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How do you deal with prospective clients that you cold emailed and then they asked for your freelance writing rates immediately?
Is it best to tell them your rates immediately or do you ask them more probing questions or try to move the conversation over to the phone?
I had a few instances where I never heard back from some prospects after I gave them a price so today I decided to try a different approach and replied back with some probing questions and the prospect gave me attitude.
They replied "Send me some info. Don't make this more difficult than it needs to be. You don't have anything you can provide as brochure?"
I didn't think my reply back warranted this type of response so now I'm kind of hesitant to ask any future prospect probing questions. I had another prospect reply back to me immediately after this one asking for the price right away, and this time I just gave them it because I didn't know how to respond back.
If a prospect replies back to an email saying something like "Hi, what are you rates?"
How would you reply back?
Is it best to tell them your rates immediately or do you ask them more probing questions or try to move the conversation over to the phone?
I had a few instances where I never heard back from some prospects after I gave them a price so today I decided to try a different approach and replied back with some probing questions and the prospect gave me attitude.
They replied "Send me some info. Don't make this more difficult than it needs to be. You don't have anything you can provide as brochure?"
I didn't think my reply back warranted this type of response so now I'm kind of hesitant to ask any future prospect probing questions. I had another prospect reply back to me immediately after this one asking for the price right away, and this time I just gave them it because I didn't know how to respond back.
If a prospect replies back to an email saying something like "Hi, what are you rates?"
How would you reply back?
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