Tired of all the swiping and done with the online dating scene? There are many reasons why I am excited to share the highlights of working with a local matchmaker right here in Austin, our city of love, music, and good feels!
Austin lives are busy and full of digital holes. Often, the human side to dating (the side you need, want, and the side that matters) can be hard to uncover. Local matchmakers have a local staff — they live here, too! Over a cup of coffee, both of you can get to the heart of who you are and what you need.
Supporting local businesses? Of course, this Texas-sized benefit isn’t over the top! Your matchmaker will have curated first-date experiences for many of your neighbors. They are most likely working with local spots to organize an unforgettable experience right now!
Local matchmakers are part of our community. You may be unaware, but many local professionals are proud members of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, which not only commits them to a certain set of standards but guarantees the quality and reputation of their offering. Whether you are a budding young entrepreneur in the thick of it, planning your next startup, or new to Austin (if so, welcome!), the Chamber perfectly sets Austin’s professional scene. See what’s happening at the Chamber and discover the rich and diverse choice of the city’s makeup today!
Meet Your Matchmaker Face to Face
The nature of personal interaction, especially in the matchmaking process where the ultimate goal is to form a life-long partnership, is highly preferred. In this era where traditional forms of interaction are no longer the default, digital communication—phones, computers, the Internet—and its limitations, have become more pronounced. Even dating apps that just connect people do it through a screen—something that serves to shield individuals from each other, rather than encouraging them to bring their best foot forward. Every interaction feels stylized and as such, carries an air of falseness.
Entering a space and interacting with someone there has effects that can be both imagined and unimagined. For example, there might be an attraction that comes from seeing what someone’s face looks like while they’re explaining their passion, a tingling feeling that arises from your fingers brushing against theirs, or an unexpected connection due to a shared taste in food graffiti. These could be seen as minor factors that do not translate into any type of connection that flowers into a deep relationship that carries a connotation of something that lasts until one person takes their last breathe.
I would argue otherwise—throwing the term “authenticity” out for the audience to make their own inferences from just isn’t enough. It’s a word that loses its inherent meaning from the load that it bears by definition. What is excluded are the details, the qualities that it is lacking to connotate—all of these ideas are centered around the word, yes—, but they had formed an intertwined relationship with the word “authenticity.”
The original “gap” that was in the argument of face-to-face dating being objectively better has only been filled with more than half as much fluff as it was to start with, which brings us to my solution that bridges those two gaps. There is no complete substitute for having a personal conversation (with another human hopefully) to preserve the overall lack of among the freshness of the current lack of the “rhetoric power” that this article may or may not have.
Boosting the Local Austin Economy
Using a locally owned and operated Austin matchmaker is a powerful act of economic activism. There’s a lot of truth in the saying, “Put your money where your house is,” and, next, to buying local food and drink, nothing will have more direct financial impact than choosing entertainment—dating—that’s locally owned and operated.
Here are just a few of the benefits:
Jobs: Your favorite local matchmaking service is staffed by Austinites, who might spend some of their income right down the street from where you live to support their dating habits.
Entrepreneurship: Each one of us has dreams: artists, musicians, business owners, software developers, marketers, and, yes, matchmakers too.
Keep Austin weird: It’s getting to be less and less weird here in Austin. Let’s not become Dallas or Houston. Austin still has a good bit of the “old town” left. Do what you can to help us keep our unique charm.
A Matchmaker Vested in the Austin Community
When you’re working with a local matchmaker who is also very involved in her community, it can seriously pay off. A matchmaker who knows the unique social dynamics and culture of the City of Austin will have an understanding of dating and making matches that will be totally foreign to her more generic competitors. She will be creating her matches not based on just simple dating science but using an algorithm that also includes essential variables like an intimate knowledge of the culture and traditions that help define what it means to be a “certified badass Texan.”
The Austin social scene can seem pretty hectic to some folks. But, many of us have been working, hanging, dating, and loving people here for decades. The Austin folks you’ll find on our matchmaking rolls will be a highly informed and carefully curated group. Your personal, local matchmaker will help find someone who loves Franklin’s BBQ as much as you do. You’ll only see women you meet at classy places like the Lakeview Pearl or “oldies, but goodies” dives like Disneyland. Or maybe you need to avoid dating the drummer in your friend’s band or everyone at their house of worship – and their last twenty-five exes – no worries, we can help with that, too.
Working with a local matchmaker means working with a more personal matchmaker. Whereas larger, less local dating sites aren’t able to provide users with feedback just by being so large, the matches you’ll find through our local site are offered with the advantage of an ongoing dialogue with them before, during, and following your dates. This creates a situation for more successful dates. Maybe that guy who returned you to your last date at the lakefront wasn’t such a gentleman, and you guys are dopplegangers, anyway, so you’re a no-go because you don’t want all your friends to disappear. Whatever the case may be, we love working with you one-on-one, and we make sure you get the best dating experience that we can provide.
