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Ask for too much and you may be pricing yourself out of the market.
Pricing yourself as a freelancer is very difficult, especially if, as in your case, you haven't worked in a paid post in this field.
For their sake I hope that is the case here, because pricing yourself above the Kindle DX and the nook is pretty much suicide at this point.
It's possible to lose out on sales by pricing yourself either too low below the minimum amount your customers want to spend or too high above the maximum.
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It's one thing to make financial misjudgments and to pay the price yourself.
"You can't price yourself out of this market," said Carmine Cornacchio, owner of Cornacchio Electric here in Southampton.
It is absolutely forbidden to do a quick in-and-out when you've pushed up the price yourself.
"That's got to be a starting point because if you go in too high or too low, you price yourself out of the market," he says.
"If you go in too low, the perception is you're not very good; if you price yourself too high you're going to limit yourself as to how much work you'll pick up".
"When you're not grabbing the retail price yourself, and you're packing and shipping every individual piece, you only want to do it with the people you like.
2. Price yourself competitively if not suicidally.
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