How to Stop Chasing Your Money

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We're not debt collectors.
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We're custom clothiers.
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And if you've been feeling called and you've been waiting for the right time, there won't be a right time.
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Do it now.
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Don't be like us.
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Don't wait until you're almost out of business to do it.
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This is Appointment Only, the podcast for custom clothiers and entrepreneurs building profitable high-end businesses.
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If you want control, profitability, and freedom from what feels like an endless hustle, this is for you.
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We're Kenny and Danny, twin brothers from day one and business partners for more than 15 years.
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We're sharing insights from our own experiences as luxury custom clothiers who built our own business from nothing.
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The highs, the lows, and what we've learned along the way that will help you build a high-end business you actually enjoy running and isn't running you.
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Clothier Coaching's official podcast.
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Appointment only starts now.
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Let's talk about getting paid.
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Every once in a while we're having a conversation about something, and we say, you know, we gotta move this.
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We gotta, we're we're between appointments.
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It's one of those times where we're having a conversation about something we're going through and talking through in LCC.
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And I think it would be very valuable to bring it here and have the conversation here.
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There's a there's a few things that we say on repeat that for some reason feel to the masses controversial, like we don't take consultations.
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There you go.
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That would be one.
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The other one is about payment.
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It's almost like some of you don't even want to get paid because when we say this, we always people always argue with us.
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And I know that they're arguing with us because they don't know what to do differently, and so they're you know be getting defensive about what they do.
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But what we're sharing with you is like, did you know that it's actually easy to get paid?
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You don't have to chase your money around, you don't need to send invoice reminders.
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It's a good feeling, but it hasn't always been like that.
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So we're gonna walk you through how things changed, what we did to change, and also we're gonna share some stories about some of the things that were going on in LCC this week that we have addressed that I think might help these clothiers do better moving forward.
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Unfortunately, when shit hits the van, there you can't like go back in time and and redo it, but we can learn from our mistakes and do it differently next time.
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So we we used to operate with a very um very basic approach to getting paid, which was we're we're gonna take half up front, half at delivery, and it is what it is.
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And that wasn't something we made up.
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No, that was something that we we learned from our mentor who always did it that way, and that's I presumably the way he always did it.
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Although, you know, he did his background, was he he's done every you know, everything under the sun as it relates to clothing.
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And I know at one point he worked at a men's store, and there's no way they were doing half and half there.
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Probably they were.
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I mean, maybe it was a long time.
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I mean, that was like the 80s and the early 90s.
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But that is what if you if you were to pull all of the custom clothiers, my guess would be the majority of you are doing it that way.
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And there are benefits to doing it that way.
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I mean, we did it for a decade.
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There are benefits.
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The only the the benefits are there is an outstanding dollar amount that feels motivating when the items are in for you to schedule that next meeting, that next step.
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That outstanding amount is all the motivation you need to get people back in, get them in quickly, and get them on their way satisfied so that you can get that second half.
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That's one of the benefits of doing it that way.
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The other benefit of doing it that way is there's there's leverage that you have.
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Let's say something doesn't go according to plan.
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Well, you can always collect less on the back end.
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It's kind of like a conflict resolution built in when you're taking half payment up front and half at delivery.
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But it's not all positives.
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There are plenty of negatives.
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In fact, there are enough negatives that got us to the point where we were looking at each other saying, we have to change this.
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And we were and we we were that was not something that we were shocked by.
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No, we knew and we wanted to for years change the way that we took payments.
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We never liked doing it half and half.
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We always wished we could get paid up front, but of course we were making excuses for ourselves about why our that would never work for our clients.
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Yeah, we were making excuses for our clients and in turn making excuses for our business, which happens all the time in this industry.
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You're making excuses for your clients.
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Well, my clients will never do this, my clients will never pay this, my clients will never behave this way.
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Whatever you're telling yourself is an excuse for them.
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And in turn, it is becoming a place in which your business just continues to live on repeat.
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If your clients, if you're telling yourself your clients won't spend this, well, guess what you're never going to do as a business owner?
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Sell that.
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If your clients you're telling yourself are only going to behave this way and won't behave better, guess what you're doing?
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Guess what the business that you're running?
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You're running a business for badly behaved people.
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It's circular.
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And we used to do the same thing.
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We used to tell ourselves we had we had custom clothiers out there that were way more established than we were, challenging our 50-50 type of thing.
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Yeah.
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Saying, what, why are you, why are you doing it that way?
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What I I charge up front in full, and that's that's the expectation I set.
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I don't remember what the reasons were.
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I'm sure it was our clients wouldn't like that.
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But I know we I know.
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Is that necessary?
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Right in the middle of the podcast.
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Time to time to crack a cold one.
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I don't remember what our reasons were, but we had them.
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I don't remember what our excuses were, but we made them.
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And looking back, it was just stupid.
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And believe it or not, this actually isn't a podcast about not charging 50-50 versus charging, you know, up front.
