Pricing & Value
Pricing your work fairly. Charging what it’s worth.
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How to Write About Your Work in a Way That Attracts Ready Clients
“Attracting the right clients” is a phrase that gets used frequently in practitioner marketing — but “right” often means different things. It can mean clients with the financial…
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What the Practitioner Says and What the Client Hears: Closing the Gap
A practitioner can believe they have communicated clearly and still have the listener come away with a fundamentally different understanding of what the work is, who it is…
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How to Write a Case Study That Communicates Practitioner Value
A case study is one of the most powerful value communication tools a practitioner can develop. It makes abstract outcomes concrete. It gives the prospective client a way…
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How to Handle Being Asked to Work for Free
The request to work for free — or at a rate that does not reflect what the work is worth — is something most practitioners encounter. It comes…
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How to Talk About Your Pricing Structure as Part of Value Communication
Pricing is often treated as a separate conversation from value. The practitioner describes the work, builds the case for its significance, and then — with an internal shift…
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The Practitioner Who Undervalues Their Work in How They Describe It
There is a pattern of value communication that is not about overclaiming or overselling — it is about underclaiming. The practitioner who minimizes their work in how they…
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How to Communicate Value When Your Work Is Hard to Categorize
Some practitioners work in a way that does not map neatly onto standard categories. Their work is not quite coaching, not quite therapy, not quite consulting, not quite…
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What Practitioner Value Language Sounds Like When It Is Working
Developing effective value language is a process. It is easy to know when the language is clearly not working — the blank looks, the polite responses, the conversations…
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How to Describe Long-Term Transformation Work to Someone Who Wants Quick Results
There is a real tension in the value conversation when the work is genuinely long-term and the prospective client is hoping for faster results. The practitioner who offers…
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Why Value Articulation Is an Ongoing Practice, Not a One-Time Task
Many practitioners approach value articulation as a task to be completed. They work on their bio, develop an answer to “what do you do,” and consider the problem…