Archive for the 'Setting Your Fee' Category

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]