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All Feathers and No Chicken? Building a Business to Last with Essie Escobedo, Office Angels

January 11, 2021 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

All Feathers and No Chicken? Building a Business to Last with Essie Escobedo, Office Angels

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All Feathers and No Chicken? Building a Business to Last with Essie Escobedo, Office Angels

Essie Escobedo: [00:00:00] I think that when you’re starting a business, you have to think of the goal of establishing a business that, at some point in time, you’re going to sell it, you’re going to merge with another company. And you have to think in terms of putting and place a good infrastructure from the get-go and what are all the different facets that need to mesh well together to make that business grow. You’ve got to take care of your finance. You’ve got to take care of admin, operations, H.R., marketing.

Essie Escobedo: [00:00:42] And so, a lot of people who are going into business for themselves are what in the E-Myth Revisited – which I highly recommend to anybody who’s going into business – Michael Gerber, he calls them the technicians. These are the people who are actually doing the work. Well, if you’re busy servicing the client, doing the work, who is taking care of the back office? Who’s making sure that the bills are paid, that the payroll is done, that the facility is maintained, that the marketing is happening.

Essie Escobedo: [00:01:24] So, there’s a lot of, what I call, chicken and feathers scenario. You have a really great engagement and you’re working with the client and everything is wonderful. But your pipeline is empty now. And nobody’s back there filling it for when this engagement is over and you can move on to the next one. And that’s, I think, when you have no chicken, you just have feathers.

Essie Escobedo, Chief Executive Angel, Office Angels

Essie launched Office Angels in 2001 after a 20+ year career as a small business owner, serving as Owner and Chief Financial Officer of two corporations which she co-founded. Essie served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the Atlanta Women’s Network (AWN), and currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Professional Women’s Information Network (ProWIN) and Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE). She mentors on how to start and run a successful business, and volunteers with the Georgia Consortium for Personal Financial Literacy and with The Edge Connection.

Essie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from The American University and has been an Adjunct Professor of Business at Lanier Technical College.

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Listen to the full North Fulton Business Radio interview with Essie here.

The “One Minute Interview” series is produced by John Ray and in the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link.

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Essie Escobedo, Office Angels

December 17, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Essie Escobedo, Office Angels

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Essie Escobedo, Office Angels (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 314)

Essie Escobedo of Office Angels joins host John Ray to discuss why she formed her now twenty year old company and how she helps small business owners with outsourced administrative, bookkeeping, marketing, and other services. “North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Essie Escobedo, Chief Executive Angel, Office Angels

Essie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from The American University and has been an Adjunct Professor of Business at Lanier Technical College.

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Questions/Topics Discussed in this Show

When and why did you start Office Angels?
How is Office Angels different from a traditional staffing agency?
What kinds of services does Office Angels provide?
How does the process work?
How does one know when his/she is ready to work with Office Angels?
How does one evaluate the cost/benefit of working with Office Angels?
What has changed at Office Angels since the pandemic started?
Do you think the acceptance of remote work will continue after COVID-19?
How are your small business owners changing the way they do business?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show can be found on all the major podcast apps by searching “North Fulton Business Radio.”

Essie Escobedo, Office Angels

March 21, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Essie Escobedo, Office Angels

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Essie Escobedo, Founder and “Chief Executive Angel” of Office Angels

The mission of Office Angels is to restore joy to the life of small business owners, enabling them to focus on what they do best. At the same time, Office Angels honors and supports at-home experts who wish to continue working on an as-needed basis.

Not a temp firm or a placement service, Office Angels matches a business owner’s support needs with professionals who have the skills and experience necessary to handle work that is essential to creating and maintaining a successful small business.

For over seventeen years, Office Angels has been helping small business owners, associations, and non-profits with administrative tasks, bookkeeping, marketing support, presentation preparation, speaking engagements, business development, document formatting, database management, research, writing services, HR services, and much more.

Essie Escobedo launched Office Angels in 2000 after a 25-year career as a successful small business owner. In 2018, Essie was named a Business Person of Excellence by the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce. She was an inaugural winner of the Business Builder Award given by the Professional Women’s Information Network (ProWIN), and also a nominee for the Turknett Leadership Character Award.

For more information on Office Angels, go to https://officeangels.us or call 770-442-9246.

Peggy Parks with The Parks Image Group and Essie Escobedo with Office Angels discuss civility in the workplace

October 16, 2012 by angishields

Performance Difference Radio

Peggy Parks with The Parks Image Group and Essie Escobedo with Office Angels discuss civility in the workplace

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Peggy Parks

Peggy M. Parks, AICI CIP, is the South’s Image Workshop Leader for companies who value investing in employee training that results in more effective individual representatives of the corporate brand. Her flair for delivering current, impactful, and fun presentations on the complete range of image topics—from professional image to personal branding to civility—has earned her the reputation as a go-to consultant for companies including UPS, eTrade, Southern Company and Intel.

As an ambassador of respectful professional communications and appearance, Peggy is a sought-after speaker. Her audiences respond to her courage to share her personal trials and tribulations as a self-described “late bloomer.” She went from being in the shadows of her corporate career— with a flushed face and stammering voice when asked to speak—to becoming a confident, prepared business owner who has appeared on television.

Before launching The Parks Image Group in 2004, Peggy spent more than twenty years in international business, working in human resources, financial planning, and management roles with ISFA/INVEST, Sea-Land Service, and Hitachi. She has also served as a consultant for The American School of Protocol and Right Management.

Growing up with a French mother and a grandmother who worked in Parisian haute couture, Peggy innately had the poise to excel. However, she became successful when she was “in her element” and fully tapped into her passions and strengths. It’s so gratifying that she can now inspire others to shed their emotional baggage in order to best share their talents.

Multilingual and at home on three continents, Peggy was well-educated in the United States and abroad. She received her image and etiquette training at the London Image Institute and The Australian Image Company and is among the world’s earliest Certified Image Professionals. Her awards and honors include “Results Count” from Atlanta Women in Business and “Civility Star” from the Association of Image Consultants International.

Peggy is a co-author of “Executive Image Power”. She is also a contributing author to Opportunity meets Motivation: Lessons from 4 Women who built Passion into their Careers and Lives.

Peggy M. Parks is an active member of the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI), Atlanta Women in Business (AWiB), and ProWIN. She serves on the Ethics & Character Advisory Board for the KSU Siegel Institute for Leadership.

Esther “Essie” Escobedo

Essie launched Office Angels in 2002 after a 20+ year career as a small business owner, serving as Chief Executive and Financial Officer for two corporations which she co-founded. Prior to this experience, she held various senior positions within the educational services industry.

Essie has served on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the Atlanta Women’s Network (AWN), and currently serves on the board of the Professional Women’s Information Network (ProWin). She is an active member the Georgia Consortium for Personal Financial Literacy, and volunteers her time mentoring women on how to start and run a successful business. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from The American University serves as Adjunct Professor of Business at Lanier Technical College.