Ep. 3181 - Q&A: “Should my first info product be $30 or $300?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
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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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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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. |
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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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