Coaching practices for How to Set a Floor Price

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• I know roughly what I want, but I’ve never pinned down the exact number where I’d say no
• A salary conversation is coming and I freeze on the number
• When we’re going back and forth on the price I just keep bumping my number up by the same chunk each time to keep things moving, and I can’t tell whether I’m signaling I’ve still got plenty of room to give.
• I always name a clean round figure when I put my offer out, and it lands like an opening placeholder that’s begging to be haggled down
• I’ve got a salary talk coming up and I actually know what the role is worth, but my instinct is to hang back politely and let them say a number first

Practices that may help

1. Calculate your reservation price directly from your BATNA
   Your walk-away point should be derived from your BATNA — not from your aspiration or your fear.
   BATNA: Your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement
2. Use the door-in-the-face structure in salary and price negotiations
   In salary negotiation, opening high is partly a door-in-the-face move — your real ask lands against a high anchor.
   The Door-in-the-Face Technique, Made Practical
3. Use the Ackerman bid sequence: 65%–85%–95%–100% of target
   Make four calculated offers that converge on your target with shrinking steps — each concession signals you are approaching your limit.
   The Ackerman Method, Made Practical
4. Use precise, non-round numbers in final offers
   A specific non-round number signals calculation and research, not an arbitrary position.
   The Ackerman Method, Made Practical
5. Make the first offer (when you’re informed)
   When you know the value range, anchor first — the opening number drags the deal toward it.
   Anchoring Bias in Negotiation and Judgment
6. Translate price into hours of work or future value
   Convert a price into concrete terms — work-hours or compound-growth — to make the real cost visible.
   The Marshmallow Test and Your Money
7. Convert time decisions to a common currency
   Ask "what is my time worth per hour?" and price time commitments in that currency.
   Opportunity Cost Thinking: What You Give Up When You Choose
8. Anchor your opening near your end of the ZOPA
   Open ambitiously — but inside the plausible zone — to shift the expected settlement point in your direction.
   ZOPA: The Zone of Possible Agreement
9. Pricing things in life-hours
   Convert a purchase into the hours of your life it costs to earn, then decide.
   Voluntary Simplicity, Made Practical
10. Anchor on the base rate before adding inside-view details
    Start your forecast from the class median, then adjust — do not start from your narrative and adjust to the base rate.
    Reference Class Forecasting

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