I realized a funny thing the other day — I have had four clients this year that are located about a mile away from me in either direction off of 116th St.:
For those of you who don’t really know much about the area — it isn’t like 116th St. is at the center of an office district or anything like that. The area is mostly residential and retail. There are a couple small office complexes, but nothing at all compared to what’s 5 minutes South in the Castleton area, where I have zero clients.
What makes it even more intriguing is that:
- None of the clients have any connection to each other (that I know of).
- I acquired each client through referrals from different people. It wasn’t like I sent out a mailing in the area or passed out flyers in front of one of the three Starbucks along that stretch.
- Each client didn’t discover our proximity to each other until after we’d met, and it didn’t seem to have any bearing on whether or not we would work together.
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1 Ade in Business » Blog Archive » Accounting // Dec 5, 2006 at 12:23 pm
[...] Not keeping track of my mileage. I can go back and look at meeting dates and locations to figure out those numbers, but in my mind I’d only pictured doing that for longer trips. I’d figured that since most of my clients are located close to me it wouldn’t matter enough to keep track of it, but it’s looking like I was pretty wrong about that. And as I alluded to before, she pointed out that even my drive to Staples was fair game for a tax write-off. (What about driving to Starbucks?) [...]
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