Pricing questions are about the strategies, tactics, processes and decisions for directly monetizing products and services.
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Should security updates be free?
A customer has found a serious security flaw in my software, over a year after their support period has ended. Should I provide a free update?
The upgrade price is substantial, so I don't want to ...
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1answer
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Cutting the price for Mac App from $40 to $0 (going freemium)
I'm selling a Mac application for $40 and thinking about to go freemium. For now is just a mac app and I'm going to build a web service with an api, native cloud sync + win client + web app = ...
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2answers
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B2C - Should I have a free plan?
For a B2C subscription service, is it recommended to have a free plan? Based on my research, users who sign up free plan suck up a lot of support resources and a number of well known services have ...
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6answers
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Good questions to ask when approached for a freelance web-development gig?
If someone approaches you expressing interest in having you perform web-development work, what questions should be asked?
Assume you know only the bare-minimum: he/she wants you to develop a website.
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2answers
765 views
Offshore software outsourcing price quote examples
I'm wondering where can I find some examples of price quote sheets for offshore software outsourcing.
My company has been getting quote requests for work, but I'm not sure what's the proper way to ...
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7answers
276 views
Should I charge for my service or not?
I have a product in beta (which is a minimum viable product) and am working on the release version.
I had my early adopters take a survey and although a majority of them had great things to say about ...
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3answers
250 views
How much should I charge to be a consultant for a PR firm?
I have just been approached to work as a consultant for a company and its PR team to give ideas and improve their website. they need me because they don't have the knowledge of my ethic group. I know ...
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1answer
945 views
How much should we charge for an IT job?
The scenario
We just got our very first medium/large size client.
They are opening a new company which operates around a web application that will be entirely developed and maintained by us.
We ...
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5answers
343 views
How do I “make up” rates?
How do I figure out what to charge for freelance technology-related work? Every time I've asked online, I've been told not to ask.
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8answers
1k views
Pricing Theory - What works, what doesn't, and how to get the most profit?
Many of you have priced several different types of products from digital to the physical. So keeping it internet centeric what pricing research do you do before going with an amount? And once you're ...
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3answers
1k views
How much to charge for sponsorship spot on my blog?
I have been asked how much do we charge for a sponsorship or an ad in our blog... what is a fair price, do you charge per month, size, location in page? any tips will be greatly appreciated.
The ...
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3answers
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Pricing Model for Consumer Product
I am involved with a product and have finalized the SRP and the wholesale price . We have been approached by a distributor that has a large niche customer base that would like to distribute the ...
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2answers
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Pricing model for sellers in an online store
I just finished setting up an online store that involves selling digital content, tangible items like clothes, events tickets etc. However, I have a little challenge on how to charge sellers to add ...
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3answers
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How do I convince a client to use a computerised accounting system?
This is marketing question but don't know where to ask it.
My possible client is relying in traditional manual accounting system. I want to convince him to use acomputerised accounting system.
As an ...
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2answers
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How to find prices for bulk amounts of various materials?
I am constantly developing a range of ideas involving large quantities of materials. My creativity is often limited because I do not have any clue the prices of large quantities of materials. Right ...
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3answers
272 views
Pricing Sheet for Sales Reps
My company does custom web application development. We build applications based on the needs of the client, so our projects really vary in terms of requirements. We typically meet with a client, get ...
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7answers
847 views
How to tell a customer the price of my service
Many customers call me or email me to ask me about my rate. They often ask, "What is the best rate?" After I tell them my rate, they don't contact me any more. They virtually disappear. How should I ...
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3answers
132 views
How can I cope with price/cost inquiry tactfully?
I'm a private English-Chinese interpreter in China. People often send Email to me to ask my rate. As soon as I tell them my rate, they often don't contact me any more. I don't think my rate is very ...
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4answers
328 views
Pricing for iphone app?
We are developing an iphone app for business but we are finding it very hard to put a price to the app? Does anyone know a rule of thumb, have examples or have any tips on what we could charge. I know ...
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5answers
483 views
How to set ad prices?
I am looking for information/pointers about how to set the ad rates for a webiste that is targeting a specific niche.
What's the reasonable flat price to charge based on banner sizes and ...
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3answers
66 views
Starting New School 3rd Question
I've been discussing with my colleagues on how best to price the school. We've come up with some really innovative solutions.
-Charge per session, allowing students to skip sessions that don't ...
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4answers
142 views
Semi Start-Up - Pricing Negotiation
I'd love to get your feedback on the following:
After several months of talking with the directors of this firm, I am near to closing the deal.
Overall, they love our solution and want to move ...
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2answers
836 views
Pricing strategy for SAAS based products
I am looking for any references/case-studies/whitepapers on pricing strategies for SAAS based products. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mohit
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When should we start showing prices?
For a company that has just started, when should we show prices to customer? Right when the application is live on day one or when the application is stable enough to be used by real customer?
What ...
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3answers
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Pricing for service maintenance
To all pricing guru out there,
I've developed a web application that we've been using internally for a while and we are looking at selling it as a product in its own write. It is a very niche human ...
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5answers
405 views
A/B testing a price point
Is it legally/ethically bad to run a split test on the price point of your product?
