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When you're asked about rates...
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When you're asked about rates and that with that (and your rates "being competitive") you'll move to the top of the line when procuring your expertise, you can reply something like this: "Thanks for asking about rates. We don't work with predefined rate cards, as all you could get is an estimate based on assumed calculations of the rate, times X, Y, or Z. And you know estimates are just that, they could go up or down (they almost always go up). We do work, however, with fixed prices, as our pricing is tailored to the specifics of each engagement. This will give you total certainty of your level of investment, while protecting and improving your financials and forecasts. If this feels like it would be a good fit for you, feel free to reply and we could set a call to better understand what you're after and how we could be of help." Give it a try. :) |
Rod Aparicio
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Till December to think of new prices? Till the end of the year for new year resolutions? Till December to new ways to approach the market? Why wait? Entertain this idea: Think of all and more of the things you do at the end of the year and move them up to October. Or that you'll review them 2 years from now. Your decision-making changes, because your perspective does. Shift your perspective, gran the timing. The won't ever be the perfect, right time where all conditions are certain.
Locking up your prices for 5 years (or more than one year). It's not about what your customer will think about how much money you're making. They actually don't care. What they do care about is having certainty. And when you can guarantee certainty in your prices, you have a lever point compared to your competitors.
This might be the time of the year where you start rethinking your prices for 2026. And the story will repeat in (the end of) 2026. And 2027. And 2028. I could be totally wrong: Will your prices change because of inflation? Or because you need to charge 5% more? Maybe 10% more? To keep up with the market? Do you want to rethink your prices? Stop thinking in year by year. Entertain this thought. You can discard it when it makes no sense. What if you would be able to charge a price that would...