"A lot of that group just subsists on flea markets," Stambouli said, while indicating that his flea market/yard sale clients account for as big a chunk of his annual sales as discount and dollar stores do.
"We make a Lazio button, too," said Alan, 58, "though he's not as big of a client.
This is why real-estate agents, during the housing boom, advised their clients to buy as big a house as possible, since the government was helping them pay for it.
Mr. Blankfein said Goldman had a roughly 90 percent acceptance rate among those to whom it offered jobs, and that it "could not have" a client business as big as it did if it were truly anti-client.
Linda Lauren has been a professional psychic since the 70s and a corporate psychic since the 90s, listing clients as big as Pernod Ricard on her roster.
There is also a handful of foreign banks, led by Citigroup, HSBC and ABN Amro, that have brought more competition to areas such as consumer lending and servicing private clients.For a country as big as India, and as much in need of basic development finance, financial-sector liberalisation presents a dilemma.
He hopes his status as a big client will assure additional deliveries.
Having a big pension fund as a client gives a law firm a better chance of becoming the lead counsel in class action shareholder suits, which can mean tens of millions of dollars in fees.
As big clients' interest in traditional broking services wanes and the cost of insurance plummets, the brokers are doing their best to collect advisory fees along with sales commissions.
Krall moved to a big European bank, again as a client relationship manager – in effect, someone who finds wealthy clients and keeps them happy.