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This is actually a podcast about some other aspects about getting paid that we're going to get into in a few minutes, but we can't have this conversation that we're going to have without having this first conversation.
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Whether you're doing the 50 up front, 50 on the back end.
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Some of you even do like 30 up front, 70 on the back, you know, or or 66 up front and 33 on the back, you know, whatever.
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The downside of doing that is you do put yourself in a position where you are chasing your money sometimes.
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Have you ever had this where someone doesn't remember that they owe you money?
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And then you're saying, okay, well, that's gonna be this.
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And in their mind, they already bought it, they already paid for it.
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They're like, Well, why are you making me pay again?
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And they actually, they actually don't understand that you're not making them pay again, you're making them pay the rest.
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That happened to us a few times.
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Or a really, really simple, let's call, I mean, I'm I'm just gonna use this example because it's happened, it happened to us when we used to do it this way.
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Let's say somebody comes in for their final fitting, you're gonna, you're gonna shorten the pants an inch, and they are going to go pick these up because they're the ones with a tight deadline, but they're refusing to pay their second half until it's quote unquote right.
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And on your side of the table, you're looking at this, you're like, it is right.
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I'm making a personal preference tweak.
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You want your pants a little bit shorter, which I it doesn't matter what I think about that alteration.
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This is a personal preference change, and you're withholding payment until you are putting your stamp of approval on it.
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That's not a fair position for me to be in.
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It's low brow behavior too.
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It's low lowest common denominator behavior, but that's what you end up getting.
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And I remember back in the day when we used to do the 50-50 thing, I used to be nervous for a day full of final fittings because I, you know, you'd be looking and you'd say, okay, I'm gonna collect this amount of money, but there is actually no guarantee you are, depending on how they how they act, and depending on if they put weight on or not, or depending on if they want to wear their pants at a different height.
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It's all up to them.
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You're completely out of control.
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You end up chasing your money around and wondering if or when you're ever gonna get paid.
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That is not the way to run a business.
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We were having dinner with a mill and some other clothiers in Chicago, and one of the clothiers at the table said something we had recently shifted at this point to taking full payments, and we were just talking shop at the end.
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Yeah, this was actually, was this no, this wasn't before the pandemic, was it?
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It was just afterwards, yeah.
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Because it was a it was surrounding a uh the Chicago collective.
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So the collective happened, which means it was right in that sweet spot.
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You make sense.
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Um, and he said, you know, I'm not a debt collector, I don't chase my money.
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And we had just made the shift, but that resonated because it was such a fresh move for us, where it's like we're looking at each other saying, Yeah, me too.
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There's really good confirmation.
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I wish we would have had dinner with him years previous.
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He could have heard him say that.
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But but doesn't that just make sense?
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Where we get hired to do a job and we get to decide how we get paid to do that job.
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It's it's not, it's up to us.
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It's it's not more complicated than that.
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It's it's one of those things where it doesn't matter what this clothier over there does, or this clothier over there does, or the business that you used to work in before you left and started your own thing, what they used to do.
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None of that matters.
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And that was the impetus behind when we finally made the jump and we started charging in full, where we were taking an honest look at ourselves and we said, nothing matters unless we can figure out a way to stay in business.
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We're not doing our clients any favors by splitting by splitting payments half in half.
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If we're looking down the barrel of a whole bunch of things that we can't deliver for the pandemic reasons, and we're in the middle of trying to figure out if we're still gonna be able to be in business or not.
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And that was the unfortunate reality of where we were, where we were, is we had had a busy very first part of the year, January, February.
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We're busy.
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And then March rolls around and stuff's arrived and stuff is pending delivery.
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We pay for everything.
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We paid for everything, obviously, at that point.
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We had only gotten paid our our half payment.
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And then we get the shelter in place orders.
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Nobody's allowed to leave leave their house unless you are, what was the word they would use?
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Um for like necessary business as a essential workers.
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Essential workers.
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Unless you're essential, you're staying home and you're not going to work.
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So we're sitting here, we're looking at all of these suits hanging up that we are owed half of the money on.
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It's feeling pretty essential to get paid on this.
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It's feeling pretty essential, but you know, wrapping our mind around the fact that I don't think custom clothing counts as an essential service.
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Yeah, I'm not thinking that that's we're not, I don't think we're the heroes in this situation.
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But we're looking at this and we're we're just saying to ourselves, like, what are we supposed to do?
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We are so poor.
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In fact, we have larger outstanding debts than we do any money in the bank.
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We don't have any money in the bank.
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We realized at that moment that nobody had our best interest in mind, other than us.
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And we needed to do something that was going to keep us in business because if we don't even operate with our best interest in mind, what are we doing here?
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And we made that decision at that point.
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And it's not best for our clients to do things that in the short term feel good to them, but then put us out of business in the long term where they have to start over and find a new custom clothier to use.
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And this is an extreme example.
