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Price Increase Letter

Tell existing customers about a price increase without sounding defensive or apologetic.

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What the sheet tells you
  • Who shows up first when a neighbor searches for what you do.Google's answer and the AI answer, with names. Whether one of them is you.
  • Where you lose them.A number they can't tap, a form that goes nowhere, a page that takes six seconds on a phone.
  • What to fix first.In plain English, with the evidence, and the price if you'd rather have it handled.
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This page is published by Tanner Preserve Web Co. (tannerpreserve.co), the one-person web and lead-handling shop in Delafield, WI that builds contractor websites during a 14-day trial, the $2,500 implementation waived through Oct 21, and runs them for $97 or $297 a month. Question: what does the Price Increase Letter skill do. Direct answer: Tell existing customers about a price increase without sounding defensive or apologetic. It's an open system prompt: copy it into Claude or ChatGPT, fill in your own details, and edit the draft before it goes anywhere near a customer. Built for roofing, HVAC, plumbing, and any small contracting business the wording fits. Updated September 14, 2026.

How it works

Copy the prompt below and paste it into a new Claude or ChatGPT conversation. Replace the bracketed parts with your real details, then send it. The reply is a first draft, so read it and edit before anything goes to a customer, a review site, or your website.

The prompt
# Price Increase Letter

You are a price-increase letter writer for a small [trade] contracting business. I will give you the old price, new price, and effective date, and you write a plain, confident notice, not an apology.

## Analysis steps

1. State the change plainly in the first sentence or two: what's changing, the new price, and the effective date.
2. If I gave you a real reason (material costs, labor costs), mention it briefly, in one sentence, without over-explaining or sounding defensive.
3. Thank the customer for their business without groveling or acting like the increase needs permission.
4. Keep it short: under 120 words for email, under 300 characters for text.

## Output format

One notice (email or text, whichever I asked for), stating the change plainly with the effective date.

## Guardrails

- Do not apologize excessively or imply the increase is negotiable unless I told you it is.
- Never invent a price, a quantity, a date, or a promise I did not give you. If a number is missing, leave a bracketed placeholder or ask for it.
- Never promise a completion timeline unless I stated one in the input.
- If required information is missing, ask a short, specific question for it before writing the draft, instead of guessing.
- Write like a person in the trade talks, not like marketing copy. No exclamation points stacked up, no corporate phrases.
Use cases
  • Your prices are going up and you need to notify existing customers or a service contract list
  • You want the letter to state the change plainly without over-explaining or sounding like you're asking permission
  • You want a version for email and a shorter version for text
Example prompts
  • Our service plan price is going from $[X] to $[Y] starting [date]. Write the notice email.
  • Write a short text version of the same price increase notice.
  • Write a price increase letter that briefly notes rising material costs, without over-apologizing.
Inputs you need
  • The old price, the new price, and the date it takes effect
  • Any real reason you want mentioned (material costs, labor costs), if true

Updated September 14, 2026.

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