Category: Contributed Articles
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Quality over Quantity Clients
Global Love Report – October 19, 2022 by Michelle Begy, Founder and MD of Ignite Dating Quality over Quantity clients: How Working With Quality Clients Brings the Quantity When you start out in business it can be tempting to put all your energy into securing as many customers as possible. This makes sense as every…
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Best Digital Tools for Matchmaking Professionals
Global Love Report – September 21, 2022 by Abba Grande, exclusively written for matchmakinginstitute.com Digital tools make businesses and industries more efficient. That’s why ZDNet notes the key digital trends this year include digital transformation investments: more companies are prioritizing digital initiatives to help achieve their goals. Another is the automation of tasks for quicker…
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How I navigated the pandemic to build a successful matchmaking business
Global Love Report – June 29, 2022 by Michelle Begy, Managing Director and Founder of Ignite Dating It is always going to be tough launching a brand-new business, but throw a global pandemic into the mix and you have a potential recipe for disaster. Just 10 weeks after our launch, the whole country went into…
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Waiting on Weight
Global Love Report – February 9, 2022 by Brigitte Weil, Matchmaker and Food Coach. Don’t hate me but I am going to say it: It is really hard to be single and dating right now, and carrying extra weight, for some, makes it even harder. We all choose who we want to work with, so…
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How the Pandemic has Affected Dating
Global Love Report – December 22, 2021 by Dr. Justin R. Garcia, Executive Director of the Kinsey Institute, a Professor of gender studies at Indiana University, and scientific adviser to Match. The pandemic has been hard on romantic relationships. That’s the conventional wisdom—the idea that couples, locked down and scared, looked at their partner in…
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Must We Agree on What Love Is?
Global Love Report – October 13, 2021 by Margot Finley, Matchmaker and Relationship/Dating Coach Last month we focused on how love is defined. This month, we consider the impact of differing views of love within a relationship. Does it matter if two people in a couple agree on what “to love someone” means? This question…
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Why Start an Offline Dating Business Today?
Global Love Report – August 11, 2021 by Vanessa Oliver, Contributor It’s easy to think that, due to its prevalence, online dating is performing much better than its offline counterpart. However, matchmaking industry statistics suggest a different picture. Globally, offline dating services have a value of $3.4 billion, compared to online dating at $2.9 billion.…
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Educational Series: How to Manage Client Expectations
Global Love Report – January 27, 2021 by Lori Mendelsohn, Certified Matchmaker and Dating Coach All of us who are in the Love Industry want to make everlasting connections for our clients. After all, it’s why they hired us-correct? They have been unsuccessful on their own-perhaps had a few heartbreaks, divorces, or setbacks along the…
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How to Grow Your Matchmaking Agency Despite The Pandemic
Global Love Report – January 20, 2021 by Amie-Leigh Claricoats The last nine months have been a challenge for everyone. As individuals, we have witnessed massive upheaval in the way that we live our lives, with changes to our routines, our family life, and our ability to socialize. Add to the mix trying to…
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How Social Media Has Transformed Matchmaking
Global Love Report – October 28, 2020 by Abba Grande Social media has quickly turned into one of the most influential technological innovations of the modern age. It has transformed everything from communication to advertising, as social media has been seamlessly integrated into our everyday lives. So much so that some colleges have even started…