Category: SelectiveSearch

Online Dating Gets Competition From Local Matchmakers

Posted on May 2, 2007

MEDILL REPORTS — May 1 — Reasons for choosing an offline matchmaking service

  • Singles work one-on-one with a relationship expert to assess goals and tactics for conquering the dating world.
  • Staff members can vouch for his or her credibility. No more knights in rusted armor.
  • Someone else does the preliminary work for you.  All you have to do is show up.
  • A number of matchmaking services only select commitment-minded men and women, so it's easier to avoid those singles only looking for a fling.
  • Many companies also have image and fashion consultants in addition to relationship and life coaches.
  • You can avoid the bar scene. Period.

Selective Search (Chicago) focuses on a high-end clientele but the service is pricey: men pay $10,000.

The full article was originally published at Medill Reports, but is no longer available.

Mark Brooks: Together Dating / The Right One, Great Expectations, and It's Just Lunch all offer different spins on offline matchmaking. MyPartnerPerfect is headed by Patrick Perrine, a gay matchmaker and human sexuality expert.

Online Dating Gets Competition From Local Matchmakers

Posted on May 2, 2007

MEDILL REPORTS — May 1 — Reasons for choosing an offline matchmaking service

  • Singles work one-on-one with a relationship expert to assess goals and tactics for conquering the dating world.
  • Staff members can vouch for his or her credibility. No more knights in rusted armor.
  • Someone else does the preliminary work for you.  All you have to do is show up.
  • A number of matchmaking services only select commitment-minded men and women, so it's easier to avoid those singles only looking for a fling.
  • Many companies also have image and fashion consultants in addition to relationship and life coaches.
  • You can avoid the bar scene. Period.

Selective Search (Chicago) focuses on a high-end clientele but the service is pricey: men pay $10,000.

The full article was originally published at Medill Reports, but is no longer available.

Mark Brooks: Together Dating / The Right One, Great Expectations, and It's Just Lunch all offer different spins on offline matchmaking. MyPartnerPerfect is headed by Patrick Perrine, a gay matchmaker and human sexuality expert.

Looking For Love in Cyber Places

Posted on February 13, 2005

BANKRATE — Feb 11 — Internet dating is by far the most common, and least expensive, matchmaking method. There's something for everyone, from AmericanSingles.com, Match.com and Yahoo! Personals to the more specialized.  With fees starting at $10,000, single men can use Selective Search and receive the "white glove treatment." Staff members are all former corporate recruiters and the company uses the same executive-search model as headhunters to find women to introduce to the men. "If you think about a traditional dating service, it's flawed in the sense that it's such a limited pool to pick from," says Adler.

Mark Brooks: See the future.  Well heeled singles will shell out more money for higher end services online. 

Looking For Love in Cyber Places

Posted on February 13, 2005

BANKRATE — Feb 11 — Internet dating is by far the most common, and least expensive, matchmaking method. There's something for everyone, from AmericanSingles.com, Match.com and Yahoo! Personals to the more specialized.  With fees starting at $10,000, single men can use Selective Search and receive the "white glove treatment." Staff members are all former corporate recruiters and the company uses the same executive-search model as headhunters to find women to introduce to the men. "If you think about a traditional dating service, it's flawed in the sense that it's such a limited pool to pick from," says Adler.

Mark Brooks: See the future.  Well heeled singles will shell out more money for higher end services online.