I’m Date◎Yume, a male member.
Looking closely at female friendships, I rarely see beautiful women paired with other beautiful women, or unattractive women with other unattractive women. For some reason, I get the impression that friendships between beautiful and unattractive women are much more common.
In that sense, targeting female friend groups might not be a bad idea.
Maezawa from the President’s Office here, answering as well.
I don’t think anyone can know at this stage how things will turn out.
It’s like horse racing, where there are all kinds of tipsters. Someone might say, “Because of this and that, this horse is my top pick today.” They’re free to say that, I suppose.
You won’t know until the results are in.
It’s really a case of only God knowing how things will turn out.
P.S.
> Rather, it’s like you’ve thrown down the gauntlet to all those online affiliate marketers, so who knows what will happen.
I don’t think it’s quite enough to call it a gauntlet.
When I first got into affiliate marketing, there were some very skilled affiliates who attracted women with claims like, “You can get paid just for dinner,” and were paid for every application they generated.
When we interviewed the applicants, I was shocked to find that almost all of them were Type A dating arrangements.
I remember thinking that affiliate marketers were really something. They must have made a considerable amount of money.
(Univa was left in tears, though（笑）.)
When you look at it that way, a catchphrase of this level probably wouldn’t even feel like a mosquito bite to a top affiliate marketer. I don’t think professionals would see friend referrals as any kind of threat.
Also, friend referrals are a system that has existed for a long time. In the past, we even paid people simply for signing up, regardless of whether they went on a date.
> Cutting the commissions paid to affiliates…
I think we had simply been paying too much before.
The setting fee for the Platinum class is ¥50,000, but can you guess how much Univa kept? I can’t really write the figure here ＞＜
We were paying affiliates a very substantial amount. If you know someone involved, you could probably ask them directly, but the payout rate for Platinum was outrageous（笑）.
We used the remainder to cover advertising, staff costs, rent, and so on.
So, in a sense, we had to ask the affiliates to accept a painful cut. Since their earnings have decreased compared with before, those who were receiving the larger amounts may feel that the current payments are low. But when you consider the proportion of the setting fee paid to affiliates, I don’t think it’s actually that low.
> In the end, you probably won’t have trouble collecting the money.
Apparently, people who don’t intend to pay won’t pay even if they’ve signed a promissory note, so I hear the finance business is difficult.
I’ve heard that unless you create a frightening department dedicated to collections, you’ll end up overwhelmed with people who refuse to pay.
Apparently, you have to be intimidating ＞＜
Mamiya from Universe Club here.
I believe “Let’s sell our friends” was decided on as the source idea at a Frein meeting, probably by the representative or the creative team.
What I said was certainly nothing to be proud of, but your kind words really touched me...
It may be difficult, since people tend to attract others like themselves, but we often hear people say they joined because they were introduced by an acquaintance or heard about it from someone they know.
I feel that if there were a tactful way to invite someone who isn’t a close friend but whom you could still recommend papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) to, it might spread further—and even women who aren’t receiving offers could earn some extra income.
Thank you so much!!
I’m in Seattle.
I think it’s great too.
It may not be something you can advertise on TV, but it is a dating club, after all.
I hate the way people nitpick and complain about everything, just like the mass media. They should just leave it alone.
