I ask, "Why not?"
The fact is, there IS NO REASON why not! We are simply conditioned to think this way due to the Good, Fast, or Cheap Paradigm. And we find comfort in it. We think since we're slower, we are doing a better job.
Quite frankly, this is ludicrous thinking.
It's also VERY dangerous when it comes to evaluating your competition and marketing to clients, because the "Good, Fast, or Cheap Paradigm" is obsolete.
For the moment, let's leave Cheap, and anything having related to do with cost, out of the equation. Let's say you know you're good at indexing. But, you're not fast. You want to be good AND fast. How can you gain speed?
You've probably heard about thing like learning software shortcuts and enhancing your keyboarding skills.
However, there are at least 18 areas that affect our speed and how much material we can index in any given timeframe.
This means, there are at least 18 factors that affect much we can earn at indexing. The more you can implement the 18 factors in your life and business, the faster you'll be and the more you can index in a given timeframe, hence earn more money at indexing.
It does NOT mean your quality will suffer. It means you'll produce the SAME GOOD QUALITY, BUT MUCH FASTER!
The bottom line effect means you can either work less but still bring in the same income, OR you can take on more work to increase your income. All without lowering the quality of your work. Quality is quality. The object is to keep quality, while increasing speed.
In other words, if you formerly did 100 pages a week, quality work, you might be able to increase that to 300 pages, or more, per week. You can accept more jobs during the same identical timeframe.
You don't get a "raise" by charging your clients more. You get a "raise" by being able to do more work in the same amount of time.
Some feel if you're good and fast, that you should charge more. This is actually employee-type thinking. If you're good and fast, since you're self-employed, you simply do more work to round out your week (which gives you more income for no additional hours spent at work!) OR enjoy the time off
