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Left: Executive assistants Mandy and Alex. Right: My mug, as if what I look like matters.
Why I call my business an agency when
these days it’s just Mandy, Alex-Melissa, and me
I started the RESPONSE Agency from scratch in 1994. Within 10 years the company had grown to 11 employees and had doubled gross billings several years in a row.
Our success taught me an important lesson. Namely, that I yearned for the old days, when the business was just a desk, a water cooler, and me. So after a while I stopped replacing employees as they happened to move on, over time allowing the RESPONSE Agency to shrink back down to just me. Today I work from home. Mandy and Alex, pictured above, provide invaluable assistance, usually in the form of waiting until I’m on the phone to bark for no reason.
When I’m not creating marketing or otherwise writing for hire, I read, write for fun, read, play my grand piano, read, walk Mandy and Alex-Melissa, read, force people to look at pictures of my grandchildren, and read.
Our success taught me an important lesson. Namely, that I yearned for the old days, when the business was just a desk, a water cooler, and me. So after a while I stopped replacing employees as they happened to move on, over time allowing the RESPONSE Agency to shrink back down to just me. Today I work from home. Mandy and Alex, pictured above, provide invaluable assistance, usually in the form of waiting until I’m on the phone to bark for no reason.
When I’m not creating marketing or otherwise writing for hire, I read, write for fun, read, play my grand piano, read, walk Mandy and Alex-Melissa, read, force people to look at pictures of my grandchildren, and read.