The Blog of Lisa Morosky

This fundraiser is over. Thanks to all who participated!

If a 50% discount on 3 Day Money, a 25% discount on Beyond Blogging, a 25% discount on some of Nathan Hangen’s products (Twitter Rockstar, Facebook Rockstar, and The Twitter Marketing Manifesto), $20.00 off Guest Post Secrets, 20% off Headway, and 10% off any one package of mine at VAforBloggers.com sounds good to you, read on.

I’ve set up a pretty good deal: contribute $25.00 to a very worthy cause and get $100.00+ worth of discounts on some of (what I consider to be) the best blogging-related products out there. This is one of those “no-brainer” type good deals.

FYI: I’m doing this for one week only. This is over and done with on Monday, March 15, 2010, at 12:00am.

Here’s what you’re donating to.

For three weeks this summer, my sister, Kim Lamendola, will be traveling with a team of teachers from Vanguard Classical School in Denver, CO to Sierra Leone, West Africa to conduct teacher in-services for the teachers living there. This will be the third summer that a team has gone out from this school for this purpose. They are going through the Education department of the organization Children of the Nations and they will be providing the national teaching staffs in Sierra Leone with staff development, further learning, and opportunities to expand the education programs within the local communities. Many of the teachers in these communities did not finish high school themselves and so it is their desire to help equip them better to teach the next generations. To help achieve this goal, their in-services will focus largely on reading and developing a solid reading program. They will also help conduct summer school classes for struggling students.

To hear more about the cause, and about Kim, check out this video:

Here’s what’s in it for you.

• A 50% discount on 3 Day Money (regular price: $97; your price: $48.50) – 3 Day Money is a program by David Risley that is designed to share with you, in 3 days of learning, the basics of how Dave created a six figure business online. You get over 2.5 hours of video content, a 92 page transcript of it all, MP3 audio of all the material, a checklist to follow as you go through the program, and a 30-day bonus eCourse full of supplemental information.

• A 25% discount on the eBook version of Beyond Blogging (regular price: $47; your price: $35.25) – In the words of the guys themselves, “Beyond Blogging is a 200+ page book that contains interviews, analysis, and case studies of 15 of the world’s most successful A-List bloggers.” Bloggers that are featured in the book include: Chris Brogan, Gary Vaynerchuk, Chris Guillebeau, David Risley, Penelope Trunk, Chris Garrett, Darren Rowse, Pete Cashmore, Jonathan Fields, Shama Kabani, Michael Dunlop, Steve Pavlina, iJustine, Brian Clark, and John Chow. It doesn’t get much better than that.

• A 25% discount on Nathan Hangen’s products: Twitter Rockstar, Facebook Rockstar, and The Twitter Marketing Manifesto (regular price: $18-$97; your price: $13.50-$72.75) – You’re also getting a discount on Nathan’s other products. Take social media to a whole new level with the guides mentioned above.

• $20.00 off Guest Post Secrets (regular price: $67; your price: $47) – In Guest Post Secrets, Erica shows you how to get a massive wave of targeted traffic and visitors to your blog using guest posting. She explains the entire process and how doing this stuff put her on the map, and even what to do when you get stuck. She includes step-by-step email templates so you can feel confident emailing other bloggers. If taking your blog to the next level (without paying an arm and a leg on Google Adwords) is a goal of yours, Guest Post Secrets is something to check out.

• A 20% discount on the Headway WordPress theme (regular price: $87; your price: $69.60) – I know you know about Headway. Headway is what I consider to be one of the best premium WordPress themes out there. It’s the perfect theme for those of us who don’t want to mess with code. You can edit the look and feel of your blog with a front-end visual editor! This theme allows you to do something I totally advocate: work smarter (not harder).

• A 10% discount on any one package of mine at VAforBloggers.com – Need to get some stuff off your plate? I’m in the business of doing just that. Check out the packages I have available on VAforBloggers.com.

• The satisfaction of knowing that you’re helping a great teacher pass on her knowledge and skills to a community in Africa that desperately needs the attention.

Here’s what you need to do to get your goodies.

• Visit this page.
• Enter a tax-deductible donation amount of $25.00 (or more, if you’re feeling generous!).
• Select “One-Time” as the Frequency.
• Under Team Member Name, put: Kim Lamendola.
• Under Team Member Code, put: SLTSS610.
• Add the donation to your basket. Once you get to the Basket Contents page, select “Checkout”.
• Click on “Or, skip the registration process and continue as a guest”.
• Enter your information. Note: You need to enter an email address so you can receive a receipt to forward to me. You don’t need to enter a phone number.
• Enter your payment information.
• Once you receive your email receipt, forward it to me at cotn@lisamorosky.com. I will then send you your coupon codes and special purchase links so you can get your discounts!

Remember: I’m doing this for one week only. This is over and done with on Monday, March 15, 2010, at 12:00am.

Special thanks to David Risley, Nathan Hangen, Mike CJ, Erica Douglass, and the guys over at Headway Themes for providing me with discounts on their products to share with those who donate. You guys rock.

Have you seen all the posts lately about pricing your product and service correctly? If not, just visit pretty much any popular blog in the blogging/social media/entrepreneurship niche and you’ll see a post about it (seems like). I could link to them all…but I don’t feel like it.

The posts that I’ve read are pretty good. They’re all saying similar things I think.

Here’s my take. And it’s short.

Charge what you want. Make it a reasonable price considering your time, your effort, and your experience. And for those who don’t want to pay it? Show them the door.

Business is business, people. If people complain about and don’t want to pay what you charge, tell them good luck and move on. They weren’t your ideal customers anyways.

To illustrate my point, some of the reasons why I charge what I charge at VAforBloggers.com are:

• I know my customers. Often times, they are people just starting out, or people who aren’t making money yet and need my help to get there. And they don’t have thousands of dollars to spend. So I am affordable.
• I’m not a consultant. I don’t advertise myself as a consultant. Therefore, I don’t have a consultant pricetag.
• I’m not cheap. I charge just enough to weed out those who would waste my time.
• I charge enough to make a comfortable living, working as many hours as I feel like. I’m not rich. But being rich isn’t my goal. My goal is to design my own time and my own life. If your goal is to be rich (and you are a service provider of some sort), you’d probably charge more and spend less time on hobbies and with family and whatever. I’m willing to make less and spend more time on other things. Life is short.

Anyways. That’s my take. Don’t spend much time mulling over what to charge. Charge what feels right and adjust it as you get feedback.

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