the art of pricing
interesting pricing experiments, ideas, tools, and musings on how to get paid for your work/business/service/art/anything.
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the art of pricing
The most powerful and interesting media model will remain raising money from members who don’t just permit but insist that the product be given away for free.
Tim Carmody • Unlocking the commons
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
William Poundstone • 3 highlights
amazon.com
@aweissman: New Telfar pricing system drops next week
Stuff will start with the lowest prices, which will then rise over time
“It’s the opposite of a sale”
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If your customers perceive your discount as signaling a lack of confidence in your product's value, they may not want to buy it at any price.
Madhavan Ramanujam • Monetizing Innovation
We can have more than one subscription.
Boom.
One of the most hurtful conventions in subscription pricing is "it has to be simple".
Do you know how many tiers the fastest growing subscription mobile apps have (upper quartile in terms of growth)?
Not 1.
Not 3.
“WE HAVE TO PAY”
But what if we get to?
Imagine looking at the exchange of money as an alternative way to say things like:
Thank you!
Please keep going.
My life is better with this in it.
A signal of gratitude carries more weight than a forced action