones.com.
I provided the general sense of how the
site should appear and function and she
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I believe that a very fair characterization
is that the site has been created by, and
for, Hispanics, Latinos and Caribbean’s.
Latin Times Media: What makes LatinConexiones.com
different
than
other dating or relationship sites?
Hig Rodriguez-Dillinger: One of the most
gratifying reactions I have experienced
is the volume of complements that I have
received from all over the world about the
appearance, presentation and feel of the
site. Those who visit are immediately impressed that it is a site that is devoted to
developing friendships and relationships.
It also shows some of what love looks like
as it is expressed between two people. It
is very apparent that it is not a “hook-up”
site and it does not attempt to orchestrate
who meets whom. We feel that we should
leave the many, many personality questions
to the members to find the answers they
seek about one another. How people ask
and answer questions of each other is a very
exciting part of forming a new relationship.
We allow unlimited photos and we have
included an article on both of our websites about the type and quality of photos
to add. We are all very unique and we are
all multi-faceted and the photos are a very
important opportunity for members to
show themselves in the many different settings that are their life. We offer support to
our members that goes beyond what most
sites offer. Relationship experts report that
one of the most difficult challenges that
people have enrolling on a site is writing
their profile. We all have difficulty being completely objective about ourselves
so LatinConexiones offers assistance in
this area. To facilitate that assistance we
are training people in their home countries to help new members create an accurate description to attract other members.
Latin Times Media: What type of members do you want to attract to the website?
Hig Rodriguez-Dillinger: We feel that we
will attract new members who value true
friendships and true relationships and sincerely believe that love grows from those
two flower beds. We all have friends that
we love dearly and we treasure those friendships. We all have relationships that we
respect and admire and we treasure them
dearly. Not all of us have the love of a lifelong partner. Yet! But most of us know,
or have seen, true love and how beautiful a place it can be. I believe that most
of us believe that the