AFR 31 May 2022 – Companies ditch their executive assistants for the virtual variety
Working with our clients to source the very best in product and service solutions, we have had the opportunity of introducing Founder client's to the services of Peta to support them in administrational tasks that as a growing business they just don't have enough [...]
Melbourne New Dining Guide 2022
Melbourne is known globally for laneway restaurants, wine bars and dining excellence. The two years has seen Melbourne dining come to life with an exciting array of new dining precincts. Chancery Lane 430 Little Collins [...]
Mother’s Day – Time to Spoil Mum on Sunday 8 May
In our life, there is no one more deserving of a meaningful gift that says "I love you", than the special woman in your life who inspires you - your mum. These strong women who have raised us, inspired us and shaped the people [...]
Journal from The Founder – The Traditional Art of the Concierge
When we think of a concierge service, our minds immediately think of a Hotel Concierge. That person you go to to source something you need, make a booking or point you in the right direction. Recently we had this experience of service excellence when [...]
Sydney’s New Restaurant Dining Guide 2022
AALIA 25 Martin Place In the heart of the city is AALIA, the newest restaurant from the team behind Nour in Surry Hills and Lilymu in Parramatta. AALIA is located within the new Martin Place precinct, introduces a new perspective on Middle Eastern cuisine. [...]
Easter Gift Guide
Easter is one of our favourite times of the year to come together and celebrate with Family & Friends to indulge in chocolate treats, enjoy the squeals of delight on the family treasure hunt to a celebration feast at home with all the trimmings. [...]
Journal from the Founder – Life Optimised
The key lessons that I have learnt over the last twelve years of this incredible journey that is Essential Solutions, is that by continually to listening to our clients, watching and reading the market and evaluating the needs of our clients, we can continue [...]
Meet our Member: Sherlock Wealth CEO, Jacqui Sherlock
Jacqui Sherlock is the CEO of Sherlock Wealth, a second-generation, family-owned financial planning business. Celebrating its 52 year milestone this year, Sherlock Wealth was established in 1970. Jacqui and her husband Andrew, took over the running of the business in 2017. With a [...]
Journal from the Founder – Planning for Success
Every year, like many I spend time to journal my personal and professional goals for the year ahead, take a moment of gratitude for making it through another year of change and challenges. Working with our clients over the last month, there is a [...]
Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Our Valentine's Day gift guide is designed to inspire 'love' giftiing this Valentine's Day. When it comes to planning, our Lifestyle team are the ultimate experts when it comes to taking care of the details for your special sleepover, weekend getaway, dining and gifting [...]
AFR Life & Leisure: No time (or inclination) for Christmas shopping? Call a gift concierge
We're were so delighted to be featured in this weekend's Australian Financial Review's Life & Leisure for our passion and expertise in giting this holiday season. Think of them as personal shoppers – but, instead of helping you choose a workable wardrobe, they [...]
Journal from the Founder – Thank You Issue
As we march toward the end of another year of change and disruption, we start to think about what we are grateful for and the ways we'd like to show thanks to our loved ones and teams for their hard work and dedication over [...]
Essential Solutions 2021 Christmas Gift Guide
Our Annual Gift Guide has become a much-anticipated tool for our community to kick start their shopping list for Christmas. Gifting is something we do throughout the year for our clients. Over the last twelve months our gifting expertise and services have stepped into [...]
Welcoming gentSac to our Gift Concierge
We have been big fans of gentSac for some time when it comes to finding gifts for the men in our client's lives for Father's Day, birthdays and Christmas. This week, we share Shira's story and welcome gentSac to our Gift Concierge just in [...]
Journal from the Founder – INSPIRATION ISSUE
When I started the journey of building a life and business concierge organisation, it was born out of my desire to deliver a world-class service that would help our clients to 'breathe'. For our Life Management clients it is to gift back time [...]