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Ah, class warfare. The royals vs. the peasants. The bourgeoisie vs. the proletariat. The establishment vs. the revolutionaries. The haves vs. the have-nots.
The gatekeepers spouting bullshit vs. the new breed of writers calling them on their bullshit.
I present literary agent Donald Maass from Writer Unboxed, author of Writing the Breakout Novel, currently $9.99 on Kindle and ranked at #25,065.
Thank you, Mr. Maass, for posting your BS publicly so I may dissect it, line by line, exposing it for the utter crap that it is. Then after I wrote my responses, I asked Barry Eisler for his take.
Here's Donald...
Donald: This month in keeping with our look inside publishing, I'm departing from my usual craft advice to give you my view of the new state of the industry.
I don't see the new shape of things as many do: the twilight of the dinosaurs, the old-thinking Big Five print publishers staggering, falling to their knees and heading for extinction as they're overwhelmed by a nimble army of small, warm-blooded mammals whose claws are the sharp, smart, flexible tools of electronic publishing.
Joe: I understand why you don't see the new shape of things, Donald. Neither did those in the travel industry. Or the music industry. Or the film camera industry. Or the network TV industry.
Isn't is interesting how these billion dollar industries, when confronted with Expedia and Orbitz and Priceline (sorry Travel Agents) and iTunes and Napster (sorry Record Company Executives) and digital photography (sorry Kodak and Polaroid) and cable TV, Netflix, and YouTube (sorry ABC, NBC, and CBS) also felt they had nothing to fear, until their market share evaporated before their eyes?
Within the past few years, one of the two major book chains disappeared, the Big 6 became the Big 5, the DOJ brought suit against many of the companies you regularly do business with (and the AAR stupidly defended), and ebooks have gone from idea to the increasingly preferable way readers buy media thanks to a new company that revolutionized the way books are sold.
But you don't have to see the new shape of things. You don't have to see the thousands of authors making more money than they ever could in the antiquated, archaic system you're attempting to defend. It isn't necessary for you, Donald, to recognize change. Change happens anyway.
Donald: It's true that I'm a gatekeeper, a longtime member (to my surprise) of the industry establishment. But I am no worshiper of the old ways. Traditional publishing always was cost-heavy and inefficient. It's a wonder that it worked. But the new electronic "paradigm" is not the glorious revolution that true believers would like it to be.
Joe: Well, you're right that it worked for publishers, and agents, and a few authors lucky enough to become bestsellers.
But for those countless midlist authors stuck with unconscionable contracts because they had no choice, and the multitude of authors kept out of the industry by gatekeepers such as yourself, it didn't work. It actually sucked wheelbarrows full of ass.
Your industry fucked the majority of writers it provided services for. And that same industry was built on the sweat, tears, toil, and blood of those very writers it exploited.
Have you actually ever listened to your clients' complaints? (Hint: Your clients are supposed to be the writers you represent. You know, the ones you sell your How To books to, giving them hope that they might someday, if they're lucky enough, follow the gatekeeper rules and get a shitty contract. You know the ones. They're the herd you describe below.)
I've never been a true believer in anything. I like data, and numbers, and facts, and persuasive arguments. I like experiments. I like logic.
I like making money from my hard work.
And I've found that self-publishing gives me the opportunity to make more money than I ever did within the gatekeeping system.
And I'm not the only one who knows this. Because others have data, numbers, facts, logic, experiments, and persuasive arguments to support them.
But why start listening to authors? They have their place. They're a lower caste, and only a few are appointed by the holy order of gatekeepers to take their place at the Publishing Industry Table, where they can make 8% royalty on mass market paperbacks.
Donald: What's happened instead is an evolution of the publishing world into a new class system, and like any class system it has winners, losers and opportunities. It's a system that, if not recognized for what it is, will trap frustrated writers in a pit far more hopeless than the one they yearned to escape. Let's start with a couple of cold-eyed realities.
Barry: Well, at least he's recognizing that there's a class system at work, even if he's not able to see, or admit, who up until now have really been the lords and who have really been the serfs. I'm not sure this is progress.
Joe: It isn't.
Donald: First, e-books have not hurt the print publishers but rather have helped them. Especially in the recent recession, low-cost/high-margin e-books have been a bright spot. They've kept publishers profitable even as brick-and-mortar book retailing has shrunk and consumers have grown cautious. With the mass-market paperback pricing itself nearly out of existence, low-priced e-books have arrived (with help from the Department of Justice) to keep value-conscious readers reading. Of course, the difficult and expensive business of selling print books must still be faced but at least there's some gravy to make the task tasty.
Joe: Indeed, ebooks have helped publishers. Even after the lame ass attempts at high prices and windowing and collusion.
Do you actually understand why ebooks have helped publishers, Donald?
Hint: Because publishers screwed the writers. Where were you when the lock-step 25% ebook royalties crept into author contracts? Are you currently fighting for better ebook royalties on behalf of your clients? Did you read my post ridiculing David Gernert for saying stupid things like you're currently saying?
Are authors an unlimited resource, like oil (ha!) to exploit for you and your industry? You continue to sell them books on how to succeed. You continue to do deals with the Big 5. It's easy to see what your agenda is.
My agenda? All of the information I provide, I give away for free. This blog is a public service to my peers. I don't take 15% for helping them. And I don't charge $9.99 for a Kindle book. Like your ebook Writing the Breakout Novel. Now, I may be missing something, but I don't see any breakout novels available on Amazon written by Donald Maass. But I'm sure your advice is good, even if you didn't take it yourself. After all, you've been so persuasive so far...
Donald: Second, the self-publishing movement has been a boon to the print industry. Far from being threatened, print publishers instead are now gratefully relieved of the money-losing burden of the mid-list. Like giant banks that have discovered that banking is boring and the real money is in gambling, big publishers are now free to focus on the high-risk/high-reward game of finding the next Twilight, Hunger Games, Game of Thrones or Fifty Shades of Grey.
Joe: Wow. Just wow.
Barry: He's comparing legacy publishing behavior to the banking behavior that nearly destroyed the global economy? And he just described thousands of authors as a "burden" of which publishers are now "gratefully relieved." Leaving aside the nomenclature, where will these authors go once their publishers have relieved themselves on — sorry, of — them? Why doesn't Maass want midlist authors to have options?
Barry: He's comparing legacy publishing behavior to the banking behavior that nearly destroyed the global economy? And he just described thousands of authors as a "burden" of which publishers are now "gratefully relieved." Leaving aside the nomenclature, where will these authors go once their publishers have relieved themselves on — sorry, of — them? Why doesn't Maass want midlist authors to have options?
Joe: How many clients do you have, Donald? They're all huge bestsellers, right?
Wait... they're not? Do you actually represent (gasp!) some unwashed midlist writers?
Good to see you're in their corner, fighting on their behalf, rather than siding with the relieved publishers who no longer have to give your clients contracts.
Donald: Better still, because some authors are now—voluntarily!—willing to bear the expense and undertake the effort of building an audience by themselves, print publishers have the luxury of culling the prize cattle from the herd.
Barry: One unfortunate metaphor might be an accident. Three begins to seem revealing
Barry: One unfortunate metaphor might be an accident. Three begins to seem revealing
Joe: Ah, yes. All the dumb cattle, waiting to be culled from the herd.
I love this analogy because it perfectly encapsulates the unbelievable disdain you have for the writers that you parasitically leech off of to make your living.
