I mean there were actual expensive consulting engagements which were perfectly substitutable with: A: "Should we charge more?" B: "Patio11 will certainly tell us to charge more." A: "Would we take his advice?" B: "Yes." A: "Well then let's skip straight to charging more."
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The less flippant version of this: "What is the company *really* buying?" Some people in the company strongly suspect they should charge more, but they or others are worried about downside risk on a levered, trapdoor decision. So they want(ed) an external sanity check + advice.
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"Advice?" Do you know what grandfathering is? Where you give existing customers their current pricing for forever and just charge the new, higher pricing on new customers? Grandfathering is a *technology.* It is a really, really simple technology; this tweet is ~all there is.
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Grandfathering effectively immediately solves the "Won't our current customers revolt if we raise prices" problem and is, perhaps surprisingly, something that many SaaS companies don't think of because they have nobody at the company whose job it is to think "How do we price?"
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There are technologies other than grandfathering. Sometimes folks assume (reasonably?) that I know more about them than they do, because I ran a boutique consultancy which worked with SaaS companies, so they'd source expertise (and implementation) where they didn't have it.
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This python decorator allows you to summon
@patio11 above all of your pricing functions. Halfway through writing this tweet, though, I wondered if I wasn't charging enough and the 2 really needed to be a 10.pic.twitter.com/An1dZt4Db6
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You should get royalties. I.e., charge more.
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