The Concierge Life


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You want to do more than just run a concierge business. You want to live the Concierge Life!But first, you need to know the truth about what it takes to create a successful concierge business¿and it may not be what you think. In this book, we¿ll tackle the big issues that concierge businesses face every day, like: ¿ The six false beliefs that will kill your dream-and maybe your business, too!¿ Your #1 job as a concierge. (Hint: it¿s not serving your clients!)¿ How to manage your mindset so little setbacks don¿t become big barriers.¿ How to identify (and market to) your real ideal clients.This is your guide to creating a thriving concierge business and living the dream. Are you ready to start creating your awesome Concierge Life?




Concierge Confidential


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New York City's top concierge gives up a keyhole view into the luxe hotel rooms, private dining and dressing rooms of the ridiculous, rich and demanding Michael Fazio is the ultimate behind-the-scenes support man. Want two orchestra tickets to the Broadway musical that just won the Tony? Call Fazio. How about an upgrade to first class on an overbooked overnight flight to Tokyo? Call Fazio. Or a roomful of fresh hydrangeas—in winter? That's right. Call Fazio. From his early start as the harried and neglected personal assistant to a typical L.A. casting agent, Fazio took what he learned there and moved into concierge work at New York City's Intercontinental Hotel, where he was eventually able to parlay his services into a large and successful business of his own. In Concierge Confidential, Fazio reveals the behind-thescenes madness that goes into getting the rich and famous what they want, and shares some great insider knowledge on how to get access to the unattainable without making the concierge, waiters and other service people crazy. A few of Fazio's tips include: • When and how much to palm in tips • How to get a seat or ticket to the hottest thing in town • How to avoid being labeled a rube the minute you walk through the door • How you can become your favorite store or restaurant's most beloved customer • And much more




Confessions of a Concierge


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Shares the memories of a Parisian woman about turn-of-the-century France, World War I, and the period between the wars




The Concierge Mindset


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"Joanne has been one of those real estate professionals one always wants to emulate. Her professionalism and reputation are amazing. She's smart, caring, and knows how to get the job done." -Terri Johnson, CRS Ninja Master Instructor - Broker and Licensee by the California Department of Real Estate "As a real estate professional, Joanne has always found a way to create "WOW" experiences for her clients. Now, as an author, she has the blueprint to make that dream happen for you too!" -Dennis Giannetti, MS Master Ninja Selling Instructor - Go-Giver Certified Speaker - Tony Robbins Certified Coach - Licensed Realtor ___________ Are you ready to take your real estate business from good to great? Through her 20-year real estate career Joanne DeLeon has embraced the idea that with love for her customers her business would grow, and it has. Soon she found herself with a new issue to address. With all the growth came a lot of extra "noise." Joanne found herself answering the same questions time and time again. Inspired while on a vacation, she went about creating a system that allowed her to answer such questions before they were even asked, which allowed her to stay in the spirit of love and grow her real estate career at an incredible rate. The Concierge Mindset is the first book from Joanne DeLeon, a perennial RealTrends Americas Best Real Estate Agent. DeLeon has taken the secrets to her successful communication with clients and tools she uses every day to maximize her business and put them in this easy to read book. In The Concierge Mindset you'll learn: How to Adapt a "Concierge Mindset" In Real Estate Joanne DeLeon's Top 10 Concierge Tools She Uses in Her Business Four Ways to Go Above and Beyond to Wow Your Clients How to Use All of These Resources to Grow Your Business _________ From early readers of The Concierge Mindset: "I've known Joanne DeLeon for the last 15 years and am proud to call her a fellow owner/partner at The Group, Inc. Real Estate. Joanne is always willing to share her creative ideas and business practices with other real estate professionals. In fact, Joanne has contributed to the content we teach in the Ninja Installation. She provides a level of "fabled service" that produces repeat business and an abundance of referrals. Her clients routinely refer to her as a "real pro," and I agree!" -Don Tennessen Master Instructor for Ninja Selling "In an industry where the "secret sauce" of top producing agents is tightly held, this inside look at the granular details of the day-to-day systems, processes, and nuggets of a top-producing, non-team agent is a true gift to the real estate industry. No matter your level of production, this book holds dozens of clear, proven, and easy-to-implement ideas that will increase your income per hour so you can have a life." -Peter Parnegg Former owner and co-CEO of Coldwell Banker Legacy, New Mexico's #1 real estate company since 1998




