Dreaming of a truly romantic date for Valentines?
February 2010

Do something really impressive this Valentines day and book a romantic dinner with a difference – the difference being that it all takes place in the comfort of your own Living Room and there’s no need to lift a finger. Disappear for an hour with your wonderful date, or other half, for a glass of champagne or a romantic movie in the cinema, when you return Busy Lizzie will have your Living Room set for the most romantic dinner of all, a fire-side picnic. Champagne will be in the ice bucket, candles and fire lit, food ready to be served, and it will all seem to appear by magic. The ‘help’ will have disappeared out the back door prior to your arrival, so romance and intimacy can flourish. 

Working in conjunction with the client’s preferred menu and budget, the Busy Lizzie team prepares the picnic food and drinks and sitting area; where they lay out a beautiful picnic rug, shower the room with flickering tea lights and mounts the mood with ambient music to set the scene. 

Tara Dalrymple, Director of Busy Lizzie Lifestyle Management, Dalrymple explains, “Many restaurants have become very impersonal and all too often service is lagging and on very busy evenings unfortunately, food quality suffers too, neither leading to a very romantic setting. We decided to add creativity and inject some old-style romance by providing the Living Room Picnic Service.  All our client will have to do is either give us access to the house, by signing a key release form, or let us in and we set up whilst they get ready for the date. The next day we will quietly appear at an agreed time clear it all away. All we ask is that our clients enjoy their date!”

The cost of the service is minimal at €60 exclusive of the cost of the clients chosen food and drinks plus a nominal mileage charge. Busy Lizzie only requires 3 to 4 days notice for this service in order to plan your perfect evening, however you may need to give further notice for Valentines Day, 

For more information on this and many more of Busy Lizzie’s Lifestyle Management Services, visit http://www.busylizzie.ie or contact 01 514 3401.

About Busy Lizzie Lifestyle Management
Most of us at some point felt that there is simply, just “not enough hours in the day”. Tara Dalrymple’s company Busy Lizzie Lifestyle Management, aims to ease the pressure. Offering to help with anything from getting your garden under control to grave maintenance or evening picking up the dry-cleaning. Busy Lizzie does things we don’t have time to do.

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New Year's ResolutionsLet Busy Lizzie Get You In Shape For 2005
30th December 2009

Let Busy Lizzie help you to make and stick at your new years resolutions. We can shop around for the best gym memberships, or arrange for a personal trainer to come to you!!! Co-ordinate and streamline your admin and organise your living space, source a gardener to prepare your garden for spring. Anything is possible if you put your mind to it..

Busy Lizzie is a Lifestyle Management company that is the way forward for busy people. By employing others to undertake errands and tasks that are difficult to fit into a busy schedule you can free up some of your personal time and enjoy life to the full.

Our daily jobs have become all consuming and we don't have the time to tackle personal to-do lists. Busy Lizzie believes that time is precious, so why waste it doing the mundane tasks when someone else can take care of it?

Our service is flexible and reliable and can assist as frequently or as infrequently as the client requires. It covers a range of tasks from booking holidays and carrying out home improvements to buying birthday presents or even life coaching. It can also take care of a host of other time consuming tasks such as finding plumbers, walking dogs, taking cars in for a service or NCT, negotiating with builders, making doctor’s appointments and even doing the weekly shopping.

Additionally, Busy Lizzie provides temporary or bespoke PA/secretarial services such as:

o Diary management
o Travel arrangements
o Word processing
o Copy writing/scanning
o Proof reading
o Information gathering/ research
o Handling telephone calls, faxes/e-mails
o Event planning
o Data processing

For more information on Busy Lizzie see www.busylizzie.ie or contact Tara on Tel: (0)1 514 3401 or via email info@busylizzie.ie

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Successful networking and Business Survival
October 2009

Tara Dalrymple of Busy Lizzie [www.busylizzie.ie] believes that successful networking  is the key to survival for new businesses. With this in mind she has created a new monthly business networking group in Galway called "Nothing Personal: Simply Business". The group meets at 10am the last Friday of each month in the Hotel Clybaun, Galway and provides a waffle free, male and female networking environment.
 
Dalrymple has come up with some 8 top tips to allow you to make networking work for you.
 
1.Don't expect early results: Like anything worthwhile, networking takes time and application. Take the time to develop relationships and create a network. Don't expect to walk into a room of strangers and come away with business - it just doesn't work like that!

2. Build relationships first: Networking is not about selling - it's about building relationships. The best business is developed when both parties know, like and trust each other. So take the time to get to know them and establish rapport.

3. Prepare your opener: When asked "What do you do?" develop a quick and interesting answer. Instead of saying "I'm an IFA", you could reply "I make sure that people enjoy their retirement by not being short of money." Inevitably, you will be asked how you do that.

4.Listen more than talk: There are three types of people; those who listen, those who talk and those who are waiting to talk! Become an active listener and see how you can help people you meet. By being aware of their needs you can connect them to people in your network.

5.Ask open questions: People usually find the most interesting subject is themselves! Make it easy for them to expand their answers rather than just replying with a "Yes" or "No". For example "That's interesting, how do you do that?"

6.Always follow up contacts: When you meet someone at an event, follow up with a simple e-mail or telephone call confirming where you met and what action, if any, was agreed. Prompt follow-ups are essential!

7.Arrange contact meetings: Once you've established rapport with someone you've met, how do you take things forward? Simple, meet for a coffee and get to know them. What makes them tick, what are their successes, aspirations, skills and experiences. What they are looking for? Can you connect them to one of your contacts?

8.Develop Networking Advocates: A networking advocate goes out of their way to recommend your goods and services without expecting anything in return. Go out of your way to connect them to key members of your network and introduce them to people who might benefit from their services. Become an advocate for them; people will eventually become advocates for you. This is where the networking dividend really pays out!

Busy Lizzie Lifestyle management run by mumtrepreneur Tara Dalrymple helps small businesses build their foundations by providing Pay As You Go secretarial services; where businesses only pay for the time they need, Virtual Personal Assistance; to manage daily appointments and Emarketing; a capability that helps clients reach potential customers.

Busy Lizzie has offices in Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Cork and Wicklow. We strive to improve our clients lives with our time saving services.

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