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And could we go back now and start to implement a 50-50?
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Absolutely.
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And we'll tell you about making those exceptions in a few minutes.
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But we're not going to because we aren't in the business of chasing our money around.
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We're not debt collectors, we're custom clothiers.
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And if you've been feeling uh called, if you've been feeling called to make this change and you've been waiting for the right time, there won't be a right time.
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Do it now.
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Don't be like us.
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Don't wait until you're almost out of business to do it.
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Don't wait for an extenuating extenuating circumstance or a pandemic or some some thing to hit you across the face where you have to react to it.
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Do it on your own terms.
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Take that step and make that change today because you're in control, because you want to, not because you have to.
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And once you've established new processes, you get to decide if and when you veer from them.
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But it's your decision when you do that.
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So you understand at this point, right?
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That you know we take our payment in full up front.
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And by the way, the only reason that works is because of the email that we send before our appointments where we set that expectation before they come in.
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All expectations get set.
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They are understanding that this is not a free consultation.
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They are committed to this process.
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The expectation is that they are buying something and not just buying something, but that they're paying for something.
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You don't book a flight and pay when you land.
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You don't buy a custom suit and pay when it's done.
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That's our philosophy.
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You don't stay at a hotel and pay at checkout.
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No.
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Our philosophy is that you pay for what you buy when you buy it.
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Seems kind of simple, right?
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So we said this is not an episode about necessarily changing the way that you do things from charging half and half to charging upfront and full.
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There are businesses out there who are working with enough volume, there's enough coming and going where you've never felt that same, that same pinch that we felt multiple times.
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It's not like that pandemic was the first time we ever felt the squeeze.
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Yeah.
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I mean, we were constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul at that stage of our business because we hadn't figured out.
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I mean, there's a number of things that were wrong in the way that we were running our business back then.
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But this was one of the major ones.
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And this was one of the things that we're looking at the situation we were in in 2020, saying, what has to change today?
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And it's this it's how we're charging our clients because this is a terrible position to be in.
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There are some of you who listen to the podcast and you work with enough volume and it's enough of a revolving door where you're not going to probably you're not going to be in that same situation.
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You run your business that way, and your business runs in the way where you don't have to take full payments.
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And then in that scenario, I that's where I would look at you and say, Well, I understand that because there are some positives to come from taking 50-50, like the ones that I just mentioned.
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The fact that you're motivated to deliver the items, the fact that there's a bargaining chip in your back pocket where God forbid something doesn't go quite exactly right, you can make it right on that back end payment.
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But there are more of you who are doing 50-50 payments and you are feeling the squeeze and you are robbing Peter to pay Paul and you are doing it because you think it's what's best for your clients, but it's not.
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You staying in business is what's best for your clients.
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And to those of you, I would say you need to take a look at yourself in the mirror.
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You need to take a look at your business, you need to identify what is best for me.
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And the only reason you haven't done that already is because you're scared of what your clients might say.
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And let me tell you something.
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When we made this change, we were terrified as well.
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We were so we had all of oh, well, if anyone says this, then we're gonna say, well, it's because of the pandemic.
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You know, well, our back pockets were just absolutely full.
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Bursting at the seams of if they say that, I say this.
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Yeah.
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We were very prepared.
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And you know, the reality was that I don't know, maybe 10% of people even asked.
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Oh, yeah.
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Maybe.
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I'm trying to be really conservative because if you, I mean, whether or not you realize this, we don't ever exaggerate.
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We're very straightforward and we're not when we're giving like numbers or examples, they're all true.
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We're not making this stuff up to make it more entertaining for you.
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We're we're very, we're very, it's very important to us that we're tr honest and truthful.
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So there we were sitting with a rack full of suits.
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It was about a million dollars in outstanding invoices.
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Yeah, and it's you know, that's an average month.
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No.
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We we try our very best to to give true numbers, and we only will give true examples, and we will only give examples of things that have actually happened to us.
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And I don't, I actually don't think because 10% would be one out of 10 people had something to say.
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That's not true.
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That's not true.
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It was less, it was actually a lot less than that.
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There were a few times people were like, oh, oh, really?
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But the thing is, guys, we had already sent the email that explained that we take full payment at the appointment.
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So it was just as simple as saying, well, yeah, and we sent you that email that that oh, okay.
00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:23.519
Oh, I didn't realize that.
00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:33.440
And back then, when we first made that switch, one thing that we told ourselves was if anybody's spending a double-digit thousand dollar amount and wants to split the payment, that that's fine.
00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:33.680
Right.
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And that was our backpack.
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That was not something obviously that we advertised.
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It was just something that we knew.
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And so that was what we moving forward.
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We were open to it.
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But it was also something, now this is twofold.
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It was also something that for those very few clients who asked about that, it was something that we could say, yeah, we typically reserve that for double-digit thousand dollar amounts, because this sets the stage for two things.
