SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Why Do Most Entrepreneurs Under Price Their Offerings Initially? Yes, most of us at first under-price and then slowly raise prices as we gain confidence. Closing those first 10, 100, 200 customers proves your value, your reason to exist, demonstrates traction, etc. Most especially in the early days.

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TrackStreet

APRIL 26, 2024

In a competitive industry for a specific type of product or service, businesses often engage in pricing wars that lead to a steady decrease in the value of goods. This devaluation is called Pricing Erosion. Now you’re wondering: Is there more to the definition of Pricing Erosion? What is Pricing Erosion?

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The Advantexe Advisor

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Earlier this week, I shared a blog post called, “The Impact of Price Discounting on Gross Margin from a Business Acumen Perspective.” In it, we shared insights and ideas about how cutting prices can impact the business from the business acumen perspective, most notably gross margin and profit metrics.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Dear SaaStr: Should SaaS Pricing Be Adjusted for Different Geographical Markets? Your public pricing? Second, your users will see the pricing is “cheaper” somewhere else and get mad. You should do this as soon as you have 5% of your customers in any given country. Make the pricing roughly comparable. Europe, etc.

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ClickFunnels

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The post Lead Generation Pricing Model – How Much Lead Gen May Cost You appeared first on ClickFunnels. Your job in this business is to find your client business qualified leads that they can turn into customers.”. Pricing Model — How does the lead-gen business charge? 4 Most Common Lead-Gen Pricing Models. It depends.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2021

Price is important—of course, but sometimes I think we, sales people, make it more important than it is to the customer. Too often, pricing, moreover our willingness to discount, is the centerpiece of our sales strategies. First, the customer will always say that prices is important.

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SaaStr

MARCH 14, 2024

Mobile Subscription Pricing is Flat, Not Up This is interesting. I suspect it’s because of the huge friction in mobile of moving beyond organic price points like $9.99 a month to pricing, especially for the existing base. #3. Do better here. In mobile, you have to, or folks are on to the next app.

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Lead Fuze

JUNE 28, 2023

Understanding how to explain a price increase to customers is an essential skill for any business owner, marketer or sales representative. In the current economic atmosphere, with its growing costs and supply shortages, it’s likely that companies may have to up their prices.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

New documents detail the alleged deceptive practices used to boost consumer prices by more than $1 billion including deliberately making Amazon search worse – a strategy reportedly approved by chairman Jeff Bezos. ” Rejecting guard rails to protect customers. Raising prices for consumers. Why we care.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

Raise prices on existing customers, Doesn’t help if you are growing quickly. Raise prices on new customers, Forces you to deliver more value. Dear SaaStr: How Do You Change the Price of Your SaaS Product Without Upsetting Existing Customers? My vote: don’t raise prices for existing customers.

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Martech

JULY 12, 2023

Salesforce is increasing its prices by an average of 9% next month, the company announced yesterday. This is the company’s first price hike in seven years. Dig deeper: Salesforce: AI is the new UI The new pricing will go into effect globally for new customers and existing customers purchasing new clouds in August 2023.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Most Important Thing in Pricing A New SaaS Product? If your product is like Salesforce, but 5x more important, and that is clear to customers — then yes, you probably can charge 5x as much as Salesforce, or at least as much ? More here: The 3 Types of Day 1 Pricing: Low End of Normal.

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Topline Leadership

APRIL 9, 2024

One common theme in their answers was the timing of pricing discussions. A customer keeps pressing the salesperson for a price early on during the discussions and won’t budge until they hear an answer from the salesperson. Read full article The post Why and How to Delay Price Discussions appeared first on TopLine Leadership.

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The Advantexe Advisor

APRIL 19, 2024

There is significant confusion in the business world between Operational Excellence and a Low-Price Strategy.

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The 5% Institute

JULY 13, 2023

Setting the right price for your products or services is a crucial aspect of any business strategy. Finding the balance between attracting customers and maximizing profits can be challenging, but with a strategic approach, you can unlock the secrets to pricing effectively.

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Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changing force for revolutionizing customer experience (CX). This article explores how leading companies leverage AI across three key areas — clear messaging, frictionless interactions and tailored experiences — to shape customer experience.

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Martech

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Good morning, Marketers, pricing is also messaging. I was interviewing an expert in dynamic pricing when I first learned about this. Although pricing sounds like a more sales-driven strategy, it can also be part of that blend of positive impressions that marketers communicate to their customers.

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Hubspot

MARCH 18, 2024

Strategically framing your prices. It doesn’t matter if you're operating in the luxury market or if your product is as cheap as chips — it’s how you frame those prices that will influence prospects and accelerate your close rate. 4 Powerful Pricing Tactics That Have Nothing to Do With Discounts 1. Let’s take a look.

