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How to Increase The Value of Your Offers with my T.E.S.S.A Pricing System
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- Sold Out Offers
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- Feb 17, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 890
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Summary
In this episode, I’m sharing how I think about value now, after years of refining my own pricing and helping dozens of people refine theirs. For a long time, many of us were taught to measure our work in hours and deliverables. But when I zoomed out, I realised my clients weren’t paying for time. They were paying for what changed because of the work, what became easier, what started earning, what stopped feeling heavy. When your pricing doesn’t reflect that wider impact, it creates pressure. You either feel underpaid or you overextend yourself trying to prove your fee. I walk you through the framework I created to solve this — TESSA. It’s the system I’ve used for the last four years to help service providers stop guessing their rates and start pricing in a way that feels grounded and strategic. We look at Time, Energy, Skills, Specialism and Asset value, the five layers that exist in your work whether you’re acknowledging them or not. When you price across all five, the numbers begin to make sense. If pricing has felt like the piece of your business that keeps wobbling, I recorded this for you. I want you to feel proud when you say your price. I want your business to feel expansive rather than draining. And I want you to have a structure that supports you long-term, rather than changing your rates every few months because you’re unsure. What You’ll Learn in This Episode Why pricing based purely on hours keeps you capped How clients actually experience value The link between undercharging and burnout What I mean by “high energy tax” How your experience and training should shape your pricing Why specialism increases your perceived value When asset value and ROI should be factored in The 5-part TESSA framework and how to apply it “When you only price on time, you either u…