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3 brilliant alternatives to giving discounts

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When someone asks for a discount does it suck your soul dry? If so try these 3 brilliant alternatives to giving discounts (which your customers & ego will love!)

When someone asks me for a discount I be like..

As if setting up a small business and calculating your rates is not hard enough without encountering an even greater challenge; the dreaded request for a discount.

You know that feeling; you gel with a client, they love your work, you’re excited to help them, you create rapport, they feel good about moving forward and then… they ask for a discount.

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Freelance Ideas

The entrepreneurial road is a curly one.

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The big and the small of it, where we’re at in our Wiserr journey..

Update for friends following my business journey because a few of you have asked: “How’s Wiserr going, I see you’re back designing again?”

The best thing for Wiserr is for me to become a teacher.

I didn’t think this at the beginning. I thought the biggest barrier for over 40s, 50s & 60’s to create a business was not having a clear path to setting up online. When I did a bunch of customer development it was always about not knowing where to start.

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Choosing a price for your workshop

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BEFORE WE TALK DOLLARS

Step 6. Cha Ching

If you are just trying to be the cheapest and your competitors are also trying to be the cheapest, your greatest risk is ending up competing with someone who has money they’re willing to burn or, even worse, who did their maths wrong. This is a bad game to play. We recommend that you differentiate yourself from your competition and charge a fair price for what you do.

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