Of course, we all know the fortunately culled cattle get to retire to a long life of luxury and happiness.
Oh... wait. They're actually slaughtered, butchered, and eaten.
This is such an appropriate thing for you to say, and you are completely clueless why.
Donald: Even print-only distribution deals with a handful of successful e-published authors are terrific: easy pickings and effortless profit. Most authors are still knocking at the gate, too, since after all seventy percent of trade book sales are of print editions. In many ways these are good times for print publishers.
Joe: Have you spoken to those who got print-only deals, Donald?
I have. I've corresponded with many.
Here's an email I just got, name omitted to protect the victim.
"What I wanted to email you about, though, was how shitty this legacy publisher has been to me. I turned down a $1.5 million offer for my next books and became persona non grata. They stopped supporting the print version of the book they bought, just fulfilling orders by popular demand from bookstores, which still resulted in 1,000+ sales a week. They resent me, and they hope the book dies. It won't, because readers are demanding copies. I know another indie who did a major deal with them who can't wait for the contract to expire. These are evil fucks."
Donald, how can you actually believe that writers will continue to be culled? We talk to each other. We read each others' contracts. We know how much we can earn on our own.
And more and more of us believe the publishers you work for are, indeed, evil fucks.
You don't see the shape of things? Are you sitting in a corner with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears yelling "Neener neener neener!" so you don't see or hear what the rest of us do?
Donald: Third, the self-publishing movement has produced gold-rush hysteria in the writing community. While not exactly a mass delusion, questionable beliefs have been widely accepted. True believers sneer at doubters.
Joe: Great points. Can you show me?
Show me the mass delusion. I go to Kindleboards and see a lot of level-headed writers making money. Where are you looking?
Show me the questionable beliefs. Find something, anything, questionable that I've said. Or anything said by Barry Eisler, Courtney Milan, David Gaughran, Kris Rusch, Bob Mayer, or Dean Wesley Smith,.
Ebooks aren't a gold rush. I dispelled this years ago.
Gold is finite. Ebooks are forever.
Donald: So what is the real truth? High success at self-publishing has happened only for a few who have mastered the demanding business of online marketing. A larger, but still small, number of authors have achieved a modest replacement income from self-publishing. Growth from there will be hard for them, however, because wide print distribution still is needed. (Seventy percent of trade book sales are of print books, remember?)
Barry: Needed for what? This is the same argument Gottlieb made. These guys really seem to need to believe they're necessities.
Barry: Needed for what? This is the same argument Gottlieb made. These guys really seem to need to believe they're necessities.
Joe: High success at self-publishing has happened only for a few?
As opposed to legacy publishing, right? Which is why every client you have is a #1 NYT Bestseller, and every author pubbed by legacy is rich.
A modest replacement income? How about actual money for the first time ever? Bill-paying money. Life-changing money. Full-time writing money.
I made $1 million last year, with no paper distribution. Why do these myths persist that writers need to be in print?
Perhaps so you can sell more How To books?
Perhaps so you can cull a few from the herd and make a killing while the others you rep get butchered?
Donald: As for the rest…well, the position of the vast majority of self-publishing authors is no better than it ever was, though probably there are fewer cartons of books in their garages. Consultancy to self-publishers is a new job category, however, and that has to be good for the nation's employment stats.
Joe: You're apparently confusing vanity publishing with self-publishing.
Vanity is when you pay a disreputable service to print copies of your books, sell them at a high cost with terrible covers and editing, and let them keep the rights while receiving terrible royalties.
The only difference between predatory vanity publishing and Big 5 publishing is the author gets hurt a little more with vanity. Sort of like being beaten with a whip instead of beaten with a rod.
Self-publishing is where authors keep their rights, control price, and get 70% royalties (instead of the 12.5% you get the majority of your authors). There's no beating involved.
Did I clarify that for you?
Donald: Fourth, as I said, a new class system has arisen. Here's how it breaks down:
Joe: Because the one thing this world needs is another way to divide classes of people based on subjective, prejudicial nonsense.
Barry: Okay, let's short-circuit this. Leave aside Maass's obsession with dividing authors into classes, and his inability to see the real class distinction he is part of and supports: publishers and agents as royalty; writers as peasants. The real problem is with the analogy itself. Because when it comes to freight/coach/first, all that matters is whether you have the money to buy a ticket. But publishing is a lottery, not a sure-fire ticket you can buy if you just have enough money. Also, while there's no reason to prefer coach to first class other than price, there are lots of reasons many authors seem to prefer self-publishing to legacy publishing — some because they're making more money self-publishing, and others because they prefer the flexibility, control, and time-to-market. Something odd has to be going on in your mind if you miss differences this obvious and come up with analogies this incoherent.
Donald: Freight Class
Self-published authors and electronic micro-presses must haul themselves. While the means of production are easy and low-cost, the methods of marketing are costly either in terms of cash or time. Success is rare. The pleasure of being in control is offset by the frustration of "discoverability".
Joe: I must interrupt the bullshit to point out, for the nth time, that this is EXACTLY THE SAME WITH LEGACY PUBLISHERS.
Success is always rare. That's why so few authors become bestsellers. And the frustration of discoverability is worse on a bookstore shelf when you have one book spine-out in section. At least on Amazon every author has their own page and can compete on an even playing field.
Donald: Online retailers are whimsical and ludicrously over-stocked, both barrier and open door. Lists, blogs, social sites and the like are plentiful but of only spotty help. Trusted filtering of self-published books may arise (watch the recent sale of Bookish to Zola, two recommendation sites started by—gasp!—publishers and agents) but don't hold your breath. The real problem is that fiction at this level has trouble appealing widely to readers. It can sell when priced at $2.99, sometimes a bit more, often less.
Joe: There are over 100,000 books in a Barnes and Noble. Is that not ludicrously overstocked?
Donald, is it easier to search for books online using a mouse, or walk through aisles of paper books hoping they stock something that appeals to you?
Are you aware of the filtering systems known as customer reviews, bestseller lists, and also-boughts, that Amazon utilizes extremely well?
As for appealing widely to readers... well, my sales increased by 800% when I got my rights back from my legacy publishers. And I work a lot less promoting now than I did when I was published by them.
Donald: Why? Let's look at what characterizes Freight Class fiction. While the Kindle bookstore can be an incubator of innovative fiction, for the most part it is an ocean of genre imitations if not amateurish writing. Freight Class novels generally take few risks. Too often they rely on character stereotypes, heavy-handed plots, purple and obvious emotions, and messages and themes that are time-worn. Justice must be done. Love conquers all. Good vs. evil. Freight Class fiction can be easy to skim. Literary flourishes are few, cliffhangers are many. Genre conventions are rigidly honored. Characters are not motivated from within, for the most part, but instead are pushed into action by external plot circumstances.
Joe: First, I congratulate you on reading tens of thousands of self-pubbed genre novels to arrive at this conclusion. Kudos on being an objective arbitrator of quality.
Second, anyone who has ever bought a legacy paperback they didn't like probably believes that those books relied on character stereotypes, heavy-handed plots, purple and obvious emotions, and messages that are time-worn. Which is why many bestselling legacy books have lower customer ratings than bestselling self-pubbed titles.
But what do readers know, with their subjective tastes? They aren't self-appointed gatekeepers like you are.
