Just thought I would add my thoughts to the seemingly endless complaints by members of this board about rates.
It seems when a girl gets popular and her rates go up the complaints start almost immediately.
Here are the economics of this;
I run a business and that business has a capacity. If I had more people trying to secure my services than the capacity of my business, I would either raise my rates, or increase my capacity. Since SP's cannot increase their capacity (especially the independant SP's) they are left with only the choice of increasing their rates.
Think of it as if you were the SP. If your phone never stopped ringing, and you could fill your day with appointments by answering your phone for 15 minutes, why would you not raise your rates.
Would you work for 10 hours in a day at $200.00/hr to make $1,200.00 when, if you raised your rate to $300.00/hr you would make $1,800.00? I know what my rate would be.
I have spoken to some popular SP's about this such as Amy, Daniella, Erin etc. and they all state that their phones ring non-stop regardless of the rate.
So to save the rest of us the annoyance of having to read through endless complaints when all we want to read is facts and reviews, keep it to yourself. If you do not like the price, don't book, don't go.
If you do not like the price of the house on the bridal path, do you constantly hammer the real esatet people that it is too expensive when you can buy a house for 1/10th the price in Newmarket. No you buy the house in Newmarket.
I do not keep reading articles in the car section of the paper that BMW should be selling their best cars for the same price as Chev Cavaliers!
Set your price at what you can get to make the most money, make your purchase decision based on YOUR perception of value.
For the complainers I have one question -
If you could make double the money you are making today without changing the conditions/hours/ etc. of your job would you? If the answer is yes, would you expect people to complain about you constantly since they cannot afford to hire you?
According to the SP's I have spoken to, when their rates increase, their work conditions actually improve since they get a higher class of clientell.
So, to be blunt, do us all a favour and keep it to yourself.
It seems when a girl gets popular and her rates go up the complaints start almost immediately.
Here are the economics of this;
I run a business and that business has a capacity. If I had more people trying to secure my services than the capacity of my business, I would either raise my rates, or increase my capacity. Since SP's cannot increase their capacity (especially the independant SP's) they are left with only the choice of increasing their rates.
Think of it as if you were the SP. If your phone never stopped ringing, and you could fill your day with appointments by answering your phone for 15 minutes, why would you not raise your rates.
Would you work for 10 hours in a day at $200.00/hr to make $1,200.00 when, if you raised your rate to $300.00/hr you would make $1,800.00? I know what my rate would be.
I have spoken to some popular SP's about this such as Amy, Daniella, Erin etc. and they all state that their phones ring non-stop regardless of the rate.
So to save the rest of us the annoyance of having to read through endless complaints when all we want to read is facts and reviews, keep it to yourself. If you do not like the price, don't book, don't go.
If you do not like the price of the house on the bridal path, do you constantly hammer the real esatet people that it is too expensive when you can buy a house for 1/10th the price in Newmarket. No you buy the house in Newmarket.
I do not keep reading articles in the car section of the paper that BMW should be selling their best cars for the same price as Chev Cavaliers!
Set your price at what you can get to make the most money, make your purchase decision based on YOUR perception of value.
For the complainers I have one question -
If you could make double the money you are making today without changing the conditions/hours/ etc. of your job would you? If the answer is yes, would you expect people to complain about you constantly since they cannot afford to hire you?
According to the SP's I have spoken to, when their rates increase, their work conditions actually improve since they get a higher class of clientell.
So, to be blunt, do us all a favour and keep it to yourself.
