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That coffee shop in Nashville where I finally stood my ground
I was at a little place called Frothy Monkey in Nashville last Tuesday waiting on a client to send over a $1,200 payment that was 45 days late. I had been doing the whole nice reminder thing for weeks and getting nowhere. Finally I just sent a text saying I'd have to pause work on their next project until the invoice cleared. They paid within 4 hours and even apologized. Has anyone else found that being firm at a random spot pushed you to actually set a hard boundary?
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ward.diana15d ago
Coffee shops aren't exactly the place for business standoffs.
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blair_torres7015d ago
Business standoffs" is a funny way to put it. I heard a podcast recently where they talked about how coffee shops are turning into these weird public meeting spots where people try to hash out deals, like it's a scene from a movie.
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samreed14d ago
Haha wait, you actually got paid within 4 hours after that text? That is insane to me. I mean, I've sent polite follow ups and gotten crickets for weeks, but a hard line like that and they just fold? That's wild. Honestly, it makes me wonder how many people you were dealing with were just testing how long you'd let them slide. Props to you for doing it at a coffee shop too, that's a power move I could never pull off in public.
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