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‘Serial daters’ Vs ‘One-at-the-time daters’

I have two good male friends and one female friend who seem to have a date pretty much every other day and they love the pace! I also have 2 friends of each gender who only date very occasionally i.e. once or twice a year, but when they do they seem to have very high expectations for that one date which can easily cause unnecessary upset.

So, which formula works better? Well, if you think of dating as ‘numbers game’ which it can be, it would have to be the former which Mary Balfour calls the ‘Domino-dating’ formula: the more people you meet the more chance you have of meeting the right one. This is especially effective when using an internet dating site where it’s easy to arrange dates for every single night of the week if you’ve got the time!

What agencies like Drawing Down the Moon can do is to help people who are busy professionals who don’t have time or the inclination to scroll through Internet dating sites – people who want someone else to do the ‘leg-work’ for them.

My opinion is the more avenues you explore the better!

What would be your preference?

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 11:39 am and is filed under Dating, Drawing Down the Moon, Mary Balfour, Matchmakers, Meeting New People, Online. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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iDate – Dating Conference, Miami – January 2012

Hi, Pier Reid here, the general manager of Drawing Down the Moon. I was lucky enough to go to Miami last week to attend the iDate conference 2012 where I met up with other personal matchmakers from all over the world and lots of great people who own online dating sites. It was really interesting to hear all about the latest online dating technology and also ideas from those who , like Drawing Down the Moon, provide a personal matchmaking service.

Whilst sitting in one of the seminars, I was telling everyone about some of our ‘happy endings’ who are going to be filmed shortly so that they can share their stories with you on our website. Well, practically everyone broke into hysterical fits of laughter to my complete surprise! I asked why there were all laughing as we obviously believe that there is no better advert for Drawing Down the Moon than our ‘happy ending’ couples and again this caused even more hysteria. Comments started to be shouted out ‘oh if only this was on video, she’d go viral’ and ‘oh Pier I need to take you for a massage’.

Thankfully all was finally made clear by one of the lovely American matchmakers who whispered in my ear that in the States a ‘happy ending’ is something which certain masseurs offer to chaps at the end of their massage! I don’t think I have ever wanted the ground to open up and swallow me faster.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 4:09 pm and is filed under Drawing Down the Moon, General, iDate, Matchmakers, Online. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Why Career Women Reject Internet Dating

The internet is creating a growing asymmetry of expectations between men and women in the dating market. Men are increasingly turning away from personal introduction agencies in order to take advantage of the cheaper, more techy and more impersonal medium of the internet agencies.

Women, on the other hand, want the greater security, ID checks and selectivity of personal agencies. That’s why there is an increasing gender imbalance in both kinds of services. And that’s why Drawing Down the Moon, adopting HR industry techniques, now headhunts for men to introduce to their high flying women members. Their team of ambassadors, working on handsome commission, seek out high calibre, relationship-minded men (and some women) in all sorts of venues: gallery openings, book launches, professional associations, sports events, gatherings of one sort or another.

MD, Mary Balfour, is ‘never off-duty’ & even recruited a lovely guy via the airport check-in queue and another via Freecycle.com – where she lost no time in enquiring whether a handsome TV director was single – she was seeking a new home for a vintage film projector!

Call us on 020 7224 1001 10.30am – 11pm 7 Days a week.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 11:50 am and is filed under Dating, Drawing Down the Moon, Mary Balfour, Meeting New People, Online, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

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Share Your Best and Worst Dating Stories

We have a new Facebook page for you to share your best & worst date stories! They will be rated by Mary Balfour, dating expert! http://ow.ly/3ksRx

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This entry was posted on Monday, December 6th, 2010 at 11:30 am and is filed under Dating, Drawing Down the Moon, Mary Balfour, Online. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.