00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:09.920
It sets the stage for the caliber of business that we weren't at the time necessarily running with a lot of consistency, but the caliber of business that we wanted to run.
00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:17.519
And then it also sets the stage that there is a plan for a 50-50 payment, but this order isn't hitting that.
00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.079
So it kills two birds with one stone.
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It helps the client understand that, yeah, there is a dollar amount in which we sp in which I can split the payment and it's no problem, but this order doesn't get us to that point.
00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:34.960
And it also communicates to this to the client that I'm running a business where I'm swiping double-digit thousand dollar amounts on the reg.
00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:37.039
And I have a strategy for that.
00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:51.359
So I think I think that's a pretty good uh situation where you are prepared for when somebody has a question, you are prepared to come at them with a realistic response.
00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.119
And that's just how we said we were gonna start to implement it.
00:18:55.279 --> 00:19:01.359
But when push came to shove, it was very infrequent that we ever had to explain ourselves.
00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:09.519
It makes sense to almost everybody you're working with, and even then we weren't working majority with people that were target demo.
00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:15.359
No, but it just still a lot of weddings, it's very, very mutually understood.
00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.440
So don't allow your fear to make this decision for you.
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Just do it.
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And yeah, you're gonna have to explain it sometimes, but really infrequently, and it's gonna be well worth the time and the energy.
00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:37.359
So let's talk about when it doesn't work so straightforward, because that's what we were really talking about in LCC, and it doesn't always work straightforward uh because that's life.
00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:38.559
Not everything is perfect.
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We don't have a perfect track record.
00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:43.519
We talked uh a couple episodes ago, I can't remember.
00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:47.759
We've we've done a few things where we're talking about consultations the last few weeks.
00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:56.559
And as part of those episodes, we mentioned it's not that we never have mistakenly done a consultation.
00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.599
It's not that nobody's ever slipped through the cracks, because that's not true.
00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:03.279
Yeah, it's not like we've swiped everybody's card who we've ever seen.
00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:05.200
No, it doesn't work that way.
00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:15.839
It's very, very, very few and far between that it doesn't work the way that we have set it up to work, but that doesn't mean our track record is 100%.
00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:19.279
So we want to talk through some of the things you're going through.
00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:26.000
And I know you're going through them because we've been through them, and we're we have clothiers right now in LCC who are actively going through some of this stuff.
00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:32.799
So we want to talk about what we could do, what we could change moving forward as far as payment goes.
00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:34.000
Okay.
00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:36.720
So what were what were we planning to do?
00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:44.799
Well, I think we can just say like we were talking with a a few of our LCC members who had all experienced something.
00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:46.400
Okay, I got it.
00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:52.240
Before we talk about what's going on in LCC, here's something we've learned.
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The very few and far between times where we're working with someone sitting in front of one another, and we're, you know, we're realizing, oh shit, they think they're having a consultation.
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They are not ready to pay.
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I'm not getting paid right now, I'm working for free at this very moment.
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I gotta wrap this up.
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In those times where that's happening, we have realized they will say anything.
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They will say anything to get out of here without having paid.
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They will promise to pay, they will give you uh this real story, they will give you a card they know will decline and then act surprised.
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No, go ahead and send me an invoice.
00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:32.720
Yeah, what's going on?
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Actually, it happened to us a couple months ago.
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Uh, they will insist they're good for it.
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They will say that it's actually, you know, the their their wife needs to pay, their that someone will be in touch.
00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:50.079
You know, they will say anything, and we've heard it all to leave without having spent the money.
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My encouragement to you is don't fall for it.
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You will be mad, you will be disappointed, but if you know they're bullshitting me.
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They're telling me they're gonna wire transfer.
00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:02.720
Oh, check's in the mail.
00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:09.839
We had one client once who said was telling me it's so crazy how slow the USPS was because the check was in the mail for about a month and a half.
00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:13.200
We we know the mail is slow, but it's not that slow.
00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:14.720
Moving one state over.
00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:15.200
Yeah.
00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:16.480
Not that slow.
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They will say anything it takes to leave without having paid, or to get you to leave without having collected money.
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Don't fall for it.
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It is very important that when you are with them, you are getting full or half paid on the spot.
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Now, that's essentially what's going on in LCC.
00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:43.519
Right.
00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:46.480
A couple of the clothiers had appointments with people.
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I'm not I'm not entirely clear yet.
00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:51.119
Um everybody's circumstances were different.
00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:57.119
Some of them were uh repeat people they knew, some of them were new, some of them traveled to see them.
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Uh, and they're all different scenarios.
00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:06.720
That the one thing they all had in common, though, was there was no transaction at that appointment.
00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:07.039
Yeah.
00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:10.480
For some reason, the transaction didn't take place at that moment.
00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:13.359
It was like a I'll send you an invoice type of thing.
00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:19.839
And uh, I'm not, I'm not entirely sure on the circumstances as to why, but I do think sometimes we as clothiers make excuses.
