Pricing questions are about the strategies, tactics, processes and decisions for directly monetizing products and services.
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How to project product pricing for medical college/school
Our clients are medical schools/colleges. We have given a free product trial for 2 months with our first client. It is a unique product, there's a great learning process and we have had an amazing ...
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What's the best way to offer an educational discount online?
I'm thinking about offering a discount to students for a software product. I may even give them free licenses. What's the best/easiest way of verifying that someone is a student or an educator?
Would ...
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How Should I Price My Products or Services
Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place.
For this question and answer, we will tackle the Pricing ...
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Finance / Interest rate question
Interest rate calculation (monthly versus yearly)
I am trying to convince my CEO that it would be better to charge our customers who have an outstanding balance a 3% compounding interest rate instead ...
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How to inform client of rate increase?
It's been 3+ years of service. No problems, great relationship. However, I need to increase the rate at which I bill as well as to tell them that I am no longer going to provide service for specific ...
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Alternatives to hourly rates for web design?
I've made this clear in some of my other questions, but for the sake of getting a more diverse viewpoint I'm asking a separate question.
I'm 14 years old, but really passionate about web design. I ...
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What can I do to increase revenue?
I have developed a tool, and I have gotten a great response from it. I have 400+ registered users and 15 paid users without any ads and stuff. Paid users pay $5.99/month to use this tool. Now I want ...
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How to get an LLC license for my Blog business?
I've been blogging for a while now and I would like to establish my blog as a business (LLC). I heard that its the best license that suits a blog business.
Any suggestions as to where I can get the ...
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Question about payment plans
I am working on a similar service like netflix but for foreign television. How much should I charge? $10.00/month? What would determine that for me?
Also how do you think Netflix partners with ...
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How to communicate an increase in the yearly maintenance license?
I am selling an enterprise system. So far there has been no real sales-volume, so I do not have any price model to publish. The few customers I have are really happy with the solution.
My question ...
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Proper Price to Charge Clients for Various SLAs
I am the co-owner of a small web development firm. We offer Ruby on Rails programming for our clients which mostly consist of small companies. We typically charge $80-$110 per hour. For 2/3 of our ...
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Free trials and future pricing for early adopters
Ive been thinking about how to deal with early adopters of a SaaS web application in terms of ramping them up from free trial early access users to fully paying customers. Im wondering if there might ...
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What is the right fee or model to charge professional services to an enteprise project?
I have seen some charge by the hour and others by the project...wha'ts the best approach and why? If you charge lets' say $1500 per day and your costs are a part time Project manager, a business ...
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How to fund start up through a one off project and turn it into a product rather than a contract piece of work?
Background:
I have been asked by a company to put together a proposal to build a highly specialised piece of software. The company is a new player in the financial sector who needs to have this ...
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Can Price be the ONLY competitive advantage?
I am just venturing into a new product and one thing I realised is that "Price is the ONLY one advantage" I have. I have solid web-development experience and I can build web apps in a fraction of time ...
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How to set your price in USD and EUR?
Many US-based companies charge the same amount in the US as in Europe: a certain item will cost 100 USD when bought in the US, and 100 EUR when bought in Europe. This really means that the European ...
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How to price a software “per project” relatively to its “per seat” price?
By targeting multiple segments, we have to price our software according to different schemes. We are currently thinking about defining a "per project" license.
We are doing the following computation:
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Are there any reasons not to sell software to large enterprises solely for a quarterly fee?
I am about to give an offer for software to a large enterprise. I know that it is normal to say that there is an upfront price for software and a yearly maintenance fee of around 18% of the upfront ...
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How should I price our SaaS for resellers?
Our product is a platform for organizing health related games. Our customers are corporate wellness coordinators, and the games are played in the context of their company. One of our strategies is to ...
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What would you charge for this app?
We are in talks with our first app-development client, who are first-time app-development customers and have done no research on custom app pricing or gotten other bids. It's been a bit of a ...
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How do I price website advertisements?
We want to start selling ad space on our niche website, however are unsure at what factors make up the ad price.
We will start offering ad space once we are getting 3k-5k visitors per month. Based on ...
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Pricing. Do you think USD120/Day is a reasonable rate for an English-Chinese translator in Mainland China? [closed]
When you need a translator to accompany you to factories, what rate do you think is reasonable for an English-Chinese translator in Mainland China?
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How to price a White Labeled or CoBranded Web App?
I run a startup web app that is an informational resource as well as marketplace. The marketplace side has been slow to ramp up, so revenue is minimal.
Recently, I've been contacted by several ...
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Web app pricing in EUR or USD?
I'm about to launch my own web app. Being in Europe and thinking about pricing I'm wondering if I should charge in EURO or US DOLLAR?
I have no concrete numbers, but I expect 70-80% of the customers ...
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How do I price my expensive software and charge $100,000 in a presentable way?
