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“The List” TV Show with Phoenix Top Matchmaker Roseann Higgins for Valentine’s Day Tips

After pulling an all-nighter in preparation for this Wednesday’s SPIES offices site visit by our small business mentors at APS/AAAME, I noticed a 7:40 am email this morning from a reporter with the 6-city Scripps TV newsmagazine show called “The List.” Sleep would need to be delayed.

Would I be available for a Valentine’s Day interview…TODAY? After fast emails back and forth, I set the alarm for 3 hours of sleep, interviewed a very eligible single new client and then sat down for a fun, fast interview – because that’s the way The List rolls.

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Phoenix, Arizona matchmaker Roseann Higgins behind the scenes shot on "The List" TV newsmagazine Valentine’s Day story about making the one you love feel loved.


This is our first TV exposure outside of Arizona. It’s exciting! The good thing is – this is their second time interviewing me for a dating story. It means they liked what they saw the first time or they wouldn’t have come back, the reporter kindly told me. Oh? That just makes my day! The List will air the first interview about what men and women want in a date when they need it. But the Valentine’s Day interview airs today! (Tuesday, Feb 5)

Tune in to “The List” today on these 6 stations and counting in the Scripps network:
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WMAR logo Baltimore 7:00pm
WCPO logo Cincinnati 7:00pm
WEWS logo Cleveland 7:00pm
KNXV logo Phoenix 4:30pm
WFTS logo Tampa 7:00pm
KJRH logo Tulsa 6:30pm

When all America has to compare matchmakers to are reality television dating shows that seem to have a batting average in long term relationships lower than Major League Baseball’s worst player (.197), it’s time the world knows a wickedly good matchmaker exists. Even if I’m not matchmaking for a television show, that’s okay. We’re private about who we work with. The single men and women who hire us for the most part are not looking to have their private dating lives on national television. I do however predict SPIES is about to become a 19-year overnight sensation in finding happily ever afters. We have proof of concept, now.

I hope you’ll tune in to The List and if you have friends who are single in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Baltimore, Tampa, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Tulsa, please pass this along. Maybe they can catch the show! And maybe they’ll want to learn more about how we can help them find love.

Happy Valentine’s Day!
With love always,
from SPIES Single Professional Introductions (for the) Especially Selective, LLC headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

Roseann Higgins
PS You won’t find exactly what they asked in the interview because we won’t steal their thunder. But we will post a link to the video after it airs. Thanks Scripps and everyone at The List!

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A Look At Yourself: Are you inviting or repelling being asked out on a date?

Ask Roseann – the most Wickedly Good Matchmaker on the Planet!

You might be keeping yourself safe from dating the best men (or women).

One of the best exercises you can do when you finally put finding someone extraordinary to share your life with on the front burner, is to look closely at what you are letting get in your way.  Don’t skip this step.  This one could be the most important thing keeping men (or women) from getting close to you.

I had personally mastered not letting anyone get close to me.  Sometimes it takes someone else to point it out to you.  It happened to me one night, when I was on active duty in the Navy.  I was going to college at night in Panama City, Florida, and riding my bicycle home in the dark.  I didn’t see the speed bump.  My tire turned 90 degrees and I hit the ground so fast, it stunned me.  I reached my hand up and it felt warm immediately from the blood.  I needed stitches.  Luckily, a very handsome, tall, blond, tan Navy Hospital Corpsman saw the whole thing and rescued me.  He threw my bike in the back of his jeep and rushed me a short drive down Highway 98 to the Navy Base Dispensary.  While he was stitching me up (four stitches) and using special tape to save shaving my head, for which I was thankful, he told me I didn’t have to worry about men on the base hitting on me.  “You don’t let anyone get close enough to find out if they have good intentions,” he told me.  How did he know?  But he was right.  And it took a long time for me to change.  I did change, though.

What you need to detect is – are you throwing up self-protection mechanisms too fast? 

Does anyone have even a chance of a conversation with you that could develop into an invitation for a date, you to him or he to you?  If you are self-protecting, this may be a skill you have mastered and it will take deprogramming or reprogramming through practice until you become comfortable with yourself and being friendly when you’re around someone you might like to date.

I want you to notice the next time you meet someone you might want to get to know whether you are putting out happy to meet you vibes.  Just an open friendliness is sometimes all it takes.  Then you get to see if they’re nice, too!

