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Incorrectly Pricing Your Product or Service

Incorrectly Pricing Your Product or Service

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May 14, 2013 By Ted Jenkin

Most new business owners tend to undervalue what they charge for their work and services in order to compensate for not being as established as their competitors. As long as you have a top notch customer service experience and offer a product or service that’s similar or better than a competitor, you shouldn’t devalue yourself. If you set this pattern up early with clients, it can be very difficult down the road to raise your prices with your initial customers.
 
Here a few tips to determine if the price is right on the new product or service you take to market.
 
  1. Shop The Competition. As part of a new entrepreneurial venture, you should be doing some research about what kind of competition you have locally or on the internet. Take stock of where your competitors have set the market rate, and place your prices relative to the value you believe you can deliver on in the market place.
  2. Beta Test Your Top 5. If you have 5 people you are pretty sure will buy your product or service, consider throwing a red herring at them around your pricing structure. Gaining some valuable feedback from these customers could prove to be instrumental in bringing more like-kind customers down the road.
  3. Offer Options. Having several options such as being able to pay annually or monthly, credit card or PayPal, or slight variation of choices off of the same service will allow more new customers to determine the price that is right for them. Be careful about just picking one price point at the initial phase of the business.
This is part two of a ten part series on entrepreneurship.   Many businesses fail in the first year because they incorrectly price their product or service.   Make sure you focus on getting the price right!

Filed Under: Pricing Strategy Tagged With: Competitors, Differentiation, Mistakes, Pricing, Product Development, Value

Ted Jenkin

Ted Jenkin

Ted Jenkin is the co-CEO and Founder of oXYGen Financial (www.oxygenfinancial.net) and Editor-In-Chief of the top ranked personal finance blog Your Smart Money Moves (www.yoursmartmoneymoves.com).   oXYGen Financial is a leader in financial services for the X & Y generation.

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