Business presentation

Mission

This small business mission is to allow people to have quick meetings with other people. As a result, they will be able to find a couple or make strong friendship relationships. In addition, this service looks forward to break the fears of people when opening to others, so "breaking the ice" is going to be a lot much easier under the group cohesion techniques that we are going to provide.

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Vision

"Meet Your Mate" projects as a very successful small business by one year, with a positioned brand name that allow us to be prefer between our customers. As well as, reinvesting profits in order to allow the business expansion into new alliances that help us in the positioning process.

Business Values

• Commitment.
• Responsibility.
• Sensitivity.
• Braveness.

Interaction Process: What is speed dating?

Let’s face it, by now you know it takes meeting a number of people before you find someone you have a connection with. But the problem is, how do you meet them in the first place? Sure there are ways–bars, blind dates, dating services online, etc. But they all have their disadvantages and they take time…lots of it. What fun is it to wait around for someone to talk to you in a bar or when you’re out and about? What fun is it to risk rejection over and over again striking up conversations with people you don’t even know are single? If the conversation goes well, what about the awkwardness afterwards with asking for phone numbers? With Speed Dating, you meet up to 12 (and sometimes more) single professionals in less than 2 hours. Think of it as a series of “facilitated introductions” just like when you go to a party with a good host. Afterwards, if there’s interest (you discreetly circle on your interest sheet who you would like to hear from again), you’ll get an email with links to contact these event participants. There’s no pressure, no rejection, no embarrassment and no games!.

Advantages

• Quick meetings.
• Loosen environment while speaking.
• High porcentage of compatibility between matches.
• Serious evidence behind the business idea.
• Enjoyable and fun way of making friends or find a couple.

Disadvantages

• Get disappointed after trying it.
• Feel little awkward in the activities.

The Scientific Evidence or scientific research

· There have been several studies of the round-robin dating systems themselves, as well as studies of interpersonal attraction that are relevant to these events. Other studies found speed-dating data useful as a way to observe individual choices among random participants.

First impressions

· A 2005 study at the University of Pennsylvania of multiple HurryDate speed dating events found that most people made their choices within the first three seconds of meeting. Furthermore, issues such as religion, previous marriages, and smoking habits were found to play much less of a role than expected.

· A 2006 study in Edinburgh, Scotland showed that 45% of the women participants in a speed-dating event and 22% of the men had come to a decision within the first 30 seconds. It also found that dialogue concerning travel resulted in more matches than dialogue about films.

Subconscious preferences

· Malcolm Gladwell's book on split-second decision making, Blink, introduces two professors at Columbia University who run speed-dating events. Drs. Sheena Iyengar and Raymond Fisman found, from having the participants fill out questionnaires, that what people said they wanted in an ideal mate did not match their subconscious preferences. Leil Lowndes's book on female - male courtship behavior, Undercover Sex Signals,introduces how a woman makes a split second decision by choosing potential mates, based on her first impression of them.

Olfaction and the MHC

· A 1995 study at the University of Bern showed that women appear to be attracted to the smell of men who have different MHC profiles from their own, and that oral contraceptives reversed this effect.

· The MHC is a region of the human genome involved with immune function. Because parents with more diverse MHC profiles would be expected to produce offspring with stronger immune systems, dissimilar MHC may play a role in sexual selection.

· A speed "date" lasting several minutes should be long enough for the MHC hypothesis to come into play, provided the participants are seated close enough together.

Olfaction and pheromones

· The TV newsmagazine 20/20 once sent both a male and a female set of twins to a speed dating event. One of each set was wearing pheromones, and the ones wearing pheromones received more matches.

Age and height preference

· A 2006 study at the University of Essex and the IZA in Bonn into the relative effects of preference versus opportunity in mate selection showed, while concluding that opportunity was more important than preference, that a woman's age is the single most important factor determining demand by men. Although less important than it is to men, age is still a highly significant factor determining demand by women.

· The same study found that a man's height had a significant impact upon his desirability, with a reduction in height causing a decrease in desirability at the rate of 5% per inch.

Selectivity

· Studies of speed dating events generally show more selectivity among women than among men. For instance, the Penn study reported that the average man was chosen by 34% of the women and the average woman was chosen by 49% of the men. New studies suggest that the selectivity is based on which gender is seated and which is rotating. This new study showed that when men were seated and the women rotated, the men were more selective.

Sources

• speeddatingincolombia.com
• Youtube.

