Stick To Your Guns — And Your Rates
A client asked me to come over so I could work in the same office as her. I told her that, because she lived extremely far away, it could get really expensive really fast.
Still, she wanted me to come over, so I did. It went as well as working a foot away from your client could.
Once she received my invoice, she rang me up.
Client: “How come I have to pay so much?”
Me: “Because I had to travel such an obscene distance to get to you.”
Client: “But this is a lot more expensive than I thought it would be.”
Me: “I warned you beforehand that it was going to get this expensive.”
Client: “But I thought, because you’re just starting out, you would ask a severely reduced price…”
Me: “I explicitly told you how much I would ask for prior to doing so.”
Client: “How was I supposed to know you would stick to that?”