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Can you defend your pricing niche against your competition?

Berkonomics

There can be nothing more important in your business planning that selecting the proper pricing niche, making your story clear using that niche, and the defending your position against the competition. They are: Price. Companies that compete on price rarely compete against others who emphasize service or quality.

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Pick your pricing niche carefully. Defend it.

Berkonomics

They are: Price. Companies that compete on price rarely compete against others who emphasize service or quality. Internet resellers have a better chance to combine price and quality than those with much more fixed overhead occupying a bricks-and-mortar physical presence in the community. Innovation.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Customers buy solutions to solve their problems.

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8 Creative Pricing Strategies Most Startups Overlook

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new business owners, I’m accustomed to seeing primarily the simple traditional product pricing strategies , usually driven by competitor prices, or cost plus a reasonable margin. I often wonder whether you as the entrepreneur have worked as hard on your pricing strategy as you have on your innovative solution.

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time

Both Sides of the Table

It is of course why immigrants power so many successful businesses in the US and why we need to embrace them. So he made hand-made batches in a bucket and drove it to customers in his van. He wanted to keep his prices low (apparently he has never raised his wholesale price in 30 years). Having a strong sense of values.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

Both Sides of the Table

Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Customers buy solutions to solve their problems.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – Objection Handling

Both Sides of the Table

.&# When I talk to people about sales I often describe the sales process as a series of hurdles (objections) that are put up to avoid making a purchase and your responsibility is to work through these common objections with your customer. In the evangelical phase you’re working through these with customers on the fly.

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