Just to put you in the mood…here’s the theme song from the Mary Tyler Moore Show

Love is All Around

Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it’s you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show itLove is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don’t you take it
You’re gonna make it after all
You’re gonna make it after allHow will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big, girl this time you’re all alone
But it’s time you started living
It’s time you let someone else do some givingLove is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don’t you take it
You’re gonna make it after all
You’re gonna make it after all

 Love is all around, Mary Tyler Moore Theme Song, Season I

Don’t go manic, and be over-the-top friendly, too open invitation that says, I’m so available anyone will do, please, could it be you?  That can scare someone off or make them think you’re not selective at all. 

And if all else fails and you want to summon a great moment, STOP your thoughts.  Don’t worry what this post advised you.  Close your eyes and open them with an easy smile and look at who’s in front of you.  And enjoy the moment. 

Now, if you’re a guy and you’re trying to have better engagements with someone you are attracted to, be yourself.  “Act natural.”  Isn’t that irony?  Like jumbo shrimp?  But you know what I mean.  Relax.  Take off your work hat.  Let go of being distracted by a million things, including your smart phone.  Be in the moment.  It will be refreshing!  Look for a way to offer help.  Give her a compliment.  If you’re both in business mode and this looks even for a moment, promising, make eye contact and offer a smile. 

As Paul McCartney sings, “Open the door and let ‘em in!”

Don’t let months and years of great opportunities for a relationship with someone you meet pass you by before you realize you haven’t let your guard down.

Start seeing what’s right in front of you.

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Once upon a time, on the north shore of Long Island, not far from New York, there was a very very large mansion, almost a castle, where billionaire Linus Larrabee realizes there was something missing in his life...like a life. Sabrina, 1995

This whole scenario is reminiscent of the metamorphosis Harrison Ford aka workaholic billionaire Linus Larrabee makes when he spends time with the chauffeur’s just back from Paris daughter Julia Ormond in Sabrina.  She helps him realize “there was something missing in his life…like a life.”

Started assessing how you are with men or women you come into contact with who appear very datable.

Think about all the people you’ve met that you’ve had a moment of curiosity with.  The best thing is, the right person will also be curious about you.  If they get to see the datable you. Not the business you. Not the unaffected you. But the you that attracts.  The you that gives your best, or at least a somewhat inviting smile and opens up the world when you say hello.  The right guy needs little provocation.  Even a small smile can work!  And you don’t even know if you want them yet, so if you find out after you smile and start talking together, whoah, this is not a guy you want to keep talking with, you got data you didn’t have before, didn’t you?  Well done!  Move on.

It only takes one.  You’re one closer to the right one.   

Good luck!  Let me know how it goes.  Write here or on my Facebook page.  I’d love to hear from you!

Sending you forever love wishes,

Roseann

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Arizona Matchmaker Roseann Higgins headhunting dates WM Phoenix Open SPIES Best Places to Meet Single Men Single Ladies 2012

WM Phoenix Open Ranks #1 on Matchmaker Roseann Higgins “SPIES Best Place to Meet Single Men and Single Ladies”

Arizona Matchmaker Roseann Higgins headhunting dates WM Phoenix Open SPIES Best Places to Meet Single Men Single Ladies 2012

Arizona Matchmaker Roseann Higgins headhunting dates at the WM Phoenix Open Golf Tournament for the 17th year since opening the company SPIES in 1994. The Phoenix Open ranks #1 in SPIES Best Places to Meet Single Men and Single Ladies 2012.

Throughout the entire PGA Tour, there is no golf tournament like the WM Phoenix Open. The Phoenix Open is the Super Bowl meets Mardi Gras of people watching.

Every year, women get on their boots and tight and/or low cut sexy outfits and head to Scottsdale’s TPC Golf Course in hopes of landing a wealthy golf watcher, celebrity, or corporate sponsor CEO caliber man. Ladies, hold onto your husbands and boyfriends. But there’s hope. With individual days’ attendance hitting 50-100,000 people, you will find there are good singles with good values. Keep reading!

I’ve attended hundreds, actually thousands of events looking for Mr. and Miss Rights for very eligible single men and women since creating SPIES – an executive-search style matchmaking firm in 1994. SPIES stands for Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective. The results we’ve obtained – SPIES 95% success rate – is because we’re constantly at the best events, and admittedly sometimes not the best events – we don’t know until we get there, looking for love.