Temporary coupons don't test the right things and introduce other variables into the experiment, and changing the ...
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6answers
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How do you choose the base currency for online and mostly international sales?
We are about to launch a website offering products. My "gut" feeling is that a good proportion of our customers will be based in the US. We are currently based in the UK, though that is likely to ...
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4answers
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What Is Your Opinion On “Freebie Marketing”?
From Wikipedia -
"Freebie marketing, also known as the razor and blades business model, is the concept of either giving away a salable item for nothing or charging an extremely low price to generate ...
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3answers
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New Classified Ads - Free or Not Free?
I've develop a job portal with classified (Sell and Buy), due to the nature of spam or duplicate ads issue found in other popular classified sites - mocca.com by Mediacorp, should the ads still be ...
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Multiple Currency Management for SaaS Payments
We'll soon exit the beta stage and start charging for our SaaS solution.
We're based in Italy so we work in Euros. We think we should also offer the solution in US Dollars, however we find it hard to ...
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2answers
809 views
How much do remote support companies charge per user?
I know this is a how long is a piece of string question but I'm looking to compete locally and assist small companies with their IT, usual stuff databases, Windows server etc. There are a few large ...
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2answers
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Crossing the chasm - your advices for single guy moving a product from free alpha to paid beta stage
I'm a developer and I work in my spare time on a small mac app: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com
Current stats:
15K users (who are updating the app with every new release)
the web
~500 daily ...
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4answers
111 views
Does choice of plans attract more users, or is simpler better?
I'm curious if there's any research / suggestions around pricing models - specifically offering more choice vs keeping it simple.
Ie., I plan of offering a Software as a Service model, and charging ...
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2answers
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Webdesign business, show price or not?
We are webdesigners, and we sell websites, we are about to renew are website.
Would you suggest to show some prices on our website or not?
I mean stuff like like: "we sell 2/3 pages static website ...
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6answers
1k views
How do I create a pricing scheme for my creative consulting company?
My company consults companies on creating websites, branding, online video promotions, and mobile apps. One aspect of our service is the consulting side, the other is project management, finding the ...
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2answers
105 views
Customer flexibility first - Monthly and/or Yearly charges?
We have one application sold to users - they make documents with it. These documents are then sold to their clients.The client must have the reader to view the media rich document. We make and sell ...
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5answers
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Pricing software
I'm about to launch a new program in a space that has several large competitors, my program works equally as well but as it's version 1.0 its missing a few features and a bit of polish. My competition ...
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4answers
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Proposal Presentation: Proposal Before or During?
For complex and relatively high-dollar sales (five to six figures), it's a common practice to present the final cost in the form of a proposal, and to present that proposal in person, instead of ...
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Got an offer to white label one of my products. What do I do?
I got an offer to white label one of my products.
They want to determine pricing/conditions, etc.
I would appreciate any advice/references on how to best deal with this situation.
Thanks in advance.
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1answer
157 views
How to charge a customer for a tailor-made solution (ERP)?
We are designing a tailor-made ERP application for a SMB customer whose processess are very specific and have been very succesful for the last 20 years. Question is: How to charge for the project? ...
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Good examples of Payment or Checkout Processes for SaaS products
we run an online web application and for th last 6 months have processed payments thru Paypal. We have finally secured an international merchant account and are in the process of redesigning our ...
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6answers
249 views
Pricing of a feature/product
I recently quit a big MNC to start off on my own. I have built a B2B(Business-to-Business) product but not figured out how to price it. Please tell me if my approach is right.
I was earning $x/hour ...
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1answer
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What's the equivalent desktop price given a web application price
So I found pricing information on the established leader in the market my product serves - HR Software.
They don't show prices on their site so I thought I'd google to see what I could find.
Theirs ...
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2answers
177 views
Need advice on setting country-specific pricing
We're a growing Canadian software company selling online. Customers download freeware, later upgrading to a paid version.
We've received significant interest from customers and resellers ...
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10answers
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To Freemium or not to Freemium?
There are numerous examples of SaaS products stuck with lots of users and few paying customers. The common advice is not to give away too much in the free plan and always be upselling. The best ...
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1answer
287 views
Where is the Price Point of Indifference for SMBs with a Web Presence?
Internally at our startup, there's a lot of belief that at some price between $15-$35/month, small-medium businesses are both:
A) Much more likely to convert and try a SaaS product
B) Much less ...
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5answers
342 views
Can being too transparent about pricing, too early, actually hurt me?
I am creating a very high end B2B SaaS, subscription based, online product. The person doing my information architecture and I have very differing views on the subject of when pricing tiers should be ...
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6answers
5k views
How to calculate the price to quote for a service?
Is there a logical way to come up with pricing for a service such as below that my friend came up with. Are these valid ?
Split down the service into as many
small steps as possible. Make sure
to ...
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7answers
529 views
How do you raise price?
This is follow-up to my previous question. Inspired by the answers, we did a quick customer survey. We asked the standard question "would you recommend our service to a friend?" and "what is the main ...
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7answers
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How can I encourage big customers to pay more for my product?
What strategies do you use to offer a range of prices, while encouraging big customers to pay more?
I offer a range of prices with different restrictions. I didn't want to exclude individuals, but ...
