It’s been over five years since I first entered this biz.  In that time I’ve worked in a single small agency.  We don’t do a lot of office birthday party type celebrations but we’re all family.  There are a number of benefits to working in such a firm – the office manager doesn’t bean count days out, part days may not even count against your vacation/sick days, we’re all relatively familiar with each other’s clients, etc.

There are, however, a number of dangers of working in such an office.  After speaking with some flackery brethren at various events it seems a number of these are recurrent themes among small firms.

Some of these come with the territory and are difficult to fix.  Others can be easily fixed. Continue reading →