I posted this on my page but decided to re-post here:

So recently I was talking to a guy friend who is a pretty cool person. We rarely see eachother, but sometimes he comes in town on business. We have no sexual/relationship chemistry of any kind, but the last time our friend group got together for drinks I told him what I typically like in men (I like tall, older men of certain ethnicities, and I prefer entrepreneurs/businessmen who are independently wealthy). After an hour of bitching about how I haaate being single and how it's so tough for me, he looks at me and says that he knows a guy who would be perfect. "He's actually my brother's CEO, do you want me to give him your number?"

So, I get a phonecall yesterday from this mysterious man and it turns out he matches up pretty nicely to what I want. He is the CEO of a tech company based out of Canada. It's a family business and his brother founded the thing. He's tall, in his 50's, relatively good-looking and after one phone call offered to fly out and take me on a date. I turned it down, and then he offered to fly me to him, and after pretending like it was a stretch, I accepted and he cashapped me the funds to book my ticket. (I dont trust men booking tickets, I'd rather do it myself)

We're meeting up next week for the first time, and while this scenario seems to be going well so far...I cant help but think that this is the way it should be. Shouldn't it? Shouldn't we utilize our network to look for men?

Until my friend offered to give this guy my number I never thought that getting set-up in this way would be so effective. Now Im actually thinking that maybe I should make a habit out of meeting up with my out-of-town friends and spilling the tea on what type of man I'm looking for.

This type of networking is how I've gotten clients my entire career, and it never occurred to me that it could work better than dating apps.