WHAT DOES THE BUSY EXECUTIVE NEED FOR THE HOLIDAYS? LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT

Road warriors would greatly benefit by having a lifestyle manager on call. A former road warrior forms a concierge and events company to help executives manage their personal and professional lives.

How many road warriors do you know who spend their weeks in a different city each night? They have phones, PDAs, email, and two-way pagers to manage their time, but do they have the time to manage their life? More and more, professionals are searching for better ways to accomplish this -- and the latest trend is to call a lifestyle manager to handle their personal and professional obligations. Simply put, lifestyle management is aimed at making busy professionals lives as seamless as possible. Clients merely place one phone call to ensure that their hard-earned vacations are perfect, their dinner parties the talk of the town, and their errands accomplished systematically.

Christine Rossman was one of those professionals. She was a former marketing executive with some of the worlds leading management consulting firms, often out of the office 5 days a week. I orchestrated meetings and events around the world.     Besides managing my professional events, I also searched for a credible source to help me plan my wedding in Italy and European honeymoon. I spent countless hours on the Internet searching for advice and assistance -- precious hours that would have been better spent if I knew of one good source." With that in mind, she formed Metropolitan Concierge & Event Services. I believe Metropolitan Concierge & Event Services niche is that it is run by professionals, for professionals. As former executives, we fully understand the great need for perfection and exclusivity for our clients."

Concierge services are no longer synonymous with hotels. Every credit card company, department store and travel website seem to offer a concierge service." But how do busy professionals trust a random voice on the line with their most important details?
In todays busy environment, its more important to have one source to handle all details of your life, instead of relying on a hotel concierge at every stop. With one concierge, you will consistently have access to the best information and the reservations handled before you go.

Metropolitan Concierges clients are affluent professionals from different industries but share common traits -- they have high incomes, high-stress careers and would greatly benefit by having one source to manage their personal and professional needs. Rossman said, We pride ourselves on being our clients 'relief pitchers. If they need hard-to-get tickets for an important client or a last-minute dinner party for 30, they completely trust us to get the job done."

One of Metropolitan Concierges highest growth areas has been full-service travel planning, whether it is a directors meeting in an Irish castle or a honeymoon on a private island. Affluent professionals have already done the starter" trips through Europe and the Caribbean, and constantly search for the latest and the greatest. They look for unique, luxurious surroundings and want the top hotels and the most exclusive locations. Metropolitan Concierge Services meticulously keeps tabs on the best new destinations, and the hottest new tables. Ms. Rossman personally travels to various locations around the globe several times a year to keep tabs on the latest trends and review the top accommodations.

Clients are also very interested in having the best of the best" for their honeymoons and destination wedding locales. For example, a local COO recently asked Metropolitan to plan the ultimate" honeymoon. That included a helicopter transport to St. Tropez, where his yacht was waiting for a 10 day sail through the Riviera, followed by a quick shopping trip to London, complete with hard-to-get theater and dinner reservations. The couple then finished their trip in Scotland at the exclusive Skibo Castle. In addition to the trip, Metropolitan Concierge will also arrange mail forwarding, pet care, and errand scheduling while their clients are away.

Nothing is unattainable in this world," said Rossman. It merely takes patience and persistence. Its my pleasure to be asked to do something when it is perceived as impossible. I love to prove them wrong."

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