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Tomorrow Chris Ruggiero and I are doing a Zoom workshop with your questions about selling creative work. Hopefully it will help people feel less creepy and get more gigs that make them giggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My main technique is to talk to a potential client in a discovery call<\/a>, get an idea of how to offer them the most value, and charge less than that value. I’ll go over that more in the workshop.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow Chris Ruggiero and I are doing a Zoom workshop with your questions about selling creative work. Hopefully it will help people feel less creepy and get more gigs that make them giggle. My main technique is to talk to a potential client in a discovery call, get an idea of how to offer them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10158666434799935_26707174888":"","twitter_aToyMjM4MTQzMDs=_22381430":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-roman-ska-7096339.jpg?fit=2000%2C1179&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc33gc-JE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4574,"url":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/selling-shirts-posters-merch-at-a-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":2830,"position":0},"title":"Selling shirts\/ posters\/ merch at a show","author":"scot","date":"April 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Selling merch is not very rewarding unless we're doing a ton of shows. 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