Posted in Selling Your Services, Setting Your Fee, The Savvy Snippet on July 7th, 2008 Comments
Words of wisdom when it comes to pricing your services.
That which costs little is less valued. — Miguel de Cervantes
Lesson: Underselling may hurt you more than you’ll ever know.
Posted in Coaching, Credibility, Selling Your Services, Setting Your Fee, Success on November 6th, 2007 Comments
Do you offer a free consultation, complimentary evaluation or other type of no-charge offering (where you’re actually performing a service to a potential client)?
Like many coaches, I offer a one-time sample coaching session. When I first started coaching, I even coached a select few for 6 months, at no charge, in exchange for meaningful testimonials.
So [...]
Posted in Setting Your Fee on November 14th, 2006 Comments
The Globe and Mail came out with an interesting article last week, entitled Are women shortchanging themselves?
Here are quotes I found most interesting:
It seems that women, who have fought hard for pay equity, shortchange themselves when they launch their own businesses. Compared with men, they typically charge less and their businesses generate less revenue.[...]
“I always [...]
Posted in Defining Your Services, Networking, Setting Your Fee, Target Market on October 30th, 2006 Comments
I love sharing questions that come up on the various online networking groups I belong to, because I feel they reflect what’s really going on in business.
For example, last week, this question came up:
I am looking at a starting a VA business part time while maintaining my full time status at work for at least [...]
