Rate Increase Writer
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Raise a freelance rate without losing the client worth keeping: audit the old rate, set the new number from floor/target/stretch math, write one short confident notice with 30-60 days' warning, and handle every reply — accept, scope-adjust, phase, grandfather with an end date, or exit cleanly.
Raise my Growth retainer from $1,800 to $1,980 from 1 February, with 45 days' notice to Lumen Botanics.
What you get
- In 30 minutes, produce a rate-increase pack you can send the same day: one new rate with its math shown, one notice letter under 200 words, a rate card showing old and new side by side, a reply plan for accept, scope-adjust, phase, dated grandfather, or clean exit, and a rollout checklist so the old price never appears again.
Good fit
- Freelancers whose rate has not moved in 12 months or more, whose new clients already pay more than old ones, whose retainer is renewing, or who are fully booked at a price that no longer fits the work.
Not for
- Anyone whose signed agreement fixes the rate until a date that has not arrived; anyone with a live dispute or unaccepted deliverable; anyone with no evidence of value for this client; anyone using a price rise as a disguised firing; anyone whose only income is this client with no pipeline behind them.
- Name
- Rate Increase Writer
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- Writing
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