We’ve put together this blog to help those people who were wondering why they should attend our events rather than a regular bar.

1. We run friendly, hosted events. The hosts can facilitate the night and to help look after you if you are on your own – normal bars have no hosts and are a nightmare if you are alone.

2. Ice breakers and speed dating. Normal bars dont have any mechanism to encourage interaction.

3. Everyone is in the same boat, single, professional, and in a reasonably narrow age range – this makes it easy to relate to everyone and therefore easy to talk to anyone.
Normal bars are full of couples, and youngsters that could be your kids age. You have no way to know who is single or going to be rude to you if you try to speak to them.

4. Profiles on the site and post event messaging. Normal bars dont have any of this.

5. Low music volume making it easy to chat – normal bars usually have loud music

6. Entertainment. – we often provide things like magicians and bands to help ice break and entertain

7. Small niche events such as theatre trips, wine tasting and casino nights

8. New clients but also regulars so the events can become lovely social places where you can catch up with people as you get to know them better.

9. Carefully controlled male:female ratio – normal bars could be any ratio

10. Cheap entry price – most clubs in the west end would charge £15 to £20 entry.

11. Full membership allows you to round up your friends and bring them all along at half price.

12. We are dating experts and can offer you dating coaching, advice and help with online dating.

We hope that’s made things a little clear. Now you can round and up your friends and join us at one of our upcoming singles parties.

James Preece – The Dating Guru

www.singlesolution.com

Last Saturday we had our bug Single Solution Spring party and we are pleased to say it was a huge success.

The event took place at one of our favourite venues – The Slug and Lettuce in Victoria – and we had well over 160 guests.

We had optional speed dating, icebreaking activities and a DJ later in the evening which got everyone dancing.

We also had Sarah, our new Style Coach at the event and she proved to be hugely popular with guests queuing up to see her all night.
We’ve had some great feedback about Saturday so here are some of the comments:

“Brill ideas fantastic venue why did i not find you guys earlier!!!”

“Think the parties are well organised and the venues v. good!”

“Too many pretty ladies to pick from!”

“You guys really do organise the best parties in London!”

“Staff:  Very helpful”

“Venue: perfect!”

Our next one is on Sat 15h May at The Abbey and we’ve just confirmed the return of our Magician for this event.

Remember to book up early as we hate to turn people away, but these really do get full quickly!

James Preece – The Dating Guru

www.singlesolution.com

Thursday 15th October 2009- The SingleSolution.com Manhunt

Gone are the days when women were viewed as passive in the dating field. Nowadays, along with the rise of consumer culture, when women want something, they go and get it. Whether it is a high flying job, the new exclusive Balenciaga bag or the man of their dreams…

The dating website, singlesolution.com is hosting a real-life MANHUNT in London…and we are giving you girls the chance to win a date with our Bachelor at a top London restaurant, PLUS two leisure select return tickets to Paris care of Eurostar for you to use at your own leisure!

All you have to do is work out the first clue which will be posted live on here at 6.00pm Thursday 15^th October that will lead to a famous London landmark where a singlesolution.com MANHUNT team member will provide you with the next clue. Track down the secret location of the singlesolution.com ultimate bachelor and be the first there to win the fantastic date…

All those taking part will be welcome to join us for a complimentary cocktail reception at the final destination.

Pre-register now HERE and we will text you the first clue at 6pm on the day. Ensure your mobile number is in your account details.

So, we hear you ask, who IS this Bachelor? Check out his profile below and we challenge you NOT to be tempted to run across London to find him… Happy hunting!

Full name: Patrick Drake

Age: 30

Home: London

Height: 6’ 1”

Job: Director of www.blackcardlondon.com, an invitation-only membership which gives its members complimentary entry to the best clubs in London. Patrick also runs “The Oracle”, a concierge service providing recommendations and table bookings, itineraries and event planning, minimizing members’ efforts in organizing a night of fun.

Hobbies: “I’m a food fanatic on a mission to share my passion and teach all my friends to cook, so spare time is spent cooking and working on my video blog:

www.dinnerwithpatrick.blogspot.com. I also love sports and play polo in my spare time.”

Ideal date: “First class Eurostar tickets to Paris, for dinner at La Table de Joel Robuchon in the Bois de Boulogne before heading back to the George V. Thanks to Eurostar, it’s surprisingly quick and easy it is to whisk a loved one to Paris – even just for a day –and it makes a much more romantic setting!”

Describe your ideal woman:

“My ideal woman would be totally different to me….maybe from a different country or working in an industry totally different to mine, or has some extraordinary hobby; I want a girl who intrigues me so that the banter is fun and I discover something new…”

What’s your best joke?

“Past, present and future walked into a bar. It was tense.”

When did you last cry, and why?

“Listen I’m a guy. We don’t cry. I might have got something caught in my eye the last time I watched Watership Down.  That’s all I’m saying on the matter.”

What do you see when you look in the mirror:

“A cheeky grin…”

If your office was burning down, what one object would you save?

“My Prêt-a-Manger reward card – its taken me so long to fill that thing!”

What’s your most irritating habit?

“Singing very loudly all day long in the office.”

Our Summer of Love party took place on Saturday and we are delighted to say that it was a huge success. The party sold out with over 210 guests. Many prizes were won during out icebreaking game and we had to run extra speed dating sessions as it was so busy. Later in the evening, resident band “The Bluejacks” appeared and got everyone dancing with their hits from the 80s and 90s. I had quite a few people coming up to be saying it was the best mix of people for some time.

