Let’s get one thing straight, you are not a pixel monkey. The sooner you break the habit of pushing pixels around like a well trained chimpanzee and begin offering strategic insights that can move the needle of your client’s business, the better. This is the key to unlocking bigger budgets…
This week I decided to tackle how “Trying to sell $10,000 logos might kill your business.” This topic comes as a response to those of you who have heard a favorite thought leader tell you that you are not charging enough and you need to dramatically increase your prices… 10x……
We’ve all been there. You sit with a potential client, review the scope and arrive at the critical point where pricing is discussed. You use all the advice you’ve received about price anchoring, price bracketing, showing the return on investment you’ve delivered for other clients, and yet, your client comes…
When it comes to the dilemma of aligning with your cheap clients on a more realistic rate for your freelance design services, the problem is just that: alignment. If you have a cheap client you are struggling to get up to your rates, it’s because they don’t understand the value…
It is easy to get frustrated when a potential client asks for a meeting to discuss a project and in that meeting they start fishing for your solid gold ideas to solve their problem. You, being helpful like you are, offer up strategies for their challenges, free of charge in…
Should you charge clients a licensing fee for your design work? How about royalties? These questions have come up to me a few times, so I thought I’d address them once and for all in this article. To be honest, I didn’t know anything about this when I started freelancing…
Proposals take freelancers and creative agency owners time to create, no doubt about it. Sure, you can speed up the process by repurposing past proposals and using templates, but most often a proposal requires time to explore and craft custom ideas. Since time is required to craft a custom proposal,…
You’ve been charging a client an hourly rate for several years. You love them. They love you. But you just can’t keep the lower rate anymore. The only problem is that they are a significant percentage of your business and you don’t want to risk losing them. What should you…
