Comments on: When a Client Can’t Afford You: Why It’s Still Better to Bid High

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:58:27 +0000

Glad to see we aren’t the only ones who have to deal with this bull*%$^%!

By: Dave Batz

Dave Batz — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:56:44 +0000

Number 2 is spot on. Some people can’t believe that you have the audacity to raise your prices as time goes on.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:09:23 +0000

My thoughts exactly about lowballing and its effects. I believe tiered pricing works the best here, that way you can still offer services at a discount rate, but you would be offering less service to the client. “You get what you pay for” sort of thing.

By: Greg Miliates

Greg Miliates — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:11:36 +0000

I learned these lessons the hard way over the past several years of running my own consulting business. I’ve found that clients who balk at an hourly rate or the cost of a proposal will likely be high-maintenance clients, and will typically end up being a time sink, taking time away from billable work.

Valuing what you provide and not being afraid to charge for your services are a couple of topics I’ve covered on my blog (http://www.StartMyConsultingBusiness.com), where I also show you practical, concrete things you can do to start and run a successful consulting business. One of my favorite things is showing you tools, tips, tricks, and techniques for automating your business on the cheap. I just released my first ebook (FREE), titled “Your $100 Professional Website”, and have other nuts-n-bolts topics on my blog as well.

By: Jew Mark

Jew Mark — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:27:59 +0000

Nice to see this article. thank for sharing.

By: Contractors

Contractors — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:41:16 +0000

This is a great article, in the past I have taken on clients who were start-ups and couldn’t afford my services so I reduced my rate – I should have doubled my original rate because of the amount of work involved!

By: Alex Centeno

Alex Centeno — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:39:59 +0000

I agree 100%. The truth is that most of us have good hearts and we genuinely want to help the starter — perhaps because we were in the same shoes at some point. That’s when it gets tricky. You have to be able to provide value for both your client and yourself at the same time. Maximizing the value for both is the name of the game. If you charge too low, he is getting less of you and you are getting less of him, you are not the only one who lost.

If a client disagrees with getting charged for your work, perhaps you should consider the time that you are taking away from those clients that want to pay.

Finally, the problem with charging low is that it takes away from your capacity to provide good service to anybody. And you can’t allow that to happen.

By: Jefferson Faudan

Jefferson Faudan — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:51:51 +0000

“the low budget client is ALWAYS high maintenance. They want to meet and talk a lot, but don’t understand why that costs money. They ask for changes to things but complain when they get a bill. They want to choose from services a la carte but don’t realize that everything is somewhat tied together — you can’t eliminate wireframes from a web design project just because it will save a little money”

~Jon Norris~

I definitely would agree with this comment… having it experienced myself and having to deal with clients who wants “superman” to be of service and do not respect work delegation to several areas of the workload frame…

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By: Shreemani

Shreemani — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:48:10 +0000

Yeah sure… it no use working for less pennies, if you do then you’ll be the one suffering. It is better to work for free or work for the best of professional services. There is no use working for less.