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Jonathan,

Can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate your Value Pricing Bootcamp course, the productized service course and your business of authority podcast—they’re literally changing whole mindsets and setting me on the course for better business and growth! You’re doing more for my business through free content than my $120k art school degree. Thank you!

Uriah Fracassi


Jonathan, I just read your article on asking for 100% payment up-front. It’s not too often you come across something life-changing. Muchas.

Aaron Wrixon, Content Strategist


Hi Jonathan! I am going to print this email out, laminate it... and read it every morning before I start work :)

Anna Sabramowicz


Hey Jonathan!

Your newsletter is one of the best, if not the best, that I’ve seen. I think you’ll be able to easily compile these lessons into a mini-ebook and sell it. Keep up the good work!

Yours,

Greg Navis


Being on Jonathan’s daily emails is the next best thing to having him with you when you’re with the client. Answers just come to your lips, and suddenly you’re no longer a hands-on techie; you’re respected as a consultant.

– Anthony English


Jonathan, Your email list is amazing. I’m on other lists, and some of them have an occasional useful email stuck between sales pitches glued to a billion different unrelated stories. I look forward to each of your emails, and I’ve referred back to them more than once already.

John Tseng


Hi Jonathan,

I love, love, love your e-mails. It’s like a daily shot of B12 for my business. Keep ’em coming.

Peter Doern


Jonathan,

Just noticed something I felt I had to share with you, and it gives me an excuse to thank you for your extremely valuable emails.

I am absolutely obsessed with maintaining Inbox Zero; my email inbox is reserved for messages that require immediate action or content I need to re-read and commit to memory. I’ve attached a screenshot which basically shows that every email you’ve sent over the last week has been stuck in my inbox because I keep re-reading them.

Can’t describe how much I appreciate your content. Thanks!

Eric Grubaugh


Jonathan,

I read all your posts in one sitting, and the proposal. Pure genius.

Thanks for the insights.

Timothy Solomon


Jonathan,

Your daily emails are pure gold for a commoditized .Net contractor like me.

...riveted, waiting for the next one.

BTW, the conversation last week on the FS podcast with the guy that owned an agency, was mind-blowing. I’m that guy, only as a solo dev, not an agency owner.

Brent Giesler


Hi Jonathan:

Your email series is pure gold. Particularly I’ve been stumbling upon the "coming too early with the why" problem you mention here and once I refrained myself from doing it, things made a dramatic change.

If I had to limit myself to just one advice for the new comers it would be this: let them talk first!

Thanks. This is really helpful.

Mauro Chojrin


Man you don’t stop - these emails are so stinking good. Keep it up and thank you!!

Sam Selikoff


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About Jonathan

Hi! I’m Jonathan Stark and I was a software developer, consultant, and trainer for the better part of fifteen years. I’ve given sold out talks on three continents, I am the author of five books, and in my consulting days I worked with Staples, Time, T-Mobile, Cisco, Intel, and many more household name brands. (You can check out my press page for more info.)

In my first year as a solo consultant, I doubled my income by ditching hourly billing for value pricing. I have over a decade of real-world experience successfully applying value-based theories to my own consulting work and that of 100+ business owners I have counseled. These days I routinely command an effective hourly rate of $2000+ per hour.

The unconscious acceptance of hourly billing as the best and only option for selling services is a collective hallucination that literally keeps me up at night. In fact, I consider it my mission in life to rid the earth of hourly billing. Care to join me? You’ll be glad you did. 🙂