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Overcoming Challenges as a Personal Assistant

Every new business has it’s challenges. As the economy has been slumping, fewer and fewer businesses and families have turned to the services of Personal Assistants and Personal Concierges.
Does this mean you shouldn’t pursue building your business? Absolutely not. The biggest challenge is figuring out where to focus your efforts to maximize your investment. Whether [...]

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Work Life Balance. Give this book to your clients.

Having a work – life balance is important. Sometimes, it may be difficult explaining to your clients just how valuable your services can be. Understanding everything that a person can do to improve their quality of life is important and can be overwhelming. It often is not as easy as just working less and making more time. There [...]

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How to find clients for your personal assistant business

One of the most difficult tasks when starting a new business is getting clients. There are several ways you can get your business name out while saving money.
Referrals: If you already have at least one satisfied client you can ask for a referral. If your current clients are happy with your service and offerings they [...]

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35 Ways to Market Your Concierge Business

35 Ways to Market Your Concierge Business
By Katharine Giovanni

 

For beginners, the first step in growing your new business is to find the customers. For those of you who are already up and running, the next step (now that you have clients) is that you must continue to generate new business every month, even if you [...]

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Part-time Personal Assistants

Over the years we’ve had many people ask how we started our personal assistant/personal concierge business. Our business started like many others in any industry, slowly.
We found that when getting started, we could set our own schedules. We negotiated our scheduled with our clients in advance and many times, they were more than hapy with what we [...]

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