Keep calm and raise your rates!

Overcome your fear of raising your rates.

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Gain the confidence to raise your rates and realise your earnings potential

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Video-based course to complete at a pace that suits you

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Learn strategies you can start implementing today

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Excellent value for money

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Learn from popular and acclaimed tutor, Joachim Lépine.

 

Learn tried and tested approaches to freelancer pricing to help you raise your rates confidently and effectively.

Course length: approximately 1 hour, which can be logged as CPD. 

Who is this course for?

  • Translators
  • Interpreters
  • Freelancers
  • Self-employed professionals
  • Anyone with an already established business who is looking to move their business to the next level, increase their income and realise their full earning potential

If any of this sounds like you, then this course is for you.

What will I learn?

  • Different pricing models
  • Effective pricing strategies
  • Negotiation
  • Price increase strategies

How will I learn?

This course is split into 15 short modules, each of which contains a video tutorial followed by a short assessment, all of which you can complete at the pace that suits you best.

This course was very helpful in getting me in the right mindset when I think about approaching clients to raise rates. Thank you!

Shoko Maeda

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ITI members
£30 + VAT

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Non-members
£45 + VAT

 

Meet your tutor

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Joachim Lépine, M. Ed., C. Tr. is a trainer and translator with more than 10 years of experience teaching translation and related topics to university students and working professionals. Some of his training clients have included OTTIAQ, Editors Canada, Magistrad, the Translation Bureau, and Training for Translators.
 
He is also the founder of the Regroupement des langagiers de l’Estrie and the owner Traductions LION, which offers French-to-English translation services as well as language, productivity, and communication workshops. He was Coordinator of the Continuing Education Committee for OTTIAQ, Canada’s largest organisation of language professionals, from 2013 to 2020. 

Joachim holds a bachelor’s in fine arts from Concordia University, a bachelor’s in translation from Université de Sherbrooke, and a master’s in education from Plymouth State University.

Module 1: Introduction

A short introduction to the course and your trainer, Joe Lepine. 

Module 2: Course overview

A short outline of what you will be learning on this course. 

Module 3: Pricing models

Understand the different kinds of pricing models, and learn which may be best for you. 

Module 4: Client avatars and what clients value

Learn what client avatars are, and understand what clients value from the people they work with

Module 5: Value based pricing

Understand value based pricing, and how it applies to you and your business

Module 6: Pricing stages and the negotiation triangle

Understand the stages of pricing, and how to negotiate 

Module 7: Fears you must overcome

Still not sure on raising your rates? You're not alone. But here's a list of things you need to overcome to get the results you want. 

Module 8: Price increase checklist

Tick off these actions to increase your prices

Module 9: Introduction to price-increase strategies

Joe introduces us to the idea of price-increase strategies and how these help us with pricing. 

Module 10: New-clients-only strategy

One of several strategies covered in this course, learn how this can be implemented to your business. 

Module 11: One-month-prior strategy

The second pricing strategy in this course, learn how this can be implemented to your business. 

Module 12: Lazy-newsletter strategy

Incorporating a little bit of marketing, learn how this can be implemented to your business. 

Module 13: Upon-request strategy

The final strategy in this course, learn how this can be implemented to your business. 

Module 14: Final top tips

Get Joe's final key tips for implementation in this penultimate module. 

Module 15: Conclusion

A summary of all of the stages in this course.