The rate increase note: the new number, the date it starts, and the lines for a client who pushes back.

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The Rate That Sticks

How to tell a client you are raising your rates

The number, the fence, and three replies when they ask for less.

From the 1st, my rate for this work is the new number. Everything else stays the same.

How to raise freelance rates with a client

One page that names the number and the fence. Three replies when they ask for less. Instant download. $14.

  • • The number and the fence
  • • Three replies to a discount ask
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Sable & Co, landing pages Owen Clarke Last page, March: $1,600, one page, one round, two weeks. From 1 October the same shape of page is $2,100. I told him the date before he asked. He asked anyway, on 23 September: keep it at $1,600, cash is tight this quarter. Sent 24 September: Owen, From 1 October, a landing page for Sable is $2,100. That is one page, one round of notes, delivered in two weeks, the same shape as the March page. It does not go lower for a faster start, or for a mention on your site. You asked to keep $1,600. I can do a shorter page for $1,600: one screen, no second section, one round, delivered in a week. I cannot do the March page for the March price. Tell me which one you want. If I do not hear a choice by Friday 2 October, I will assume the October page is not happening and leave the week open. Ruth Keller I offered a smaller page instead of a discount on the real one. A discount on the same page would have made $2,100 a costume. I named Friday so the cheaper offer could not sit for a month as a maybe, which is how cheap offers become the new rate. I did not mention what other clients pay. His quarter is not my audience, and someone else's invoice is not an argument. Adapt: Put the new rate in the first sentence. Let the old rate appear only when you answer their ask. Do not open on the number you are retiring. Adapt: If you will not do a smaller version, delete the $1,600 page and leave the refusal. Do not invent a cheap job you will resent by Wednesday. Adapt: For a client who has never asked for less, send only the first paragraph and the date the new rate starts. Cut the rest.
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