I called a lady this morning who knows me from where I used to work and told her about my new line of business. She asked me what my hourly rate is and she said that she usually pays people who do weeding/pruning (which is part of my services) less that half of what I am asking. Its not like I was asking to work for her but I guess I was a bit taken back at this. If I did make some sort of arrangements to do this type of work for her I guess I could take a bit less just to be working and earning some money however I have expenses also and if I accept what she said-frankly it wouldn't be worth my time for covering my expenses. The sad thing is this lady knows my background and they are multi-millionaires!!!
She asked me to email her further details so I was going to state again what I do, stress my background and quality and try to negotiate a better fee?? I could also accept less if it was on a "cash basis" too. I knew people in the midwest are cheap but I can see where someone would also hire um lets say a person who might not be working legally in this country. maybe I have to have a different price structure for residential vs commercial clients I don't know. The small business classes I took stressed not setting price low as to devalue your worth in the marketplace.
She asked me to email her further details so I was going to state again what I do, stress my background and quality and try to negotiate a better fee?? I could also accept less if it was on a "cash basis" too. I knew people in the midwest are cheap but I can see where someone would also hire um lets say a person who might not be working legally in this country. maybe I have to have a different price structure for residential vs commercial clients I don't know. The small business classes I took stressed not setting price low as to devalue your worth in the marketplace.