I have an “out of the box” solution:

Raise your price!

When your contract is about to end, let them know the price has increased to level set with the market. Even at 50% higher, you are still under market, so you can comfortably charge higher. They don’t have any other options if they want the same level of effort.

Now you have two outcomes:

1. They agree, and pay more
2. They don’t agree to pay more

If (1), you win. You can distribute the work to another person on your team and continue to grow the business.

If (2), you still win because you can now confidently drop a client who has clearly been a productivity drag on you, limiting growth (at 20 stories and 4 posts a day there’s not much else one can do).

Is this a Seinfeld episode?

That’s not how the enterprise consultancy business works.

It works initially through your personal relationships.

Then spreads initially through the relationships of your clients (referrals).

Then spreads through the relationships of your partners as you bring them aboard.

Relationships is where you need to focus, not YouTube videos. YouTube, blogs, etc is for product companies or if you are already massive scale, and is marketing. What you are doing is enterprise services, and what you need is sales activities, not marketing activities. So you need to get to your network, make calls, offer low cost initial services to get case studies to help on next ones, etc.

Trust is #1 for a partner. Attitude next. Competency third.

That may have the opposite intended effect

Simpson’s already did it.

Just make sure to have a competent night watchman.

Get off of Reddit and focus on your business and mental health

All the great financial/business related books have been mentioned.

So I want to name another that changed my life for the better in terms of making important life decisions:

Stoner by John Williams

Why? Through this book you live through someone’s entire life, you feel it from beginning to end. You get to see how decisions make impact and life follows. After reading it makes you feel empowered to avert the mistakes from Stoner’s life and it’s primarily in the form of outlook, mentality and decision making.

You may need a reality check.

I promise, it was all them, not me. I do my parts perfectly

I literally do 80% of the work... 

all I ask of them is to just finish a damn MVP in 2 weeks so we can get customers and find investors quickly!

Since my profile is perfect compared to most, I really can't help but take this personally.

Your attitude of blaming others and suggesting you are perfect may be why no one wants to work with you. I recommend reading up on narcissist personality disorder and potentially seeking professional help.

Sell the account

Was this written on Ambien?

1. No one will say the truth on this one.
2. Everyone: money
3. perseverance
4. See #2

This sounds like a family business and all the drama and unprofessionalism that goes with it.