The Right One PR

The day we associate with romantic love, Valentine’s Day, is fast approaching. Don’t want to spend another Valentine’s Day sending yourself flowers; or even eating the whole box of chocolates by yourself? You need a plan. Paul A. Falzone, Mr. Matchmaker, who is responsible for a marriage every day, offers advice for how to find Valentine’s Day bliss.

“Everybody wants to be in love on Valentine’s Day,” said Falzone, CEO of The Right One(R) and Together Dating(R).

Here’s how:

First: Join something — the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, Friends of the Library, Alliance Francaise, wine clubs, church singles group, whatever sounds fun to you. Go to the next event.

Second: Tell all of your friends and family you are interested in meeting someone.   “You would not believe how many people we successfully match who have mutual friends, acquaintances or even know family members. Do not assume
your circle knows you are interested in meeting someone,” said Falzone.

Third: Post a profile on an online dating site and start shopping. Or sign up with a dating service that will do the matchmaking for you.

Fourth: Get out. Take your dog to a dog park. Have a drink at the bar before dinner. Walk around your neighborhood. Go to a concert or a club.  Attend a lecture or a take a class.

Fifth: Have a singles party. Invite all of your single friends to bring single friends. You can have anything from a dinner party to a reception, as long as there are plenty of opportunities to meet people.

Sixth: Smile. A pleasant face will attract people to you. Nothing makes you more appealing than enjoying life, with or without romance.

“Love is just around the corner, but you have to be ready for it. But it won’t happen in a closet. You have to be out in the world,” said Falzone.

About Together(R)/The Right One(R)

The Right One(R) and Together(R) create a match every 17 minutes, a marriage every day and serve 300,000 active members. With 30 years of experience, they are the relationship experts. The company includes more
than 300,000 members at 60 locations throughout North America. They do it the old- fashioned way: one-to-one interviews, caring guidance, background checks and a focus on compatibility. They are the largest bricks and mortar
dating services in the industry.

People burnt out by the lies and lack of privacy found on dating sites are turning to one of this country’s 1,600 matchmakers who prescreen potential matches and focus on long-term compatibility rather than short-term chemistry. Mark Brooks of Online Personals Watch has pointed out that the problem for matchmakers has always been casting a wide enough net; for online sites the problem has been narrowing the pool. He advised both to find common ground. The latest crop of hybrids (online dating sites that offer matchmaking services) seems to suggest some are doing just that. Elove.com, one of the larger New York-area hybrid offerings, is an Internet service that gives each participant a 90-minute in-person interview, and then follows up with criminal background and marital status checks. Once approved, photographs and videos are taken and posted by the matchmaking service. Subscribers are then given a password to search elove’s database. FULL ARTICLE @ THE NEW YORK TIMES

When it comes to taking a first vacation with your date, less really is more. Paul A. Falzone, dating guru and CEO of The Right One, Together Dating, and eLove.com, suggests a 2-3 day mini-vacation over a more complicated, lengthy, and/or overseas one. He advocates planning the trip together, discussing budgets, and coming up with a daily game plan. And remembering the Trifecta rule of dating: Never talk about dogs, death, or dating. FULL ARTICLE @ MEDIA SYNDICATE

HonestyOnline takes the lie out of online. “It’s an extra layer of protection to determine if a guy is Jack the Ripper with three wives,” said William Bollinger, EVP National Background Data, a database used by HonestyOnline. At iDate 2007, vendors demonstrate ways to meet, court, virtual date and even marry without ever leaving home. OmniDate can place you in a virtual restaurant with an animated date. On Mobilove, I scrolled through profiles and sent text messages. Already 500,000 Americans have posted their pictures and mini profiles on their cell phones, and users are growing by 20% every month, according to Mobilove VP Nils Knagenhjelm. Thanks to Vumber you can get many numbers with only one phone. If the person dialing one of the numbers turns out to be a less than desirable caller, poof! the number disappears with a few keystrokes. “You can vanish without a trace,” said Geoff Schneider, Vumber’s EVP. Plenty of Fish, with 400,000 hits a day, was created by Markus Frind, who still runs it out of his apartment. He figured out people essentially exaggerate on profile answers. He follows a more sensible creed: actions speak louder than words. For example, Susie says she wants a solid, stable man who earns $100,000-plus but keeps clicking on profiles of muscle-bound bad boys. Plenty of Fish makes sure she meets plenty of underemployed weightlifters, and some of the stable ones she ignores. “People don’t even realize we do this. They just know they are getting results,” said Frind.  Chris Walker is experimenting with behavioral matchmaking. An early innovator, he started in the 1960s with punch card computer dating. After years of matching people, he now focuses on how people choose to spend their time. “The personal touch still blows away everything else out there,” says Paul Falzone, CEO of The Right One and Together, an old-school matchmaking dating service.  FULL ARTICLE @ TIME

According to Paul A. Falzone, CEO of bricks and mortar dating service, The Right One and Together Dating (300,000 members at 60 lccations), “Online dating is not new and it’s not trendy anymore. And, there are too many problems with misrepresentation online. …It’s like the Wild West.”  Now celebrating their 32nd anniversary, The Right One, Together Dating and Elove.com gross $45 million a year. FULL ARTICLE @ THE OPEN PRESS