00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:21.359
Oh, well, I've worked with this person before.
00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:22.480
I know he's good for it.
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Listen, we can't know that.
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We don't know that.
00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:26.960
And I've been unpleasantly surprised before.
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I've been pleasantly surprised as well, but I've been unpleasantly surprised before.
00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:33.039
It just happened.
00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:33.759
Right.
00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:41.039
We j we just had a guy who we had had conversations with him a couple months ago about what we were gonna be doing today at his final fitting.
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He came in, he wasn't ready to do any of it.
00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:46.559
And this is actually the first he's always been good for it.
00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:51.839
And this I was very much expecting that that was gonna happen again today, and it just didn't.
00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:53.519
I was in one of those months.
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I was unpleasantly surprised today.
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I'm not mad at him.
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He doesn't owe me that.
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But sometimes that happens.
00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:07.279
We can't allow past experiences to cloud our process.
00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:10.799
We can't be in the habit of compromising too much.
00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:14.960
We can't change our processes for other people's promises.
00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:30.480
And it doesn't matter how on paper good this client should be, or how much money this client has, how big of the house you're leaving is.
00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:39.680
I love that reel where it's you you pull up to the client's house who asked for a discount, and then they like drop their sunglasses and they're looking up, and it's like this huge mansion.
00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:44.000
But the the the clothiers that are going through this, they're the different situations.
00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:47.759
One of them is mobile, one of them has a location, but went to see this client.
00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:54.160
But what they have in in common is that neither of them got paid on the spot, and now they're dealing with chasing their money.
00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:56.640
They've sent invoices that are getting ignored.
00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:58.319
They're they're getting pushback from the client.
00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:04.079
Somebody's waiting for some money to move around, and somebody's waiting for money to hit.
00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:05.440
And I've heard all this too.
00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:07.279
This is not new, this is not new to them.
00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.720
Let me move some things around, send me the invoice, let me move some things around.
00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:12.079
You know who kept saying that?
00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.359
Anna Delvey.
00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:13.759
Yeah.
00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:14.720
Remember that?
00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:16.640
Remember that story of the Soho Grifter?
00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:19.200
Anna Delvey was always waiting on a wire transfer.
00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:19.680
Yeah.
00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:21.599
Waiting for a big transfer to hit.
00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:22.160
Yeah.
00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:28.720
And it's just the only thing that we can do in that situation is nothing.
00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:31.920
We are a hundred percent at their mercy.
00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:35.519
We need to hope that they decide to pay.
00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:43.279
If you don't collect payment when you're with the client, all of a sudden you leave and they consider the payment to be optional.
00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:44.799
That's very true.
00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:47.519
They also consider the order to be optional.
00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:50.559
And a whole bunch of question marks.
00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:56.640
Best case scenario we've found with uh an after-the-fact invoice sent.
00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:02.799
Best case scenario is they start to pick off things on the invoice that they all of a sudden don't want anymore.
00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:07.119
Even though we just had the thing, they they were so excited about it.
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.200
It is going to meet their needs.
00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:13.519
And when push comes to shove, oh, it turns out they don't need any of it.
00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:15.440
Best case scenario.
00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:18.240
Well, best case scenario is they pay the whole thing right away.
00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:22.400
Which has also happened, but a lot less common than the alternatives.
00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:22.960
Right.
00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:32.240
So the the likely best case scenario is they start to hand select a few of the things that they are going to keep in order.
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:47.279
You then have to process a new invoice, eliminate, let's call it half of what you spent time going through with them, and then getting paid half of what you're, in my opinion, you are owed for the time and the energy and the effort spent with them.
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:51.759
And let's be just so for real right now, you did not drive across town to do that bullshit.
00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:52.160
Right.
00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:58.640
You did not take time out of your day to do that and negotiate a sale you already made.
00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:03.279
That's the other thing, too, is it I already made this sale.
00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:09.039
In my mind, when this is happening, it's like like I already did the work for this sale.
00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:11.599
I am owed this total dollar amount.
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:18.400
So any amount underneath this total does not feel good to me, even if you're just ditching a few of the shirts.
00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:25.920
Any amount underneath this total that we agreed on, that we talked through, that we designed, is not a win for me.
00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.799
The only win for me is to get this dollar amount that we went through together.
00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:37.039
Worst case scenario is they say, ah, you know, I'm just, I'm just not there.
00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:38.240
Let's go ahead and cancel.
00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:40.160
I'll circle back in the fall.
00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:41.680
I'll circle back in the spring.
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:42.720
They'll always circle back.
00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:44.079
You know, we're owed a couple circles.
00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:45.440
We're owed a couple circle backs.
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:46.640
We're owed a lot of circle backs.
00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:49.119
They always try to leave you with a little carrot dangle.
00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:54.000
They're not gonna say, you know, go to hell, cancel my order, never speak to me again.
00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:58.799
They're gonna try to, because they don't want to disappoint and they don't want to close the door either.
