Authentic Singles

Authentic Singles Business Franchise Opportunity

Who We Are and What We Do

Authentic Singles is a worker-owned collective of Authentic Relating leaders and sexual educators operating in the field of authentic friendship, dating and sexuality. It’s in part an industry association and in part a franchise opportunity. We provide web and marketing infrastructure, proven business models,  training in these models, and a resource sharing and support community. We allocate exclusive “territories” to our members / franchisees. The territories are generally cities.

Each member / franchisee will own and have control over their own website. The websites will be built with the very powerful HighLevel website builder, marketing automation system and CRM. The member websites may advertise services and events not related to the primary Authentic Singles events, which are the Authentic Connection: Intentional Dating events and the Authentic Connection Parties. More on this below.

Authentic Singles is in the startup phase. We are looking for interested members / franchisees to launch starting as soon as December 2024. 

Authentic Singles is designed to be a direct competition and far superior offer to the $7B per year, largely ineffective online dating industry. We aim to capture 1-10% of that market, representing income for the entire network of $70m to $700M. 

If this is of interest please reach out via the Contact  Page.

For AR leaders: What’s in it for you?

  • Join a resource-sharing and support community for running a thriving AR business in the area of authentic connection, dating and sexuality
  • Income potential is $500 per event (shared leadership) or $1000 per event (single lead) based on 40 people paying $25 (minus the venue cost). These number are real and not projections.
  • Avoid “solo-preneur burnout” and costly SaaS marketing automation services by outsourcing your web & marketing infrastructure (an area which many entrepreneurs find challenging)
  • Consolidate all your event and coaching offers under a single website under your domain and owned by you
  • Let us help you with your event design and marketing through our community knowledge-base of best practices.
  • Expand your life, your finances and your AR / Coaching business. Change lives and be paid for it. “Do well by doing good”
  • Bring in your voice and your diversity into a peer community that enjoys and appreciates diversity; and design your own sub-culture targeted events (see below)
  • Contribute to the health and growth of the AR movement as a whole

Primary Services (Event) Descriptions

The two primary services are as follows. You may also (and you are encouraged to) provide additional events including AR game evenings, Circling™ or related offers such as the Practical Relational Leadership Course,  your own workshops and retreats, etc.

Authentic Connection: Intentional Dating

Our flagship event is the Authentic Connection: Intentional Dating Event. This is a 2 ½ to 3 hour,  either online or in-person, event in which singles play Authentic Relating Games around the topic of  love, sex and romance. The games happen either in one-on-one breakouts,  in small groups or 4-5, or  within the whole group. Eventually we will be providing a mutual matching service (which may include matching as friends, dates or both), but in the startup phase we are just sharing email addresses of all participants (which may be disposable emails).

People at the event will live in the same city, so meeting their dates in person will be possible.

Intentional Dating events  happen either online or in person. This is for each member / franchisee to decide, how and where they want to run their events. Intentional Dating events may be restricted (or targeted) to sub-cultures, i.e. Poly, LGBTQ, Marriage-oriented, Christian, Non-Vaxxers, “Relationship anarchists”, neuro-diverse people, etc.

Authentic Connection Parties

The Authentic Connection Party is the second event that we want our franchise members to provide. It’s an AR game format (hot-seats works well) promoting open conversation around all topics, including intimacy and sexuality. Authentic Connection Parties are intended for all people and age ranges; as opposed to the Intentional Dating events which are targeted to singles and are age-restricted (we intend to run two types of groups: 40 and up, and under 45. Age restrictions are not enforced, it is up to you to decide where you fit).

Marketing

In the startup phase, members are required to bring leads in through social media posts and their own networks. When Authentic Singles officially launches, we will provide the option to run Facebook ads.

Pricing (Membership fees)

The pricing of an Authentic Singles franchise is… what you would expect from a worker-owned corporation, meaning quite advantageous. It starts from as little as $50/mth or 15-20% of net income (or profit), whichever is greater. Training may be extra and web design services (if required) are also extra. You are welcome to create your own website on your own domain from your HighLevel installation, or hire someone to do it.  You pay us for online advertising as needed, this is on top of your membership fees. Please allocate between 20-40% of your gross revenue to advertising and/or affiliate commissions, unless you already have a good network in your locality. Note that your advertising costs decrease net income which also decreases your membership fees.

You decide your event pricing within the range we suggest. We expect that event pricing will be in the range of $25-$35 USD for Intentional Dating and $15-$25 USD for Authentic Connection Parties. You keep 80-85% of net income (Net Income = Gross income – Advertising – Venue cost, if you choose to do in-person events). So for example, with a room of 30 and pricing of $30, you net $900 minus the cost of the venue. For an online event, sold-out at 30 seats, you net $900.

Sample member / franchisee website (see below)

Members will have websites under their own domain, and their marketing will target people inside their territory. Below is a sample franchisee website we have put together. All members will be given a basic template such as this below and will customize it to their needs.

Member websites are created with the HighLevel platform. You can use HighLevel for your event booking or you can create external events in Eventbrite and sell your tickets from there. In either case you will setup your mailing list on HighLevel. You may also create courses for your clients on the platform, either free or paid.

Thank you for reading. For any and all feedback and/or to setup a meeting, please reach out via our Contact Page.

[Here is a sample website which you will customize to your needs. Click-through and enlarge the image to read our sample copy]