The digital age requires you to evolve the tools and technologies you use. With this evolution, the old pricing methods don’t work anymore.
In this research-based session, Trent McLaren will share key pricing strategies designed to ensure you thrive in the digital age.
4. Why transform your pricing strategy
The issue with time based billing
How do other industries value price?
Next steps – How do you implement value pricing?
Agenda
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Source: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Australian Accounting Profession, Rates & Pricing Outlook 2017
Impacts on the accounting profession
7. 7
What will have the largest impact on the
accounting profession?
Between 2014 – 2016, results suggest client fee and
regulatory changes are having an increased impact on the
profession.
The results indicate
Source: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Australian Accounting Profession, Rates & Pricing Outlook 2017
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The challenges all firms are facing
Source: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Australian Accounting Profession, Rates & Pricing Outlook 2017
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What are we charging per hour on average?
Source: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Australian Accounting Profession, Rates & Pricing Outlook 2017
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Source: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Australian Accounting Profession, Rates & Pricing Outlook 2017
14. Finally lawyers who get it
We do not charge by the hour. We do not charge you
when you pick up the phone or send you an email. We
do not charge you for taking you to lunch or travel time
or any of that kind of stuff this is disconnected from the
real value of what we do. We invest in long term
relationships with our clients, and we measure the
value of our services in the same way that you do. We
have a lot to offer, and we provide it in the a way that
doesn’t hurt. That’s a small part of the Marque
difference.
19. The act of modifying something, such as
a concept or a tool internal to an
organization, to make it suitable as a
commercial product.
Productize your services
20. Start by picking the one service that is a
combination of most in demand by
clients (their biggest problem) most
profitable for you and the easiest to
deliver. This will have the best chance of
the overused phrase product/market fit
and you will likely need to iterate your
products and packages several times
with each potential customer interaction.
– Richard Patey, Founder: Profit Is Good
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When researching companies that sell services like a
product, I’ve found there are 3 basic methods:
Foot-in-the-door offer (e-book, courses)
One-time product / adhoc work
Monthly subscription / Fixed agreement
Different ways to productize your services
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Break your services into product packages
Base this on the scope of work you do for them
26. The fundamental aspect of value pricing is that it’s
based on value. This means it’s imperative for
anybody wanting to value price, must start with a
value conversation. If there is no attempt (or little
attempt) at a value conversation then you are not
value pricing but rather just increasing prices.
Andrew Robertson – Decision HQ
30. What did we learn?
Are you making enough money?
What is your most common service?
What’s your average fee per client?
What could be bundled together?
Bundle all of this information together
31. Step 2.
Move your most suitable clients to fixed
fee or value pricing agreements
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Source: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Australian Accounting Profession, Rates & Pricing Outlook 2017
33. The people you do business with, most
are going to be your best fit clients for
monthly / fixed value packages
34. Value Pricing is determined by the fixed
scope of work agreed upon by both
parties.
You need to be very specific about what
that scope is and anything outside of
that scope would fall under another
priced agreement.
37. Decide upon what is your ideal pricing
plan. Go ahead and create your packages,
ensuring that your ideal plan looks more
valuable then the lesser plans.
40. Much can often be learned by
the repetition under different
conditions, even if the
desired result is not obtained.
– Archer John Porter Martin
1952 Nobel Prize Winner: Chemistry
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The value is the same to client, you’re doing the same job faster.
Who fits in your A & B Category
Clients hate surprise bills
What ways can you bill:
Time billing – in Marks words, that stupid
Fixed billing – better way, but still leaving profit on the table. Some clients could be willing to pay more.
Value billing - best way, what value do it have to the client, its not the time you spend. Implement menu pricing, offer 3 options
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