00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:03.279
They want, they want you available for them when they want to be, when they want something.
00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:04.000
Right.
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:10.640
So there's gonna be, there's gonna be some hope that they try to leave you with, but the situation is hopeless.
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:16.559
The situation is doomed from the moment that the meeting ended and you didn't get paid.
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:25.920
It is crucially important in this business that you are getting paid in whatever way you need to get paid at that meeting.
00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:29.279
And that's how we do 50-50 now.
00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:32.799
You get to the end, it's time to pay for some reason.
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:42.799
Again, this is very uncommon, but sometimes it happens where they, you know, they stop doing the math in their head because we also have been very clear that we don't ever surprise people with price points.
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:46.720
We've already talked about it in a very specific place in our appointment that works every time.
00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:54.480
But if they're not doing their own math as they're buying things, sometimes they get to the very end and they're kind of surprised at the number.
00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:57.680
And at that point, you know, you gotta allow there to be time.
00:28:57.759 --> 00:28:59.519
You got to allow them to sit with it.
00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:02.960
They will oftentimes start to think out loud.
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:05.759
Oh, wow, that's just a little, that's a little bit more than I was.
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:10.480
Yeah, they'll start to process things verbally with together with you.
00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:11.759
You know, oh, interesting.
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:12.480
How did we get there?
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.200
Okay, you know, it looks like we got the the suits here.
00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:16.160
Yeah, that makes sense.
00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:16.640
I remember that.
00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:17.759
And how much are shirts?
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:18.799
Oh, wow, those are expensive.
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:19.440
Oh, okay, yeah.
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:20.480
Oh, that's those are the shirts.
00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:21.279
Okay, now what's this?
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:22.240
Oh, okay, that's that.
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:23.200
Okay, got it.
00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:24.559
Uh, yeah, that all makes sense.
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:30.319
It's you know, just a little bit more than uh I was planning to do or I budgeted for.
00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:32.240
This person needs to be rescued.
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:33.599
This person needs a hero.
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:34.960
And it guess what?
00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:36.880
This person needs a life raft.
00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:37.680
And guess what?
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:38.720
I'm about to throw it.
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:39.839
We're the heroes here.
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:45.839
Would it be helpful if we split this down the middle and I collected half of this dollar amount today?
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:50.319
And then don't worry about, don't worry about the rest until everything is done.
00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:56.160
You're trying it on, everybody's giving it a thumbs up, and I'll take the second half when when everything is complete and you have it.
00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:59.599
Oh yeah, that sounds that sounds great.
00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:01.680
Okay, thank you for being willing to do that.
00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:04.240
And yeah, and now they're relieved and now they're thanking you.
00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:12.240
That's a really great way to save that option, something that we used to be our process.
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:19.519
Everyone used to get this, but now we get to be really selective and when we do it, and then the result ends up being so much better.
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:26.079
And also we can afford to do it now because we aren't our business robbing Peter to pay.
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:43.759
Our business isn't built on half payments, and God forbid manufacturing takes a little longer than we were thinking, or or heaven forbid an unexpected expense comes up, or we're not building our business on these fractions of order totals.
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:50.319
Or when we had$100,000 retail stuck in customs for five months this year, right?
00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:53.839
For example, not an exaggeration, a true number.
00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:54.559
Yep.
00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:58.799
And actually, it was more than that because we had a bunch of personals in there too, but I'm not counting that.
00:30:59.039 --> 00:30:59.680
Yeah.
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:08.799
So there is a world, even with us as as hell-bent as we are on getting paid in full upfront every time.
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:13.920
There is a world in which we do make changes to our own process.
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:16.960
And it's based on the client and it's based on the circumstances.
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:21.759
And it isn't always necessarily a double-digit thousand dollar sale.
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:31.440
No, I mean, often it is because that though those are the numbers that get people up, many people thinking, but it isn't always a double-digit.
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:33.359
Like I'm just being totally honest with you.
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:40.960
There are some people who eight grand feels like what to other people 80,000 would feel like.
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:49.359
And we always have in our back pocket the ability to split the payment because our business isn't built on 50% payments anymore.
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:57.119
It's built on clients paying in full up front, us having the money we need to do what we need to do for their order and for things moving forward.
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:06.079
But think about what could have happened had we let them leave, sent them that invoice, and allowed them to decide whether they're paying it or not.
00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:14.319
My guess would be cold feet would win out, buyer's remorse would set in, and they would say, you know what, I don't think I'm doing this now.
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:21.119
Buyer's remorse is a real thing, even though buyer's remorse is not justified.
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.799
Most of the time, I mean, I feel buyer's remorse when I make big purchases.
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:29.119
I just bought a car last week and I love it.
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:34.079
But at that day, that first day, I was like, I didn't need this.
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:35.359
My car was paid off.
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:37.119
You get that weird feeling.
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:37.599
Yeah.
