Jeannette Jones

Chillin' on the G4

Why did you decide to turn your passion into a business?   I decided to turn assisting into a business because I saw that there was a need for services like mine on a part-time/as-needed basis and that sometimes people who had secondary homes in Los Angeles didn’t necessarily need a full-time personal assistant or house manager, but did not want to leave their beloved household unattended.

On location in Venice

On assignment in London

What are the benefits of hiring a company like yours to manage people’s homes?
 
There are several benefits to hiring a company like ours.  Firstly, there are the carrying costs associated with staffing a fulltime employee.  Aside from the obvious expenses like salaries, taxes, and other miscellaneous liabilities like providing equipment (e.g. computer, cell phone, etc.), and any other perquisites an employer would typically offer, can really add up.  Additionally, you must consider having another person in your home full time and providing a dedicated in-home workspace for that individual.  Most people who have secondary homes do not have the specific need for a full-time house manager to be staffed on-site. 
 
Some secondary homeowners will opt for the typical property management company that also oversees many other homes and rental properties as well.  These companies can often come in and provide the bare minimum of services with employees who are not professionally trained.  For discerning homeowners, for those who typically work with a team of trusted advisors, for those who are traditionally accustomed to employing an estate manager, and those who have certain expectations of their properties, our services just make a lot of sense for those individuals and families.

On location in Paris

Any final thoughts?
 
Even though our beginnings started in Los Angeles, and we still continue to assist a select few families in the Los Angeles area, we have moved the majority of our operations to the Pebble Beach, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and the Monterey Peninsula where the secondary-home market is booming (approximately 60% of the homes are held by absentee owners).  Besides, it's just a beautiful area to be.
 
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This Q&A session is provided by Brian Daniel of the
Celebrity Personal Assistant Network.  To see this interview
​on their page or to learn more about what his company does, click on the picture below:

As the holidays once again are inevitably around the corner, many companies utter the old saying: “what are we going to get everyone for the holidays?”  It’s the same quandary over and over each year.  Companies struggle with the very idea of what to send out to their loyal clientele who help keep them in business as the clock ticks closer and closer to the gift-giving deadline.
 
While many executive assistants and office managers are starting their search where most everyone else starts their search, the internet, many savvy companies are instead turning to service companies that can take away that burden.  Bespoke concierge services that offer corporate gifting are the perfect pairing to make the magic happen and free the administrative staff from the extra burden of the gifting process that the season so often brings.
 
Some of the obstacles that arise are:  What do you buy for someone you know little about? What do you buy when you don’t really have the time or desire to research and shop?  What do you buy when you don’t want to give the same old gift that everyone else is giving? 
 
The service of “corporate gifting” has eased the minds of staff for many years by:
 
-Having access to the proverbial “Rolodex” of unique gifts in their repertoire
-Presenting distinctive gift ideas
-Sourcing, locating, and executing the purchases
-Ensuring a beautiful, custom wrapping for each gift
-And then either shipping or personally delivering to all points of the compass 
 
We are one such company providing these personalized services to a handful our privileged clients.  We go to all ends of the earth to source and locate gifts that will be truly exclusive to the recipient.  After locating such a gift, we then determine how to best present to the recipient (whether it is dropped into a stadium with a skydiver or delicately packaged inside authentic Russian nesting dolls), we take extreme care to get it right.  We have even gone so far as to personally hand-deliver a Chanel handbag to a client in London because it absolutely, positively had to be there the next day.
 
While hand-delivering a handbag to Europe is one of our more-unusual requests, typical requests consist of gifting corporate clients and vendors with unique items that aren’t your everyday run-of-the-mill, diabetes-inducing gifts.  Our gifts are usually higher-end and oftentimes "experiential" in nature.  To stand out from the throngs of gifts that are typically received, it really pays to give a gift that is out-of-the box in nature and unique to the recipient.  
 
With global connections to some of the most distinctive and diverse gifts, we truly take the hassle out of the gift-giving doldrums.