Donald: Coach Class
Here we find decently-written literary fiction and nicely-crafted commercial fiction that achieves print publication but sells best at trade-paperback level ($14.99 or so), or discounted in e-book form. Coach Class novelists support each other yet find it difficult to gain a foothold with the public. So-called "marketing" by their publishers is disappointing and, truthfully, can only do so much. Traditional tours (when they happen) accomplish little, front of store incentives are costly, and online marketing sometimes seems to consist of the hope that Amazon will do a price promotion. Coach Class authors, however, are professionally edited and get goodies like nice covers, ARC's, and plenty of blurbs. Plus, their books are in bookstores, a big boost in visibility.
Barry: So far, Maass's thinking exhibits two primary, and pretty obvious, flaws: one, he talks about the ideal of legacy publishing as though it were the widespread reality; two, he discusses challenges in self-publishing as though they don't exist at least equally in the legacy world. In fairness, he's not unusual in this regard.
Barry: So far, Maass's thinking exhibits two primary, and pretty obvious, flaws: one, he talks about the ideal of legacy publishing as though it were the widespread reality; two, he discusses challenges in self-publishing as though they don't exist at least equally in the legacy world. In fairness, he's not unusual in this regard.
Joe: Dammit, where will the herd of self-pubbed authors get nice covers, review copies, blurbs, and professional editing?
Oh yeah, we can outsource it. And we don't have to give the extra 57.5% ebook royalties to the publisher, forever, when they could be one-time sunk costs.
But perhaps I'm being unfair. Perhaps I'm the only writer who ever got bad covers, zero blurbs, and lousy editing from my publishers.
Am I? All you authors reading this, feel free to chime in.
Donald: What characterizes Coach Class fiction? Readable pages, appealing characters, clever premises, attention-grabbing plot hooks, a display of craft and art, emotional engagement, and themes that "resonate"…which is to say, that stir readers without greatly challenging them. Coach class fiction is less easy to skim. While characters can be motivated from within, their inner journeys can feel somewhat painless. Readers are "engaged" but don't always feel deeply moved. Coach Class fiction sometimes borrows secondary characters from history or classics, retells other stories, or stretches into series that can become thin. Genre conventions may be borrowed or blended but essentially they are not violated. Coach Class is a moderately comfortable place to be, though one can feel stuck in one's seat. Economy shocks can hurt.
Barry: I dunno. Some of this sounds like what Shakespeare did. Secondary characters from history and all that.
Barry: I dunno. Some of this sounds like what Shakespeare did. Secondary characters from history and all that.
Joe: And this class of fiction is written by... wait for it...
The same herd of authors who write ALL fiction in all of Maass's so-called classes.
Donald, every writer worth their salt realizes the benefits of a good editor. But we can find good editors on our own, and pay them hourly instead of forever. And it is writers who write the books, not editors. Show me a single editor who worked more on a book than the writer did, to warrant their huge royalty cut.
But you're already in a hole, so why stop digging?
Donald: First Class
The cream class gets a double shot of extended life in bookstores, both in hardcover and later in paper. Their books can sell well at $25 and live long in trade paper. For First Class authors, success looks effortless. Goodies accrue easily. Recognition is instant and wide. Sub-rights sell. Awards happen. Insulated from economy shocks, authors of this class never seem to worry about the industry. In interviews they talk only about their art and process. They mentor. Lines are long at BEA booth signings and readers are fiercely loyal.
Joe: I had multiple printings. Then got my rights back, and made a shitload more money on my own.
If my "extended life in bookstores" continued much longer, I'd still be poor and depressed.
For every author mentored by the Big 5, thousands are bent over and abused. I had a longer signing line at BEA than James Patterson. It was flattering. I would have preferred his income. But, alas, I wasn't first class.
Barry: Yes, again, these guys never want to talk about the system's losers. The whole thing is designed to hold out the winners as somehow the norm.
Barry: Yes, again, these guys never want to talk about the system's losers. The whole thing is designed to hold out the winners as somehow the norm.
Donald: Why all that seemingly-effortless success? First Class fiction is characterized by memorable characters, unique premises, story worlds instantly real, plots that grip even when slow, gorgeous writing, and themes that surprise, challenge and change us. Not only do we read every word, First Class writing makes us whistle in admiration. Characters are not only likeable and self-aware, but also follow a singular destiny. First class novels shake our way of thinking, challenging us to see the world in new ways. They confidently break rules, may transport us to unlikely cultures and times, teach us things we knew little about, and always feel utterly unique. Each novel creates its own genre. First Class fiction is imitated but never matched. Its authors are revered and for good reasons.
Joe: Let us look at all the first class fiction currently on the NYT Bestseller List, and marvel at how it can be imitated but never matched.
Then let's come back to real life and understand that massive distribution is the reason for much bestseller success.
I never got to compete with bestselling authors, because I never had their distribution.
Guess what happened when the playing field was leveled? Hint: I owe more in 2013 taxes than I made in five years of legacy royalties.
Donald: So, in which class are you? To which class do you aspire? Here's the thing: In the real world, one's class can be a prison. Politics plays in. The upper class can use its money to buy itself tax advantages, legal wizardry and gated communities that keep the rest out. Other classes stick together and stick with what they know. Revolution is rare, costs blood and doesn't happen where minimal comforts are available.
In the world of publishing, though, it's not like that. Authorship is a true meritocracy. (Sorry, it is.)
Joe: No, it isn't. Not even close.
It's luck and visibility. It's hard work. Talent can play a part, but I know plenty of talented authors who got screwed, and plenty of authors with dubious talent who climbed to stardom. Apparently you haven't. But I bet if you opened your eyes, you'd see a few.
Barry: In a true meritocracy, luck would not be a factor. He's describing what he wants to believe, not what remotely actually exists — not just in publishing, but anywhere in the world. I'd be curious to hear him name another "true meritocracy." He can't. There's no such thing. Certainly not in publishing. In fact, he is now describing what is essentially a lottery as a meritocracy. This is a fascinating — and deeply dishonest — sales pitch: "Come one, come all, if you're talented and work hard, you are guaranteed success!"
I don't think he's a deliberate huckster. I think he really believes these things, presumably because he badly wants to.
Donald: In publishing there is social mobility. As an author you can change your class, though of course it's not always easy to do so. It takes education, time and effort. It means seeing yourself differently, having courage and violating the norms and expectations of your community. (One of the most common laments I hear is, "I got published…and lost a lot of my friends.")
Also, have you ever heard of someone lamenting how he lost his friends when he got published? I haven't. But maybe I hang out with the wrong class of cattle.
Joe: One of the most common laments I hear is, "How do I get my rights back?"
Donald: Do things look different inside publishing today? Yes and no. There's innovation all over the place but also for authors a picture more challenging than ever. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Inequality is vast. But change doesn't require billionaire money buying elections. You don't need a phony revolution. You can change your class by yourself, right at home, one keystroke at a time.
I'm not saying there are no winners — huge winners — in legacy publishing. I'm saying it's dishonest (or, more charitably, delusional) to talk about the winners and not to talk about the losers. Or to otherwise pretend the winners are remotely the norm.
Joe: I've noticed some of the rich aren't getting as rich, and many are making more money than they ever did.
This isn't a phony revolution. This is an actual change of power. That power is going to where it should; to the people writing the goddamn words that support the entire industry.
Writers need a way to get their work in front of readers. In the past we had to go through gatekeepers like you.
Not anymore. Thankfully.
Donald: I've exaggerated the above for effect, obviously, but in a lot of ways that's how the industry looks to me now. How does it look to you?
