Pricing
Your three tiers have one real price
Almost everyone buys the middle package. That looks like product-market fit, and it is usually something else entirely.
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Pricing
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Pricing
You sold certainty and charged for effort
Every fixed price is an insurance policy written by the supplier, and most quotes contain no premium for the risk…
Pricing
You productised the delivery. The diagnosis is still bespoke.
Fixed-price service packages usually hold their margin on the typical job and lose it in a predictable place, and it…
Pricing
Nobody complained about the price increase
An absence of pushback after a price rise is data, but it supports at least four different readings, and they…
Pricing
Your annual prepay discount is a loan at a rate you’d never sign for
Ten per cent off for paying twelve months upfront feels like a rounding error on the price list. Priced as…
Pricing
The setup was free. The setup team wasn’t.
Free implementation is sold as a discount, but it behaves like a product: it has a cost curve, a queue…
Pricing
Your quote is good for ninety days. Your supplier’s price is good for thirty.
Every open quote is an option you've written for free, and the ones exercised late are rarely the ones you…
Pricing
Your retainer is priced on the average and staffed for the peak
Recurring revenue that arrives smoothly and is consumed in bursts hides a cost most service firms never price, and a…
Pricing
The overhead was spread by revenue. The work wasn’t.
Most cost allocations are a convenience rather than a measurement, and that convenience quietly decides which customers you chase and…
Pricing
The referral arrived with a price already attached
Referral customers cost less to win and close faster. They also tend to arrive already anchored to what the account…
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This is the general pattern. Your business is the specific case.
Everything here is free to read with an account, and always will be. What it cannot do is tell you which of these applies to your numbers, your market and your constraints. That is the work we do with clients.