Pricing questions are about the strategies, tactics, processes and decisions for directly monetizing products and services.
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How to assess the potential value of a website before its formal release
I have developed a website and now it is under internal testing.
What does my website do? On the one hand, if you want someone to do something for you, you can use my website, and you need to pay the ...
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2answers
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Subscription payments for download software
We will be licensing 2 downloadable software products, both aimed at animation / game development professionals / studios (1 plugin, 1 SDK / library) where subscription pricing is not currently ...
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How do you price a technology licensing/white-labeling agreement?
We built a consumer facing web app and have been growing our user base by iterating on the product for a little over a year. A large media company has inquired about licensing our technology to power ...
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1answer
705 views
Website Advertisement Pricing Model
I am currently working on integrating and advertisement/advertising module into a online management system I am creating.
The question is this...
What is the best way to determine pricing for ...
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7answers
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Price quote for enterprise customer
We got a quote request from a reseller for one of their customers for about a 100 licenses of our software with 4 years of support.
What is the a good way of structuring this quote without showing ...
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Does charging less than your competitor make your product look inferior?
Our monthly subscription is 30% less than our competitors. We also do not charge a set up fee, whereas, most of our competitors charge $400-600. I think our product is "as good" or better than any ...
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is it proper to offer discounts upon longer subscription?
Rapidshare has an interesting discount
you save 17% for 3 month access
26% for 6 month access
34% for 12 month access
My question is, when is such discounting appropriate? Is it proper only when ...
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7answers
2k views
Software Outsourcing Price Comparison
Does someone know where to find any information about price comparison for Software Outsourcing across different countries?
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770 views
Know any large/public software companies that are using freemium?
I'm trying to find examples of large software companies that have used freemium (whereby there is a free product with a paid upgrade to a premium product).
Anyone know of any companies that either ...
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5answers
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How best to deal with a rising Canadian dollar value for a software company?
My software company is in Canada. We sell our software for download from our web-site. Most of our sales are made in the US, though we do about %25 of our business in Canada and Europe. We sell our ...
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4answers
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Subscription Pricing Starting Strategy: start high and lower, or start low and raise?
With a subscription based web application aimed at businesses: Is it better to set the initial price at the high end of what you expect people would pay and lower it if it becomes necessary, or should ...
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5answers
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Shall I distribute a text application for free (to promote the brand) or sell it?
I have written a simple but powerful text application which can be plugged in into many existing projects. I think many people (individuals, start-ups and big businesses) would like to have it, but ...
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Why do big companies need so much of advertising/sponsorship of events
Coca cola, pepsi, lays etc why do companies need so much of advertising all over TV's, internet, sports events...even after becoming a household brand.
how much percentage of their profit usually ...
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5answers
672 views
Strategy for pricing a desktop application
I'm trying to figure out how to price a desktop application that I'm currently developing. I have read a few articles on the subject, but I'm unable to come up with a clear path.
A bit of ...
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6answers
900 views
Communicating a Rate Increase to my Clients
I currently run a two person web development team. My partner and I offer Ruby on Rails programming for our clients (small companies). We typically charge $75/hr for most of our clients but we have ...
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3answers
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View and Markup Options?
Greetings,
I am looking for options on reasonably priced (or free / open source) view and markup software that can be integrated into an existing web based, product development software. I know this ...
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2answers
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Pricing Custom Software development using proprietary library
One of our clients wants to hire us for writing a complex custome software. We wants to build this on a proprietary library we wrote which abstracts lot of the complexity of the target platform. We ...
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5answers
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Reagrding pricing …Should it be few big fish or many small fish
We have software which can run as per user SaaS model and also as custom deployment. To advertise we are planning to host it and give it free for some time / users. But there is another argument as we ...
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2answers
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Pricing Model - Copy, or Create?
We've got a few competitors, one of whom is the "Big Fish" in the market. I've priced all of them out, and they have various pricing models - each different from the others. And the "Big Fish" has a ...
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How totally insane would it be for your price to be “whatever you think it's worth”
This is a hosted (zero-install) web application. You create and account and stuff happens. The unattended costs (ignoring tech support, ads, etc) are easy to compute per customer.
Here's the idea: ...
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2answers
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TV Video Copyrights - How it works?
Can somebody give me some ideas how the TV Video industry works?
E.g. If I like a certain TV program which I would like to broadcast in a different country in a different language...what are the ...
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9answers
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Should SAAS have tiered pricing for different countries?
For a start-up providing a web-app to customers on a subscription basis, do you think that the benefits of different geographic pricing outweigh the downside?
My rationale is that while North America ...
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9answers
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Subscription revenue: $40 a year or $3-5 a month?
Hey there, I'm the founder of a site that helps families keep in touch. We're going to be buying our cash register soon, so we're figuring out our revenue model.
We're deciding between two types of ...
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2answers
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When do subscription services charge you every month? When does that payment period end?
When subscription based services charge you a monthly fee, when do they charge it? First of the month? Same date next month? 30 days from original pay?
For example if I pay for a subscription on the ...
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4answers
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How do freemium services/open source softwares etc. make ends meet?
From a long time, I have been wondering how do services which are free or based on freemium models operate? Open source free softwares like Firefox, VLC player (if you are aware of it) or other free ...
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subscription based models, how to determine pricing?
I am nearly ready to launch, however I need to determine a pricing for monthly payments by the clients.
How do you price it? Each time a user uses the product it costs us money through hardware ...
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7answers
996 views
How can I determine a good rate for freelancing?
I've currently got a startup and a full-time job. I'm looking to transition to part-time freelancing so I can focus more on my startup. However, I'm walking into this completely blind, and I need ...
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Should product/service prices be listed on your website?
In Camels and Rubber Duckies, Joel Spolsky discusses what he believes to be a poor pricing decision:
Bad Idea #2: How Much Money Do You Have? Pricing.
This is the kind used by software
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7answers
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Resources or guides to software product pricing
We found product pricing to be the hardest part of launching our product. What resources or guides (online or offline) have you found useful in thinking about pricing your product?
I'm interested ...
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2answers
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What techniques do you use to see if your product or service provides Value?
I use a simple formula to define value . Benefits - Costs = Value
But the key thing to note is that what you think are benefits for the customers might not be perceived as benefits. Asking them ...
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6answers
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Is being a low cost provider worth it?
I have a free utility for online sellers. Recently, three of them contacted me independently, asking whether I could add some features to it and make it into a low cost order processing system, ...
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1answer
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What's the best approach for dealing with region-specific tax when selling online?
I'm launching a product shortly which is an online service and has (I think) a global market. As a business, I have to charge sales tax* which means I have to add an amount to every sale to give to ...
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Which pricing model to use for a product that requires a lot of support?
I am developing a product that potentially requires a lot of support. I am developing documentation and tutorials to remove the need for support as much as possible, but I can still see the need for a ...
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5answers
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Should the pricing be institutionalised?
I am in the process of launching my firm which will supply business promotion merchandise like bags, apparels, gifts, gadgets and so on. As the business owner I would be deciding on the margins ...
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Anyone experimented with $49.95 vs. $50 Pricing for subscription software?
I've read a bunch of times in the retail world where the $49.95 (or $49.99) style pricing actually increases sales vs. just making it a round number like $50.
Has anyone tried this for a subscription ...
