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Thinking of going it alone? Becoming a freelancer is an attractive option for many professionals,but can you make it work for you?One of the most critical steps involved in planning and growing your freelance business issetting your rates. However, when you are charging for a service, this is easier said than doneand getting it wrong (either way) can compromise your worth, your cash-flow and your business.Here are three tips for setting your freelance rates, structuring your pricing, and negotiatingwith clients.Setting Your Freelance RatePricing the service you provide as a freelancer isn’t easy and is influenced by several factors:What is the going market rate?What experience do you have, both in your line of work and in working with clients? Both are asignificant part of your value – someone with experience can command higher rates and clientswant to know that you are also self-directed and able to work well on your own.What rate do you feel comfortable with and will sustain your business?If you are coming out of full-employment and starting on your own, a good rule of thumb tofollow when determining your hourly rate is to:Calculate what your annual salary equates to as an hourly rate ($x divide by 52 (work weeks),divide by 40 (week work hours).Then mark it up 25-30%. This piece covers both your value and experience, but also takes careof our business costs such as networking, proposal writing, and other administration, notforgetting your self-employment tax obligations and healthcare insurance costs.Project Rates versus Hourly RatesMany factors determine whether it’s better to price by the hour or by the project.

For example, if you have a stable relationship with a client and regular work coming in, quotingwork by the hour can work in your favor because there is consistency in work flow and thereforecash flow. However, if you are good at what you do and work quickly and efficiently, pricingwork by the hour can potentially result in under-cutting your own revenue opportunity – simplybecause you can get done in one hour what others take three to complete. Of course the flip sideis that the client simply loves you because you deliver quality work in less time and at a lowercost than other freelancers might!Pricing a flat project fee, regardless of the hours involved also has its risks and benefits. If youare working with a new client, you probably need more time to come up to speed on the projectand the client’s work methods than you would do with an existing client. In this case, pricingyour work on a project basis can give you the wiggle room you need to research and producequality work. It also gives the client the benefit of knowing they are working with a fixed cost.However, this can play against you if “project creep” rears its head and you find yourselfputting in more hours than you originally anticipated, essentially cutting your profit margin.A good rule of thumb is to price your work with some structure built-in that clearly lays out thescope of what you will deliver. For example, if you are a freelance copywriter and a client wantsyou to price out the cost of researching and writing a product brochure, you might structureyour pricing proposal as follows:Research: 2 HoursProduce First Draft: 4 HoursIncorporate Edits and Produce Second Draft: 2 HoursIncorporate Final Edits and Produce Final Copy: 1 HourTotal : 7 Hours @ $x hourly rate = $x

Use your normal hourly rate to calculate the flat project fee and only state how many hours eachstage of work will take if the client asks for it. By putting some parameters around the project,the client can agree to a clear scope of work at a fixed price.If you are presenting this type of project-based pricing, be sure to add a caveat that any workdone over and above this scope of work will be charged at an hourly rate.Negotiating Your RateNegotiation your rate with a new client is always tricky. There often comes a perception thatfreelance services come at a low rate, and economic factors invariably mean that clients will tryto negotiate you down – whatever number you put on the table.If you value the new relationship and the opportunity that the work brings, always be open tonegotiation. If your client counter-offers your rate but you still feel that it is too low for you tocompromise your time and your perceived value, try to stand your ground (if you just accept thelower rate you will always feel that you had to compromise yourself, not to mention how hard itwill be to re-negotiate a rate-hike down the line). If the client won’t budge, consider potentialcompromises – if you are a writer, could you write a shorter, less well researched piece at a rateslightly above what the client proposes. That way you maintain your cost-efficiency with thepotential for more work down the line.Alternatively try to agree to a “ramp-up fee” that gives you a chance to come up-to-speed on theproject and the client’s product or service. This can sweeten the deal for you, especially if this isa client who you have no pre-existing relationship with, and who you otherwise might turn away.

