EPISODE · Feb 10, 2026 · 15 MIN
Stop Billing Hourly — The Pricing Fix That Scaled Her Services Business From Burnout to Profit
from Product Growth Stories · host Jean-Michel Moreau
She undercharged, burned out, and almost repeated the same mistake outside corporate. Here's how she fixed pricing. Featuring Linda Hunt, Founder of SumSolutions. Jean-Michel and Linda unpack how service-based entrepreneurs — especially those leaving corporate — sabotage their own growth through people-pleasing pricing. Linda shares the exact method she built to move from hourly billing to value-based packages, and why understanding your minimum aligned price is the difference between surviving and scaling. 💲 How hourly billing penalizes your best performers 🎯 The "baseline audit" trick that builds trust and sells itself 🧮 Calculate your minimum aligned price in three steps 📦 Why value-based packages outperform hourly every time 📖 Linda's upcoming book: The Money Conversation ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 Linda's corporate burnout and the limo driver story 02:00 The real cost of 95% travel 03:00 What corporate didn't teach about entrepreneurship 04:30 Undervaluing yourself and people-pleasing pricing 06:00 From hourly billing to value-based packages 07:45 Why the baseline audit changes the sales conversation 09:30 Competing on price vs. competing on transformation 11:00 How Linda gets clients today through relational capital 13:00 The Money Conversation — Linda's upcoming book on pricing 🔥 Want to turn conversations into qualified pipeline for your SaaS company? 👉 https://www.rapidproductgrowth.com 🔗 Website: https://www.rapidproductgrowth.com 🔗 Jean-Michel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanmichelthink/ #SaaS #B2BSales #PricingStrategy #GrowthStories #RapidProductGrowth
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