Stay firm on your fees

How you can keep your pricing and (hopefully) maintain client relationships

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Every so often—at least a few times a year—I’ll receive an email similar to this:

“Hey Heidi, it was great meeting with you and thanks for the quote. We were hoping to get the work done a bit more cheaply. We’re thinking it shouldn’t take that long to write up the blog posts and we’re wondering if there’s any way you would consider lowering your price for the work.”

Anyone who’s been in freelance writing for at least a month has a story similar to that one.

A client comes in, lays out the parameters for the project, requests a quote and then asks to lower the price of the work.

The onus falls on the freelancer to either accept a lower price for the project so they can secure the work and at least earn some income, or walk away from the project and get no income at all. You either compromise or lose out entirely.