Once you have built a foundation of work and decide that this is a client you want to continue todo business with, you may want to negotiate a long-term rate that is a little less than youradvertised rate. BUT – only go this route if you think your new client is able to provide you witha solid pipeline of future work.Remember, freelancers can go for long periods without work and quite often, swapping less workat a higher rate for consistent hours at a lower rate can make good business sense. Changing Business, and Business Process in France, at Amazonby Jeff Yablon

http://answerguy.com/2014/07/11/business-process-france-business-change/Once upon a time I spent a bunch of time in Europe—mostly, in France. And until I learned afew hard lessons I was astonished by how different things are on the other side of the pond.France has made strides toadapt toreign inthe rest of the worldthe Americanized world, and I’ll say here as I believed when I was over there that some ofFrance’s ideas are good. And although it’s been a while, I’ve complimented France on some ofthe ways they’ve approached the Internet; this was a brilliant solution to music piracy, andFrance enacted an interesting approach to cross-border taxation issues a few years back.And Amazon just bitch-slapped France, but good.Bezos and Co., who’ve shown repeatedly how much better they are at this businessprocess/business change thing than just about anyone, have responded to French lawsprohibitingbusinesses like Amazon

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The WGU Doctor of Education in Transformational Leadership and Coaching preparesgraduates to apply their advanced scholar practitioner skills as leaders in a wide range of fieldsincluding coaching, education, business, training, and human services. Through the doctoralprogram, you build and employ the skills to bring out the best in yourself and those you lead andcoach. As a graduate, you are trained to develop, implement, and assess transformational visionand strategy for individuals and—depending on your interest and experience for groups andinstitutions—facilitating the development of learning organizations and enhancing quality of lifein a wide array of fields. You develop the skills to assess the current state and challenges of theindividuals or groups you coach and/or lead, determine their vision and pathways to realize thevision, and facilitate the implementation and assessment of solutions to individual ororganizational challenges using coaching and a wide array of leadership skills to motivateindividuals and teams to their highest potential.Upon successful program completion, you will be prepared to:Coach others effectively and be versatile in drawing from different modalities including goalcoaching, life coaching, transformational coaching, and primary relationship training.Identify potential research and theoretical implications of events and phenomena in the domainof your profession, career, and industry.Apply and integrate developmental theories, Adlerian theory, humanistic and existential theory,educational theory, neuroscience and other research in application and research.Demonstrate skills of emotional and social intelligence and facilitate the development ofemotional and social intelligence in those you lead and coach.Utilize appropriate research design, methods, and resources.

Synthesize a wide array of theory and research in a coaching or leadership area of yourchoosing.Summarize, evaluate, and critique an argument.Receive and deliver feedback that results in demonstrable change.Demonstrate characteristics of transformational leadership that result in motivating others tohigher levels of performance.Lead groups to effectively result in the growth of the individual members, build cohesion, anddevelop social and emotional intelligence.Develop and deliver curriculum that educates, trains, and inspires others.Demonstrate a clear, coherent academic writing style in your own voice.Course # Course Title QuartAC311 erAC321 Hours Advanced Developmental Approaches 6 to Facilitating Human Emergence & Performance in Leadership & Coaching Advanced Adlerian Approaches to 6 Leadership & Coaching in Human Emergence & Performance

AC331 Existential & Humanistic Approaches 6AC351 Applied to Coaching & LeadershipAC361AC362 Systems Assessment, Intervention & 6AC363 DesignAC364AC411 Training Development Lab – 1AC412 Research & Design Training Delivery Lab – Facilitation 1 & Evaluation Advanced Training Development Lab 1 – Research & Design Advanced Training Delivery Lab – 1 Facilitation & Evaluation Advanced Applied Transformational 6 Group Leadership & Coaching I Advanced Applied Transformational 6 Group Leadership & Coaching II

AC431 Research Methodologies and Design I 6AC437AC511 Research Methodologies and Design 6AC600 IIPL09PL10 Topic Research & Proposal 8TOTAL Development Dissertation 22 Emotional Intelligence 0 Transformation Lab Social Intelligence Transformation 0 Lab 82Completion of the Performative Learning trainings is a non-credit bearing graduationrequirement for completion of the doctoral degree. The Performative Learning trainings are notoffered by Wright Graduate University. They are offered through a consortium arrangement withthe corporate entity Wright Business, Inc. (WBI). Information about the Performative Learningtrainings is contained in the course description section. Costs associated with the PerformativeLearning trainings are contained in the Catalog Addendum.