{"id":68,"date":"2026-10-04T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sevigram.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:09:22","slug":"pls-how-much-and-the-conversation-that-follows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sevigram.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pls How Much?&#8221; and the Conversation That Follows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You post your work. Someone comments &#8220;price?&#8221; Another person sends &#8220;pls how much&#8221; in your DMs. You reply with a figure, and the chat goes quiet. Seen. No response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most service providers in Nigeria know this feeling, and many have decided the answer is to hide their prices completely: &#8220;DM for price.&#8221; Then they spend half their day answering the same question forty times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the thing about price silence. It rarely means &#8220;too expensive&#8221;. Often the person was only trying to understand the range. They hadn&#8217;t decided anything yet, they had no context for your number, and it was easier to disappear than to say &#8220;I&#8217;m just checking.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sevigram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pexels-photo-30689327-30689327-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Two women shopping together in a Lagos mini mart, enjoying selecting snacks and groceries.\" class=\"wp-image-69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sevigram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pexels-photo-30689327-30689327-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.sevigram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pexels-photo-30689327-30689327-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sevigram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pexels-photo-30689327-30689327-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.sevigram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pexels-photo-30689327-30689327-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.sevigram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pexels-photo-30689327-30689327-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can&#8217;t control that, but you can lower the awkwardness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Give a starting point.<\/strong> &#8220;Braids from \u20a615,000&#8221; or &#8220;Logo projects start at \u20a680,000&#8221; filters out people who were never going to book, without scaring away those who would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Explain what the number covers.<\/strong> The same service can mean two hours or two days of work. 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