Creating an experience means that work becomes a performance for which you charge an admission fee. What would you have to revise to sell a ticket to engage with your business? The answer to this question can launch your business beyond the first three stages of economic value–commodity, goods and services–to the fourth stage, the experience.
Value Pricing Is A Competitive Advantage with Michael Bradley – 097
As a profession, lawyers may be the most resistant to value pricing due to their conservative nature. However, this is the very reason Michael Bradley from Marque Lawyers considers it a strategic advantage. The outcome for the customer is the first priority. If Marque cannot create value for the customer, they will not engage simply to make money.
Learn to Value Price Through a Process with Andrew Robertson – 085
The accounting profession is conservative by nature. Yet Peter Drucker said, “Profit comes from risk”. This juxtaposition of stability vs. stretching describes the challenge of the accountant to innovate in his practice. Andrew Robertson has created a consultancy for accountants to help them bridge the gap. He starts by creating standard offerings for common services like taxes and financial statements. Then he layers custom advisory services, unique for each customer, to move the relationship up the value curve.
The Most Important Thing About Pricing Vol. 2 – 078
Happy New Year! At start of each show I ask my expert guest the same question: What is the most important thing you can share about pricing? After 50 interviews in 2015, I have compiled their answers into Volume 2 of “The Most Important Thing About Pricing”. It’s About the Customer Ray Edwards – Set your price based on the value […]
Why I Disagree With Seth Godin
Seth Godin recently published a blog post titled When to charge by the hour. And while usually I agree with most of what he writes, this time, I have a different point of view. First, in principle, I do not believe anything should be priced by the hour. The customer is buying the outcome of the […]
Creating and Pricing A WordPress Plugin with Jason Coleman – 075
Jason Coleman is the founder of Stranger Studios and the creator of Paid Memberships Pro, a membership plugin for WordPress. He is the co-author of Building Web Apps with WordPress. Jason enjoys playing Minecraft and Super Mario Maker with his kids. Kary Oberunner‘s podcast with Kirk is here: How to tell your friends their Digital Fly© is down […]
Pay What You Want Pricing with Tom Morkes – 016
Tom Morkes is an expert at Pay What You Want pricing. In fact, he wrote a book on it. PWYW pricing lets the consumer choose the price to pay for the product or service. What is the most important thing you can share about pricing? Pricing is marketing. How you price your products and services is part of marketing, and […]
Creating and Pricing High-Value Services with Jason Blumer – 014
Jason Blumer is an accountant and entrepreneur, constantly starting businesses. His focus for the past few years has been on business coaching, trying to change businesses from the inside out. He is trying to single-handedly start a revolution in the accounting industry. He runs Blumer CPAs, a virtual accounting firm. He started the Thriveal CPA Network to help […]
Value Is Subjective, Pricing Is Contextual with Ron Baker – 013
Ron Baker is the author of six books, including Implementing Value Pricing. He’s the founder of the VeraSage Institute and a Graduate of Disney Institute. He’s on the faculty of the Professional Pricing Society and a host on a talk radio show, The Soul of Enterprise. He’s a LinkedIn Influencer blogger and a recovering CPA. All Value Is Subjective What is the […]