We are your neighbors and proud of it! In the almost decade since Something More’s inception, Julia has been working in L.A. to open new locations like, well, like she’s got no one else’s business on her professional mind. Unlike other companies that insist on being as internationally “generic” as the last profile you don’t wanna swipe, we are always hard at work, weeded through this weeds, looking for a great catch for you on in-your-face, back-to-back dates.
The perfect date. It’s a feeling that can be really hard to put into words. But, for many of us, Austin has been great for dating. So, working with a matchmaker who has been a part of the story of Austin for many years can be such an amazing experience. We bring a brand of matchmaker magic that is truly Texan.
Access to the Largest Database of Austin Singles
Having a larger pool of local Austin singles provides a few different advantages.
One of these advantages has to do with the fact that Austin is an amazing city. The city is truly invigorating, vibrant, and alive, with a wide range of diverse individuals from different backgrounds, with different interests, values, and goals. In other words, no matter what you’re looking for in a partner, there’s bound to be someone just like that here in Austin!
Another advantage of our larger singles scene here in Austin–and I feel another significant factor that plays into the success rates of local Austin matchmakers–is the fact that local matchmakers have a massive pool of singles to pair and match together. This way, matchmakers will be able to pair like-minded singles with one another. This is something that many popular online dating platforms simply can’t do.
With a local matchmaker, however, if you mention to them, for example, that you are looking for someone who is “real” or “down to earth,” this isn’t going to be a barrier for them–in fact, they’ll know who this “real” or “down to earth” individual is!
Another huge benefit of having a larger local singles scene here in Austin are the many advantages that come with community (since we are actually a very close-knit community that regularly hosts a variety of different singles events to help Austin singles meet, mix, and mingle with one another in a low-pressure environment).
Having such a large singles scene in Austin really helps singles stay positive and motivated about dating and finding love—since there are so many different people who are all in a similar circumstance or situation to you or me, with everyone looking for love and trying to find someone to meet, love, and spend the rest of their lives with.
Local Office and Phone Number for Easy Access
There’s something to be said, in this era of quick everything, for the seeming old-fashioned convenience of having a local office and phone number for consultations and support. For Austin’s local matchmaker, this is now about more than convenience, but the quality of the service you receive. In the matchmaking arena, a phone number and local address are at the top, above all things, as it’s the base of the entire relationship you want to form with a trusted matchmaker. It’s about quality of service.
A local address/phone number means that you have a matchmaker from your hometown. They know the unique environment and culture you’re dating in because they live it, too. The office is very familiar with the surroundings and what it’ll look like from your side of the desk because it’s in your community. There is some bonus security for you and future people you might match with, as matchmaking is a networking, word-of-mouth business. A physical office, not just a website, is a must in modern matchmaking.
Quality of service in the matchmaking world means that you start dealing with a matchmaker from the first interaction at the local and national level. Austin’s local matchmaker has a direct line that you communicate on at the moment you are ready. It’s not a 1-800 number that goes into a call center for someone else to filter out who you are and promote you to another random matchmaker in a non-structured way. You speak directly to her, and she manages your dating needs.
The convenience of the quality of service makes sense. People are more likely to choose a higher quality service if they feel comfort in reaching out. It’s making sure people are talked to quickly upon starting to go out on dates and are getting the consultations and support they need. After all, getting quality service and having that local office and phone number make love a hell of a lot easier!
Trusted Member of the Austin Chamber of Commerce
For an Austin matchmaker, the presence of an Austin Chamber of Commerce badge on their website is a great selling point.
To put this into context, being a member of the Austin Chamber of Commerce means that the local matchmaker:
- Is a real business (which is an important box to tick when you’re trying to convince a stranger to use your business to set them up with other strangers)
- Have a physical location (same problem as above; to see a solution, keep reading)
- And that they have gone through a background check from their local Chamber
- Remember, the Chamber of Commerce has a reputation to protect (almost 300 businesses have been denied entry because [banned] companies have found a way to setup and run operations from Nashville (looking at you, regulation on the Escort industry). Chances are, being members of the local Chamber of Commerce means that they are allowed to operate in a town or city and haven’t been run out just yet.
Does this add credibility? In a way, it does. But when it comes to online dating, a local matchmaker is definitely worth working with if they have a proven operational and confirmable history. It certainly helps build trust.
Customized and Personal Service
A local Austin matchmaker is going to be there for you as much as you need, to help you in any way that you need when it comes to dating and relationships. You will not find the kind of personalized service and care from online dating. They take the time to get to know you, and what you value in a person and in a relationship, so the people you meet will more likely be compatible with you.
Supporting the Local Economy and the Local Austin Community
Being there for the people in your community is very important. You never know when you may need someone to be there for you as well. Never forget how lucky you are to have been matched with the right person for you. Since you have been matched, never forget that you should continue to do what you can to help to grow and strengthen the community around you for the other people who live here and who have not yet been matched.
