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Authentic Pricing for Solopreneurs
Finding the “right” price for your services, programs, products.
Most authentic businesses have haphazard pricing.
Sometimes, you just pick a number based on how you “feel” about it. The problem is that your audience might not “feel” the same. No matter how intuitive, you are still a human being, with normal human biases. Pricing from a shoot-from-the-hip kind of way is not wise business practice. You're treating your business like a hobby.
Or, you might blindly trust a business/marketing exp…
Most authentic businesses have haphazard pricing.
Sometimes, you just pick a number based on how you “feel” about it. The problem is that your audience might not “feel” the same. No matter how intuitive, you are still a human being, with normal human biases. Pricing from a shoot-from-the-hip kind of way is not wise business practice. You're treating your business like a hobby.
Or, you might blindly trust a business/marketing exp…
Money and Spirituality: 3 Viewpoints
How do you view money and spirituality?
How do these ideas relate, in your mind, heart, and experience?
The intersection of money & spirituality has fascinated me for years. I’d like to share with you 3 viewpoints about it...
How do these ideas relate, in your mind, heart, and experience?
The intersection of money & spirituality has fascinated me for years. I’d like to share with you 3 viewpoints about it...
Viewpoint 1: More Spiritual = Less Money
This is what we find in traditional scriptures, e.g. Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Baha’i, and others.
I recommend checking out the following webpage that collects verse…
This is what we find in traditional scriptures, e.g. Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Baha’i, and others.
I recommend checking out the following webpage that collects verse…
Before you buy that expensive business training program, read this...
I see a lot of people making this mistake -- buying into expensive business/marketing training / big group coaching programs.
In these programs, they're with a large group of hundreds of other students, with high hopes that the energy of the program will somehow propel them toward success...
As someone who has sold such programs myself, and have partnered with dozens of others to sell these, I can tell you this:
In these programs, they're with a large group of hundreds of other students, with high hopes that the energy of the program will somehow propel them toward success...
As someone who has sold such programs myself, and have partnered with dozens of others to sell these, I can tell you this:
These programs are highly profitable…
What money should you spend to build & grow your business?
Over the years I've received a lot of questions about what kind of money is necessary to spend in order to grow a small business.
Examples:
Examples:
- Should you spend $1,000 - $5,000 to create or upgrade your website?
- Should you spend money on a $2,000 training program / school that is promising you a comprehensive system to build your business?
- Should you spend $200 a month on SEO (search engine optimization)?
- (When) Should you hire a VA?
- How much to…
Who are your money heroes?
Who are your money heroes?
I've found it life-changing to reflect on this. Without clarifying your thoughts on this question, here's what tends to happen...
You take on someone else's dream -- without consciously choosing it. It's often the dream of making "6-figures" (or 7-figures). Because the "money heroes" who are best at getting our attention are the ones are selling us the 6+ figure dream.
For years I pursued that dream. I successfully attained it... but then, I discovered I …
I've found it life-changing to reflect on this. Without clarifying your thoughts on this question, here's what tends to happen...
You take on someone else's dream -- without consciously choosing it. It's often the dream of making "6-figures" (or 7-figures). Because the "money heroes" who are best at getting our attention are the ones are selling us the 6+ figure dream.
For years I pursued that dream. I successfully attained it... but then, I discovered I …