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Changing the equation
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In a product-market fit approach: "This is how everybody else prices" (eg. cost+) "These are the prices". You play by their rules. And here comes the challenge. Rethinking them from the core: "How can you change this equation?" "How could i charge X?" "What would my customers need that they gain 10X the price?" It brings you to think from "what they owe me" (aka. what it costs me) into "what they're interested in" (the outcome). When you start with this, things shift. And that's your first step. :) |
Rod Aparicio
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Getting too close to what the rules/views/templates/best-practices are can make you miss important details. Paper can hold anything. Reality doesn’t.
In a negotiation, the first thing you need to be comfortable with is zero. As in No Money, can't pay, won't pay, don't see the point on it. Having that figure clear in your head is the thing that will let you move forward. Right now, you have zero. If the deal doesn't happen, you'll still have zero. You didn't lose something that you didn't have in the first place. Zero means you're also free. You can say no when it's not a fit, when it doesn't make sense to you, or when you feel like it....
Anyone with money. Anyone who is willing to pay. Anyone that needs our thing. How do you reach to this specific anyone? If you can’t come up with a very clear specific description of who this “anyone” is, it’ll be hard for them to know you’re talking about them. For them to know of you. For them to recommend you to more like them. At the end of the day, anyone is no-one.