Joe: Honestly? It looks to me like you have an unearned sense of entitlement, and that you're frightened for your future so you spout nonsense to cover up for your obvious insecurity. You're deluded, or lying, or evil. But you aren't making sense.
Barry: Well, it looks at least in part populated by navel-gazing stuffed-shirt MOTU wannabes pontificating a slick line of bullshit to the underclass they're concerned is starting to develop an unwelcome understanding of how the system really works, along with the tools to walk away from it — the underclass of which they pose as champions. Since you ask.
Barry: Well, it looks at least in part populated by navel-gazing stuffed-shirt MOTU wannabes pontificating a slick line of bullshit to the underclass they're concerned is starting to develop an unwelcome understanding of how the system really works, along with the tools to walk away from it — the underclass of which they pose as champions. Since you ask.
Joe: As a literary agent, you have an opportunity to help authors. Helping them doesn't mean selling them How To books. It doesn't mean genuflecting before the legacy industry that made you rich.
It means taking a hard look at what is actually happening, and acting accordingly.
You aren't doing either. You're spreading bullshit. And shame on you for it. I haven't read your How To books, Donald. But are you sure they don't belong in the fiction section? Because if they're anything like this nonsense I can't imagine them being helpful.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, way back in the 1990s when I was getting rejections for my writing, I did get one from the Donald Maass Lit Agency. Here it is:
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, way back in the 1990s when I was getting rejections for my writing, I did get one from the Donald Maass Lit Agency. Here it is:
So perhaps my overly harsh attitude is simply resentment toward the fact that Mr. Maass never culled me from the herd because I wasn't First Class, even though the book he rejected went on to earn me over $100,000.
But what really irks me is that this rejection letter hawks his book The Career Novelist.
Maybe it's just me, but using SASEs as a way to advertise your How To book to authors you rejected seems, well, yucky. I wonder how many authors bought it, then wrote him back leading with, "I read your book, Mr. Maass, and followed it to the letter." How many of those authors went on to become career novelists?
As I said, I've always known publishing is a lottery. The harder you work, and the more you learn, the luckier you may get. Authorship isn't a meritocracy. But what do I know? I'm just a small, warm blooded mammal with sharp claws, grateful I have fur because it is getting awfully cold since that meteor hit.


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Horn and Hardart Automat
2712 Broadway (at 104th Street)
Joseph V. Horn and Frank A. Hardart first became lunchroom proprietors in 1888 and incorporated the Horn & Hardart Baking Company in Philadelphia in 1898. In 1902, Horn & Hardart opened their first waiterless Philadelphia restaurant - an "automat" where customers retrieved food directly from windowed compartments after depositing a nickel. Horn & Hardart established their New York subsidiary in 1911 and opened the first New York automat in 1912 at 1557 Broadway in Times Square. The automats became popular for their good food and low prices.
This Art Deco automat building was built in 1930 and designed by Frederick Putnam Platt and Charles Carsten Platt (F.P. Platt & Brothers), a team that had designed numerous buildings for Horn & Hardart between 1916 and 1932. This was a prototypical example, with distinctive large windows and glazed polychromatic Art Deco glazed terra-cotta ornamentation above the third floor windows. The automat remained until 1953. Automats began a long slow decline in the 1960s and the last New York automat closed in 1991.
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Thank you
Yesterday was such a blast! Thank you for all your SWEET comments here and on Twitter!
It is so much fun to hear and see all your inspiration! Keep them coming!! I find so much inspiration in all the blogs that I read and as you can see in my huge blog roll - I read A LOT of blogs! You are very welcome to browse through them all - they are all blogs that I read regularly and find inspiration in, but I though I would get in the habit of featuring some of them once in a while to show you where my inspiration comes from. In the 'I like' section of the footer you can always find a selection of blogs that are special to me - and here are three more:
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WORCESTER � Jason V. DeFalco, principal of Dr. Arthur F. Sullivan Middle School, will leave at the end of the school year to become the New Bedford public schools' first chief academic officer. Mr. DeFalco has been principal at Sullivan for three years and before that worked in Somerville and Southbridge and at Seven Hills Charter School in Worcester.
The Sullivan job is one of seven Worcester principal positions that will be vacant at the end of the school year. The others are: Chandler Elementary School, where June E. Eressy is retiring; City View School, which has had an interim principal (currently Patricia Murphy-Brown) since Albert G. Ganem Jr. was promoted to district manager of staff development; Flagg Street School, where Sheila A. Graham is retiring; Lincoln Street School, where Mary Beth Pulsifer is retiring; Rice Square School, where Charles F. Healey is leaving for personal reasons; and Vernon Hill School, where Irene K. Logan is retiring.


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Published June 1, 2009 as a follow-up to the influential Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, this anthology revisits the work of writers like Theodore Roszak, Mary Gomes, Sarah Conn, Steven Aizenstat, and Ralph Metzner while offering a new harvest of contributions from David Orr, Richard Heinberg, Richard Louv, Bill McKibben, Joanna Macy, Larry Robinson, Malidoma Somé, and Shepherd Bliss.
Ecotherapy has been favorably reviewed by Time Magazine, NPR, Utne Reader, Adbusters, SELF Magazine, Best Health, the Sacramento Bee, the Contra Costa Times, the Oakland Tribune, Mercury News, the Monterey Herald, the Kansas City Star, Pioneer Press, Tri-City Herald, Bradenton Herald, the Huntsville Times, the Chicago Tribune, Sun Herald, Publisher's Marketplace, Mardigian Libary, and numerous blogs, including some at Huffington Post.
"This groundbreaking volume is must reading for
therapists seeking guidance in navigating the new frontiers of ecopsychology,
or for anyone who has ever wondered why we continue to abuse the planet
even though we know better. Reaching a sustainable future means reinventing
psychological healing as if the human–nature relationship matters —
as it profoundly does." — Lester Brown, award-winning coiner
of "sustainability" and founder of the Earth Policy Institute
- What Is Ecotherapy? -
announcements and recent news
Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist: The Drought Dialogues (6/15)
Ecotherapist Phoenix Smit's Ecosoul Wisdom website.
Visit ecotherapist Ariana Candell's website, and check out her clinical ecotherapy training program.
Ecotherapist and LCSW Rain Sussman's website.
Linda Buzzell at LinkedIn.
* Photo: Craig Chalquist teaches an ecotherapy class on January 15, 2010, at John F. Kennedy University, where graduate students learned ecotherapy history, theory, and hands-on practice.
Past ecotherapy happenings:
Urban farms reduce violence: research and photos (7/12).
Our book reviewed positively by the American Horticultural Therapy Association (7/12).
Craig posted "The Psychology of Climate Change Denial" (6/12).
Craig keynoted the Holos Institute conference in applied ecopsychology (4/12).
Earthkeeper Eileen Pardini's new website is up and running.
Craig has updated Terrapsychological Inquiry, a methodology to use with ecopsych/ecotherapy research.
Read about Encyclopedia Sophia, an under-construction resource for deep cultural transformation.
Craig presents on ecotherapy to the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology (1/12).
Craig's speech to the world's first ecotherapy certificate graduates (9/10/11)--CONGRATULATIONS!!
"When Nature is the Best Therapist," an article for the magazine Natural Awakenings (9/11).
Craig has visited The Graduate Institute in Connecticut to start setting up an ecotherapy certificate (6/11).
Linda reviews Carolyn Baker's new book Navigating the Coming Chaos: A Handbook for Inner Transition (3/11).
