The Justice of Price Premiums
How much does a logo cost? Your answer probably begins with the words, “That depends…
Win Without Pitching®: Thinking
Pricing
Lowering Your Cost of Sale
In any large consultative sale there are costs associated with buyer and seller coming together. How those costs are assigned to each party is a valuable indicator of who possesses the power in the relationship. Order-taker agencies routinely incur most of the expenses associated with the courtship, while some well-positioned expert agencies are able to
Strategy Traps
Agencies all over the world today are trying to get ‘more strategic’: to position themselves as strategic partners to their clients, to sell higher margin strategy over increasingly commoditized implementation – all in a bid to profit proportionally from the greater value being delivered. Most are failing in this bid, suffering from the same four mistakes that are easily avoided once they are recognized.
Price: The Final Objection
We are culturally conditioned to avoid talking about money in our personal lives and as a result, in our roles as business development people, we tend to put off financial discussions until the last possible moment. In the last two issues of the Win Without Pitching Newsletter we discussed the commoditization trend in the agency
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