Tiburon, CA (PRWEB)

e-Taskers announced that its Personal Concierge Service, for busy individuals, is now available for Southern Marin County. After months of planning and intensive training with corporate personnel, the business partners Vicki Jameson and Jessicca Tran have started operations serving Sausalito, Mill Valley, Tiburon, Belvedere, and Corte Madera.

The International Concierge and Errand Association (ICEA), a non-profit trade association founded in 2001 designed to meet the professional needs of Concierge and Errand business owners worldwide, released its 2006 Industry Future Watch™ survey. The results offer a snapshot of factors that are influencing Personal Concierge Services as a budding industry:

New Clients Quickly Convert to Routine Patrons and Increase Service Usage

According to ICEA, an overwhelming majority – 94.2 percent – of respondents indicated that new clients utilize their services on average one to five times per month. This compares to 69.5 percent of 2005 respondents who said that their regular clients use their services one to five times per month last year. This increase in service usage appears to indicate that new clients quickly see the value in having a concierge and errand provider in their everyday lives.

In an interview with Ms. Tran, she indicated “Our new web address (www.etaskers.com) has a full a la carte menu of services which we offer to local area professionals and homemakers alike. Tran continued: “e-Taskers Concierge Services was created to help individuals with hectic schedules, which need to balance their family errands, careers, endless to-do lists, appointments, and a thousand other things that fragment their over-packed days here in Marin.”

“We organize households, help with time management and balance.” said Ms. Tran. “We provide more time for families to spend doing things they enjoy instead of running errands and completing chores. Individuals and families become stressed when they believe that they don’t have enough time to get everything done; we are here to help by taking over the time-consuming daily details and help our clients live busy and balanced lives.”

Top Service Requests: General Errands and Household Management

According to the ICEA survey: On average weekly, 86.8 percent of respondents indicated that they fulfill anywhere from one to thirty client requests with the top service request being general errands (32.9 percent) followed by home management (20.8 percent), then business assistance (11.1 percent), personal shopping (6.5 percent), pet services (6.5 percent), ticket reservation/purchasing (5.5 percent), meeting and event planning (5.5 percent), vehicle servicing (2 percent), and research and organization (2 percent).

Your personal e-Taskers concierge can do your shopping, plan your parties; organize your getaways…whatever you need. Our administrative staff can manage your household finances, perform information research or even compile Web dossiers on private or business relationships you are considering -- and so much more! We even have amazing online tools for Calendar Management and Personal Call Center services. The e-Taskers RealTime-Manager™ product is a secure, interactive web-based program which lets you operate anytime from anywhere you have a Web browser. It is especially handy for the new generation of SmartPhones. Great for organizing your calendar activities and contact data, coordinating special projects with your e-Taskers personal assistant and ‘turning chaos into calm ™ ’.

Making the Match

Since the personal concierge business is about building a reliable network of professionals, it is not surprising that nearly half (44.5 percent) of the ICEA survey respondents indicated their number one source for finding clients is through referrals. Networking also clearly leads to business with 23 percent of survey responses indicating they find clients through this tried and true approach. And, many people are seeking out and finding their Concierge of choice through Websites (13 percent). Tran concluded: “Almost 60% of meals are rushed because of time-constrained schedules, with 34% of lunches being consumed on the run. Couple that with the fact that: “70% of all local parents feel they don’t spend enough quality time with their children, and you have a market which needs the help of e-Taskers.” Average Client Demographics

As indicated by the ICEA survey, it is not only the very rich who seek help from and hire a concierge and errand service provider. The average client income bracket of nearly half of the 200 survey respondents (47.3 percent) is $100,000 - $500,000, followed by $50,000 - $99,999 at 36.3 percent. Only 2.1 percent indicated their clients’ average income bracket is $1 million or more. The media age range of clients for 54.9 percent of respondents is 31 to 45, followed by 46 to 55 at 35.2 percent.

About e-Taskers:

e-Taskers of Marin, LLC is a locally owned and operated business specializing in personal concierge and personal assistant services. Managing partner, Jessicca Tran (friends call her JT) lives in Tiburon with her two puppies Gizmo and Suave. For a trusted assistant to help you bring balance to your chaotic life, give us a call.

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e-Taskers of Marin, LLC	Interview Contact:
PO. Box 1214	Jessicca Tran
Tiburon, CA 94920	JT@eTaskers.com
(415) 225-2434
www.e-Taskers.com

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Vicki Jameson
(415) 898-6644 voice 898-6655 fax
Vicki@eTaskers.com