Years ago at another agency I owned, a national CPG client brought on a new president shortly after we were awarded the business with the contract signed. He didn't like being on a monthly retainer and wanted to be on a per-project basis. So one year later he just decided to stop paying us and tried to stiff us for $30K. It was the first time I ever had our attorneys defend our interest being violated by a client.

We settled on $20K, parted ways, and then were rehired by them a year later.

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Why would you get back into the same bed with client who disrespected you? Is the work that good? Is the money that good?

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@op glad it worked out. Keep doing the good work.

This is why our industry is so f**ked up and your paid a salary from 1992. We became codependent and clients know this.

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Check out another comment of mine today on a separate thread. I explained why agencies are generally put in a position where they can’t compensate their team as well as they would like to yet the clients often set unrealistic deadlines and goals on the agency.

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