Before you talk to me · nothing saved, nothing sent
This cannot tell you what you will earn, and it does not try. It takes your own numbers and shows you the smallest change that would matter — one table, one conversation, one client, one paycheck — so you can decide whether a $39 seat is a reasonable bet. My defaults are deliberately small, and you can put in your own instead.
Your numbers
Pick the situation closest to yours. My defaults are deliberately small and you can change them, and the answer is shown in the smallest unit I can put it in — one table, one client, one paycheck — because that is the part you can picture.
There is nothing for you to fill in here, and that is deliberate. Read the panel on the right.
What that means
What are these skills worth in your work?
Pick the situation closest to yours and put in your own numbers. Nothing here is saved.
I cannot tell you what you will earn. Too much of that is outside a ninety-minute workshop and outside my control, and anyone who puts a number on it is making it up. What this does is take your own numbers and show you what a small change would be worth, so you can decide whether $39 is a reasonable bet.
Nothing you type here leaves your browser.
For reference
Rough figures, to show the shape of it. Yours will be different, which is the point of the calculator above.
| Business | A regular customer | One year | $297 breaks even at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurant | $38 a visit, twice a month | $912 | About 4 months of one regular |
| Boutique retail | $65 a visit, six times a year | $390 | About 9 months |
| Gym or studio | $59 a month | $708 | About 5 months |
| Dog boarding | $220 a stay, four stays | $880 | About 4 months |
| Trades or services | $340 a job, twice a year | $680 | About 5 months |
None of these say a workshop will keep a customer. They say what one customer is worth, so you can judge the size of the bet for yourself.
Same idea from the other side. Three percent is a small number that sounds like nothing until you put it next to the thing it is three percent of.
| If you are | Three percent is | Which is | The $39 seat is |
|---|---|---|---|
| A server on $140 a shift | $4.20 a shift | Two tables of fourteen tipping a fifth better | About ten shifts |
| A bartender on $210 a shift | $6.30 a shift | Three tabs a night going better | About six shifts |
| A stylist on $95 a day in tips | $2.85 a day | One client in ten | About fourteen days |
| On commission at $45 a sale | One more sale a month | One conversation in about 170 | Less than one sale |
| Hourly at $41,600 a year | A 4% step, $64 a paycheck | $1,664 a year, and it compounds | About one paycheck of the step |
These are illustrations, not promises. The calculator above uses your numbers instead of mine, which is the only version that should matter to you.
Two ways in.
It is just me
A live online workshop — Tuesday 22 September evening or Saturday 26 September morning. Small group, real practice, a workbook, and twenty minutes with me afterwards.
See dates and register →I have a team
A workshop on your floor or live online, scheduled around your shifts. Runs as training or as a team day. You pick two dates that suit you and I confirm one.
See workshops for teams →Not sure which? Send one line about your situation and I will tell you which of the two is the better use of your money — or whether one-to-one coaching fits better. Or put your own numbers in and decide without talking to anyone.
Questions
Where the numbers come from, what the result does and does not claim, why one of the five situations refuses to produce a figure, and what happens to anything you type.
It takes one situation from your working life, asks for two or three numbers you already know, and shows you what a year of that situation adds up to. It is arithmetic, done in the open, so you can see exactly which number is doing the work and change it if it is wrong.
No, and I would not trust anyone who told you it was. The number is the size of what is at stake in the situation, not a forecast of your results. It answers "how much is riding on this part of my work," which is a question you can answer from what you already know. It does not answer "what will a workshop earn me," which nobody can.
From you. Your tip average, your commission on one deal, the raise you are aiming at, what a client is worth to your business over a year. No industry benchmark is quietly doing the work in the background, which is deliberate: a national average would make the output look more authoritative and mean less.
Because any number there would be invented. If you have not started earning yet, there is no tip average and no commission to scale up, and a figure built on assumptions about a job you do not have yet would be a guess wearing a dollar sign. That branch gives you what the research supports instead.
No. The whole thing runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored, and there is no email box to get past before you see your result. Close the tab and it is gone.
Decide whether the thing at stake is bigger than the cost of getting better at it. Two of the five situations point toward one-to-one coaching at $45, because they turn on a single conversation. The other three point toward the $39 workshop, because they turn on a habit you use every week.
Still not sure? Email hello@nextready.studio or call 480.371.9314. I answer my own email, usually the same day, and I will tell you straight if this is not the right fit.