Craig presents "Ecotherapy: Nature as Therapist" at Santa Rosa Community College Arts & Lectures (3/11).
Craig interviewed for an ecotherapy article (April) in Martha Stewart's magazine WHOLE LIVING.
Craig presenting an ecotherapy slideshow for the Santa Rosa Junior College Arts and Lecture Series (2/11).
Craig and Jan Edl Stein present "Clinical Mental Health and Earth Spirituality," Earth Medicine Alliance (11/10).
Craig is speaking about ecotherapy for the Ecopsychology Panel at Bioneers (10/10).
Craig is facilitating an ecotherapy training for psychotherapist interns at Holos Institute (10/10).
Craig is facilitating an ecotherapy seminar at Bosch Baha'i Center (10/10).
Linda and Craig are creating a dialogue between ecotherapy and permaculture (8/10).
Katrina Martin Davenport is directing TerraPlaces, a project for bonding with where you are (summer/fall).
Craig is facilitating a 3-day ecotherapy event at Siena Ranch (6/10). [ - slideshow - ]
Craig is developing a 24-unit Certificate in Ecotherapy at JFK University (5/10).
Linda Buzzell's list of sustainable vocational opportunities (4/10).
Linda and Craig discuss "no-till" therapy (4/10).
Ariana Candell, MFT opens her Bay Area ecotherapy practice (4/10).
Craig has received authorization to design an ecotherapy certificate program for JFK University (3/10).
Linda signing books at Barnes and Noble, 160 S Westlake Blvd, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2 pm on Sat., Feb 27th.
Craig interviewed about environmental crisis denial, psychotherapy, and ecotherapy by Adbusters (2/8/10).
Ecotherapy is selling so well that the publisher is having to do a second printing already (1/27/10).
Craig conducts ecotherapy training for psychotherapy students at JFK University (1/19/10).
Ecotherapy mentioned in the New York Times after Linda's interview with them (1/18/10).
Craig teaches his first graduate-level ecotherapy class, JFK Univeristy (1/15-16/10).
Linda and Craig interviewed by SELF Magazine this week, details to follow (1/4-7/10).
Linda was just interviewed by the New York Times, details to follow (1/6/10).
Green Patriot Radio now running an interview with Craig on ecotherapy (1/5/10).
Reply to Time Magazine article by Craig Chalquist.
Craig talks terrapsychology and ecotherapy with FuturePrimitive (posted 11/24/09).
Ecotherapy workshop by Craig at the Almaden Valley Counseling Center (11/20/09).
Craig signs books and presents ecotherapy at JFKU's Alumni Day (10/16/09).
Ecotherapy is now the #1 environmental book at Amazon.com (10/4/09).
Ecotherapy mentioned in Grist blog "Therapy On the Titanic" (9/29/09).
Oakland Tribune: "An Earthy Approach to Psychotherapy" (9/18/09).
"Supergreen Me": Linda's blog at Huffington Post (9/12/09).
"Gardening and Mental Health," CC Times garden (8/7/09).
Linda and Craig interviewed by Time Magazine (7/28/09).
Linda signs books at Chaucer's in Santa Barbara (7/9/09).
Craig interviewed on Green Patriot Radio (7/8/09).
"Sustainasanity": Contra Costa Times article by Craig (7/2/09).
Craig signs books at the Green Arcade in SF (6/26, 7 pm).
Craig signs books at the Contra Costa Times garden (6/26, 11:30 a.m.).
Linda and Craig talk to The Green Majority, 89.5 FM, in Toronto (6/26).
Linda talks ecotherapy on NPR's "Living on Earth" (6/19).
"The Green Cure for Chronic Stress" by Linda at Huffpost (6/16).
Linda and Craig on Time Magazine podcast (6/16 at 11:30 PST).
"Slowing Down to Nature's Pace" by Linda at Huffingtonpost (6/9).
Craig signs books at the Dream Institute of Northern California (6/7).
Linda interviewed by New York Times Magazine (6/5).
Linda and Craig discuss ecotherapy on Sierra Club Radio (6/3).
Linda talks about ecotherapy on Wisconsin Public Radio (5/25).
Therapy Today in the UK mentions ecotherapy and our book (April edition).


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The auction in the exchanges of the USA came to the end with fall of indexes
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Listen to seven National Writing Project teachers plan a Spring Blogging curriculum together.
Find out if seven people can plan a curriculum together over skype. These seven teachers from Writing Projects across the country met and planned a 15-week blogging curriculum that they have started to put together (click read more).
- Bob Levin and Gail Desler (Area 3 Writing Project, Sacramento, CA)
- Woody Woodgate (Alaska Writing Project, Marshall, Alaska)
- Bill O'Neal (Trenton, NJ Writing Project)
- Chris Sloan (Wasatch Range Writing Project, Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim (New York City Writing Project)
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Seattle, Washington - Seeking an exemplary Primary Care nurse practitioner or physician assistant. Per Diem position with highly desirable shift-based schedule, consistent clinic hours, and scheduled appointments at a several area retail clinics. Competitive compensation. A minimum of one to three years of clinical experience in Primary Care, Urgent Care or Emergency Medicine is preferred. Ideal candidate will be collaborative, motivated and have a passion for practice building and creating more convenient access to health care. Responsibilities will include both in-person and virtual visits from patients, with the possibility of in-home visits. Join the dedicated and compassionate team of providers with Swedish Express Care, where you'll enjoy excellent work/life balance in the scenic beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
Where You'll Work
Swedish Express Care clinics feature multiple digital tools, including the most advanced electronic medical record on the market, Epic, and user-friendly mobile apps. Patients access the clinics via walk-in, on-line appointments and referrals from our integrated network of primary care teams. Express Care clinics offer services seven days per week, with clinicians supported by dedicated medical assistants and easy access to a complete array of pharmacy services.
Where You'll Live
Seattle is the Pacific Northwest's largest urban center (metro population 3.25 million), with world-class arts and entertainment, a robust economy and an outstanding school system. The city hugs magnificent Puget Sound and offers magnificent mountain views to the north, east and south. Seattleites are famously fond of the outdoors, fresh seafood and good coffee.
Who You'll Work For
Swedish Health Services, a not-for-profit health system based in Seattle, Washington, operates five renowned hospitals and more than 100 medical clinics offering primary and specialty care. Swedish is committed to creating a culture that values patient safety above all else, as evidenced by our error-prevention tools and techniques for clear communication. Swedish is a partner organization of the Providence St. Joseph Health family, and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity organization.
Job ID Number: 8912
Facility Name: Express Care - Swedish
Location Name: Seattle, WA
Brand Name: Swedish Health Services
Provider Profession: Physician Assistant
Provider Profession: Nurse Practitioner
Medical Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Medical Specialty: Family Medicine
Medical Specialty: Internal Medicine
Medical Specialty: Urgent Care/Immediate Care
Job Setting: Retail Clinic
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The Cube version is a LOT lighter!
But the new Cube isn't the only light weight boot there are others I'll be reviewing shortly as well.
A new ice boot from Asolo deserves some attention. 805g!
Best on liner from the show..any show to date?
When asked how the new boots climb?
"I used to climb a little. But my friends say......" when asked about the new Asolo Eiger's performance on ice and mixed.
The one and only "HOT" Henry Barber's answer to a question. If you are too young to recognize Henry Barber just think of a taller Ueli with a bigger set of titanium cajones from the '70s. Barber knew what leashless Grade 6 ice climbing was all about three DECADES ago.
