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Setting your price

By Linda Julian

Be strategic in pricing your services.  To get the price right for any given client, consider these factors.

Analyse your client

  • perceptions and characterisation of you, the needs, measures of value, why they choose you, price sensitivity, propensity to innovate

Analyse competitors

  • identity, location, profile, strengths, brand-value

Analyse your practice positioning

  • capabilities, strengths, efficiency, costs of production, brand-value.

 Assess your bargaining power

  • can your client get what s/he wants and needs.

Evidence of successful pricing strategies

  • ".... their pricing does not present us with any impediment to using them"
  • "... we're not paying for anything unnecessary..."
  • "....they're value at that price"  -  "we get value for what we pay ...".



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