Why is it easier to find good single men than good single women at the Phoenix Open?

It’s easier to spot good single men during the day at the WM Phoenix Open than at night at the Birds Nest and than it is to spot good single women at either. The good single men are the ones watching the golf! Some are also entertaining customers and vendors. Some bring their kids and have a blast inside the Expo Tent and walking around the course.

If you look hard, there are nice, pretty and normal single women at the Open. You just have to look harder to find them amidst so many girls in catch-a-man’s-attention outfits and high heels before you spot a couple nurses or school teachers who stand out because they don’t stand out, who’ve ventured into the treacherous waters of the Open for a day of fun.

We’re compiling our latest SPIES Best Place to Meet Single Men and Single Ladies. The WM Phoenix Open PGA Golf Tournament is #1 by far! Add in the Coors Light Birds Nest and it snags #2. You can go to either one without ever seeing golf!

This week is the 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open PGA Golf Tournament. With 400,000-600,000 previous years’ weekly visitor counts, it’s become known as “The Greatest Show on Grass”…for what happens on the fairways and even more for the business networking, partying and girl and guy watching that happens in the corporate skyboxes and party tents alongside it.

At the end of each day’s golf, Wednesday through Saturday, there’s the Coors Light Birds Nest huge entertainment tent with scantily clad, mostly 20-something female servers who could give Hooter’s a run for their money. It took some digging to find the lineup of entertainment at the 2012 Phoenix Open Coors Light Bird’s Nest. I couldn’t find it on their fancy new iPhone app. That’s another new addition.

Mobile phones now allowed at the WM Phoenix Open

You are now allowed to keep in touch with the office and your family and bring in your iPhones and Androids and you don’t have to hide them in your socks or underwear (their words). There are restrictions on their site. We’ll see who pays attention to it. At least, please turn your ringers off.

Phoenix Open Birds Nest ranks #2 on matchmaker Roseann Higgins of SPIES Best Place to meet Single Men and Single Ladies

Phoenix Open Birds Nest ranks #2 on matchmaker Roseann Higgins "SPIES Best Place to meet Single Men and Single Ladies"

The Thunderbirds have donated $75,529,794 to Arizona Charities!

Millions of dollars, $4,053,962 in 2011 alone, have been donated to Arizona charities via the Phoenix Open by the Thunderbirds – Arizona’s most prestigious philanthropic man club. They maintain 55 Active Thunderbirds who, with the help of Life Thunderbirds (aka Lifebirds, men who are retired from active status after years of backbreaking work, month in and month out, for this huge annual event, on their 45th birthdays into Lifebird status), have raised millions of dollars for charities as hosts of the 76 year Phoenix Open! Congratulations!

Per their own website, Thunderbirds Charities supports “the courageous athletes of the Special Olympics, youngsters of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Scottsdale, Phoenix and East Valley and the affiliated agencies of the Valley of the Sun United Way.”

“Why bring sand to the beach? The Birds Nest is not for first dates.”  — Matchmaker Roseann Higgins

One girl told me she has a first date at the Coors Light Birds Nest. (Not with a SPIES client.) How romantic. Music so loud you can hardly talk and thousands of single men and women on the hunt or being the hunted. I asked, “Why bring sand to the beach?” Maybe if you’ve been dating awhile, listening to the Goo Goo Dolls and seeing friends you haven’t seen since last year or in several years, could be a blast. A first date at the Phoenix Open Birds Nest is a true test of any visual man’s ability to stay focused on you and too soon to be testing. Good luck!

I’ll be at the Phoenix Open all week, starting with tonight’s Opening Night Tuesday Night Fever, searching for new single men and women who might be great dates for SPIES’ clientele.

We pass on gold diggers at the Open (or anywhere). Millionaires don’t have a problem finding them on their own...

