And are you talking about the actual posts in the ground or just the panels? Because in my experience, the posts are really the backbone of the whole thing. You can have a perfect panel sitting on a wobbly post and it's gonna look like crap in six months. The panels themselves I'd worry less about, especially if they're just starting to fade a little. But if those posts are shifting at all, that's your real problem. I'd be crawling under there with a level and checking each one by hand before I bought a single piece of lumber.

Wait, 8 tracking errors in the first week? That's insane. The cheap agency basically had you throwing money into a black hole the whole time.

Man, I gotta push back on that a little. Two years of just meeting people with no asks feels like a lot of time to spend without any payoff. I mean, you can build trust by asking for small things early on, like "hey, do you know anyone who deals with X?" It shows you respect their time and actually start the relationship moving. Otherwise, it just sounds like a lot of coffee dates where nobody really knows what you're after. Plus, if you wait that long, you might accidentally come across like you're hiding something or playing a longer game than you are. Just my two cents though.

Did she give any explanation at all for why a potato fits a cleaning business called Sparkle & Shine? I'm really curious what her creative process was there, because that's a huge jump. Might be worth asking for a refund if the final product doesn't even match your business name.

99 percent of jar lids are perfectly fine" - see that's the thing though. That 1 percent gets you. Once you've had a lid that felt like it was glued on with industrial adhesive, you don't forget it. Now I find myself checking every lid for that little tab or grip because I'd rather spend 10 seconds looking than 5 minutes wrestling with a stuck one and dropping sauce all over the counter. It's not about grip strength, it's about not wanting to deal with the hassle again. One bad jar ruined it for me too.