CNN Quick Poll Reveals Business Executives Need Office Support
While Traveling
PARIS, September 22, 2003 - More than two-thirds of
business executives require some type of emergency administrative
assistance while traveling overseas, according to a recent quick
poll taken by CNN International online in conjunction with a
story featuring the virtual assistance industry.
According to the poll taken in August 2003, 46 percent of
business travelers now say that they always need administrative
support while working overseas. Another 23 percent require help
at least on some occasions.
These results reveal good news for business owners like Carolyn
Moncel, whose company services English-speaking business travelers
stuck in the "City of Lights" without administrative support.
She is president and founder of MotionTemps,
LLC , a multinational virtual assistance firm with offices
in Paris and Chicago.
"Frequent business travel is tough - even in the best of times,"
says Moncel, an American originally from Chicago. "The last
thing that a business executive needs is to be stuck in a foreign
country, where he or she doesn't speak the local language, and
cannot reach an assistant back in the United States due to time
differences."
For rates starting at $15 (USD) per hour, MotionTemps offers
a variety of services including: travel arrangements, Power
Point presentations, wake-up calls, trade-show support, reminder
services, meeting scheduling and fast French translations.
When her husband, a French national from Lyon, accepted a job
offer in October 2002 and moved the family to Paris, Moncel
decided to expand her company rather than close shop. She added
a special English-speaking service to her business after completing
research and observing business traveler arrivals to and departures
from hotels located near Paris' business district, La Dèfense.
She also introduced her company services to hotel concierges.
After interviewing them about service requests from business-travel
guests, it became clear that her company could offer a much-needed
service that would make traveling in Europe easier. One year
later, MotionTemps has become the premier American-styled virtual
assistance practice in Paris, fielding 10 to 20 requests for
emergency administrative support each day. Future plans for
Moncel include launching a similar service for French business
executives stranded in the United States without administrative
support.
"MotionTemps provides a valuable resource that should be a
part of any global business executive's travel kit," adds Moncel.
"After enduring a six to 10 hour flight, having someone on site
who speaks the executive's mother tongue, who understands their
culture and can help them get organized for meetings, can be
a welcomed relief for weary business travelers."
About MotionTemps, LLC
Carolyn Moncel is president of MotionTemps, LLC, a virtual
management and communications firm based in Chicago and Paris.
Prior to the launch of her company, Moncel served as Communications
Manager at Amdur Spitz & Associates, a full-service marketing
communications agency. Moncel began her Internet marketing career
at A2S2 Digital Projects, an Internet publishing company, based
Chicago and Washington, DC. Serving as PR Coordinator she assisted
in the launch of two bipartisan public policy Web sites. The
story of her move to Paris is profiled in the October issue
of Working Mother magazine.
Contact Carolyn Moncel toll free at (877) 818-3864, by e-mail
or visit the web site's newsroom.
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