https://docs.google.com/document/d/16GP55jdrpS_pO8bM8T9cENlF21rEhUz0p61mUqLdDvk/edit Let’s do a test run of pricing. I’ll start with a real client, complete with pictures. It’s 12,000 sqft cleaned 6x/week. What would YOU price it at? Provide in an answer: 1. Your rate per month 2. Total estimated hours 3. Breakdown by percentages of labor, supplies, and gross profit. For example we typically aim for 65% labor, 2% supplies, and 33% gross profit.  Share publicly (or in private): Thanksgiving weekend I’ll share the rate.

I teased it earlier in the week that I’d like to do a challenge (I love challenges). I wanted something fair, which equally engages whether you’re small (me) or you have a large business. Between November 1 and December 15, the winner of this challenge will win $100 for the holidays. How to win: 👉 3 points for every recurring proposal delivered. Doesn’t matter if it’s commercial or residential. 👉 1 point for every one time -or- temporary service proposal delivered. Temporary includes services that last for a month or less (eg a deep clean, PCC, etc). Doesn’t matter if commercial or residential. On December 16, add up your points. Post your score. It’ll be an honor system. I want you to post your own identifier of that prospect, how you met them, and the outcome after delivering that proposal. It doesn’t matter if they agreed to your proposal or not. Why proposals only? There were times I had zero growth goals. I wanted to solidify what I had. So if this is your goal, this makes it easy to participate. I also don’t want to put you in a cash flow crunch (been there, done that). The winner will be paid out around the 17th or 18th, after points are tallied, preferably through Venmo. Good luck!!!!

I have a former coaching client who came up with a cool idea. She suggested that I create a pricing challenge with this community. I'd create a fictional (or maybe even a real) scenario, throw it out to this group, and see who gets closest to that price. It wouldn't be reward-based since we all can come up with a price and we all could be correct provided the price is profitable. But this way we could work through a price together and see how we each do things differently based on our pricing strategy.

Do any of you have a business partner? What does that partnership look like? I am considering getting one or possibly seeking someone who would act as a COO and help me gain clients and run the business, and a percentage of profit. Let me know thoughts.

@Stephanie Lane meet everybody! We’re glad you are here! In a nutshell, this community is similar in format to FB where it’s easy to scroll, post, comment, etc. A differentiation is a classroom section and we’re slowly adding more there. A new course on pricing just got published within the past month. More will be added. And there’s a Calendar section (I need to add a couple more for this month. December will go up next week). There are weekly calls. Finally, there’s a gamification to this with free stuff and rewards.