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Mike Tanner - Gross sales up
8 percent. I thought we had done better. But the
last two years we have been in the black.
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Dave Lathrop - Up 20
percent.
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Steve Chilton - Sales up 60
pecent but profitability down so
doing
something wrong.
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John Passante - My first 10
months in Arizona I doubled what I did in Wisconsin.
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Reg Batt - We did better
than the year before.
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Jeff Sobkoviak - We've been
in a good position the last 3 years . Our mininum
growth was near 30 percent.
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Lisa Wolfe
- I'm up about 30
percent but for the first time I am having an issue with
collections.
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Gary Nelson - Business is
good but we've had some employee problems.
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Roman Okonowski - 2006
gross income
was relatively flat but
final numbers not in.
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Chuck Hultstrand - Its been
an up and down year but overall the same as last year.
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Joe Zingale - We've
had a lot more problems this year so we must have done
better.
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Bill LaLonde - We are down
this year.
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Jim Crosman - Business
boomed so we added drivers. Now we need more work to
pay them.
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Mark Howard - Business is
good for a lot of reasons.
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Paul Kavanaugh - Started bad
but ended with a profit. It was a wild year.
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Phyllis Prater - I
think my business is up a little but every year it gets
harder.
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Bob Becker- Business
basically is in the tank but fortunately I wear four other
hats.
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Jim Bache - Did good.
I have niche market.
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Joe Hesch -
Flat for me this year.
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Mark Dreher - I never look
at those damn numbers! Good year. Increased staff.
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Amy Ahrensdorf - My income
has been about the same. However, I continue to change
hats which is important to me.
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Keith Miller - The practice
is more like rolling hills (not peaks and valleys). Doing
good.
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Nick Mawrenko - An
interesting thing that l notice happening is our
relationships. For instance, a franchise may make it
mandatory for franchisees to use his services.
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Carol Weishaar - l am in an
industry paid by commission which is an area everyone tries
to cut first. We moved to the luxury travel arena and
business incentive programs. 2006 matched 2005 which
was probably my best year.
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Andy Jensen - My revenue is
very contingent on what the market does. I am up 10
percent.
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Guy
Sawyer - I've probably had
only twelve well-paying jobs this year thanks to MABE.
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Barbara Kollman - My
business is up. The best year ever. It is my
mindset...I have enough work. If they done want to pay for
the work I let them go.
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Althea Bussert - Business
for the last two years has been really, really good thanks
to a few wealthy clients.
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Don Ellis - Revenue up about
2 percent but costs are up too.
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Fred
Vandervort - We have been struggling in Mesa so we will
probably close that store and consolidate to Tempe.
Losing Motorola caused a domino affect for that Mesa area.
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Ralph Cunningham - The Mac
World and PC World are converging . You can buy a new
computer for less than it would cost to fix one. I
spend most of my time on data recovery.
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John Gruber - Gross revenues
are about the same but because of staff changes we may be
more profitable.
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Mike Whalen - Good year.
Up about 5 percent. I have been blessed with the best
staff.
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Greg Stewart - Our business
is discretionary and follows trends. We are starting
to see the beginning of a recession.
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Chris Curran - I am running
two businesses. I parted ways with my partner which
has reduced overhead. I spent a lot of money this year but I
have talented people.