A HUGE Thanky to Jwez. Much appreciated.
Actually much can be gleaned form even that modest disclosure. And I am more than a little pleased ( for a Vulcan, anyway --[thanks, mother]that's a big deal) that SP returned the call in a reasonable amount of time and that he seems to have been candid.
If he has to cough up all this money to counselors and so forth, we must hope they are all giving him sound financial advice. His success is, to varying degrees, their successes.
I have to confess it cannot be an easy task to try and market to new potential clients while pursuing ongoing ads for places where the system is already up and running.
(Imagine trying to maintain a steady stream of ad content in Nebraska and in Pennsylvania at the same time....and , if you can fit it in, establish new client hotels in other cities.) Then there is all the billing and hand-holding that goes with bringing new ad-generating customers into the process. My expectation would then be that adding a few employees to help manage this new workload would be appropriate. Much advertising is on a net 30 to net 90 day turnaround so there could be significant fluctuations in the amount of cash in the till until their operation evolves to the self-sustaining point. At least SP probably gets breaks in the cost of hotel stays while he works deals out, right?
Again, thank you, Jwez. Great job. This is very helpful.
Off to my chess rematch with Chekov.( He will lose. Again.)
