Testimonials
I’m delighted to give you a testimonial – you’re a treasure!
After years of less than satisfying administrative assistance, I had the great fortune to have Michele come into my life. What a difference! When Michele takes something on, I know it will get done, and done well. But not only does she take things off my plate, Michele anticipates what I might need before I’ve thought of it. Her competence, dedication and steady, easy-to-get-along-with style are a true gift.
One of the first tasks I gave to Michele was to review two years of bookkeeping. To my dismay and delight, her discovery of over $30,000 in unreimbursed expenses resulted in a sizable tax refund for me.
Judith and I have complete confidence and trust in Michele’s abilities to run our business while we are away. This has allowed us the opportunity to be on the road for extended periods of time. She has coordinated conference and workshop engagements in the United States, Canada and Mexico often revising schedules on the fly.
Thanks for all you do to support Judith and me.
Love,
Robert Gass, PhD
Leadership Consultant, Coach and Trainer
Michele has been working for us since May 2004 and has made a gigantic, positive difference on our lives. She handles and tracks innumerable details, including correspondence with clients, banking, bookkeeping and data entry. She creates and maintains our office system, produces training materials, and manages our rather complicated travel arrangements. We travel frequently and everything runs flawlessly in our absence, from business to home management needs. Michele’s availability to respond quickly to needs has also been a huge and beyond the call of duty bonus. Michele is a pleasure to work with, highly professional while also being warm and kind. We recommend her highly.
Judith Ansara Gass
Seminar leader and Consultant
www.SacredUnion.com
www.PeacemakerInstitute.org
Michele, in the last week you have done work that is so very good, accomplished with such skill, that in addition to paying your invoice I want to extend this special word of thanks. You are extraordinarily competent, are smart and always a quick study. The other lawyers and paralegals with whom you have worked in my law practice have always been grateful for your firm hand on a project. Now that I am working with engineers and financial and real estate analysts in my new business, you again have turned up extraordinary work and always done it cheerfully. You are a whiz with numbers, with worksheets, with Excel and the full suite of Office programs, with time and billing software that we have used over the years – you have helped us with it all.
So here you go: thank you so much for the fine service that you have provided to me and my colleagues over the years.
Macon Cowles
1680 Wilson Court
Boulder, Colorado 80304 USA
(303) 447-3062
macon.cowles@comcast.net
BTW, everything I said above is true! I also appreciate your friendship over the years. You are a fine person, and I am glad to know you.
I must join with other clients of Michele Guarino and A Second Office to say there is no one better in my 30 years in business at getting the details of business done to my standards, which I consider to be high. Over the 3 years Michele has worked with me, she has proven to me and my associates to save us time, money and headaches.
In our company’s case, Michele used her Paralegal skills in several litigation cases. Because Michele was knowledgeable and experienced in these matters, we saved hundreds of attorney hours by getting our records and information together before we had our lawyer meetings. Michele gained the trust of these attorneys to the point where they would encourage us to work out the correspondence and file creation that was used successfully in 3 cases.
We manage the operation of 9 company entities. Michele from day one has maintained the corporate records and supplied our CPA and Bookkeeper with the documents needed to not only comply with the laws, but also to keep the companies in a much more manageable condition. Her work makes it possible for me to focus on the business issues and not on the administration issues.
One of our businesses looks after real estate assets. Michele developed a relationship with the various partners in these properties and provided liaison to the management company in another state. Partnerships are not always easy to work with, yet by bringing her professional air to all correspondence, the partners found it easier to look at the real issues and make better decisions. Each of the partners has expressed their appreciation for the work that Michele has done on their behalf.
I trust Michele. She has helped me manage each of the businesses I am responsible for. Michele has managed my office for 3 years and developed a full knowledge of the important elements of my business activities. She has grown to become a confidant and sounding board to help me clarify my approaches to various decisions and directions.
I count on Michele to know how to react to information. When I am on the road, and especially when I am overseas, I know Michele will gather the calls and mail and consolidate the decisions I need to deal with and the items that can be left for another time.
Michele Guarino has my highest recommendation for her work.
Sincerely,
Alan Josef Kaplan
CEO
MicroGravity Corporation
Music Universe LLC
ClickPLAY
and others
I recommend Michele to anyone who has too much office work and not enough time working with or getting new clients. Michele has a vast range of services that will fit not only your needs, but also your budget.
Mutual of Omaha
Jennifer Patchen
Representative
NetLynx received the name of Michele Guarino in December, 2004, during a search for competent business-administration and computer-technology services. Ms. Guarino responded to our inquiry immediately, introducing us to her business platform, and to her own assistant. Thereafter, we have called upon Michele for many special assignments.
As a regular client of Ms. Guarino’s firm, A Second Office, LLC, NetLynx has come to rely on its services for many of our administrative-task and computer-service needs. More specifically, Michele’s company has provided: 1) monthly and quarterly newsletter mail-merge, assembly, and delivery; 2) organizational flowcharts; and, 3) fact-finder data-gathering and implementation of a new AdvisoryPlatform system.
The latter is a sophisticated planning-tool which is proprietary to our wealth-management firm. As part of her services, Michele is learning the software program for the new AdvisoryPlatform, and becoming responsible for its delivery.
Michele Guarino has extraordinary knowledge of computer systems, software and formatting. Her work and that of the people whom she has provided us, has been thorough and professional.
In conclusion, if you should take unfair advantage of this testimonial – and demand so much of Michele and her able assistant, Maeve, that they cannot continue to offer the services to which we have become accustomed – then we will break both of your legs!
NetLynx Financial Advisors, LLC
Gary Beels
Founder, Principal
The work you did for us on setting up our SEC financials was nothing less than amazing. I knew from the beginning that what we were giving you to work with was in bad shape. You were able to quickly get our financials formatted correctly and then turned drafts around almost daily. I can’t say enough about the work you did for us, and will continue to use your services in the future.
Good luck with your efforts,
Bill Gillette, Controller
DisplayTech, Inc.
“Michele is very capable. She is a self starter who is honest, reliable and hard-working. Her organizational skills, interaction with others and ability to handle multiple tasks are outstanding. Despite the pressure for working for a fast paced, high growth company, Michele always remained calm and professional.”
Libby Cook, Co-Founder and former Executive Vice President, Wild Oats Markets, Inc.
Currently Co-Founder of Sunflower Markets, Inc.
“Very efficient and easy to work with . . . takes ownership . . . great follow through . . . very reliable, diligent, extremely well organized.”
Executive Summary, Genomica Corporation [now out of business]
“My inquries have always been dealt with by Michele in a quick and professional manner. [Michele] is committed, skilled and knowledgeable in matters pertaining to employees, government agencies and the many other varied situations that arise in the operation of a large corporation. It will be hard to fill her shoes considering her varied talents, great work ethic and personality.”
Jim Ware, former Regional Director for Wild Oats Markets, Inc.
“I was constantly amazed and pleased with the range of talents that she brought to our firm. Michele most impressed me with the consistently excellent quality of her work and her pleasant demeanor even under stressful conditions.”
Barbara Dahl [Dutton], formerly Barbara Dahl et al Professional Court Reporters.
