Almost every creator we onboard starts by pricing themselves too low. It feels safer. It feels humble. It's also the fastest way to end up with an inbox full of low-effort questions and no real income to show for it.
Here's the framework we walk every creator through in their first week.
Start with the value of your time, not your follower count
Follower count is a vanity metric when it comes to pricing paid Q&A. What matters is the value of the answer you can give — and how much of your finite time it takes to give it.
A useful starting point: what's the smallest amount of money that would make you happy to spend 10 focused minutes on a single question from a stranger? For most creators that number is between $5 and $25. If you have real domain expertise (coaching, finance, legal-adjacent, medical-adjacent, career), start at $25 and go up from there.
Price for the person you want in your inbox
Your price is a filter. A $2 question invites tire-kickers, spam, and low-context asks. A $25 question invites people who've actually thought about what they want to ask you.
You are not trying to maximize question volume. You are trying to maximize signal — real questions from real fans, worth a real answer.
Raise your price every time your queue builds up
If you have more questions in your queue than you can comfortably answer inside a week, raise your price by 25%. Repeat until the queue stabilizes at a volume you actually enjoy answering.
This is the single move that separates hobbyist creators from creators who treat this like a business. Your price should always be climbing, slowly, until it hits the level where demand and your available time meet.
Bonus: make your best answers public
Public answers are your #1 growth channel. Every answer you toggle public becomes a permanent piece of content on your profile that new fans read before they buy. Price is what filters; public answers are what sells.
Set your price like you respect your time — because your fans already do.
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