Core concepts

Prices on the page

What changes when your rates are on the site before anyone writes to you.

Hiding the price does not make it smaller. It makes the conversation longer.

Every conversation starts from zero

"What's your rate?" "Well, it depends on the scope." Three emails later you name a number, they go quiet, and you find out they had four hundred dollars all along.

When there is no price on the page, every conversation starts from zero. They ask, you hedge, they counter. A week goes by finding out it was never a fit. The people who were never going to pay your rate cost you the most time, because nothing on the page told them.

The unpaid week

Most freelance work starts with a pitch, a scoping call, a proposal, and a quote. None of that is paid, and all of it happens before the client has committed to anything. Three calls, a dozen emails, an hour listening to their big idea. You send the proposal. Then a month of silence, and a "we've decided to go another direction" from someone you have never met.

You can bill for two hours of work. You cannot bill for the two weeks it took them to buy it. Most of a freelancer's week is unpaid. Landing the work, then admin, working out what is next, sending updates.

What Yoursellf does

Your blocks and prices are on the site. There is nothing to negotiate, and the people who were never going to buy go away before they cost you an hour. The first conversation is short because the price is already there. You bring the offer, they bring the problem. More of your week goes on the work itself.

You still choose who you work with. The page holds the offer. It does not obligate you.