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:51.759
And we don't want our clients to come to us, communicate their needs, us meet their needs, them hire us to help them meet their needs, and them hire us to have a different perspective on what their needs are than them.
00:32:52.000 --> 00:33:03.039
We don't want to give them that time to allow their own misguided uh buyer's remorse or their own excuses that they're telling themselves to win out.
00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:09.119
And the only way you can prevent that from happening is by getting paid in that moment.
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And the only way you can get paid in that moment is if they're expecting to have to pay in that moment, which comes from pre-qualification emails or communications of some kind where you are setting expectations and you are saying, here's what's happening, you are paying.
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This is not a consultation.
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And this is where I think it's important to have a realistic perspective of the clientele that you currently work with.
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Because there are some of you listening to this who you're gonna need a little bit more than that in your pre-fitting qualification email.
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You're going to need to communicate.
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It is going to be important that you have a uh, that you have access to the funds necessary to fully pay for the items or to pay half and half.
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And and I'm we're workshopping this right now in LCC with uh one of the clothiers going through this is agreed.
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I I think our email reads a little bit maybe different than what his should.
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I feel like his maybe might need to include something about how he's not gonna collect.
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Here's how I am gonna collect payment, here's what I'm not gonna do.
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Right.
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And I sent him some options over this morning.
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We'll see what he what he does.
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But I do think sometimes you you have to be that explicit.
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And if you're feeling like this is a habit, this is a recurring thing that you deal with a lot, you get to the end a lot of times and you're asked to leave without getting paid, you're sending invoices that get ignored.
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You might need to make some changes to the pre-qualification emails you're sending.
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And if you aren't sending them, that's your problem.
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Uh, but if you are sending them, you need to rewrite them and I can help you.
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Uh, but you know, it's in cloth your kingdom, you can get it yourself.
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But you may need to spell out specifically here's what's gonna happen, here's what's not gonna happen.
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It's kind of like when we say, you know, this is a decision-making making meeting, this is not a free consultation.
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Uh we're saying the same thing in two different ways.
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Uh uh here's what it is, here's what it's not.
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And that can sometimes feel like overkill when you're putting together strategic communications.
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The only people who read it that way, though, are the people who aren't ready for it.
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Right.
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And uh and the only people who read it as overkill is the person who's actually writing it, where you're like, man, didn't I already say that?
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It doesn't matter.
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Say it again.
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And that's where I think you having an understanding of your clientele, because I think if you're finding yourself running into this, in this, I'm sending invoices to people who are buying their wedding suits and I'm waiting to get paid on this stuff because I'm feeling like they actually don't have access to the money when they're working with me.
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You need to make it clear in your qualification pre-fitting email that it is important that they have a way in which they can pay a substantial dollar amount on the spot.
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We're working through something like this actually right now, and I'm just gonna share it with you, and maybe someone has advice for us, but we're working on some language that we haven't nailed about when someone's spouse or significant other schedules on their behalf, but it's a surprise for them.
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We we've tried a few times.
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Here's here's here's what that sounds like.
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Hi.
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You know, I've I'm I'm scheduling this appointment on behalf of my husband.
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It's his birthday on this day.
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I would love to come in on that day or a day surrounding that and surprise him for his birthday with some, you know, to work with you.
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Seems straightforward, except for last year, uh almost exactly to the day.
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Maybe it's our anniversary.
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Maybe should I try to figure it out?
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No, that's not that important.
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But we have back this happened back to back where it should have been straightforward.
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The they were great.
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We had great experiences with them.
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They were, you know, very nice.
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We enjoyed them.
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They bought you know multiple things, but at the end of the appointment, the guy, the surprise, the recipient is like, I'm not paying that.
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And he's like very mad at his in one case it was wife, at one case it was fiance, and it was so uncomfortable.
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:22.880
He was he was and we had had the conversations, we had had the price conversations, like we'd already had those conversations, right?
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:27.360
But what we what we didn't get clarity on is are you allowed to spend his money?
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Is he gonna be okay spending this kind of money, or do you just want him to be okay spending this kind of money?
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Well, it turns out he wasn't okay spending the amount of money, and he's mad at her, he's also mad at us.
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It was the worst, and we're like, we're never ever doing this again.
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But we haven't figured out a way yet to upfront say if you are not the breadwinner or you don't have access to spend thousands of dollars without getting permission, we cannot schedule this appointment.
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.480
So if you've got a nice way of doing that, and we've I'll owe you one.
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:12.559
We've tried running it through, you know, Chat GPT and other AI uh situations in a way that sounds approachable.
00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:17.440
I'm I I have an active draft on my phone right now that I feel like gets the job done.
00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:21.760
It's just an uncomfortable, it's an uncomfortable essentially demand.
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It's like a hard, yeah, it's a hard truth, and it's not a nice thing to ask.
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And it's you know, it it is kind of it is kind of a um touchy subject.
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Yeah.
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But he's a touchy subject.
