You didn't pick your price, you copied it

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Needs To Exist
August 15, 2026

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GM. You didn't pick your price. You looked at what everyone else charges and went a bit under.

The Price Picks The Business

Say you want $100k. At $49 a month you need about 170 customers. At $500 you need 17.

Same idea, same you, two completely different lives. One of them is a marketing job. The other is 17 phone calls.

Most people never run that number. They set a price that feels safe and then spend three years wondering why the work never lets up.

So we built you a slider. Put in what you want to earn, drag the price, and watch the customer count move. It also tells you what running that many customers does to your week.

Reply and tell me what you charge now.

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