pricing: services & products class group activity
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Pricing: Services & Products
Class Group Activity
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First Steps: ID “The Thing”
• identify a passion, talent and/or need for service/product
• define boundaries: community, consumers
• research competition: nature, cost, quantity and quality of services/products; achievement stats
• build a new model that innovates based on distinguishing characteristics
• branding
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Next Steps: Prioritizing
• timetable: realistically assess what's needed now vs. what can wait
• subdivide primary, secondary, tertiary markets, etc.
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Service Pricing: Billable Hours Formula (determining hourly rate)
• 1) determine annual salary ("take home" pay)
• 2) calculate fixed costs ("overhead") - rent, utilities, phone, internet, etc.
• 3) determine profit goal, expressed as percentage (Profits are for: bills, salary, reinvestment)
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Billable Hours Formula
Desired annual salary + Annual fixed costs (overhead)+ Profit goal, expressed as a percentage
÷ Your number of annual billable hours
= Your Hourly Rate
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Your Price vs. Market Rate
• compare this rate with Market Rate for your market, then justify difference in cost; or, redo Billable Hours Pricing accounting for the Market Rate
• determine flexible pricing options to help reach hourly rate goal
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Product Pricing
• research range of competitive rates as compared with standard of quality
• research costs from supplier
• determine markup percentage above cost and calculate price
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Next Steps
• working budget
• cash flow projection
• profit/loss forecast
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Share Your Findings
Sum up:
"What I've learned and how I'll use it"