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6

Pricing your services

We now need to get onto the part of this book that many readers will be most interested in. How much can you charge for your services, and therefore how much money will you make?

I’m going to share some strategies to determine your fees, which are summarised in Table 6.1 (see later). However, I will disappoint some readers, by saying that I cannot advise you what to charge. Even if I could, it would only be correct the moment I write these words for one service in one location. Fees fluctuate depending on all sorts of factors. The simple truth is that to determine your fees, you will have to research and experiment a little, and you will have to learn from those experiments. You also need to change what you charge ...

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