Independent Consultants and Professional Services Firms

Do you have trouble asking for price increases?

Most independent service providers do have trouble asking for more money. One big, key reason is purely – how can you justify it?

Setting up a series of reasonable criteria, and judging each customer equally by this criteria should determine who should pay what price for your services.

The criteria is important to share with your customers. It simply illustrates why your price is $X.

Best part of it all, you have established the framework for negotiating a billing rate.

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