Question: How can coaches, creative types, consultants and speakers avoid cutting their rates in this economy?

Answer: Keeping your rates set is important for many reasons, but the biggest one is probably the most surprising: being ethical to your current clients and your own company.

How fair is it to cut your rates for new business and keep your prices high for existing clients?

I hear you thinking: Don’t businesses do that all the time?

Yes, there are “new client …

Updated 08.16.07

Thanks for finding your way here. This post first appeared on July 27, 2007 at my former blog address and now includes other bloggers who covered the mentoring and coaching session along with BlogHer ’07’s description and my notes. Unfortunately, all comments vanished in the move. But, I’d still love to hear from you if you want to talk . . .

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BlogHer ‘07’s Mentoring and Coaching Session Description

Last year during the BlogHer Getting Deeply Geeky session the subject of …