FAQs
- What types of customers have you worked with?
The specific services I offer most being a concierge to my clients are: running personal errands, shopping (everything from; groceries and gifts to furniture and even fixtures). I've also offered the daily organizing of a client's personal, business or travel itinerary as their (personal assistant). With several clients, the above would also include long-term house-sitting, pet-sitting and party and event planning.
- Describe a recent project you are fond of. How long did it take?
About a month ago, I was asked to perform a pet sitting service for a "new" local client who had a cat that was trying to recover from a stroke. It was a small female cat and she had lost the proper use of the left side of her body. So, she wobbled a lot and frequently lost her balance. She required going to the client's home twice a day and the project lasted for 2 whole weeks. Each visit required that I feed her, keep her company, lots of physical contact to keep the animal stimulated. I also had to administer a liquid medicine she had to have also twice a day every day. This was not so difficult for the first couple of days until it looked as though she fell out of recovering and started to become extremely unbalanced in her walking and stopped eating all of a sudden. There wasn't much I could do but pay extra (petting) attention to her. I would come to the house and after all the basics were taken care of, I would lay down with her or have her jump in my lap and rest while I pet her. Things looked quite uncertain from that day till the owners returned from their vacation. She seems to be o.k. and hasn't gotten worse. The owners were very pleased in the way I handled the situation and of course a pleased client is always my end goal.
- What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
In hiring any type of service, you should always know that they are licensed and they have checkable client/business references. Also ask around, someone local my have used the services before. Don't always assume that because another client didn't have rave reviews to give about a certain person's or company's service, that it was all because of poor work or ineffeciency on the part of the service provider. Quite often, there are personality issues that come up between service seeker and provider and a project may take longer than cited or canceled because of it. There are also (unfortunately), people that make a living out of requesting services and although everthing goes well, the client makes up something to justify their not paying for services in full. These things do happen.