First Post

So here we are SantaMatchers. I was given this task of writing a blog for SantaMatch, but if one of you has better writing skills and has a few minutes to spend every week, contact me through the comments here or through our santamatch.com email address and maybe you could help.

Anyway, this blog was just created to help communicate, explain and address your issues, SantaMatchers.

The most important thing we wish to communicate is how SantaMatch works. Although it is on our website (http://www.santamatch.com/gd.php?content=include/howitworks.html), I suspect few of you bothered reading, so here it is in short:

SantaMatch was created as an improvement on traditional dating sites. We tried dating sites like match.com and Eharmony and decided that we can combine the best features of each, get rid of the annoying features and add add some improvements of our own and come up with a more effective system. The result: an introduction site.  What it means is that instead of searching for hours and writing/receiving hundreds of emails to/from people you have nothing in common with, you are introduced to perfect matches (“almost perfect matches” was added later and you can change that in your member settings) on a one-on-one basis. You either indicate interest or remove that match and move on. The idea was initially to have only one active introduction at a time but we figured that would be too much pressure. So 5 sounded like a nice number so we arbitrarily set the maximum number of active introductions to 5. This is as hassle-free as it gets and since we assume that your time is worth money – SantaMatch will save you a lot of time and hassle. In traditional dating sites, the fact that people bulk mail, results in a lot of frustration since over 80% of emails get no reply.

You will see the the words “hassle” and “hassle-free” are mentioned frequently on SantaMatch. That’s because we believe that “hassle” on traditional dating sites, the fact that people spend too much time, writing too many emails – is what causes frustration which in turn makes people rude and offensive all too often. Add to that monthly membership fees (there are none on SantaMatch) and you can see why most people typically leave traditional dating sites after a short time.

Well, this is it for now, I am already getting tired from writing so much.

Oh yes, and read this if you just joined: http://www.santamatch.com/gd.php?content=include/howitreallyworks.html

Now to my favorite internet video (no, that’s not really related to anything): Charlie Bit Me