Pricing questions are about the strategies, tactics, processes and decisions for directly monetizing products and services.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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Pricing according to the competitors
I am currently developing a software and planning to sell it as a downloadable product. There are already competitors on the market out there and their pricing is too low. What I think is that the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Desktop Software Startup: How to go about pricing Pay Per Feature
So I found lot of articles and questions on pricing software in separate market segments but for my current desktop software here's my model.
I offer a free version with lot of disabled features. The ...
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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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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, ...
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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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Am I ruining the industry?
I'm currently building/running a 'digital marketing agency' from home with my partner. We provide websites (business card sites, CMS-driven sites, e-commerce etc), hosting, email services right ...
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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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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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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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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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Pricing strategy for digital media applications
I am developing desktop application for digital media. But i am still not sure how to set price for the application. Actually our product is integrated solution which integrates different features ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