The 21 best speed dating questions you can ask

The 21 best Speed Dating questions you can ask a prospective date

Speed dating is the hot new alternative on the dating scene. In the present world of speed and frenzy, speed dating is the instant dating solution for today’s adults. Unlike normal dating, you have got five to 10 minutes to meet and create chemistry.

Because of this limited time, the way you dress and the questions you ask are really important. One thing you really don’t have is the luxury of time. If you are tongue-tied, you are out of the picture. No one wants to date someone who does not talk, is boring or nervous.

So dating experts advise that short of having a paper full of questions, you must be ready with a list of interesting, impressive and enjoyable questions that will keep the conversation thriving in those five-ten minutes. Here are some suggestions:

1) What do you do for work? – It is an introductory question. It may reveal the professional status of a person but little about his personality. So move on to another question.

2) Where are you from? – This reveals background. It throws better light on the person.

3) What do you think is the most important value in a relationship?

4) Do you want to marry or have you ever been married? This is important, as it will reveal if both are moving in the same direction – towards or away from marriage.

5) What do you look for in a husband/wife? Try to elicit an honest answer.

6) Do you want/do you have any children? An important question if you are looking for a long-term relationship and your partner is not.

7) What do you do for fun? – This will throw light on whether your leisure activities match. Are you a bookworm and she an outdoorsy person?

8) Is religion important to you? 24×7 living together means understanding on certain basic issues like religious beliefs.

9) Which is your favorite music and your favorite singer/band? Do you share musical tastes?

10) Do you like animals/keep pets? Are you going to clash on this issue – one an animal hater, the other a pet lover?

11) How do you spend your spare time? This is important, as it will really help if both love to do the same things in spare time.

12) Where do you see yourself in five years time? Watch out if he has no definite goals for the future and is in a rut. A positive mark for her if she has her life and career planned out positively.

13) If you were an animal in the wild, what would you be? Silly, amusing question to get the laughs.

14) If you have friends coming over, what would you cook?

15) Describe your perfect holiday. One thinks frozen Alaska, the other sunny Australia.

16) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

17) Which is the one job in the world that you would love to do? Throws light on likes and dislikes.

18) Who is your favorite actor/actress/celebrity and why?

19) What is your favorite sporting activity?

20) Which is your favorite genre of movies – comedy/thriller/action?

21) Are you a morning person or a night person?

Sources:

• speeddatingcolombia.com

Speed dating as new life-style

A mature step for speed dating

People aged 60 to 75 – typically ignored by the dating-business scene – will have an opportunity to meet singles of a similar vintage in Christchurch next month.

Mainland Dating owner Jane Metcalfe is bringing her age-specific speed-dating event to Christchurch on June 9.

During speed dating, singles spend just a few minutes talking to potential partners before moving on to the next.

"It's quite funny, because I stress to the younger age groups that making a match only means you have to go out for a coffee," Metcalfe said.

"These ones look at me like I'm queer, because what else would they be doing?

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"I tell them it's like the modern equivalent of an old-time dance, just with no music and more conversation." Metcalfe, who launched speed-dating events in Dunedin in 2006, boosted her service to include more mature singles due to popular demand.

Couples are generally allotted four minutes per date.

But Metcalfe allows the older age group slightly longer.

"They come from a well-mannered generation, so they find it funny that I'm ringing my bell, saying `move on', when they're in the middle of a conversation.

"They find me abrasive.

"People always pull the jokes about doing a marketing drive at the old folks' homes or having a line of Zimmer frames outside the venue.

"But these people are totally with it, active and cool."

The Press spoke to one of Metcalfe's successful couples (who did not want to use their surnames).

Biddy, 68, was living by herself in a caravan in Waihola, south of Dunedin, when she came across the advertisement in a newspaper.

"I was living a terrible, terrible, terrible, lonely life," she said.

"I was scared to go speed dating because I didn't know anyone.

"But Jane told me everyone was in the same boat, so that gave me courage."

Biddy said she talked about "life in general" during the four-minute speed dates.

"It's all about a bit of company.

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"But the bell ringing every four minutes is so, so annoying.

"I went three times and found my man.

"I've been with him for nine months."

Biddy's match was 72-year-old Alby, whose "beautiful sunglasses" caught her eye.

On their date she sat in his car, he removed the sunglasses and put them in his pocket.

"Then I leaned over and gave him a cuddle and broke them.

"I felt so terrible.

"He said he'd marry me after Christmas.

"He just didn't say which Christmas."

Sources:

• stuff.co.nz/life-style/3689574/A-mature-step-for-speed-dating