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Pricing07 September 20251 min · 119 words · English

Pricing is a design problem

Every tier you publish is a sentence about who you want to work with. Mine took four rewrites.

A price list looks like arithmetic and behaves like copywriting. The number matters less than what sits beside it: what is included, what is named, what is conspicuously absent.

Chrientmip's first price list had five tiers, and almost every client picked the second one — not because it fit, but because five options is a decision and people avoid decisions. Cutting to three moved the average order up without touching a single number.

The fourth rewrite is the one still running. It stopped describing deliverables and started describing situations: the tier for a profile picture, the tier for a full reference sheet an artist will work from, the tier for commercial use. Clients stopped asking which one they needed.