Concierge Services - Gift Services - Events & Parties

Dear Personal Genie,

Is anyone out there listening?
I've been gone from home all day running to specialty shops. One shop is at Hamilton Place, another is in the Brainerd area, a third is across the bridge downtown. I've spent more time in transportation than in actual shopping. Then there's finding a convenient place to park. In the meantime, the kids will be home in an hour and a half and there's no one to let them in; the dog has an appointment with the veterinarian at 4:30; an accident on Broad Street is tying up traffic; and I'm getting a migraine.

Stressed to the Limit

Dear Stressed To the Limit,
One of the more popular buzz phrases of the '90s was: "I'll have my people contact your people." In the '80s, as women worked up the executive ladder, it was: "What I need is a wife!" In both instances, it's a given that there are others available to handle the details of the corporate and industrial worlds, and someone else to attend to the minutia of everyday living-namely, a wife. But "my people" are busy, and today's "wife" isn't the same "little woman" she used to be.

This has led to a new kind of business on a national level. Instead of hiring a full-time personal assistant (and it's politically incorrect to expect a secretary to handle personal matters), small errand-running operators are springing up, as well as larger companies geared to meeting the social and corporate needs of the busy executive or homemaker.

These service-oriented companies are geared to organize a dinner party or a wedding, pick up dry cleaning or someone at the airport-as well as aid the harried host and hostess who could use ten extra hands for a weekend visit by out-of-town guests.

If time is money, contemplate the benefits of having someone else oversee the details of organizing a convention or trade show, spend an afternoon or a whole day as a personal secretary making reservations, sending flowers, picking out a birthday gift, and so on.

With the advent of the mall, many specialty shops are conveniently located in one location. However, consumers usually have favorite places to do business that aren't necessarily at the mall.

That kind of additional pressure is what prompted The Concierge Level, a service-oriented business in Chattanooga. Whether you're a husband, wife, mother, dad, grandparent, or a sibling, there's a way to shed the burden of unavoidable errands, organization of special events (at home or the office), or the thousand other things that the flesh is heir to. In brief: Farm it out. Even if someone isn't really all that busy, not everyone is talented at coordinating a multiple-task event. Being organized isn't just a trait, it's a skill.

Our genies are professionals in well-appointed office spaces in downtown Chattanooga.

We hope you'll contact us and consider it done,
Your Personal Genie,
The Concierge Level