Should Successful Matchmakers Be Compensated For Setting Friends Up?!
The Bert Show
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Fertia. |
| 0:02.0 | Is it a brilliant matchmaking idea or does it reek of desperation? |
| 0:07.0 | I think it could work because the one thing about having friends in this stage of life in your late 20s is you have a lot of friends |
| 0:14.1 | that are either in serious relationships or they're God forbid married and they |
| 0:18.7 | always just want to tell you to get out there put yourself out there get on the |
| 0:21.8 | apps go more dates we want |
| 0:23.0 | more double dates and you just want to be like somebody like find a solution for me |
| 0:26.6 | and this guy on tic-talk it's at Arc no bite I think he's come up with the perfect |
| 0:32.2 | incentive to get my coupled friends to |
| 0:36.5 | set me up with their available single friends. |
| 0:40.4 | Look, the dating apps are out, run clubs are oversaturated, let me get you on the hottest new |
| 0:46.0 | dating concept. |
| 0:47.0 | Someone recently told me about this concept of a relationship bounty and I think it's changed my life. |
| 0:52.0 | My friend is personally putting up $300 so that if you set them up with someone they get into a relationship with, you get the $300. So that in itself is a pretty cool concept, especially because it just gives incentives for your |
| 1:03.8 | friends that set you up. But my friend came up with one of the best derivatives of this concept |
| 1:08.2 | called the dating referral program. I'll get out of the way. Are you kidding me? |
| 1:13.0 | Preferred candidates are often higher quality compared to those of traditional recruiting channels and she put a tiered incentive structure into here. |
| 1:20.0 | Early submission bonus to get a friendship bracelet. If she goes on a first date, that's a friendship bracelet. |
| 1:22.6 | If she goes on a first date, that's a free cocktail. |
| 1:24.7 | I'll go out of the way, but if she goes on a second date, that's a homemade batch of cookies. |
| 1:28.5 | Look at these incentives to go long term. |
| 1:31.5 | If she marries the referral, get first-class travel and accommodation to the wedding. |
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