In most online dating services, Baby Boomers personally sort through an huge inventory of potential matches.

For those people that seem to be a dating possibility, you blindly email them in hopes that s/he will check out your online personal profile, like what s/he reads, and be motivated to continue exchanging email messages. Should your messaging connections work well, you may decide to have a conversation over the telephone followed by a face-to-face meeting at a local coffee shop.

The “meeting between four eyes” is to discover if there is a spark of chemistry between you. After a few dates, the possibility of a first kiss emerges…to see if this frog will turn into the Prince or Princess Charming of your dreams.

Forget the Lengthy Frog Kissing Process!

Premium online dating sites, like eHarmony.com and Chemistry.com (a Match.com venture) that make the matches for you, are a faster and better way to find your fairy-tale soul mate.

In 2000, clinical psychologist Neil Clark Warren, Ph.D., founded eHarmony.com with $3 million in venture capital funding. The company has since grown to $4.1 million in current sales by helping bring couples together from eHarmony’s 14 million registered users–leading to 90 marriages every day.

Greg Waldorf, CEO of eHarmony, played a customer service call last year at a board meeting to demonstrate the benefit of helping clients connect when an automatic match is made. It was from a single woman in her 50s who hadn’t gone on a date in more than 20 years. She asked the customer care agent how she should respond to a match inquiry, not in a technical sense, but she literally wanted to know what she should say. The agent coached her, telling her to be herself and to talk as if they’d met for a cup of coffee. The woman sounded grateful at the end of the call. “We are in an industry that inherently will have a lot of disappointment, so it’s an especially tall challenge to make sure people are left with a good impression,” Waldorf says.

Source: 1to1 magazine, October 2007

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Celia