Be honest. How often do you just accept the rate a prospective client offers because you feel you can’t risk losing the gig?
Negotiating can be so intimidating. But learning to do it effectively is a basic requirement for getting out of the commodity trap. You will never earn above the minimum rates otherwise.
And it takes practice! A lot of us do try negotiating, but when we don’t get the result we want we get discouraged.
That’s our topic in this episode of the Next Level Freelancing show from Nation1099. We’re going to talk about those times when your negotiating skills faltered.
Send us in your stories, and we’ll discuss them with our guest Ilise Benun, a.k.a. The Marketing Mentor. For 30 years Ilise has been counseling freelancers like us on how to find dream clients and get bigger budgets that will sustain our careers.