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2023

So price increases have been the name of the game in SaaS for the past 12 months, in many (not all) cases to help make up for slowing growth: Zendesk up 16% Salesforce up 9% Google Workspace up 20% HubSpot up 12% Webflow up 16% Shopify up 33% Slack up 10% And some of them like Slack and Salesforce hadn’t raised list prices in quite some time.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The concept of randomized generalized second-price (RGSP) auctions sent shockwaves through the PPC community after the subject took center stage at the Google antitrust trial. ” “The Google Ads system works best for everybody when the ads we show are relevant and closely match what customers are searching for.”

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Jeff Shore

MAY 22, 2018

The earlier you talk about price, the more likely it is that you will lose the sale. When you get trapped into a price discussion right out of the gate, you are jeopardizing the entire sale. Because an early price conversation will draw your customer’s mind in the wrong direction. Price is what you pay.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 9, 2022

Five Ways To Prepare For Hybrid Customer Engagement. Thank you, Maria Hatter , for helping us prepare for hybrid customer engagement. . Many companies have begun introducing or testing subscription programs, for example, Taco Bell recently announced a program where customers can pay $10 per month and receive one free taco per day.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2023

OpenAI has released APIs for ChatGPT and Whisper (which does speech-to-text conversion) at a price the company says is 10 times cheaper than its existing models. It is also possible they’ve cut prices and are offering a loss-leader to ward off potential competitors. The Whisper large-V2 model is priced at $0.006 per minute.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2023

If you do raise prices, how about also adding more value than price increase? 2023 has become the year of not just the aggressive price increase, but the threatening renewal conversation. 2023 has become the year of not just the aggressive price increase, but the threatening renewal conversation. At least, feel better.

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2023

Dear SaaStr: How does a SaaS company find its initial price point? If you are more valuable than the comp, and are confident selling that value — pricing higher than your comp can work well. Your customers will understand it. Just consider grandfathering in your earlier customers. It’s pretty simple. And Anchor High.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Q: Dear SaaStr: Should I Publish My Pricing? Transparent pricing has many advantages: It makes the sales process simpler. And it places you app in pricing context with other apps. Do pricing right, and a number of customers who aren’t a great fit qualify themselves out. If you aren’t sure — then yes.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

HubSpot for example, which has been very judicious on holding the line on pricing and ACVs, raised prices 12% for the first time since 2018 — albeit only on new customers: Slack also similarly did its first pricing increase in history recently, of about 10%: Prices are going up in SaaS.

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Engage Selling

JUNE 17, 2022

Discover six ways to handle price increases like a sales pro! Price increases are a big part of life now, but most sellers can’t be like the local gas station … Read More. The post 6 Ways to Handle Price Increases Like a Sales Pro first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 3, 2023

My post, Games Sellers Play, Pricing/Discounting, generated a lot of interesting conversation and questions. One pervasive question was, “How do I compete against competitors whose price is less than ours?” That is what is most important, that is what the customers must focus on in their buying process.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 20, 2022

He reported on pricing problems within the sales organization. I can’t recap the conversation, but here are some of the issues we discussed: Pricing is never established by sales It’s usually established by some combination of product management, finance, and sometimes strategy. But sales never establishes pricing!

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Salesmate

MAY 22, 2020

You’ll hardly meet a sales rep who has never faced the “price objection”. Do you remember the times when you thought of not purchasing a product due to its high price? Price objection is like a poison that can kill your sales. Examples to handle the price objection in sales? Sorry, the price is too high”.

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SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2024

They wanted to do three things: Enter a space they had no product or customers in today; and Add on at least $10m of extra revenue for the year; and Not add too much to their burn rate. The post Can You Still Get Acquired for a Decent Price if Growth Has Slowed or Even Stopped? Yeah, Sometimes appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2023

So I think 2023 may mark The End of Customer Success as We Knew It. The Massive Push to Efficiency As almost every public SaaS company got cash-flow positive and radically more efficient, and most startups had to stretch their dollars much further — customer success took a lot of the brunt. On to the Next Era of Customer Success.

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Hubspot

MAY 16, 2022

Obviously, that figure has massive implications for businesses of all sizes, and several business owners are faced with a question that's every bit as uncomfortable as it is pressing: What do we do about our prices? Tips for Fair Inflation-Driven Pricing. Tips for Fair Inflation-Driven Pricing.

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G2

MARCH 6, 2024

To survive this new dynamic, a brand or retailer must approach multi-channel pricing to prioritize growth, profit, and customer loyalty. Consumers today insist on making the retailer come to them, online or offline, flipping this long-standing relationship on its head. In 2008, that number was only two.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2022

Q: How can enterprise software (SaaS) pricing be optimally defined, taking into account that two of three versions of the software can be offered, e.g. ‘small’, ‘medium’, ‘large’? different enterprise products … each with different approaches to pricing! Segment your pricing (we know this).

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