Why 'Meet Mingle Match'??
The answer to this is pretty simple... the activity of dating reserves a universal platform no matter whom you are and where you are from. At a recent Speed Dating event for American Singles (one of many different themes we host to people of distinct backgrounds, ethnicity, and interests) which was being covered by the Daily News, the reporter came up to me to get some insight on how we would approach different dating themes. He wanted to know how we accommodate people of different backgrounds. I answered bluntly 'nothing.' Although the answer, if elaborated, can get pretty complex, the reality is in order to encourage dating you have to encourage the same 3 principles...
Meet - you have to ensure everyone at a dating event has a chance to meet each other. Rather than throwing a bunch of people in a room and telling them to go out there and just talk to people, they will never be able to actually meet each person. With the structure of a speed dating event you avoid the chaos while having the opportunity to actually talk to everyone. This is especially important because the best success stories come from those people who wouldn't approach each other under normal circumstances. They may find themselves with much more in common in this case, than socializing with the same 'type' of people they always choose to approach based on their natural selection.
Mingle - the most overlooked ingredient to a dating event is the importance of getting everyone to mingle with each other, to talk to each other. At a speed dating event you are allotted a period of time to have an actual conversation with every person at the event. This is when it gets interesting and this is where you find out whether you have a connection with this person or not.
Match - the benchmark of every free dating organization out there, the end result of all the activities, the reason we wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night to see another day... the Match. This is where it gets complicated, how many times have two people sent each other mixed messages, or never had the courage to take the conversation to the next level or at least to another date!! Sad to say but there are more successful relationships that never were than failed relationships that were. With speed dating there is no round about with the matching process... it is the most efficient way to match two people together. This is because people overcome the 'rejection' factor when it comes to this final but vitally important factor to dating, no one is rejected. If you like the person you have no inhibition in indicating so because the other person will never know you do unless they reciprocate their interest on the match card in private.
So there you have it folks the '3 Pillars of Dating' dissevered. And that's where we get the tagline 'Meet Mingle Match' with Speed Dating Connections!