Bacon lovin' Chad here... Most peeps don't know this... I was an agency owner from 2019 - 2023. In February 2021 something changed. That's when our $80k/month client fired us. We'd been coasting through COVID while other businesses were shuttering. 2020 was actually one of our best years. We had this ONE massive law firm account...plus a few smaller clients on the side. Life was good. Until it wasn't. See...performance started slipping. Not because we got lazy (ok maybe a little bit). But because people were staying home. Less vehicles on the road. Less accidents. Less people needing law firms. We scrambled to fix it. Tried everything. Too late. Gone. The smaller clients kept us afloat for a while...until early 2023 when they all dropped off too. We shut down. Here's what I didn't understand back then... **The client/service provider relationship is rigged against us from day one.** Think about it... When someone pays us for a service, we're on opposite sides of the table. Our job? Do as little work as needed to keep the money coming. Their job? Extract as much value as possible to justify what they paid. We're literally working against each other. Even when we're "partners." Even when they say they love us. The second the numbers slip...we're out. And here's the thing that really gets me... **We have ZERO control.** They hold all the cards. They decide if we're worth keeping. They decide when to cut us loose. Now... After getting into deal making, I finally saw why this setup will always fail. In deal making? We come around to the **same side of the table** with the people we used to take on as clients. This time they're partners. And here's the part that changes everything... **We get to decide if we want to work with them or not.** We're the chooser. We hold the cards. If you've watched the interviews I did with Tony Teegarden, then you know the results he's gotten through deal making. $196k - $364k in as little as 14 days.

Happy Saturday PiggyBANKERS! Quite a few new folks have joined us over the last week thanks to @Tony Teegarden inviting peeps from his Deals Over Clients group. To all the new faces around here... WELCOME! There's now 69 folks in here so I wanted to take a pulse of the group. Where are ya at with watching the two interviews with Tony and making progress on building a PiggyBANKING Brand? There are two resources to help guide you under the second video. Can you let me know how you're progressing below? There's no wrong answers. PB Chad