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(Ilise facilitates the meetings.) Hearing others’ strategies and successes gives me new approaches to try. One place I do this is in my bi-weekly small group.

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I ask my creative pro peers for advice, too.

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She’s a great sounding board and knows how to coach me through my weak areas. (You know her - the Marketing Mentor Ilise). I regularly talk with my business coach about money matters.Here’s how I’m getting my money muscle in better shape: My money worries will never go away entirely, but I’m working hard to make them less distracting. Why do I keep letting this happen? Flexing My Money Muscle I’m working too many hours for some of my retainer clients. Why didn’t I ask for her budget upfront? It could have saved us both some time. I bet she has no idea how much I’ll need to charge. The newly self-employed designer I met needs social media help. I better be conservative in what I quote. My new prospect is a small business owner, and I’m not sure he can't spend much on marketing. Money’s on my mind much of the time, and the chatter often goes like this: Oh, and we both work from home! We sometimes butt heads, but that’s a blog post for another day. Next has to be the fact my husband is my bookkeeper. Tops on my worries list: Pricing projects and retainers and having money discussions with clients. I love doing my Melanie the Marketer thing and can’t imagine a different career.Īs much as I enjoy my work, it still causes stress. I wake up thinking about marketing and can barely turn those thoughts off at night. I enjoy the autonomy, flexibility and the wide variety of clients I support.

Have you done this 11th-hour tweaking, too? Or am I the only person who’s uncertain about what to charge? Perils of Pricing and Finance Fears That’s when I re-open the document and cut the cost, thinking the new, lower price will surely snag them. True confession: Sometimes, right before I hit send on a prospect’s proposal email, I go back into the document and increase my estimate by a few hundred dollars.īut there are other times when I’m sure a prospect will think my proposal’s too expensive.