6 Ways to Raise Your Prices NOW

Jan 24, 2012

The best way to increase your profit is by increasing your prices. Sounds pretty straight forward, but for far too many people, the idea of raising prices is absolutely scary. It seems the most popular way to try to increase profit has been by cutting expenses.  I’m sorry to say this, but the easy stuff [...]

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The Best Way to Get Ready for Your 2012 Price Increase

Dec 13, 2011

For many companies, the ability to delay a price increase is no longer an option. The only option that is left is to take a price increase. One of the biggest challenges is to then ensure the sales force believes 100% in the increase. I’m a firm believer in the premise that more price increases [...]

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Do You Know WHY Your Customer is Threatening to Leave?

Sep 06, 2011

We’ve all had customers who threaten to leave if we raise prices. I sure hope you’ve been following my series on this, because I’ve been looking at questions you have to ask yourself when a customer makes such a threat.  (For the questions we’ve covered in depth already, I’ve provided links to those posts at [...]

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Will Your Customers Leave You if You Raise Prices? 8 1/2 Questions to Ask Yourself

Aug 02, 2011

Nothing sends fear through a salesperson more than when a customer says or implies they will have to take their business elsewhere if you raise their prices. There are many variations of this, but we’ve all heard them.  I can’t begin to tell you the number of times I’ve heard them from customers in my [...]

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Part 6: Why Selling Features Will Kill You Every Time

Jul 12, 2011

I want to do all I can to increase your sales motivation and help you maximize your price. That’s what is behind our series 8 Ways to Increase Your Price?

So far we’ve dug into 5 of the 8 ways: believing in what you sell, increasing your pipeline, just saying “no”, never entering into a discussion about price and accepting that you can’t close every sale.

Here is number 6:

6. Never sell the features. Only sell the benefits.

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