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But our experience is that it's happened quite a few times where somebody's intentions are great, but ultimately, you know, they don't have the autonomy in their relationship to spend the kind of money without checking.
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And we can't work that way.
00:38:53.599 --> 00:39:00.719
So unless it's his idea and he wants to come in and he's asked her to schedule it and he said he wants to be surprised, don't tell me when it's happening.
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We've got to get clarity here.
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And as you know, we don't make our appointments all about the money.
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So what I'm not gonna do is have them come in and say, okay, here's what we're looking at for price points, and get let him cap himself from the beginning, that's not gonna go well either.
00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:20.639
All that to say, that was such a tangent, but that's something that we're actively working through.
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:29.119
It might require a little bit of uh working through working through as far as communicating your expectations, what you will and won't tolerate.
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Uh, but I do, I do suggest, first of all, if you're not sending expectations emails, what are you doing?
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Get on it, figure it out.
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That's gonna save you so much time, money, energy, frustration.
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But you may need to work through the language, and depending on how you operate.
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If you're mobile, it's gonna read different than if you have a location, you know, those, those things.
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But you may not you may have to focus not just on what you will do, but you might have to spell out specifically and explicitly what you won't do.
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I don't know.
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I don't run your business.
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And you know, you those are the types of things that you'll have to figure out, and those are the types of things we're actively working through right now in our LCC group, and there's some messages that we have to get back to on that.
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But that would be our encouragement to you is you don't have to you don't have to take payment in a way that doesn't work well for you.
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It's up to you to change it.
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If you're gonna change it, there are some changes you have to make.
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I really don't think you're gonna get as much pushback as you're afraid you will.
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You also don't you're also not a debt collector.
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You don't have to chase your money around.
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And if you want to stop chasing your money around, the plan of attack is you have to properly prepare people to be ready to spend money in the moment.
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And you have to have a way to collect money in the moment.
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Maybe that means you need to get a credit card processing.
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Maybe you've operated with, you know, wire transfers and cash and checks your entire career and you're realizing, you know, this isn't working very well, but I don't want to lose the three and a half.
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.880
Okay, by the way, that's that's a poverty.
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It's the cost of doing business.
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Inf inflate your prices 3% if you need to offset it.
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I don't care.
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Don't let that stupid credit card processing fee prevent you from getting paid.
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:21.920
That is such a short-sighted decision.
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:27.599
That's like refusing to get a raise at your job because you don't want to have to pay more taxes.
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Right.
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:30.719
Oh, well, I don't want to get into the next tax bracket.
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:35.039
It's a short-sighted decision and it's it's faulty logic.
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Figure it out.
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You if you don't have a way to get paid on the front end on the spot, you are losing so much more money than 3% on every transaction.
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:46.159
Right.
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:57.519
So there's a plan of attack, and maybe some of you needed just the permission to stop feeling like you need to chase your money around because you don't.
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:04.079
And you don't need you don't need my permission to stop chasing your money around, but maybe you need it and you appreciate it.
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And if anyone pushes back, you can blame us to say, you can call us your business coach.
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Say my business coach made me change this.
00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:15.920
Yeah, my business coach told me I'm not a debt collector and I don't, I don't chase my money.
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They won't have anything to say about that then.
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So hopefully this helped.
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Hopefully, if you need a path forward, you have one.
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At least you have a little more clarity on where you want to go.
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And for now, this appointment is over.
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Well, before we before we close out, if anyone's still listening, if you're like me, you would have already hit next.
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Yeah.
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Or off.
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But if anyone's still listening, uh, I I want to say thank you to those of you who are saying thank you to us, who DM us and they you're sharing real things that are happening.
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That's a but that's a Barney episode.
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Thank you for saying thank you.
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You're welcome.
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:48.559
Hey, thank you for saying you're welcome.
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You're welcome, you're welcome for saying you're welcome.
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That's kind of what I feel like I'm doing.
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But I love hearing from you.
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I love hearing what wins you're experiencing from listening to this.
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And keep it coming.
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I hope we continue to help make you more money.
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:06.000
But I do appreciate hearing from you and I'm glad it's working.
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I'm not surprised, like I always say, I'm never surprised to get the messages, but it's always good.
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I'm always happy to hear it.
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.119
But I'm unsurprised that this works.
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:18.559
But I'm glad that you might be a little surprised it's working.
00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:19.039
Yeah.
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:31.840
It's always great to hear things that are going well for you because I do think just based on what this podcast is, we we have a tendency to talk about things that don't go well or things that aren't going well, or how to fix things that you feel like aren't going well.
00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:37.440
So hearing things that are going well, maybe we'll do a whole episode on wins that we've heard from people and changes made.
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:38.559
I'd love to have one one day.
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:39.760
Yeah, I'd love to have a win.
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I love inside jokes.
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:42.480
I hope to be a part of one one day.
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:47.519
But yeah, please rate uh and review our podcast five stars if you're finding it helpful.
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