Stop Giving It Away For Free
6 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A Maven on the biggest mistake when going self-employed: giving work away for free. It tanks your prices and signals you don't value yourself. The fix is pricing what you're actually worth.

A Maven on the biggest mistake when going self-employed: giving work away for free. It tanks your prices and signals you don't value yourself. The fix is pricing what you're actually worth.
What is your biggest, or was your biggest, challenge or obstacle you had to overcome to become like your own self-employed Maven? My biggest obstacle has to do with stopping giving it away for free. Yes, that is a big one. And to even though, and to create, and to put the value on it, and to value myself. We undermine ourselves by the sticker price we put on it, by the tuition we put on it.