Value pricing. There's a big misconception with it. It has nothing to do with your value —or how you perceive your own value, or how your customers have to understand what you sell to show them how you justify your prices. Or how much effort you put into it. Or how cool you are. Or how great your work is. None of it. Take yourself out of the picture. Value pricing has to do with what your customer values —what they believe is important. Value pricing takes this factor and prices in alignment with it. What you think you're worth, what effort you put to justify your prices, how you value yourself —while important in a specific setting in your business— has nothing to do with what your customers value. And how do you get to know the value? You don't guess. You ask. :) |
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Deliberately not asking for what is the budget doesn't mean you don't talk money. There are other ways to ask what your customer consider their budget. Before any of that, though, you need to think of it as a financial fit. There needs to be a business case for you to move on. And business involves money. :) Here are a few ways of talking about money: We'll find if there's a financial fit. Do you have allocated funds for this project? What were you thinking of investing in this? What did you...
Not asking for what the budget is doesn't mean you don't talk money. It starts with Stopping assuming things. Asking with curiosity (to really understand). Evaluating if what they say they want is actually that.
Please stop asking what's the budget It assumes they'll buy from you. It assumes you'll accommodate YOUR offer to THEIR arbitrary budget. It assumes they know what they want and need at a deep level. It assumes they're the expert. It assumes they lead the engagement. And when you assume, you stop asking.