We have a software product that increases productivity of engineers and allows them to build/prototype new products. It costs $25,000 to use it for 3 months. A big name company is interested. How do I ...
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Should my web agency have different rates for design, programming, SEO, etc?
My small agency handles everything web-related for our clients, including domain registration, hosting, graphic design, back-end programming, ecommerce, search engine marketing, etc. Historically we ...
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Pricing for very first web app
My question concerns pricing and I hope someone here will offer us the benefit of their experience. A friend is moving from avid autodidactic tinkerer to professional web app developer this week ...
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Should I raise the price of my product?
I'm the owner of this site and the product offered there. As you can see, the current price is $29.95. It is very cheap compared to most web scrapers like this.
There are two reasons why I want to ...
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Giving away a software program for free: competitors' responses?
I have a small startup that developed a software program. I've copyrighted the software and am working on patent protection, and I've started some marketing. It has been a very low-cost effort so ...
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Finding out how much to charge - what is the process called
What is it called when you are in process where you are trying to find out how much to charge in listing fees, transaction fees, membership and/or advertising on your website?
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Agile With Fixed Pricing?
I am starting a company and am considering agile development, but I don't understand how a Fixed Price contract (the type I would like to use), could work. It seems like the point of Agile is to keep ...
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What is the secret of Dropbox's success?
Why is Dropbox so much more successful than many other sites that offer/offered essentially the same service?
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What should a small company charge for development of a mobile (Android) app?
The context of this question is a small web design company that wants to branch out to do mobile application development. I am wondering two things:
What average hourly fee do you charge a client as ...
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What's the best book on pricing you've ever read? [closed]
What's the best book you've ever read on pricing?
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What advantages does price discrimination have over the using the same price for everyone?
I'm trying to decide whether to change my pricing scheme from 'the same price for everyone' to 'a different price depending on which customer you are' (price discrimination / price differentiation). ...
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General cost per click (CPC) price in developed countries?
I know this question is a bit artificial, please don't explain me the concept, etc. because I am a professional senior e-marketer. I was just wondering how much do you think one general link click ...
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The ramifications of testing prices
I would like to test prices for a SAAS (software as a service) product. I know how to do A/B testing. My question has to do with the ramifications of such testing. If we sell to Customer A for $99 and ...
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Convenience fees for third parties
We're looking into building a site that would facilitate receiving payments online for places that do no have this capability. There's more to the site than receiving payments, it also makes sure ...
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What enterprise software pricing models exist?
Just looking for some examples on what other people use as a pricing model for their enterprise software.
Does anyone charge based on # of employees (not # of actual users)? We figure the # of ...
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Startup discounts
I have started interviewstreet.com recently (helps in screening programmers). We have got around 10 paying customers who pay between $x-$y a month for the same product , same specifications, etc.
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Why isn't there a culture of paying for software frameworks?
Note: Cross-posted at programmers.stackexchange.com
One of the side effects of the recent trend of "Lean" startups, and the app store era, is that consumers are more acclimatised to paying small ...
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Figuring out margin on fixed costs
I'm currently hashing out my price points for a hosting service that I plan on launching on Amazon AWS.
The biggest line item in the budget is currently the machine time. I know that if I give a user ...
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Comparing enterprise, self hosted pricing to SaaS pricing for a smaller client? Changing industry pricing models?
We're trying to figure out the pricing for a service we've been asked to provide (a couple times, in passing, actually in reference to something we've pitched that hasn't hit the mark "well that's ...
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Enterprise Software: List prices?
Do you enterprise software people list your prices on your website? Most enterprise software seems to require the customer get in touch for a quote. What are you thoughts on this?
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How the pricing strategy of an eye-tracking service should be set up?
What price would you pay for remote eye-tracking services? (per capita)
Considering the following
* results delivered in 24 hours
* reliability of the test would be arond 80-90%
* pricing based on ...
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Can anyone share experiences in licensing content?
I have two companies that have interest in licensing my business's content (training materials). I want to offer exclusive and non-exclusive pricing options, maintenance fees (for annual updates), ...
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Charging for extending and rebranding a service
I have a public facing web application that a company have asked me to rebrand to them (host on their site, change name and logo to them) and also add some new features. The new features are a good ...
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Getting paid according to what a company saves
I am considering creating a solution, which would save large companies time. I am certain that they would save this time, so I am willing to sell my solution for a price that is proportional to what ...
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One-day-access trial pricing plan
I have a Japanese learning community website...
Currently there are three main plans...
Free: Access some of the content (some 20 lessons, a few cheat sheets, etc.), for free, forever. This is ...
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Monthly or Annual Subscriptions? Or Both?
I wanted to know what people's opinions were on monthly versus annual subscriptions. If I did go with annual payments it would offer a discount over the month-to-month costs for the year.
Anyways, ...
