| Three matchmakers try to help, but Mr. Wrong leads her to Mr. Wow
Lisa Ronis is sitting in a coffee shop with her French hound, Stella, leaving a sparkling message: "I've found the man for you. His name is John. He's hilarious, sexy, and I've given him your number. Let's chat!" For most people this would be a social call, but Ronis is hard at work. She is a professional matchmaker, a member of a booming nationwide industry. There are more than 1,000 private matchmakers in the United States today, according to Marketdata Enterprises, a research group in Florida. And there's even a school to train them: The Matchmaking Institute in New York City molds novice meddlers into professional love brokers. "It's all about efficiency," says Rachel Greenwald, a professional matchmaker in Colorado. "If, say, you're a busy executive, a third-party setup saves you the time it takes to slog through all the dating arenas — spending hours at a crowded party only to go home having met no one." Since it's one thing to hear about the wonders of matchmaking from those who sell the service and quite another to experience it yourself, I decided to test the viability of this venerable institution by asking three matchmakers to work their magic on me.
New Men's Dating Club Match-2-Match.com Launches
Join the newest men's dating club catering to single men looking for single women. Match-2-Match.com offers luxury gifts, slide shows, virtual kisses and meet & mingle parties. Walnut Creek, CA (PRWEB) June 26, 2006 -- Last week the hottest new men's dating club, Match-2-Match.com was officially launched. Match-2-Match.com is different from other dating sites in that it offers a high ratio of women to men and is the only site online that offers Meet & Mingle Parties for members. Match-2-Match.com also offers the ability for members to send a virtual kiss and men have access to their own artistic slide show of beautiful women. Match-2-Match offers luxury gifts and prizes to its gold and silver members, and it brings this type of innovation to everything it does.
Eyewitness News Everywhere Uncovers: $ugar Daddies
Eyewitness News Everywhere Uncovers how ladies who are looking for high rolling men can now turn to the internet to find their Sugar Daddies. We have all heard of the dating websites Match.com and E-Harmony.com, but what about Sugar Daddie.com? Sugar Daddie.com was created a coupe of years ago by a former Wall Street broker who was looking to set up his rich friends with attractive women. It has now transformed into a site with thousands of members, many who say they are finding true love. Eyewitness News Everywhere Reporter Dana Rebik took a look at the site and found a Memphis Woman who found her money maker online. Verlinda Zeno says “I was sitting in the house lonely and I decided to Google different websites and I saw Sugar Daddie and I said oooh! Catchy name!" Zeno says she was hooked. She paid the membership fee and spent some time searching the profiles of local men. There were doctors, dentists, and engineers all who say they are worth hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars.
DANGER LURKS IN TEEN DATING GAME
New York's teen dating scene is a harsh reality of abusive 11-year-olds, 15-year-old rapists, beatings with broomsticks, and girls forced into cocaine addiction at 16. City officials and parents were shocked and appalled last week by findings in the city Health Department's Teen Safety Report. The study gave a disturbing insight into New York's teenage dating violence, which has spiked by 40 percent since 1999. One out of 10 girls at New York high schools have been forced into sex, with reported rapes increasing by 34 percent. One in 10 New York teens have experienced physical violence at the hands of a partner, the study of 8,000 students from grades 9 to 12 found. "In public schools, the violence is way more up-front," said 17-year-old Alex Unger, a senior from an uptown school.
Beware Yahoo Personals’ deceptive billing policy
You might be wondering what a post like this is doing on a blog largely about VoIP, but bear with me. To some extent, this post is about VoIP. And athough I try not to air my consumer grievances here, I am writing this post to warn you about a practice that your knowledge of can save you some dollars. OK, first let us go back a year. My love life, my dating life, was in a rough patch. (If you want details, you buy the next pitcher). Not wanting to remain in the state I just referred to, I decided I would declare a jihad on loneliness. Being a creature of the Internet, I posted a profile on several dating sites including Yahoo! Personals. My Match.com profile soon led to a happy result. That's her photo on the top of my CPU tower. As soon as the ultimately "happy result" became quantifiable, I let my Yahoo! Personals account lapse.
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