12hr day today. I never come to Summer OR expecting much and am always surprised.
I simply too lazy and too tired to do the update tonight, bbuUUUUUUUUUUTTTT :)
I saw a few things that will change my own ice and alpine climbing significantly today. Total surprise again. But gear (hardware specific) I can incorporate into my own kit right now...like yesterday if I could get it all. That single meeting for me makes these trips worth while for my own climbing. More on those details in a week or so. But I think you'll be surprised. I was. New tools from Grivel? Yes, the "MACHINE" is back in three new versions! And I like the design work a lot from what I have seen.
So I am stoked. Some times seeing this stuff 6 months prior to production really sucks! Lots of commentary and new products to introduce. But it is going to have to wait till I get more time.
Highlights today? New Jet Boil stove, ropes, hardware and climbing packs. Yes , real no chite climbing packs! New boots!! Again. Lots of new boots reviews coming up in August. Just in time for the fall alpine season and early ice. Good day all in all. More details to come shortly.
Till then the new make over on the Petzl Meteor helmet had me pretty happy in the short term. Making my current Meteor obsolete sadly.
Just trying to share the luv above in matching lid and light :) Much more to come!
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Not to take anything away from previous Broker-Dealers of the Year winners, but the interaction between this year's honorees at our roundtable discussion in Chicago was top-notch, once again showcasing the passion and dedication that earned each of them the award.
All of this year's participants were owners or part-owners of their respective firms. This meant that on topics such as service ("We look not at how many reps we have, but how many relationships we have."), succession planning ("As much as we talk about wanting to keep this going forever, somewhere along the way we have tough decisions to make.") and budgetary priorities ("When you're spending your own money, you make decisions much differently from when you spend somebody else's money."), the entrepreneurial spirit was present throughout.
Initially seeded with questions from the host, each had so much to say that crosstalk dominated much of the day, and we were content in our role as "flies on the wall." Their candid views on regulation, their competitors, the outlook for the independent space and technology continued into lunch and on breaks, which had us fearing some nugget of wisdom would escape and therefore kept us busy with constant recording.
As always, the interview was punctuated with laughter, good humor and mild ribbing. They engaged in a free-flow exchange of ideas and, although they were competitors, held little back.
This year's winners (or their firms) aren't new to the process, with three of the four capturing top honors over multiple years. They are David Stringer of Prospera Financial Services; Barry Knight of NEXT Financial Group; and Eric Schwartz of Cambridge Investment Research. The only newbie to the group, David Pintaric of WRP Investments, was particularly moved during the award ceremony for the validation it bestowed on his family-run firm.
[Learn more about how the winners are picked.]
Each had a lot to say and, as with every year, editing the transcript alone took a bit of doing. An excerpt is provided here, but the 22nd annual BDOTY celebration continues online at AdvisorOne.com, where readers can find an extended version of the interview transcript, individual interviews with this year's winners and behind-the-scenes video from the magazine's photo shoot. Our archive of past winners, as well as their print and video interviews, are also available.
Regulation and Fees: How One Contributes to the Other
Jamie Green, Investment Advisor: The Financial Services Institute, an organization that lobbies on behalf of independent broker-dealers and their advisors, has come out rather strongly against fee increases that FINRA has proposed. Part of its formal statement suggested that the industry is facing a profit margin squeeze already, and these proposed fees might in fact push some broker-dealers over the edge, especially smaller broker-dealers. Is what FSI has to say true?
David Stringer, Prospera Financial: I've heard that argument, and maybe I'm naïve, but I haven't seen it happening. We're having record revenue, and as a firm we seem to be profitable. I do see there is a squeeze, and I understand that. I think we're all going to be impacted. Many of these fees are increases at the individual rep level, so in many cases these are pass-throughs to the rep. I wasn't happy when the SIPC charge went up. I do see those things happening, but I haven't seen it put us in a position where we're not able to compete.
Barry Knight, NEXT Financial Group: You got that part right. I don't think that the FINRA fee increase in and of itself is catastrophic by any stretch of the imagination. I do have ongoing concerns about the margin compression for the industry over all. I suspect all of us here at the table are doing well because we're doing things well. The reality in our industry is that margins have always been narrow. We try to serve the individual representative and give them back most of the money that they earn. Just the reality of FINRA fees or SIPC fees or the cost associated with meeting the increasing regulatory expectations over all, from a compliance standpoint, I'm sure has increased for all of us. All of these things collectively start to raise some concern; not from a survivability standpoint, but certainly from a margin standpoint.
David Pintaric, WRP Investments: Kudos, David. I was thinking of saying the same thing. I was asked this question at the end of last year about our size and viability. What prompted the question was that a firm similar in size shut their doors. My response was, "I don't get it." We do about $42 to $45 million in GDC; much smaller than you two big guys, but we're having record profits and doing just fine. Now, maybe living where I'm living is different from somebody who lives in San Diego or Boston. We've avoided a lot of problems that some of our peers size-wise did not avoid, and that may have something to do with it. We stay out of the fancy investment products. We watch the pennies very closely. As you get bigger, you get sloppy when it comes to cost containment. My firm was started by my mom and dad, and my mom knows how to pinch pennies. I have this term that she could rub two nickels together and come up with 11 cents. Both of them are Depression babies. That has influenced how my brother and I run the firm.
Eric Schwartz, Cambridge Investment Research: Nobody who is regulated likes the idea of more regulation and more expense. Certainly over the last 10 years the regulatory burden and cost to our industry has doubled or tripled. Fifteen years ago we were a fairly regulated industry; now it's much more. We would all like to see better regulation rather than more regulation. If it was better regulation, it wouldn't have to cost as much, and we wouldn't have to have as many of these increases. There's been a discussion that the RIAs don't want to come under FINRA because it would be too expensive. They'd rather just get an audit cost charged to them by the SEC. Well, the amount that [the average RIA] has to spend on regulation and fees is de minimis compared with what we have to spend to do a comparable amount of business. So it's no different from any other industry. We'd rather have better regulation that costs us less but still does the job, rather than keep piling on more and more.
Consolidation: More or Less
Green: It was just announced that AIG Advisor Group will acquire Woodbury Financial from The Hartford. It seems that a number of insurance companies are getting out of different parts of their business. How will this bode for the industry consolidation we hear so much about?
Stringer: I think some of the small firms, especially the really small firms where senior management is also producing, are saying, "Does it still make sense to own my own broker-dealer?" We've had maybe five broker-dealers that fit that model. What we found is that when they shed the broker-dealer to become independent reps solely, their production goes up. There's a strong case for some of them to decide if that's in their best interest. A lot of the bigger firms are looking for scale, and that's not something we're looking for. We're celebrating 30 years as a small firm and plan on continuing to celebrate years as a small firm. So I don't see consolidation for the ones who are in it for the right reasons. The ones who wanted to be their own broker-dealer because they wanted that control, they're having to reassess that decision. I think there's plenty of room in the industry for the small boutique firms.
Knight: I agree with your comments. I think there's also room for, if there is such a thing, medium- and large-size boutique firms as well. I think that if you look around the room here today, there are four actual independent firms represented, which might be educational since that's not the norm. I think that absolutely there is a market for truly independent firms, and we will continue to see that. Not all firms are going to be aggregated. Not all firms are going to be moved up into some larger conglomerate or entity because there's a very important role in serving representatives. Clearly we're able to do it in a way that those representatives appreciate.
