All of us in Colorado should take our business away from Qwest, since it prefers to hire firms outside of its service area. As a business, QWEST SUCKS. I use C-Com for my phone service (based in Boulder) and they have been great! It's less expensive for the exact same phone service and customer service and billing are infinitely better.

Numbers are pretty close, call it what it is in this business. Agency grows that is dependent on one monster client and then losses the client -- thus there goes the agency. Pretty simple, not the first regional/local agency to rise and fall in any market. Qwest is not the bad guy here, nor is McClain Finlon, just part of the deal. Lesson for any business, one big client does not make an agency.

We are stunned by the outpouring of support from the Colorado advertising community — and our friends from all over the country. McClain Finlon has great people and it’s important that we find a way for them to have careers in Colorado. If you have any job possibilities, please contact Heidi Stevenson, Director of HR at McClain Finlon(hstevenson@mcclainfinlon.com). She is posting these positions. The numbers you and other blogs have reported are overstated. Regardless, more important than the numbers, these individuals are superb professionals — and our desire is to keep them here so the Denver advertising community remains strong. -- Lindsey Miller, PR Manager McClain Finlon Advertising

If the numbers that are being reported are overstated, why not disclose the true number of employees affected? And what about management? How does this affect them?