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Singles – On-line or Introduction Agency – which option works best for you?

Why use an introduction agency when you can pay 10th of the price on an on-line dating site?

The on-line dating site works instantly – you could be in touch with someone immediately, if you strike it lucky.

There are hundreds of thousands to choose from on the on-line dating sites, they say.

With the on-line option you have cheap price, instant success and quantity. Why bother with introduction agencies?

There are, however, many pitfalls that may outweigh the benefits of the dating site but that is for you to decide.

When you make a decision on price you have to expect to get what you pay for.  If you are paying for something for yourself, what type of value do you put on yourself, your future and your safety?

Instant success means you are corresponding with someone immediately and you could be meeting them tomorrow. However, is that person who they say they are and will they still meet you after they have seen your photo?

Quantity, meaning there are hundreds of thousands to choose from. That means that there is much work to be done, wading through the hundreds who are married or far too geeky to ever leave their computer, or overseas, interstate or not even who they say they are.

Susan told me that she had a telephone relationship with a fellow for three weeks before they met. He called her at ten past eight every evening. It fizzled out after they met. She was sure that he was addicted to telephone dating.

Maria flew to Sydney to meet a fellow she met on-line. I asked why wasn’t he flying to Melbourne to meet her. She indicated that he was paying for the ticket. I still thought he could have made the effort to fly to Melbourne. However, it turned out that everything had to be his way down to the minute-est detail, too much for Maria to contend with.

Melissa has a Barbie doll figure, is a natural blonde, has flawless skin and is stunningly beautiful. She told me that one has to have a very thick skin to do on-line dating. That floored me coming from such a beautiful woman.

Tina, a successful business woman tried on-line dating because she thought it would be quick and easy. She met a dentist who seemed very charming.  The next morning she found a red rose taped to the windscreen of her car in the carport at the side of her apartment.  She panicked, how did he get her address? He must have followed her home.

She called him to find out how he knew where she lived and he admitted he had followed her home. The next Saturday morning again there was a red rose on her windscreen. She rang the dentist and told him to stay away from her or she would report him to the police. The following Saturday morning, she discovered that the inside of her car had been covered in acid. All the details she had of this dentist were false and led nowhere.

16th February 2005, Mrs Korp was found unconscious in the boot of her red 1996 Mazda 626. She had been strangled and subsequently died. She met Mr Korp on-line; however he had met someone else and wanted to get rid of her.

The reason women use Entre Nous; (my introduction agency) is because it is safe. You know who you are meeting. They have been qualified and vetted by several staff and most probably have been scrutinised by at least two or three women before you get to meet them.

A woman owes it to herself to protect herself. The mental anguish that follows an unsafe incident can haunt a woman for years.

Men also need to feel safe. The film Fatal Attraction (1987) with Michael Douglas and Glenn Closeshows a man being stalked by a woman after he had a brief encounter with her. The film was particularly scary, especially as the stalker involved his family too.

Using a reputable introduction agency takes time to begin with, meeting the staff, creating a profile, and attending a one-on-one New Member’s Briefing. However once all that has been done it just flows. We do ask you to attend a review quarterly and that’s all. All you have to do is meet the people we send you.  We ask you to meet them twice; don’t date just meet for a coffee to tee up an activity – anything from bushwalking, playing tennis or visiting an art gallery.

Once you are into the swing of meeting a new person each month and continuing to meet the people you met previously the only other time we ask for is a Review on a quarterly basis until you form a permanent relationship. Once you have achieved your goal we ask you to enrol, as a couple, in our Couples Course. This is important because it increases your chance of success in the relationship by 30%.

The matches we chose for you are very carefully, so you will be meeting very  suitable people straight away. We advise you to make friends and start having fun rather than focussing on whether they are Mr/Ms Right.  You are learning what’s important to you and what’s not. We are learning about you from the feedback you give and the feedback the person you met gives, then when you do meet Mr/Ms Right, you will feel you have had a choice.

The choice is important. Too many people, who don’t enrol at an introduction agency meet one person, get involved and spend the rest of their life together trying to adapt. We don’t believe one should need to “work hard at a relationship”; if it’s the right one it should just flow naturally. That’s why it’s important to have a wide choice of people to choose from.

When you do meet someone you feel might be just right for you, we recommend that you take it slowly, ensure he/she can provide you with your long term needs.  The long term needs we helped you to determine when we prepared your Needs Analysis.

Options are important, having options helps to slow you down so that you do not rush into a relationship you might regret. We have discussions with clients, who have previously made poor choices, about looking for warning signals and what to avoid.

Regarding cost of an on-line dating site versus an introduction agency: Although the initial cost of an on-line service seems cheap, dating dozens of women soon mounts up. We have compared the costs with people who have done both and it has been said that one can spend more doing it on-line in a year.  We don’t recommend dating at all and costs are shared by both people.  If one opts for cycling or walking with each person the cost is negligible anyway.

The success of a reputable introduction agency will be tenfold that of an on-line service. At Entre Nous the success after a 12 month’s membership is 87%.

I know at Entre Nous, our Client Relations Team agonise over every match. Each month when the matching is completed a meeting is arranged with the Client Relations Team and the Relationship Consultants including myself to check each match. Any matches that are at all questionable for any reason are replaced.  Everyone must agree to every match before they are delivered to our valued members which means there are very few complaints about our matching.

The advantages for a shy person, a hesitant person, someone who is seeking something very specific like religion of any sort or a particular culture are ideal. The introduction agency caters for all these things.

We have many tips to make it easier for the shy or hesitant person. We can headhunt for the person who is seeking a particular belief or culture. For those who are seeking an income stream to match their own that puts them in a minute percentage of the population, we can also network and headhunt to find them exactly the type of people to suit them.

Whatever your request, if we agree initially we can provide you with the type of people you request you will have an 87% success rate.

Therefore for safety, value for money, time saving and success we believe that there is no comparison with what a reputable introduction agency like Entre offers and what you get from an on-line service.  What do you think?

Rosalind Baker is the Principal and Founder of Entre Nous Introduction Agency, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and author of 3 best sellers, Dial A Woman, Dial A Man and Dial A Personality To find out: Your Personality Type, or to find out”, Are You Eligible” or “Are you ready for a relationship?” 

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About the Author

BAKER (nee Neville) Rosalind Irene, Australian, born 16th June, Brisbane, Queensland. Married to Thomas A Baker with between them they have 6 children and  11 grandchildren.

Author: Dial a Woman, Dial a Man and Dial a Personality; numerous articles on relationships: www.entrenous.com.au/articles

Recreation: swimming, cycling, reading, writing and the Arts, Scrabble and backgammon.

Owner & founder, Entre Nous Introduction Service for professionals, Melbourne Australia 1991 – Director –

For more information, please contact: Rosalind Baker, Principal, Entre Nous

Telephone: (03) 9669 6000 Email: rb@entrenous.com.au

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