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🗓️ 16 September 2025
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Should you launch your first info product at a budget price or aim for a premium market? Today we unpack perceived value, buyer psychology, and the hidden costs of “cheap” customers—so you can price with confidence.
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| 0:00.0 | business owners are built differently and there's nothing more satisfying than your business keeping up with you. |
| 0:05.8 | But of course, sometimes your growth outpaces what you can handle, especially when it comes to shipping. |
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| 1:00.5 | We talk from time to time about pricing. How do you price a new product or service? It's really important to get it right. There's usually a range of appropriate prices. And that range can often be |
| 1:06.4 | quite broad. Today we've got an extreme example of that. Somebody is launching a new information product, |
| 1:12.9 | and they're trying to figure out, should I sell this for $30 or $300? And you might think, well, |
| 1:18.7 | that's absurd. Like, surely it has to be one of the other or it has to be close to one of those |
| 1:22.8 | numbers. But the whole thing is, like we're going to talk about perceived value, biore |
| 1:26.9 | psychology. |
| 1:28.2 | There really are different markets for different price points. |
| 1:31.5 | So you have to think about that as part of pricing. |
| 1:33.9 | It's not just about the product or service. |
| 1:35.9 | It's also about, like, who do I want to attract? |
| 1:39.1 | So the lower number isn't always best, but the higher number also isn't best. |
| 1:42.6 | So it can be tricky. |
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