Studio Sherpas Podcast

In this solo unscripted episode, I want to answer one question for you. How do you stop attracting cheapskate clients? We’ve all been in a situation where a potential client doesn’t want to pay enough. Yet, knowing your value will help you choose the right people to work with. To give you some context into how I learned these valuable lessons, I describe my first ever jobs as a filmmaker. There were some hard lessons learned, but now I know what my value is. Since this realization, my encounters with low-balling clients have become rare. Being able to deal with cheapskate clients means knowing how much your business actually costs. There is a minimum cost involved in everything. When you take a job that doesn’t exceed what it costs to run your business, you are cutting off opportunities to actually turn a profit. Often, avoiding low paying clients takes doing the work needed to find high paying ones. You have to get out there and network with the people with the right budgets who value what you do. Have you e