Small Business Owner

A Simple Pricing Calculator for Proposals

Sometimes it’s hard to understand the leverage that good pricing provides. (Or that bad pricing takes away.) I created this simple pricing calculator to show how small changes in price, volume, and costs, can have a huge impact on your … Read More

What’s Better: A Ferrari or a Honda Odyssey?

Everyone “knows” the Ferrari is better, right? What if you need to transport more than 2 people? What if you have kids? What if your neighborhood has enormous potholes? What if your knees aren’t good enough to get in and … Read More

How to Handle Price Objections

In an earlier post, I suggest maybe you’re not getting enough price objections. (Seriously, they are important.) Now let’s discuss how to handle them. When someone says they want to buy, but they don’t like the price, you need to … Read More

Pricing: Why You’re Doing It Wrong

I don’t know you. How can I know you’re pricing all wrong? Obviously, I don’t, and there’s a chance you’re actually doing it right, but experience with hundreds of business owners lets me play the odds. So in this post, … Read More

Sell More by Selling Less

You walk into the doctor’s office with a cut on your hand. You think you need some stitches and perhaps some antibiotics, but you’re not sure. The doctor says, “great to see you. Looks like you could use a heart … Read More

You’re Not Getting Enough Price Objections

Many business owners and sales reps hate price objections.  They view price objections as some kind of faux pas that they should have avoided, an awkward situation, best resolved quickly (and often with huge damage to profits).  Do you like … Read More

Pricing Battle Plan for Services

Last week, we looked at how preparing a pricing battle plan increases your sales and profits while decreasing your stress.  This week, let’s look at another example, a service business with about 10 professionals.  To protect the guilty, we’ll call … Read More

What’s your pricing battle plan?

How many businesses build a cool product, then figure out what to charge for it?  How many companies decide what to quote on a proposal after they’ve written the proposal?  If you make your pricing decisions then, you are at … Read More

Do Pricing First, Not Last

Creative people love making things– widgets, software, knowledge, service calls.  A lot of businesses and product lines get started this way.  Someone has a cool idea to make something.  Skeptics shoot down the idea.  The founder or engineer makes it. … Read More

Let Your Customers Do Your Price Optimization For You

Many small business owners consider pricing some kind of dark voodoo that you can only get right with the appropriate incantations, or access to a pricing consultant who knows the right incantations. At risk of hurting my own business, I’m … Read More