Today's situation
The Client Who Won't Pay
Your biggest client is sixty days late on a six-figure invoice — and just asked for more work. Push and you might lose them; wait and you can't make payroll Friday.
Your roleYou run the agency
What's your first move?
Preview- Hold the line — no new work until they payCall the bluff. That deadline is leverage, not a cliff.
- Take the work to keep themKeep the relationship warm and chase the invoice quietly.
- Threaten to walk unless they pay nowForce it to a head — and risk the whole account.
Then it pushes back
You hold. Two days later the client's new CMO replies-all to the whole thread: “We're moving the account to review.” Now holding might cost you the client, not just the invoice — do you stand firm, or fold?
A preview of how today reads. Your confidence, your bet on what the crowd will do, and the human consequences all play out live — the interactive part, coming soon.
How the day plays
Make the call
You commit with incomplete information, and a clock already running.
It pushes back
Someone reacts, a fact surfaces, and your first move stops looking safe.
The room opens
The crowd's split, your friends' calls, and the human consequences of yours.