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Case Study:
Y + Z Marketing
Suffering corporate battle fatigue from years in the advertising and marketing business in New York City, the two principals of Y+Z Marketing formed a small, manageable partnership to escape the grinding time and labor intensive practice of juggling a large portfolio of clients and huge staff.

In fact, they were turning away business in order to avoid what seemed to be what they no longer wanted.

They asked The Pentucket Company to find them a small 2,500 rentable square foot unit of top-flight office space in The Flatiron District. Their intention was to establish an aerie above the fray.

As the concept of turning away business has always bothered us, we asked the client if we might suggest a solution.

Given their aversion to daily staff management, we devised the following strategy to grow and improve their business:

(A) Working with the client’s accountant, we devised a matrix that demonstrated how hiring staff to handle the business that was being declined could be enormously profitable.

If Y+Z could envision larger office space, fixed costs per capita would decline for each successive staffer hired while expanding gross profit would far outpace increased variable costs.

(B) We recommended Y+Z hire a middle manager to interface between principals and staff to eliminate the perceived drawback of managing a large team.

C) We advised Y+Z Marketing to lease 6,500 rentable square feet in a side-street loft on an as-is basis. At less than half the market rate, this tax-advantaged lease would “expense” the Tenant Installation and leave room in the budget for Y + Z to hire the additional professionals required.

The Y+Z Marketing partners studied, accepted and implemented this strategy. After hiring twenty additional employees and creating the middle manager position, just one year later their profits soared and the founders enjoyed being home for more family dinners during the week.

Moral: “Check out the real situation.”

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