Interview with Annie Chan, Club2040
February 17, 2009 by Gwendolyn Regina T
She has organized over 1,000 events for people to men and women to network and mix around. Armed with a keen interest to mix business and fun, Annie, founder of Club2040, ultimately hopes to make a difference in the lives of local singles through Club2040.
Why did you go into the dating industry?
When her events management company, Red Box Events Pte Ltd, was appointed by SDU for a 2-year term, founder Annie Chan ventured into organising events for Singles in 2003. Under the 2-year contract, Annie and team had to deliver no less than 1,000 events ranging from dinner dates, talks, workshops, outdoor activities to the all famous speed dating!
The “dating” bug caught on and after the end of the contract, Annie decided to setup Club2040 in 2007 to focus on Singles Events, while Red Box Events will focus on Corporate Events.
What’s unique about your service?
We offer matchmaking services for males only and we organise events on an ad-hoc basis. We want to focus on matchmaking and relationship coaching.
We have an in-house tool which allows clients to learn about his relationship pattern and by understanding his pattern, we will then coach and guide him to improve and hence increase his chance to finding that right partner.
Though our matchmaking service is not available for ladies, we encourage ladies to sign up for our in-house screening package to find out about their relationship pattern as well. By knowing how you will behave in a relationship before jumping straight into one can save singles much heartache!!
Our matchmaking service is at S$988 for 12 months and our in-house screening package (without coaching) is at S$180 for a one-to-one session.
Has the recession had any impact on your business?
In a way it has. When we try to organise events, we have to be mindful of the price to charge. For our matchmaking service, we offer our in-house installment arrangement for ease the burden of upfront payment.
Any last words?
Stay positive. Your special someone is out there, just stay positive, have the right attitude and love will soon find you!
About Annie Chan
Ms Annie Chan is a certified matchmaker from the Institute of Matchmaking, New York. Being a NLP Practitioner also means Annie makes a good relationship coach giving comprehensive guidance for her matchmaking clients and members.
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About The Author
Gwendolyn Regina T - Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Apart from SGE, Gwen is also a Partner at Thymos Capital, where she focuses on early stage investments in technology firms. She has had two exits out of her investments via the firm, one of which is iHipo. A frequent judge for business competitions both locally and overseas, she graduated from the National University of Singapore. Gwen also spent some time in Silicon Valley and studied in Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College programme. Gwen is a mentor at Spanish incubator Tetuan Valley, Polish incubator Gamma Rebels, the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox network and the Singapore curator for StartupDigest. She enjoys languages, travelling, dance and adventure sports. Gwen can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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