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    Ninety-plus percent of the time I billed for was on-site. So, if I had a client in Cleveland, I wouldn’t break

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    A few years ago, one of my competitors, a consultant located in Ohio, would have his prospects call me to compare his prices to mine.

    At that time, he knew I charged more than twice the fee he quoted: “$1,200 per day.”

    Although I was always concerned about not winning business, I never put two and two together and connected my disappearing prospects to this guy’s manipulations, until he disclosed his strategy to me, in a moment of boastng and rare transparency.

    Here’s the kicker.

    Ninety-plus percent of the time I billed for was on-site. So, if I had a client in Cleveland, I wouldn’t break

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    to mine.

    At that time, he knew I charged more than twice the fee he quoted: “$1,200 per day.”

    Although I was always concerned about not winning business, I never put two and two together and connected my disappearing prospects to this guy’s manipulations, until he disclosed his strategy to me, in a moment of boastng and rare transparency.

    Here’s the kicker.

    Ninety-plus percent of the time I billed for was on-site. So, if I had a client in Cleveland, I wouldn’t break

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    ways concerned about not winning business, I never put two and two together and connected my disappearing prospects to this guy’s manipulations, until he disclosed his strategy to me, in a moment of boastng and rare transparency.

    Here’s the kicker.

    Ninety-plus percent of the time I billed for was on-site. So, if I had a client in Cleveland, I wouldn’t break

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    guy’s manipulations, until he disclosed his strategy to me, in a moment of boastng and rare transparency.

    Here’s the kicker.

    Ninety-plus percent of the time I billed for was on-site. So, if I had a client in Cleveland, I wouldn’t break

    Don't Always Make Direct Mail Headlines Positive
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    icker.

    Ninety-plus percent of the time I billed for was on-site. So, if I had a client in Cleveland, I wouldn’t break out a separate fee for traveling time or for preparation time. If I quoted $2,500 a day, plus out of pocket expenses then that was exactly what the client paid.

    My competitor, however, charged this way. He’d bill for three days at $1,200. One day was on-site and two days were off-site.

    But, by his own admission, he really didn’t expend two days of effort when he was at his office; perhaps only an hour or two.

    So, his actual rates were higher than mine, though he appeared to

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