The gap between having a pricing policy and actually enforcing it every time

Shehzlinks said:

Something I ran into this week that's worth sharing: I have a fixed markup rule for every vendor price that comes in - it's been my standard since day one. But on a recent batch of sites, I caught myself sending raw vendor cost straight to a client message without applying it. Not because the rule changed, just because I was moving fast and skipped the step.

What made it worse: I'd actually written the rule down for myself, so there was no excuse - it wasn't a knowledge gap, it was a process gap.

Fix I'm implementing now: before any price goes out the door (sheet, email, chat, doesn't matter), it runs through the same markup step every single time, no exceptions, even for "quick" one-off requests. Quick requests are exactly where shortcuts sneak in.

Curious if others have a similar checkpoint, or if you've caught yourself doing the same thing when moving fast on a bulk batch.

Click to expand...

Shehzlinks said:

Something I ran into this week that's worth sharing: I have a fixed markup rule for every vendor price that comes in - it's been my standard since day one. But on a recent batch of sites, I caught myself sending raw vendor cost straight to a client message without applying it. Not because the rule changed, just because I was moving fast and skipped the step.

What made it worse: I'd actually written the rule down for myself, so there was no excuse - it wasn't a knowledge gap, it was a process gap.

Fix I'm implementing now: before any price goes out the door (sheet, email, chat, doesn't matter), it runs through the same markup step every single time, no exceptions, even for "quick" one-off requests. Quick requests are exactly where shortcuts sneak in.

Curious if others have a similar checkpoint, or if you've caught yourself doing the same thing when moving fast on a bulk batch.

Click to expand...