Pricing & Value
Pricing your work fairly. Charging what it’s worth.
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What Should I Charge for My First Coaching Client?
The most common answer new practitioners give themselves is: nothing, or almost nothing. The logic sounds reasonable — you’re just getting started, you need the experience, you want…
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How Do I Know If My Prices Are Too Low?
The question of whether prices are too low doesn’t have an obvious answer when you’re inside the situation. The rate that felt like a stretch when it was…
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When You Price by the Hour But Your Work Doesn’t Work That Way
Hourly pricing is the default that most practitioners inherit from prior careers. If you came from teaching, therapy, consulting inside an organization, or any field where billing by…
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Pricing When You Have Multiple Offers and Don’t Know Which to Lead With
Many practitioners reach a point where they have more than one thing available: a single session, a multi-session package, a group program, perhaps a course or workshop. Each…
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When Clients Keep Asking for More Between Sessions
There’s a version of this that happens quietly, session by session, until the practitioner realizes they’re working twice the hours they priced for. A client texts between sessions…
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When You Are the Most Experienced in the Room But Newest to Business
There’s a particular kind of pricing confusion that happens when deep expertise meets a new business context. The practitioner who has spent decades developing mastery in their field…
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Pricing When Referral Clients Expect the Same Rate as the Original
Referrals are usually good news. A satisfied client who sends someone they care about is one of the clearest signals that the work is producing something meaningful. The…
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Pricing Your Practice After Significant Life Disruption
Major life disruptions reset many things. A divorce, a health crisis, the death of someone central to your world, a financial collapse, a relocation that breaks a client…
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When You Discount at the Last Moment in Pricing Conversations
The price was set in advance. The conversation went well — the value was communicated, the client was engaged, the outcomes were clear. The price was mentioned. And…
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Repricing After a Major Breakthrough in Your Own Life
There’s a practitioner who, eighteen months ago, resolved a pattern that had followed her for a decade. It might have been a financial one — she broke through…