My first year in business, I made a whopping $12,000. Before taxes. You can bet I “celebrated” with a whole bottle of (cheap) wine and a lot of tears. I’d worked SO hard, only to feel like a failure. Five years later, and my rates have shot from $500\/website, to over $10k\/website. It’s possible, but it’s not an easy process. In my talk I break down how I improved my skills, created a better customer experience, and was able to raise my rates–and how others can too! It’s not all about code or design skills, the most overlooked soft-skills of customer service and communication played the biggest role in commanding higher prices. I want to help others utilize these skills so they can boost their prices too.<\/p>\n
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My first year in business, I made a whopping $12,000. Before taxes. You can bet I “celebrated” with a whole bottle of (cheap) wine and a lot of tears. I’d worked SO hard, only to feel like a failure. Five years later, and my rates have shot from $500\/website, to over $10k\/website. It’s possible, but … Continue reading “Raising Your Web Design Rates”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8303786,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1503766800,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[803],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[13411],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-1085","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ogdw-hv","session_date_time":{"date":"August 26, 2017","time":"11:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"803","slug":"erin-flynn","name":"Erin Flynn","link":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/erin-flynn\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8303786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1085\/revisions\/1166"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}