As a 22-year-old San Diego ad agency, we've seen, and survived, many ebbs & flows in the economy. We were almost taken out after 9/11. We had all the worst working...being an ad agency when advertising was being deleted; living in San Diego where the COL already made running a business here a challenge and having a significent number of resort hotel clients when travel was simply stopped completely. Triple ouch!

But we've never experienced anything like this current financial landscape. Ugh! Yet, through it all we've survived in San Diego still operating as a successful ad agency.