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Valorie Ashley |
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About Valorie
Valorie Ashley holds a California Life
Teaching Credential and started her career
as an educator. She entered the field of Public
Relations and Marketing for a performing arts
theater and a recovery facility. Most recently,
she has been in the area of Development/Fundraising.
She has worked for the Lung Association, San
Diego Opera, Children's Hospital, UCSD Medical
Center, USD School of Law and CSUSM College
of Business Administration.
You'll love the ambiance and the warmth of
Valorie's bed-and-breakfast inn in Julian,
CA, the Villa de Valor. A visit will take
you back to a period in time that one can
only imagine. You will come back for the friendship,
the food and the fun! |
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Valorie
Ashley's Silver Story |
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If
you’ve traveled, there’s
a chance you’ve enjoyed
the pleasantries of a bed and
breakfast inn somewhere along
the road. Perhaps you’ve
even thought how much fun it
would be to own and operate
one.
Valorie
Ashley is an owner/innkeeper
in the mountain town of Julian,
California. Her inn is charming,
filled with antiques and her
own award-winning works of art.
In her past life she had worked
in both corporate and non-profit
development. Then, in early
2000, she pooled her resources
and took the entrepreneurial
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Valorie's
Blog
Valorie
will occasionally participate in this
blog and discuss issues that range from
customer service to the challenges of
being a single woman and having to find
the strength and tenacity to overcome
obstacles (natural disasters and the
like) that are not are of her making,
but significantly impact her business.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006--Keeping
Customers Satisfied
Each business is different as far as
customers. In my business, my customers
are generally couples. They’re
coming for an experience of love, romance,
healing, possibly, their relationship.
Many of them see it’s a doctor’s
home and for some reason they have illnesses
that they’re being healed from
and that’s amazing when that synchronicity
sets in. But, on the whole, wonderful,
wonderful, because I can provide them
what they’re looking for. If I
lied on my website, if I lied in my
copy, if I would present myself as anything
other than what I am or presented this
business as anything other than what
it is, I think I would have irate customers.
I think I would have people I had to
deal with because they wouldn’t
be happy. The majority of my couples
are extremely happy. And, I have one
couple that’s been back now 27
times and if you want to do your number
game, think about how much I charge.
That is awesome. That is awesome. They’ve
been back that long. I even went with
her when he was having open heart surgery.
I mean, I love my customers. They are
not only my clients, but my friends.
And, I think once you have clients as
friends…what have I learned. It’s
awesome. They’re there for you…and
I’m there for them.
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