Help Me Price This | Guided ChatGPT Pricing Tool for Small Business Owners

You made it.

You bought it.

You customized it.

Now somebody asks, “How much?”

And suddenly you have no freaking idea.

Help Me Price This is a guided ChatGPT Thread Starter that helps you figure out what your product actually costs and what you should actually charge for it.

This is NOT a generic pricing calculator.

It is NOT a pricing course.

And you do NOT need to have all your numbers figured out before you start.

Show it the thing.

Give it whatever you know.

It will help you figure out the rest.

WHAT IF I DON’T KNOW ALL MY COSTS?

That’s the point.

Most small business owners can tell you the obvious cost of a product.

The blank cost $4.

The wood cost $8.

The wholesale item cost $12.

But that is not necessarily what the finished product actually costs you.

Help Me Price This walks through the product with you and helps uncover the costs that are easy to forget.

PURCHASED IT FOR RESALE?

You can tell it how many items you purchased and the total amount you paid, including shipping.

Even easier?

Upload your invoice, receipt, order confirmation, or a clear screenshot and let ChatGPT work from that.

It can help determine your actual cost per sellable item and account for other relevant expenses.

And if your answers reveal that the inventory has been sitting around long enough to celebrate a birthday, it can help you decide whether holding costs should be considered too.

HANDMAKE IT?

This is where Help Me Price This really digs in.

It does not just ask:

“How much did your materials cost?”

It helps you think through how you actually make the product from beginning to end.

That can include:

• Main materials

• Small supplies and consumables

• Waste and scraps

• Failed products

• Test pieces

• Equipment use

• Electricity when relevant

• Equipment maintenance and wear

• Replacement parts and machine consumables

• Prep time

• Production time

• Finishing time

• Cleanup

• Quality checking

• Packaging

• Labels and inserts

• Selling fees

• Your actual labor

• And the little costs specific to YOUR product that are easy to forget

And it doesn’t just throw a giant generic checklist at you.

If you make tumblers, it thinks through costs that make sense for tumblers.

If you sew, it thinks through that production process.

If you use a laser, heat press, printer, embroidery machine, cutting machine, oven, mixer, or other equipment, it helps you consider the costs that actually apply.

The goal is to uncover the things YOU may not have realized needed to be included.

BUY SOMETHING AND THEN CUSTOMIZE IT?

That works too.

Help Me Price This can combine the cost of the blank or base product with the additional materials, consumables, equipment, waste, labor, packaging, selling expenses, and other costs required to turn it into the finished product.

YOUR TIME COUNTS TOO.

If something takes 10 minutes to physically make but you also spend time prepping, customizing, finishing, checking it, cleaning up, and packaging it, that matters.

Help Me Price This helps uncover the labor surrounding the actual production instead of pretending your time is free.

DON’T KNOW EXACT NUMBERS?

That’s okay.

You do not need perfect accounting records to use this.

When an exact number is not available, the workflow can help you make a reasonable estimate and keep moving.

This is about getting to a useful price, not spending three days trying to determine whether your machine used four cents or five cents of electricity.

THEN IT CHECKS THE PRICE AGAINST REALITY.

Once the actual estimated cost is understood, Help Me Price This can consider other factors that matter, including:

• The current market when research would actually be useful

• Selling and payment processing fees

• Customer-paid versus seller-paid shipping

• Product quality

• Customization

• Profit

• Margin

• Discounts and sale pricing when relevant

• Wholesale when relevant

• The value of what you are actually selling

It does the math.

You do not need to understand markup versus margin.

You do not need to build a spreadsheet.

You do not need to research pricing formulas.

And you do not need to know which pricing strategy you are supposed to use.

THE GOAL IS AN ACTUAL PRICE.

This does not end with:

“You could probably charge somewhere between $20 and $50.”

No.

The goal is to work through the information and arrive at ONE specific, usable price you can actually put on the product.

When useful, it can also help identify things like a lowest reasonable price, sale price, or wholesale price.

But the job is not finished until you have the number.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Purchase and download the PDF.

2. Click the Start button inside the PDF.

3. Open Help Me Price This in your ChatGPT account.

4. Show it what you need to price.

You can use a photo, screenshot, link, invoice, receipt, product description, or simply tell it what you are selling.

5. Answer one question at a time.

The workflow figures out what information is actually needed based on your answers.

6. Work through your real costs.

7. Leave with a specific price you can actually use.

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

• 1 downloadable PDF quick-start guide

• Access to the Help Me Price This guided ChatGPT Thread Starter

• Guided pricing for purchased-for-resale products

• Guided pricing for handmade products

• Guided pricing for products you purchase and customize

• Product-specific hidden-cost brainstorming

• Help accounting for materials, supplies, waste, equipment, maintenance, labor, packaging, fees, and other relevant expenses

• Market checking when it is actually useful

• Help working with rough estimates when exact numbers are unavailable

• A specific usable price at the end of the workflow

YOU DO NOT NEED:

• A spreadsheet

• Perfect bookkeeping

• A list of every expense

• A pricing formula

• An accounting background

• To know your profit margin

• To know what you forgot

Bring the thing.

Bring whatever numbers you have.

Help Me Price This will walk through the rest with you.

Because “I think $20 sounds about right” is not a pricing strategy.

Let’s figure out what the damn thing actually costs you and put a real price on it.

ChatGPT account required.

This is a digital product. No physical product will be shipped.

Due to the nature of digital products, please review the product information carefully before purchasing.