HOW TO START YOUR OWN TEA ROOM AND VICTORIAN GIFT GALLERY - FROM A - Z
The owners of The VictorianPainted Lady, LLC, Tea Room and Gift Gallery have personally experienced owningand running the business for over eight years.We have faced every obstacle ("Murphy'sLaw") that a business owner canface.Joyce Anne Whitaker was a housewife for 20 years before she began her career.She quickly excelled within a very few years, becoming vice president ofa national firm and later became the chief marketing officer for the 12thlargest privately held company in Chicago.Later she took a job in New York'sWall Street District where she served as vice president providing PR andmarketing services to such firms as the Templeton Funds, Fred Alger Managementand numerous other financial institutions.Joyce has won several awards during her 18 year career as a financialwriter and public relations consultant. Charles J. Whitaker has servedthe financial service industry since 1972.In the early 1980s he and Joyce provided business planning, marketingconsulting and training to national broker dealers, financial service companiesand financial planners. In the late 80sMr. Whitaker became assistant vice president of MONY in New York where he served as national director ofretirement planning, marketing and training for MONY serving their agencies ona national basis. Mr. Whitaker hasprovided business consulting to many types of businesses over the past yearsand is qualified to assist anyone in developing their business plan to start a new business. For more information on Mr. Whitaker's background, you may go to hisweb site at www.advisor-group-ltd.com