Thank you to everyone that came. To those that didn’t, here is some of the great feedback we had. Watch out for our big 7th birthday party at Digress on the 12th September.

“Thanks for another great party on Saturday night – I thought the band were especially good!”

“I thought your event was very good. Well done!”

“Great event as usual.”

“Yes, it was nice to have some live music.”

“Very well run event as usual.”

“It was a good party and I especially liked the band.”

“I thought the event was well planned and the venue was ideal for location and accessibility.”

James Preece Dating Expert from Singlesolution.com

The Single Solution Love Bus made it’s triumphant return to the streets of London on Thursday 23rd July.

Following on from successful trip in February ,  our new improved “open top” London Love Bus spent the day travelling around the City and the West End, letting everyone know about our amazing singles parties and online dating.   To make sure nobody could miss us, we hired a 17 piece brass band to serenade the crowds with Love songs.  Everyone had great fun and we gave out 100s of flyers and goody bags.

We’ve had a great response to our promotion which will attract many new members to our site.

We like to think of our Premium Membership scheme as a special, VIP club.   By paying us each month for our Online Dating services, our Premium Members also get massive discounts off all events.    This isn’t just for them, but for their friends too.  That means that the savings can work out much more than the actualy cost of membership.  Great value or what?

On top of that, we run events just for our Premium members in mind.  This includes special Wine Tasting, Theatre, Comedy and Casino evenings and they are great opportunities to meet new people in London.

Our latest events have been “money can’t buy” concert tickets to Beyonce and Michael Jackson.  Not only are these sold out concerts, but our guests get to sit in the VIP Single Solution box and have access to the VIP lounge and Entrance too. This means no queuing when you arrive or when you go to the bar.

All this for just the regular price of Online Dating membership!

Our aim is to run more and more new and exciting events so if there is anything you would like to see you do then please contact us.

James Preece   Dating Coach for the Single Solution

It’s often said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.   Well, it seems that a week doesn’t go by without yet another company trying to copy what we do.

Many companies come and go, trying to emulate our successful formula and running second rate events.  They try and use the venues we work so hard to find, attempt to poach our customers and undercut our prices. We’ve even found some who copy and paste the text from our website, using it as their own!  These companies don’t last very long.

We were the first company to introduce the ice-breaking card game, which other companies adapted into the Lock and Key game.  We were also the first to offer live bands and provide more (and better) hosts than anyone else.

Competition isn’t a bad thing as it makes us work harder.   We know that we are the industry leaders and have the most experience, busiest parties and nicest guests.  We offer the best value for money events and are in this for the longer term, rather than trying to make a quick buck and then disappearing.

As we move towards our 8th year of business, we promise to keep on trying out new ideas and events.  Single Solution is the original and the best and we thank you for your support.

James Preece

Dating Expert for the Single Solution.

Earlier this year, we started running “Learn to Play at the Casino” parties.   These are smaller, more intimate parties than the ones we normally run and have proved to be be an amazing success.  Each one has attracted some wonderful guests and we now run them on a monthly basis.

The evening starts in a private area of the Casino where you are given a welcome glass of sparkling wine. Our hosts help you mingle and then food is served.   Once everyone has enough food you are given a voucher for another drink of your choice and then taken to the private gaming tables. You’ll then have a couple of hours of tuition on Poker, Roulette and Blackjack.   You’ll be using pretend chips so don’t worry about losing.   If you lose them you’ll just get handed some more.  If only the real Casino worked like that!  Once the tuition is over you can either return to the bar to chat with the other guests or try your luck for real in the main Casino.
We run these events primarily for our Premium Members and are priced so they get big discounts on them.  Regular members are still very welcome to attend and many often too.

It’s our intention to run more events for Premium Members. These include our upcoming wine tasting and comedy nights.  They are so good it’s worth upgrading so you can come along.   You can even bring a friend at the discounted rate.

Thank you to everyone that came to our Easter Eggstravaganza Singles party at the Slug And Lettuce.  We had over 200 guests who took part.   For this party, we had a fun “decorate the egg” competition and we were were very impressed with the creative entries!  We’ve also had some great feedback as you’ll see below.

“Good night, much better than some events with different companies that i have attended!”

“The success is yours as I think it is great to have a site that actually brings people together to meet. Sat night was my first time to one of these events and I was apprehensive but regardless of whether anything comes of it, I had a really good night out.”

“Like the “find your other half” icebreaker – very amusing!”

We took a few photos that we though you might enjoy.

New Asian Website

We are pleased to announce that our new Asian site www.asiansinglesolution.com is now live.

You can choose which site you wish to be on, or use both if you wish.

Terms and Conditions are the same for both sites, and both are trading names for Go Dating Ltd

When you next log into singlesolution.com you will be offered the option to go straight to the Asian site and you can migrate your paid membership to the new site if you have one.

Messages

If you currently have unread mail, you may continue to receive notifications from both sites until you read the mail on both sites, or change your user preferences which can be found under Edit Profile.

Newsletters and emails

Events

All our Asian events will be managed from Asiansinglesolution.com

All bookings and post event messaging will be through The Asian site.

2. On both sites, check your profile visibility and messaging preferences. Delete profile on singlesolution.com if you wish. See under Edit Profile