Here’s an interesting article from WaPo about AMC Smith Bucklin. It’s strange to me that the author assumes his readers, Washingtonians, don’t understand that associations and AMCs are a major industry in the region. Or maybe I’ve been in this profession for too long.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum – Firm Finds Its Niche in Obscure Trade Associations: “Pop quiz: What do birthing classes, spice sellers and crematoriums have in common — besides bracketing the cycle of life? Give up? They all have trade associations run by the quietest and fastest-growing company on K Street, SmithBucklin.”
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Sorry Ben. You’ve been in it too long. Half the people I talk to outside the industry don’t even grasp what a trade association does. So I usually just tell people I work on Alaskan crab boats, but it is the off season.
I tell them I’m a moto-cross racer. Then they laugh.