While We Were Watching Downton Abbey


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From the bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding comes a novel about four friends who share a passion for a beloved British television show that will change all of their lives. When the concierge of The Alexander, a historic Atlanta apartment building, invites his fellow residents to join him for weekly screenings of Downton Abbey, four very different people find themselves connecting with the addictive drama, and—even more unexpectedly—with each other... Samantha Davis married young and for the wrong reason: the security of old Atlanta money—for herself and for her orphaned brother and sister. She never expected her marriage to be complicated by love and compromised by a shattering family betrayal. Claire Walker is now an empty nester and struggling author who left her home in the suburbs for the old world charm of The Alexander, and for a new and productive life. But she soon wonders if clinging to old dreams can be more destructive than having no dreams at all. And then there’s Brooke MacKenzie, a woman in constant battle with her faithless ex-husband. She’s just starting to realize that it’s time to take a deep breath and come to terms with the fact that her life is not the fairy tale she thought it would be. For Samantha, Claire, Brooke—and Edward, who arranges the weekly gatherings—it will be a season of surprises as they forge a bond that will sustain them through some of life’s hardest moments—all of it reflected in the unfolding drama, comedy, and convergent lives of Downton Abbey.




The Concierge & Personal Assistant Manual


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CONCIERGE AND PERSONAL ASSISTANTIN THE 21ST CENTURYA CAREER YOU CAN DO ANYWHERE...Start Your Own Concierge/ Personal Assistant Company from home or anywhere in the worldAnyone can do it...AnywhereThe business that can go anywhere you go. All you need is an I-Pad or laptop, Smartphone; blue tooth technology, a savvy and professional style, organizational skills and you are on your way.A career you can do anywhere...Desiree Ertuly, MM, MBA




Concierge


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The Concierge delivers anything...for a price. A provider in the underworld of human trafficking, the Concierge fills deviant orders of an exclusive clientele with inventory collected from people who live on the streets. As client requests are delivered, a personal obsession with New Orleans artist Andi Hutchenson festers...until the predator's quest is possession. Andi Hutchenson lives in a world of fear-fueled shadows. Two and a half years ago, Andi was kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead. Since then, crippling fear has ruled her life. Round the clock security enables her to leave her French Quarter home to paint the world around her, but Andi's past is about to collide with her lonely present. Gabe Hernandez believes his client is safe...but she isn't. Protecting Andi is a given, but Black Raven Agent Gabe Hernandez is captivated by her and wants to entice her back to the land of the living. Yet with each tug on the lifeline he offers, Gabe is pulled deeper into Andi's world, where the dividing line between imagined horrors and real-life demons is whisper thin.




French Life


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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ne Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Bront. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. She married William Gaskell, the minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester. They settled in Manchester, where the industrial surroundings would offer inspiration for her novels. Her first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, was published anonymously in 1848. The best known of her remaining novels are Cranford (1853), North and South (1855), and Wives and Daughters (1866). She became popular for her writing, especially her ghost story writing, aided by her friend Charles Dickens, who published her work in his magazine Household Words. Her other works include: The Grey Woman (1865), Lois the Witch (1861) and The Old Nurse's Story (1852).




The Life of the City


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Could the vitality of embodied experience create a foundation for a new form of revolutionary authority? The Life of the City is a bold and innovative reassessment of the early urban avant-garde movements that sought to re-imagine and reinvent the experiential life of the city. Constructing a ground-breaking theoretical analysis of the relationships between biological life, urban culture, and modern forms of biopolitical ’experiential authority’, Julian Brigstocke traces the failed attempts of Parisian radicals to turn the ’crisis of authority’ in late nineteenth-century Paris into an opportunity to invent new forms of urban commons. The most comprehensive account to date of the spatial politics of the literary, artistic and anarchist groups that settled in the Montmartre area of Paris after the suppression of the 1871 Paris Commune, The Life of the City analyses the reasons why laughter emerged as the unlikely tool through which Parisian bohemians attempted to forge a new, non-representational biopolitics of sensation. Ranging from the carnivalesque performances of artistic cabarets such as the Chat Noir to the laughing violence of anarchist terrorism, The Life of the City is a timely analysis of the birth of a carnivalesque politics that remains highly influential in contemporary urban movements.




Get a Life


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This autobiography of John L. Bates depicts his life experiences from the 1930s to the early twenty-first century. It is intended primarily for his descendants who may be interested in the trials, failures, aspirations, and successes of their ancestor. It may also be of interest to those who recognise that reward is not a right, but the result of dedication and effort. It will describe the foundation and subsequent personal development that his life at sea, family responsibilities and struggles in political manoeuvring to reach business recognition and success all led to the creation and development of his own successful corporate identity.