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Subject: Charging

Author:
Read Greyer

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Date Posted: 06:24:54 02/27/02 Wed
In reply to: Deb from Spokane 's message, "Re: Welcome" on 20:29:39 02/26/02 Tue

>>Hi there:

I do handwriting analysis at parties and at a hotel where I am two nights a week. The first party I did I had only been studying his course "How to Read Handwriting in 10 Minutes" and had memorized the traits. I read over 50 people in one 3-hour evening, and everyone raved. I had only been studying this for a couple of weeks! I wasn't an "expert" and still am not, but I was fully confident in the accuracy of the information I had acquired. I saw several things right away and honed in on them.

I think maybe you don't charge because you don't feel you are accurate. Bart's information is totally accurate--I knew it and trusted it. You can be sure you are right in what you say (now how you say it is another matter :-) )

If you have been reading for friends and associates up to now for free, and getting good feedback, then now is the time to stop doing it for free and charge. If you feel uncomfortable charging $10 then charge $5 but CHARGE. People respect the information they receive only if they pay for it. In other words, you must have an even exchange of energy, and money is a damn good way of exchanging the time and effort you have put into learning something.

Declare yourself a HW analyst NOW. If you are asked "what do you do?" say you are a HW analyst. If you are asked, "Can you read my handwriting," say "Sure, I'll give you a quickie for $5.00" (or $10 whichever you feel comfortable with.) Then just say 3-5 things. That's all. Remember, it's a quickie only!

You'll do great in your reading. And who knows in what wonderful direction it may lead you.

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Jackie
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Date Posted: 20:32:45 03/01/02 Fri

Deb & Read thanks for the words of wisdom. Encouragement helps. Read..I'm glad you explained what your idea of a quickie is. I wasn't sure what that looked like. Now that gives me a good idea...share 2-3 things with them.
The way to say it is tough too. I test out the people I work with and friends. I start spewing out what's in the manual, but that doesn't really help them. I need to work on being more eloquent when providing an analysis. I guess that comes with practice.

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Author: Deb from Spokane [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:12:45 03/04/02 Mon Yes Read, thanks for your words. I also liked your definition of quickie. I used to spend forever on mine adding in all sorts of details and I wasn't even getting paid! It was good practice, though. Deb