Comments on: Your Freelance Writing Rate: One Fact You Need to Know https://wordsonpageblog.com/2017/02/the-fact-about-your-rate.html a freelance writing resource. Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2017/02/the-fact-about-your-rate.html#comment-16249 Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:46:05 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5750#comment-16249 In reply to Damaria Senne.

Great point, Damaria. If she left that question for the end, she was clearly interested in the quality you bring to the job.

]]> By: Damaria Senne https://wordsonpageblog.com/2017/02/the-fact-about-your-rate.html#comment-16246 Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:43:12 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5750#comment-16246 Thank you Anne. It’s a journey for me too. This week, after a long vetting process, a potential client asked what my rate is, but I was so invested in wanting the assignment I almost dropped my rate to make myself more attractive to her, thinking I didn’t want to scare her off by being too expensive. But then, if she didn’t want to pay me a fair wage, would the client still have been as attractive to my business as she is right now?

]]> By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2017/02/the-fact-about-your-rate.html#comment-16229 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:37:49 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5750#comment-16229 In reply to Anne Wayman.

I like this: “…more than I was afraid he’d offer…” I can only imagine what number you thought he was going to throw out there, Anne! Glad it was more than you expected, and even happier to hear he’s still a client.

You’re right — rate-setting really is a journey. 🙂

]]> By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2017/02/the-fact-about-your-rate.html#comment-16228 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:36:27 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5750#comment-16228 In reply to Paula Hendrickson.

I love that fee. 🙂 The minimum you’ll work for is just as important a number, I think.

]]> By: Anne Wayman https://wordsonpageblog.com/2017/02/the-fact-about-your-rate.html#comment-16227 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:38:56 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5750#comment-16227 Ah yes, how complicated it all seemed back in the beginning. I remember using those rate charts to quote a client and mentioning the source. He said something like “I don’t know anything about that – here’s what I’ll pay you.” It was lower than I quoted, more than I was afraid he’d offer, so I took it… and he’s been a long-term client ever since.

Years ago someone challenged me to double my rates – I could only make myself go 10% higher, but it was a start and today I charge many more times than that.

Rate setting is a journey.

]]> By: Paula Hendrickson https://wordsonpageblog.com/2017/02/the-fact-about-your-rate.html#comment-16225 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:44:15 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5750#comment-16225 Well, the rate I WANT is $1,000 per hour, but something tells me I won’t get it.

Something I started doing a couple years back is having what Jenn Mattern would probably call her “get out of bed” fee. Only I call it my minimum project rate. If a new project doesn’t pay at least that amount, it’s not worth the bother.

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