Pro tip: the guy who ran the shop next door said 'charge more and fire your worst client' and it worked
He ran a print shop in Sacramento and kept telling me this every time I stopped by for coffee, and honestly I nodded along for a year without doing anything about it. Last March I finally raised my design rates 40 percent and let go of the client who paid $600 a month but ate up half my week, and I ended up bringing in $2,100 more that quarter with fewer hours. Has anyone else actually cut a client loose and had it backfire, or did it just make room for better ones like it did for me?