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Pricing & Profit

Work out what to charge, what it costs and what you really earn.

Creator Pricing Calculator: What Should You Charge Brands?

A free creator pricing calculator and the method behind it: your cost floor from time and costs, audience value from your own views and price per 1,000 views, add-ons for usage, exclusivity and rush, and how to sanity-check the result before quoting.

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How to Raise Your Rates as a Creator Without Losing Brand DealsWhen and how creators should raise their rates: the signals that you're underpriced, how much to increase, telling existing clients, grandfathering and notice, handling pushback, and protecting relationships with your best brands.
Cost Per Content: How Creators Can Understand Their Real Production CostsHow creators calculate the true cost of producing each piece of content: time, direct costs, a share of equipment and software, and overheads, by format, with a worksheet and ways to use the number for pricing and planning.
Creator Brand Deal Profit: How to Calculate What You Actually EarnHow to calculate the real profit on a brand deal: fee vs cash received, direct costs, your time, taxes and TDS timing, payment delays, and the effective hourly rate, with a worked example and what to do with the answer.

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Creator Pricing Calculator: What Should You Charge Brands?

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