Company:
Lambesis
Del Mar, California

Business:
Full-Service Advertising Agency

Staff:
40

System:
Clients & Profits Pro/Agency Manager

Macintosh
Windows
AppleShare
Windows NT

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hen you have a savvy and sophisticated advertising agency with a rapidly expanding and impressive client list like Lambesis, Inc., keeping control can be challenging. "Profit control and/or profit success are the terms I would use to describe Clients & Profits Pro," says Vicki Hoekstra, a CFO (and a principal) for the Del Mar, California-based shop.

Doing everything by hand

Already a veteran in the advertising world, Vicki and husband, Nick Lambesis, began their successful agency nine years ago. By late 1989 their shop was flourishing. "But, we were still doing everything by hand," Vicki says. "I was working in four different areas, doing everything from production to posting accounts receivable and payables."

Knowing their agency would soon face impossible gridlock without computers and a reliable accounting system, Nick suggested they contact Clients & Profits, Inc..

"He'd read about Clients & Profits somewhere and suggested we give them a call," Vicki says.

Even though she was learning the Macintosh at the same time (which had just started becoming popular in advertising agencies), it only took Vicki a few months to feel comfortable with Clients & Profits.

From two to 40 people in nine years

In the past nine years, they've progressed from a two-person shop to forty employees, working with national and international clients creating print ads, television commercials, collaterals, market research, logos, package design, and upon occasion, product development for the fashion and footwear, sporting goods and cosmetic industries. Their work has won numerous awards.

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