Strategy
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Pricing Creative Work Without Apologising
By Ivy Calloway

The better you get, the faster you work — and the less you earn. That is the quiet absurdity of hourly billing, and it is why we abandoned it three years ago.
Price the outcome
Clients do not buy hours; they buy outcomes. Anchor your proposal to what the work makes possible: the launch, the raise, the repositioning.
Say the number and stop talking
Confidence is part of the service. State the price, hold the silence, and let the value you have already demonstrated do the negotiating.