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Price With Daring Caution

Get Paid For Value

If value isn’t explicitly built into your pricing methods, you’re likely underpricing some customers and overpricing others. So you win less, at lower margins when you do win. What could your company do with 1 to 3 more points of gross margin?

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Is there unrecognized, unpriced value in your product/service offering?

Your prices to some customers, on some products or services, on some transactions are probably lower than customers would pay—if you didn’t give them the opportunity to pay less.

But fixing that isn’t easy. You have to systematically incorporate value as an input to your pricing (along with the prices of customers’ alternative solutions, expected volume, and costs plus target margins).  What’s more, it’s not just a matter of figuring out “the right price.” The margin improvement from a one-time update of prices will soon erode—unless you address the internal and external forces that drag your prices down.

Using our Daring Caution approach, we help you accomplish the two imperatives of pricing improvement:

  • Improve how your company makes and executes pricing decisions
  • Adjust, and adjust to, customers’ willingness to pay

Our clients attract customers willing to pay more when they see value, and get paid what their solutions are really worth. As a result, they grow both sales and margin. Most companies selling standardized products and services can make selective moves with pricing and terms that increase gross margin by 1% to 3% within two years.  Companies with customized offerings can often achieve more.

Price With Daring Caution - Outcomes

1

Follow best practices in a guided pricing initiative

2

Identify and act on low-risk pricing moves

3

Your team aligns with your pricing goals

4

Customers recognize and pay for value

5

Money to fund investments in your business

6

Better earnings

7

A cushion against surprises

1

Follow best practices in a guided pricing initiative

2

Identify and act on low-risk pricing moves

3

Your team aligns with your pricing goals

4

Customers recognize and pay for value

5

Money to fund investments in your business

6

Better earnings

7

A cushion against surprises

Testimonials

Two years later a lot has changed at our company. I'm going back through the workshop we did together, and finding great value in some things that have really become relevant.

President

Software as a Service Company

Was very impressed how you could extract data from our system and give us pricing reports. The recommended actions are in place… and contributed to 8 point EBITDA improvement.

VP Sales & Marketing

Consumables Manufacturer

How We Work With You

 

Stage 1, our “Find Your Hidden Value” deep dive working session, will give you actionable insights, a plan for improved pricing, and a chance to try us out. We’d continue from there with our additional stages of transforming your approach to growing sales and margins.
In this “deep dive day,” you’ll:
  • Take the first big step toward finding value you’re taking for granted
  • Find opportunities for improved pricing and margins, using our Daring Caution approach
  • Learn how to avoid the temptation to use lower pricing to address situations that really aren’t pricing issues
  • Set a goal and develop a clear, simple action plan that engages your team
  • Take a step toward getting customers to recognize and pay for the value they receive
  • Unpack the services you wrap around your products or core service
  • Discover value to the customer
  • Identify where you could charge for what’s been free or underpriced
  • Build a pricing structure that lines up with your product / service line structure
  • Build pricing power
  • Identify and address the internal forces that drag your prices down
  • Develop a pricing method that systematically incorporates value as an input to your pricing (along with the prices of customers’ alternative solutions, expected volume, and costs plus target margins)
  • Define your company’s pricing stance by segment
  • Implement a Pricing Policy and Pricing Operations that keep actual prices in line with intended prices
  • Affect customers’ willingness to pay through marketing and sales communications built using our VisibleValue℠ story development system

Find Your Hidden, Unpriced Value

Stage 1, our “Find Your Hidden Value” deep dive working session, will give you actionable insights, a plan for improved pricing, and a chance to try us out. We’d continue from there with our additional stages of transforming your approach to growing sales and margins.
In this “deep dive day,” you’ll:
  • Take the first big step toward finding value you’re taking for granted
  • Find opportunities for improved pricing and margins, using our Daring Caution approach
  • Learn how to avoid the temptation to use lower pricing to address situations that really aren’t pricing issues
  • Set a goal and develop a clear, simple action plan that engages your team
  • Take a step toward getting customers to recognize and pay for the value they receive

Find value you’ve been overlooking, message it, estimate it, and price it

  • Unpack the services you wrap around your products or core service
  • Discover value to the customer
  • Identify where you could charge for what’s been free or underpriced
  • Build a pricing structure that lines up with your product / service line structure
  • Build pricing power

Make Value an explicit factor in your pricing decisions

  • Identify and address the internal forces that drag your prices down
  • Develop a pricing method that systematically incorporates value as an input to your pricing (along with the prices of customers’ alternative solutions, expected volume, and costs plus target margins)
  • Define your company’s pricing stance by segment
  • Implement a Pricing Policy and Pricing Operations that keep actual prices in line with intended prices

Demonstrate your Value

  • Affect customers’ willingness to pay through marketing and sales communications built using our VisibleValue℠ story development system

Ready to find 1 to 3 more points of gross margin?

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Next Steps

  • Schedule a call with Marketwerks
  • Tell us about your company and your goals
  • Get your questions answered
  • We'll propose a path forward
  • We come to agreement and get into action!
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