Female: If you live in a high in condo you might have concierge, if stay in a swanky hotel you have likely use the service. Concierge services are nothing new for those with some extra cash to throw around but they are not just for the rich anymore. The new name life outsourcing and the concept is becoming increasingly popular especially for ordinary people who just do not have enough time in a day to complete all of life’s little task. Here is Joy with more.
Joy: Christine Johnson is the student at Columbia University in New York City which with school work and preparing for up coming wedding. She needed a left with her day-to-day planning. She found it at asksunday.com.
Christine: Oh, I read about it in New Times article and of course, my mom called me and she said you need it as you read the article you need to have this, your life is so busy maybe they can help you. And so then I went on the website and seems like a pretty good service for me.
Female: The plan started only nineteen dollars a month which includes ten request but asksunday would do more time consuming project that extra request for an additional fee.
Christine: I have cash seating around that I would like to earn some money but I want it to be on liquid investment and I did not want take the time to look at different banks and see what different offers they had for different levels of cities. So I ask asksunday to do that for me.
Female: Her is how it works. It is a simple process you call or email your request and with a few hours asksunday provides a service or information you need. The agent can do anything from disputing a charge on a credit bill, to postponing your magazine subscription while you are in vacation. They will be even browse to put a labs for you.
Christine: I need a book of that appointment, I need a book a doctors appointment for my self, I need to get a haircut, I used them for everything like that.
Female: On the other end of this spectrum with high and concierge services Quintessentially actually a private club that provides lifestyle management services to its members. Those who can afford it receive services 24/7 all around the world.
Male: A lot of our members have the assistance for that work life and were effectively the personal assistant for that private life.
Female: From an exotic car rentals to booking private jets, the request are as varied as the client tell and have book challenge and entertain this stuff.
Male: There is one member he believes that same action Quintessentially service that he actually made a bet with his friends like while on the Mediterranean that we can not fly out a set of Bunger drums to him within the hour. Of course we deliver it and our member won his bets.
Female: That cheapest membership at $1,800.00 a year and provides the members with access to a team of ask your members assistance.
Male: I also can make a reservation for lunch please.
Female: If you want your own dedicated account manager it will run $5,500.00 and that it the cheap plan. But some people prefer a more personal touch, they want to speak to someone that knows their likes and dislikes, the new ones whether like to travel, what kind of hotel rooms they stay in and if they prefer first class or business class.
Male: And so the 40,000, actually $45,000.00 a global elite member which sends the invitation only. There are one of those account managers in each of the cities where we are having all this around the world. So there is always someone who knows that you like Italian food but you do not like steaks and who knows that your loved it but you really knows fund of musicals and then they can fulfilled your request very quickly on that basis.
Female: Sound like vet expensive best friend?
Male: It really is but it is best friend here, it has the best connection that you can imagine around the world.
Joy: Joy, this is Week TV, New York.
Female: That is going to do it for this week. So thank you so much for watching.
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