aries2756: The Most effective method of having more shadchanim around is letting them know that if they get to a third date they are a SUCCESS (compensate them). Success breed success. When they are made to feel like a failure despite having gotten to a third or forth date, that causes many potential future shadchanim to quit.
Step into the shoes of a relatively busy shadchan for a day or two. You have to be mad to take on the lifestyle. And you wonder why there aren’t more shadchanim around….
In addition more shadchanim alone without closing the age gap will help only minimally as the boys are getting married…..so someone is setting them up. But I don’t want to go down that road again.