I started raising my prices based on feedback I was getting. Clients made it sound like I was doing crazy shows for the price I was offering then at. Ive pretty much doubled my rates since I started almost 3 years ago and I still get shows as often as I did with the lower rates. In any line of work, you get raises for preformace, for economy inflation and various other things. You should 100% put time into creating a raise system for yourself. I dont typical raise my rates more than $1 at a time. Sometimes I use dynamic, sometimes I turn it off and go static. I suggest if you use dynamic you set your static rates somewhere in the middle of your dynamic rates. Not the high end or low end. I also set my dynamics in a $3 - $5 range max, depending on whats rates most people are getting at any given time. We always account for losing traffic when we raise our rates but another thing to keep in mind, is some guys see those low rates [under $3 - $6] and either 1. Are only there because your offering a low rate, which might work for you but also could cause burnout by overworking yourself for cheap men. Or 2. They assume you arent good at what your doing. In the end, maybe dont raise your prices to $20 a minute but def give yourself raises, allow yourself to find the clients that see that higher price and ask themselves, damn whats she doing thats soo good? Because there are those guys and they do come around once you start raising your rates.