Pintaric: I don't think the trend that we've experienced over the last three years of roll-ups and reduction in the universe of broker-dealers is going to continue. Most of the firms that in the last three years have ceased to exist did so because they did something wrong; whether it was intentional or not, they brought something on themselves. Service is a very personal experience. It's difficult to systemize personal service. There are some reps who want to go to the "big box" broker-dealers, and there are some who would rather avoid that and deal with the small family organization. I made a decision when I first got into this business that I wanted to be like LPL Financial. I always admired LPL and what they did. That was my youthful exuberance speaking. I still admire them, but I don't want to be like them anymore. No disrespect to a firm like that, but I like what I have now: to be able to personally know the people we serve, and they know me. That's going to come back in our industry more and more.
[If reps left their current broker-dealer, where would they go?]
Schwartz: I think there are four categories of reasons for why you have some consolidation going on. Some of them go in cycles and some of them are ongoing. The first is the bad product/extinction level event. We saw 50, 75 broker-dealers go out of business because of Medical Capital and Provident Royalty, etc. Some smaller firms sold disproportionate percentages of those, but also they didn't have the capital. Had LPL Financial been unfortunate enough to sell a couple of hundred million dollars in one of those products, it could have solved it. There's going to be less of that in the near term because those products aren't there.
The second issue is just that the four of us around the table are entrepreneurs who run our own businesses. Even if you decide you want to keep it going all your life, you still have an estate tax problem because somebody will sell at some point. The most common case is sometime between the age of 55 and 75, the senior people, usually one or two big dogs, sell because they want to cash out. And the only buyer that can come up with that much money is almost always an institution that already owns some other broker-dealers: thus, consolidation. As much as all of us at the table talk about wanting to keep this going independent forever, somewhere along the way we have tough decisions to make as to how we do that.
The third area is insurance broker-dealers. They were the main buyers a number of years ago. They're becoming one of the main sellers now. I think the message they've gotten loud and clear is either get serious or get out.
The fourth thing is that there is potential for somewhat of a middle squeeze. You've got niche players that can deliver the personal service like our two smaller firms here have done. They can survive as long as they don't hit one of those extinction-level events. They have a level of commitment from their staff and from their advisors to personal service that they can't get at a 5,000- or 10,000-rep firm. The top 10 firms right now control 55% of the GDC in the entire distribution channel. Fifteen years ago, I believe it was between 15% and 20%. The top seven or eight firms 10 or 15 years from now will control 80% of the business. But that means there's still another 20%. That's room for an awful lot of 200- to 500-rep firms.
Stringer: I agree on a couple of those points. Just as with advisors, there's an aging population of firm owners now who are looking to make difficult decisions. But one of the good things that's come out of the financial crisis is that the survivors have gotten better at risk management. It doesn't matter what size firm you are—risk management is not something that you can skimp on.
Schwartz: Traditionally, you were a commission guy or you were a fee guy. We were one of the leaders that said, "Well, why do you have to be one or the other? Can't we figure out how to do both?" Now, of course, everybody does that. In the same way, it seems like the choice has always been be independent with the risks and rewards and benefits of that, or be swallowed up by the big conglomerate. I wonder if there isn't an opportunity for small, midsize and even large firms to form some sort of joint venture or association where [multiple] firms work together. What's the benefit of AIG adding another firm today? Now, they have four firms; they're still only going to have one due diligence department when it's done, but they're going to have four firms benefiting from it instead of three. So why couldn't the four of us in this room say, "OK, from now on we're going to have a due diligence team that's going to work for all of us." We could become more cost effective and compete better with bigger firms who have economies of scale. Now you have five or 10 firms that collectively represent $1 billion of revenue that are not repeating the exact same process; they can have the best of being independent, but some of the benefits of scale.
Knight: I expect we'll start to see what Eric's describing, especially in the context of some of these private equity firms that are buying up individual firms, yet at the same time letting them continue to operate somewhat independently. I think it will look different from some of the aggregation we've seen in the past because of exactly what Eric is saying. I suspect that they will keep some personal identities and culture going, but start to really aggregate some of those back office functions, particularly around the areas Eric mentioned like due diligence, things of that nature.
Schwartz: The clearing business got started very similar to that. And, of course, the correspondents have tried to branch out beyond just clearing, because they can't make a living on $5 ticket charges or whatever. They have to offer some other value-adds that you'll pay for, so they try to step into that gap to some degree.
Service: And all it Entails
John Sullivan, Investment Advisor: As a midsize firm, how do you balance scale with the personalized service?
Knight: The key is the folks you service. That may sound trite, but the key to all of the success we have enjoyed is continually staying focused on serving our individual reps and how we can help them achieve their vision and success. Paying an awful lot of attention to them is the key. Now, of course, we're also owned by our reps; if I ever forget, they're always there to remind me. Eric touched on it earlier and I love his quote: He said, "Be big, but act small." Even as the numbers get larger, if I don't have a personal relationship with every single individual one of them, I make sure that somebody on my management team does. Also, absolutely providing forums for their voices to be heard and making it very easy for them to say what they need.
Schwartz: That's exactly what I would say. One of the things we look at is not how many reps we have, but how many relationships we have. Interestingly, our number of reps has climbed by about 200 a year for the last five years, but our total number of branches has only increased about 15% during that time. We still have about 500 branches, but the average branch has gotten bigger, which means our number of relationships hasn't increased that much. Granted, we'd like somebody to have a relationship with all 2,200 advisors, but we really make sure from the highest level that we know those 500 branch managers.
Stringer: I've participated in this roundtable a couple of times now, and the theme that I hear is that the winners seem to be very centered on why they're in business and who they serve. I think that, at least at our firm, we know that our client is the advisor, whom we put first, and we ask our advisors to put their clients first. I think if we stay focused on who we serve and why we do it, we're here to make a difference in their lives. The profitability and all the business aspects and all the metrics will show up if you're doing your business well and you follow good practices. If you stay focused on why you're in business and who you serve, I think good things will happen.
Pintaric: Barry made a comment about how his advisors are part-owners of the business and they keep you honest. I get that because even though [my advisors are] not formal owners of our firm, I've always felt that they've owned the business. The reason is that they own the relationship with the ultimate end customer. So keeping focused on who is the boss is very, very important.
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Budget Priorities: Getting Granular
Green: An old aphorism says, "Don't tell me your priorities, show me your budget." What's in your budget tells me what you're real priorities are. You've all talked about the value of service, but from the bottom up, how do you specifically make sure that happens?
Pintaric: I think Eric and I share the same challenge. We're in Youngstown, Ohio; he's in Iowa. There's not a large population of people who have experience in the securities business running around looking for jobs. So we're forced to hire people by attitude rather than skill set. So many people have come to WRP with no clue whatsoever of what a stock and bond is, but they have blossomed as people that made WRP successful because they had the right attitude. There are a lot of educated idiots out there who can't do anything, but you get somebody with a "can do" attitude, and they'll go far.
Knight: I've certainly made hiring mistakes. I've hired some brilliant people who really knew their subject, who were true subject matter experts in their specialty, but didn't understand our service culture. Somebody with the right attitude and the right heart of service toward our representatives—I'll take them every day. The subject matter specialty is fine and understandable, but you can teach that. You can't always teach the right attitude and heart of service toward people. It absolutely starts and ends with having the right people and having the right process in place.