People who work hard all year do and should plan to come spend a beautiful day outside on the golf course having a little fun and reconnecting with friends they may not have seen in years. I love every time I see some of the 45,000 people I’ve met in our community of 3 million residents since starting this company. And yes, if you’re a veteran Phoenix Open attendee, you know that among the thousands of attendees each day, you will find a prevalent presence of amazon blond and brunette gold diggers. They are ineligible for my matchmaking services because successful men can find girls who want their money free and this is not the Millionaire Matchmaker TV show. If you want to “meet my millionaires” (what she says on the show) and I get wind of it? “Bye bye! You’re free. And you’re on your own.” By 8 or 9 pm every night, the Birds Nest can become toxic with extreme partiers – also given a pass by this matchmaker. So, you may want to go early and get out! Plenty of tournament and early Birds Nest goers leave for nearby Scottsdale venues who host special parties for Phoenix Open attendees. Prime Bar at Scottsdale Quarter shared on Twitter they will offer a free entree or beverage with your Phoenix Open ticket.

If I haven’t seen you lately, you may enjoy learning SPIES is doing quite well! We’ve averaged introducing a marriage every six weeks since opening our doors in 1994. Through hard work and determination. As alluded to earlier, 95% of the people we introduce want to see each other again. And again. And again! ;)

SPIES has become known for it’s unique search methods – in a good way. We’ve given back and raised over $200,000 for Phoenix area charities while out looking for special men and women to date our clientele.

Our private clientele want a relationship and to be done with serial dating the wrong ones they meet on their own. My job is finding one-in-a-millions at these events for especially selective single men and single women who might be too busy or bad at choosing the right mate or the right dates without some professional assistance. I go to more events and meet more people than they, or nearly anyone, has the time to. And I love my job!

If you’re not in love by the end of the best Arizona event to meet singles all year, take action and call me!

So, if you don’t fall in love this week at the WM Phoenix Open, perhaps you should check out SPIES matchmaking success stories and come in and see what we can do for you. Or maybe you have a terrific single friend you want to find someone special? I’m here. You can call me personally and ask me anything before hiring us.

Thanks for reading and stopping by. If you go to the Phoenix Open, look for the 6′ blond in tennis shoes.  I hope to see you soon!

Roseann Higgins
(602) 241-1800

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Phoenix Arizona - Ahwatukee Foothills Bachelor Finds True Love with SPIES Matchmaking Service

Ahwatukee bachelor featured in The Arizona Republic hires SPIES dating service and falls in love

Phoenix Arizona - Ahwatukee Foothills Bachelor Finds True Love with SPIES Matchmaking Service

Recently relocated from California and recently divorced, this executive registered with SPIES dating service. The Ahwatukee Foothills resident has been on a number of dates through the “only romance headhunters" in the country. ...Since this story in The Arizona Republic appeared, matchmaker Roseann Higgins introduced him to someone extraordinary. They fell in love and are now married.

Making a love connection – Dating services do the work for single adults

A FOLLOW UP TO THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC NEWSPAPER STORY

By Patricia Bathurst

Special for The Arizona Republic

With about a million single adults in Maricopa County, probably about half of those people are seeking a date on any given weekend. Fortunately, there are plenty of people ready to help East Valley singletons find that special someone, such as family, friends or fate. And there are media outlets such as the newspaper and magazine personals, radio stations and Internet services.

For personal service, though, East Valley singles who really want to find someone can turn to any one of nearly two-dozen dating services.

For instance, Ahwatukee Foothills resident Mike, recently relocated from California and recently divorced, knew he wanted to date but quickly discovered “what I did when I was in college to find a date didn’t let me find the kind of person I want to date now.”

A conversation with an old college bud persuaded him to seek a dating service. After exploring several possibilities, he registered with SPIES.

Run by Roseanne Higgins, SPIES (Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective) is billed as the “only romance headhunters” in the country.

“Roseanne wasn’t my perception of a ‘dating service,’” Mike said. “I felt that she would give me really personal attention, and that she understood not just what I’m looking for, but also that I want to be discreet.

“You know, people my age (42) are in a different place. We’re more selective, we have reasons to be selective, and we tend to have more shields up because of our past experiences.”

Mike has been on a number of dates arranged through Higgins.

Higgins is a well-known throughout the Valley’s singles’ circuit.

“I’m on a mission,” she said, “to get you a date. I want you to feel good, and not be disappointed.”

Since this story in The Arizona Republic appeared, Roseann introduced Mike to someone extraordinary. They fell in love and are now married.

Looking for love:

SPIES:  Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective

Roseann Higgins, (602) 241-1800

Very personal, extremely confidential

 

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