Tell me if any of the following sounds familiar to you:

• “I’m going to raise my prices and just charge the new people the new prices…”

• “New people get my new prices but my long-term clients I still give them the previous price…”

• “I actually have two pricing models… one for my new clients and one for my existing clients…”

There’s nothing more that irks me than hearing that.

So in this episode of The Anxious Creative Podcast, we’re going to be talking about how to get your old clients to pay your new prices. Without the stress and anxiety.

On Friday, October 2nd, 2015 I got the keys to my brand new, downtown Calgary salon. Almost exactly 1 year after moving here (I moved to Calgary on Sept 22, 2014).

When I first arrived I was working out of the basement of my rental home in the suburbs, not so patiently waiting for the perfect commercial space to pop up.

Even though I had my own salon back in Saskatchewan, I’d always done things on a very tight budget and I DIY’d a lot (and I am NOT a DIY’er). I didn’t truly understand just how much a professional designer could help.

Hands up if you’ve ever emotionally discounted a client? ‍♀️

Yup, that’s what we’re talking all about in this episode of The Anxious Creative. We’re gonna talk about that feeling that you get in your stomach when you just wanna help someone out, or you’re scared of the price so you just go ahead and dock $20, or maybe it’s a little bit more…

Can I be honest with you for a second?

I think that everyone is going about creating the “money piece” entirely wrong.

Yup. You heard me right. And I want to be the shift in the industry to a better technique.

I’ll give you a hint: it’s not just about concentrating on the front piece.

Did you catch the previous episode? I had so much fun sitting down and chatting with you solo. So I thought, why don’t we do it again!

This episode is all about why you actually want people not to like you. The reason might surprise you. I’m hoping that you’ll have a couple aha moments while you listen to this episode.

I’m embarrassed to even admit this, but here goes…

I accidentally highlighted my client’s eyebrow.

You see, where I had laid her bangs down, I didn’t realize I had placed them right over her eyebrow and there it was, staring me right in the face…

The blondest chunk, mid eyebrow.