Stringer: Even though we're a small firm, we adopted initiatives to systemize our business and put processes into place. All of our departments have operation manuals. Even though those same people are doing the same job and have been doing them forever, we refreshed it last year. We have our "Service First" standards. If an advisor doesn't feel that we met the standard, we have a feedback loop that goes to me and senior management. I think that's a best practice whether you're a big firm or a small firm: Institutionalize your processes so that you're scalable.
Knight: Another reason to institutionalize processes is because it's really hard for a good company to become a great big company. Growth is absolutely the enemy of service and culture, but it is doable. One of the other things that we've done is (and I think a key point to add here is to let the employees do it) to create a Commitment to Excellence committee. I try very hard not to go to the meetings myself. Let [the employees] create the standards and create the metrics and create the rewards process for it. So I have group of terrific employees that voluntarily serve on a six-month basis to keep it fresh.
Schwartz: Traditionally, you've got quality, service and price. The rule of thumb is you can only compete on two out of those three. We've talked a ton about service, and I think in our world, certainly for the people around this table, service is put first; basically, we are a service business. I think quality is so closely associated with service. I think price is the tricky one. My guess is that none of the people in this room are winning primarily with price. In this industry, the biggest firms that used to be considered for quality are often now focused mostly on price, as in "we'll pay you 30% or 40% up front to join our firm." Every recruiting meeting we've had this year, at least one or two other firms offered substantially more up-front money than we offered and in many cases higher payouts, as well. Yet for the last four years we've recruited more advisors and more GDC than any independent firm other than LPL Financial. So you can win on quality and service.
Knight: I can't recall a single instance where we've [recruited] a quality rep [just because] we had the biggest pile of money on the table. Ever.
Pintaric: I can guarantee that's never been the case with us. In many instances, for those who are owners of the firms, we're spending our own money. When you're spending your own money you make decisions much differently from when you spend somebody else's money. My mandate is to stay in business, stay out of trouble and survive.
Schwartz: We're running our businesses the way we think maybe Warren Buffett would run it. We're saying, "Show me the money over the next 20 years," rather than looking at each quarter and saying, "Why didn't you hit your numbers?" When you're a public company or owned by a parent company, sometimes you get forced to do things that are of a shorter scale.
Green: LPL Financial released their quarterly earnings recently. The problem was that they had plenty of new reps, but the cost of that recruiting pushed down their earnings.
Schwartz: They have their own challenges, and one of them is the law of numbers. I've seen this with the wirehouse firms as well. There's never really been a broker-dealer that's had much more than 12,000 to 20,000 advisors. No matter what you do with your advisors, how long can your average advisor stay with you? I think we'd be pretty happy if every one of our advisors stayed 20 years, but that means you're losing 5% of your advisors every year. Their revenues last year were about $3.4 billion. So 5% is $160 million of GDC a year. If they're losing 7% or 8%, which is certainly possible, they're losing $200 to $250 million of GDC every year. I don't know what the real numbers are, but if you're losing that amount of GDC a year, you've got to recruit $250 million just to hold even. We find at our firm that a 7% to 10% growth rate is possible. As a public company, that growth rate is not a very good story. They're looking for that 15% to 25% growth rate.
When you get to a certain size, you've got to do things like acquisitions. Some of those acquisitions aren't just for the number of reps; rather, they're for related businesses like a trust company or a bank. Now, I don't mean to pick on them, because the whole industry does well if LPL Financial does well. Obviously, they are extremely smart guys. They're doing a lot of creative things, but you've got to find a different way to do it when you get to something north of 10,000 [reps]. I can imagine that at the management level, they have some serious challenges because they're not going to end up with 40,000 reps 15 years from now.
Stringer: They're not serving their advisors, they're serving their shareholders. In your case, your shareholders are your advisors. That's one of the things that goes when you go public; you shift who you serve.
Knight: As you should.
Stringer: It makes sense; that's what public companies do.
Pintaric: I make that comment every time I'm in front of a potential rep and he's deciding between us and a larger firm. I don't have shareholders to answer to; I am the shareholder. We all experienced 2008 and 2009 when we had to reduce [expenses]. We knew that's the game we signed up for. But they have shareholders whose only commitment to their enterprise is that quarterly dividend. If that dividend shrinks or disappears, they want changes. But we can say, "OK, we have to ride this out. We know things will be better." It changes the culture dramatically. I hope I'm not making a target of myself, but I think there's going to be some changes at LPL when this happens. The shareholders will say, "This isn't working."
Social Media: Advisor Utilization
Stringer: We've embraced social media as a firm. One of the things we've tried to do is get good guidance on best practices on how to utilize it. I would say we have a low adoption rate in our firm of people actually using social media. The side we as a broker-dealer have to look at is how to comply with the rules and how to monitor it. We've had to put a lot of structure in place to make sure we're catching those guys on LinkedIn and Facebook and that we're engaging with them on the right way to do it.
Green: And you pre-approve a Tweet or a Facebook posting?
Stringer: Fortunately, we haven't seen a lot of Tweets, but we've seen some blogging and some LinkedIn and Facebook, and tried to give guidance around the tools that are the most effective. We've had speakers at our compliance hours, so a lot of this is educating our advisors. It's an opportunity, but it's something that you really have to do in the right way.
Knight: The first job was getting our arms around the regulatory aspects of it. After we got past the abject fear, we figured out the right tools.
Green: Because a "like" on Facebook could be counted as some kind of a testimonial.
Knight: Or a recommendation from a FINRA perspective. The area certainly has its challenges from a regulatory standpoint. But we engage partners to work with the surveillance and rule-making process, and then we've gotten very involved with our marketing department to try to optimize it. We had to figure out best practices. First, we defined the terms of what can be done and how it has to be tracked, and we then pulled in those resources. Now, we're pretty actively engaged in trying to come up with best practices in terms of optimizing the efficacy of the process.
Pintaric: I've been an advocate of social media. My first exposure was on the personal side. My wife and I have a 20-year-old daughter, so for the last five years she's been on Facebook. I was supervising my daughter, and I saw some potential for a practice to use Facebook to promote itself. We've had low adoption, similar to [Stringer's]. I think a lot of the reason why is because of the age of our advisors. The average advisor is in his 50s and they look at it as a toy for teenagers. The truth of the matter is there are a lot of organizations and companies outside of the securities business that use it to connect with their customers and prospects. I try to tell guys that they could tell their clientele things they're doing that will generate interest in their practice. They could do it in ways that are unique. Tell them you're going to a CE meeting. How many of your customers know that you have CE requirements? Most of them don't. [Customers] look at it and say yeah, maybe that's a good thing that we have CE requirements. It means you're a professional rather than just a guy out there. You are maintaining standards in your practice. When you throw that on Facebook, or maybe that you're going on a due diligence trip, it generates interest in what you're doing and at least adds some more credibility to your practice. Convincing people to do that is a challenge.
Schwartz: We were very early adopters of the social media thing from a compliance point of view. We have this New Century Council that Amy Webber, our president, runs, which are advisors in their early 40s or younger. There are about 20 of them on that council. The problem was there was a small number of young men and women who knew what to do with [social media], and then everybody else started figuring out they needed to do it, but didn't know how. Broker-dealers need to do more than just the minimum, which is the compliance tool. It's really about helping them be successful at it because a lot of people did it for six months and said they didn't get anything out of it. Well, you didn't get anything because you didn't do anything. This is all part of that value-added piece that 10 or 15 years ago none of us would have been asked to do. Reps would have been insulted if we suggested that we could help them. The world's so complicated; this is just one of the ways that we can help our advisors.


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