{"id":8874,"date":"2005-06-04T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-04T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matchmakinginstitute.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2005-06-04T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-04T20:06:23","slug":"meet-your-new-matchmaker-glad-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/meet-your-new-matchmaker-glad-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet your new matchmaker &#8211; Glad Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinepersonalswatch.com\/news\/2005\/06\/meet_your_match.html\">Meet your new matchmaker &#8211; Glad Simmons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HALIFAX DAILY NEWS &#8212; June 4 &#8212; Glad Simmons opened Better Half Matchmakers after being certified by the The School of Matchmaking and Relationship Sciences in New York.  It&#8217;s aimed at people who don\u2019t frequent singles functions and don\u2019t have the time or inclination for Internet dating.  She uses information from profile interviews to find potential matches and makes all the first-date arrangements.  Better Half also offers life coaching and image consulting: \u201cI tell people what other people are too afraid to tell them.\u201d  Women pay a $50 registration fee.  Men pay $500 (3 months, 3+ matches) to $1,300 (1 year, 12 matches).  Simmons says it\u2019s a bargain, compared to the alternative. \u201cBy the time you go through 30 dates online, you could have gone to a matchmaker and been matched up almost instantly.\u201d\u2028\u2028Mark Brooks: The movie, Hitch, was a good pitch for real world matchmaking services.  Still, they draw from a limited pool.  I&#8217;d like to see matchmaking services that pull from the online personals pool.  It would behoove online personals companies to consider working with real world matchmakers and offer them enhanced services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/meet-your-new-matchmaker-glad-simmons\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}