Personal Time Saver

Concierge Services To Keep You On The Road To Success

seena@splashcreative.london — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:08:46 +0000

For many people, life is incredibly busy. Whether you’re juggling the demands of work and home, or are running your own business, any additional tasks such as booking flights, arranging a cleaner or nanny, or running general errands, can feel like the straws that are poised to break the camel’s back.

If you’re making good money in your working life, a personal concierge service will enable you to focus on making even more, whilst their team of virtual helpers take care of all the tasks you simply don’t have the time, or inclination, to complete.

Personal Time Saver is a London based service which was proud to be the runner up in London’s best concierge service 2013. It boasts a tailor-made service to suit each client and their philosophy is “No job is too trivial”. Whether you need house sitting, grocery shopping, a car serviced, help arranging a party, secretarial support or someone to complete your passport application, this gem of a company is at your beck and call 365 days a year. They will meet up with you anytime to confirm your requirements – or you can just email them an instruction. It’s a very personalised service and well worth the money if you’re simply too busy to manage all these tasks yourself…

Source: Sophisticated Savers

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Runner-up London’s Best Concierge Service 2013

seena@splashcreative.london — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:53:05 +0000

We are pleased to be runners-up in the London Lifestyle Awards for the category of London’s Best Concierge Service 2013.

Read more here: www.londonlifestyleawards.com

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Personal Time Saver: Alex Fontaine

seena@splashcreative.london — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:04:04 +0000

Time, as they say, is money. With the increasing number of people squeezed for time as they attempt to juggle work, children and leisure, Alex Fontaine realised that the hectic pace of modern life could result in profits for her business idea.

Alex set up Personal Time Saver Ltd in 1994 after realising that increasing numbers of ultra-busy London employees didn’t have enough hours in the day to undertake a variety of tasks.

“Society has changed,” Alex explains. “There are more single people, wives now work full-time and people have to work loner hours – work conditions are changing.”

Alex’s concierge business tends to almost any need the capital’s population may have, from dog walking to the construction of a tree house. From £50 an hour, Personal Time Saver will undertake the most trivial of jobs for those who are cash-rich but time-poor.

The business has travelled a long way since Alex started it up with little more than a bicycle and a laptop. Personal Time Saver is now a properly structured business and has gained more than its fair share of media coverage, having featured on BBC2’s New Servants in May 2004.

“My key to success is to maintain 100% excellent service,” Alex says. ” I only spent what I earned on business expansion and never borrowed money in the beginning and never have to now.

“I was willing to take on small jobs to prove my worth and work long hours for little return to boost my reputation by word of mouth.

“Expansion does not necessarily mean success or extra profit though and I’ve found it more profitable to downsize again and maintain exclusivity and increase hourly rate and decrease volume.”

Alex’s story is all the more remarkable considering the hurdles she’s had to overcome to make it in business. Having survived alcoholism and a violent assault, she found the strength to make a success of Personal Time Saver.

Her efforts were recognised at last year’s Startups Awards, where she triumphed in the Women in Business category. She admits that being a woman in business was initially tough.

“In the beginning I encountered many negative people and was patronised – it’s easy to back a winner but it takes guts and intuition to encourage the future successes,” she recalls.

“I don’t necessarily think the status of women in business has changed but I know I have changed. I no longer care whether people believe in my ideas because I know they work and I am successful.

“I know I can make mountains move, get things done, make clients very happy, rise to any challenge and never accept the answer ‘no!’

“With my drive, experience and determination I’m no longer concerned if people think I can’t do something because I’m a woman. Gender has nothing to do with it – it only is to those who are small minded and those are the ones to avoid.

“Sometimes builders don’t like being told what to do but then they don’t get the next job! It’s all about providing a top service.”

Source: www.startups.co.uk

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How to outsource your life

seena@splashcreative.london — Fri, 31 May 2013 19:19:02 +0000

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing yourself, right? Wrong. Time-poor Londoners are handing over banal and bizarre tasks to professionals paid to be better, faster and more efficient at their lives than they are. It’s time to make your day someone else’s problem…

Source: How to outsource your life

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Start Ups Award 2004 Winners

seena@splashcreative.london — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:50:46 +0000

We are pleased to announce Alex Fontaine is a category winner in the Startups Awards 2004, claiming the Women In Business award.

The judges were impressed with the way Alex Fontaine has identified and addressed a clear market need extremely effectively. With great use of PR and branding and an impressive social conscience to her staffing approach, Alex stood out as a worthy winner.

For more information visit www.startups.co.uk/startups-awards/winners-2004/

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TV review: You can get the staff

seena@splashcreative.london — Thu, 06 May 2004 19:22:26 +0000

The New Servants | Destination D-Day | The Protectors | In Search of Genius: last night’s television by Sam Wollaston.

Cheerful Alex is another new servant, a personal time-saver. This seems to be a less glamorous profession than life coach, more of a dogsbody in fact. She clears lofts, gardens, organises and shops. She’ll even do an offy run, which is hard for a recovering alcoholic (“This used to be my favourite,” she says, sadly, holding up a bottle of Absolut).

Being a personal time-saver is stressful and, well, time consuming. So Cheerful Alex hires an assistant, and, would you believe it, a life coach! There seems to be a whole community of these people out there, looking after each other, organising each other’s lives. Fascinating.

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