company milestones March 1986 Clients & Profits 1.0. Developed for a small agency in Los Angeles as an in-house job management system. January 1987 Clients & Profits 2 ships at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Features basic job tickets, job costing, and client billing, but no G/L. April 1988 Clients & Profits 3. Finally includes a general ledger, financial reports, and purchase orders. Finally started to get it right... November 1988 The 100th Clients & Profits program ships. January 1989 Clients & Profits 4. Advertising in MacUser and MacWorld make it a breakthrough product. October 1990 Clients & Profits ez. Offers entry-level job tracking, costing, and billing for small agencies and design studios for $895. Doesn't take the market by storm. December 1990 Clients & Profits PLUS. Includes a fiscal-year G/L, profit centers, and enhanced trafficking. Our first big hit. August 1991 The 500th Clients & Profits program ships January 1994 Clients & Profits Pro 1.0. First agency management system for Mac & Windows. May 1995 Job Tracker 1.0. Offers job tracking, costing, and chargebacks for in-house agencies. December 1995 Clients & Profits Pro 2.0. Over 500 enhancements! August 1997 CPA Software News names Clients & Profits "Editor's Choice" February 1998 1,500th client buys Clients & Profits. March 1998 Clients & Profits Pro 3.0 September 1998 Clients & Profits Media Link interfaces media buys with Strata, SmartPlus, and TAPSCAN. March 1999 San Diego Business Journal lists Clients & Profits, Inc. in its Top Software Companies business list. June 1999 The Clients & Profits Helpdesk takes its 250,000th support call. After this we stopped counting... September 1999 Clients & Profits SQL 1.0 for Oracle and SQL Server. November 1999 Clients & Profits Pro 4.0. Expanded media buying, overhead allocation, client P&P analysis. September 2000 My Clients & Profits!, an add-on web server for Clients & Profits. August 2002 www.clientsandprofits.com wins ICON award. December 2002 The 2,500th Clients & Profits program ships July 2003 HOW Magazine reviews called Clients & Profits "the gold standard." November 2003 Clients & Profits 5.0. Offers brand-new user interface, proposals, CRM, asset manager, proposals, and over 50 other features. Fastest-selling upgrade in our history! February 2004 Clients & Profits SQL V July 2004 Clients & Profits Pro for MySQL Special Edition July 2004 Clients & Profits ASAP! A web-based studio manager for only $29.95/mo. October 2004 Clients & Profits X ships.	25 Things You Probably Don't Know About Clients & Profits 1) Mark Robillard started Clients & Profits in 1986. 2) He was 23. 2) The very first version of Clients & Profits weighed in at 430K. 4) We now have 18 employees. 5) We will sell our 3,000th copy of Clients & Profits sometime this year. 4) We do indeed work in a triangle-shaped building: 6) We have almost every Macintosh model ever made in our computer collection, except the original Mac II (which we never bought for some reason) and a Color Classic (which was cool, but we didn't need). 7) We also have two Apple Lisa computers with 5mb external hard drives. 8) We're big on pot lucks. 9) Our ICON award-winning web site has 2,394 pages. 10) We've been in the San Diego Business Journal's list of top private software companies. 11) Two staff members are in a band, Exhibit F 12) Our web designer makes electronic music. 13) We have a substantial art collection. 14) We have eight ex-bookkeepers on our Helpdesk. 15) Our controller worked for Tony Robbins. 16) We have 3.6 computers per person. 17) We still have our first external SCSI hard drive for the Mac, which costs $895 for twenty megabytes of storage (remember DataFrame?) 18) We have an original Macintosh Portable, which few people know was ever made. 19) We created our first version of Clients & Profits for Windows on an original IBM AT. It's all-steel keyboard weights 8 lbs. 20) For that last 10 years Mark has done all of his programming and design work on a Powerbook. (He's had eight of them so far.) 21) Mark owns 100% of the company. No partners. No banks. No debt. 22) We were the first agency management software to have a web site, which wasn't much. 23) We are the only agency management software to webcast our training classes for free. 24) Mark is on the board of directors of the Oceanside Museum of Art. 25) Mark brought the first Art-o-Mat to San Diego. ©2008 Clients & Profits, Worldwide.  About Us  Media Kit  Site Map  Privacy Policy  Search: