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Higher Prices Lead To Higher Profits - Part 2
by: Paul Lemberg
In the first part of this series we looked at the effect prices have on profits. A change to the upside can have a wonderful effect on profits while reckless discounting and careless price reductions will surely have a disastrous one. If you don't fully understand the implications, or haven't read Part 1, go back and do so now. (http://www.paullemberg.com/higher-part1.html)

By now you may be asking yourself, "What should my prices be?"

Before you go start changing prices, you need to clarify a core part of your overall positioning. You need a pricing perspective.

Do you want to be a low priced provider, or would you rather sell the premium product? There are good reasons for being a low priced seller. Just as Michael Dell - that's where he started, although he certainly isn't there now. Or look at Costco, or Amazon. If you look to these models for inspiration, make sure you have three things: a firm grasp on your margins, deep pockets, and the ability to do lots of volume. Without all of these three, you will surely go broke.

Where are you personally more comfortable? If you sell at the high end of your price spectrum, you are likely to attract higher end clients, and it would help to be comfortable in that rarefied atmosphere. On the other hand, you may feel better on the low end. It's a choice and you have to make it.

What will attract the type of clients or customers you want? Your price is a signal to your potential clients telling them who you are in the marketplace. And if your goal is to raise the quality of your clientele, the easiest way to do so is increase your prices.

Do you want a low service, volume business, or would you prefer fewer, select clients and give them "high-touch"? High-volume, low-touch businesses can be very profitable, and can generally scale more easily, but require more planning. Low volume, high-touch (select always means high-touch) businesses, may be easier to build and require less overhead. If you are thinking of a lifestyle business, go the latter route.

Do you want a quick in-and-out transactional business, or would you rather develop long-term, nurturing client relationships? If you want to build something easy to scale and perhaps sell down the road, high-volume, low touch may fill the bill. If you are developing a life style business to carry you into old age, or a "professional" business with a strong public image, think long-term and nurturing. Higher prices usually go hand-in-hand.

Develop a pricing perspective that fits your goals. Your decision will go a long way to determine who you do business with and how you do it, and will also effect how you can dispose of your business. There are no clear guides to the right choice. It's more a matter of preference and positioning.

But perspective is not the only element to pricing. By itself it will tell you how to price (high, low, middle of the road), but not the exact price itself. Before I share with you how to do that, let's examine a few common approaches to pricing.

As nuts as this may sound, lots of people price to pay the bills. No kidding. I've seen this advice in more than one article for professional service companies. "How much money do you want to earn? Divide that by how many hours you have to sell..." And so on. (By the way, cost-plus pricing is just as crazy.)

Price to time. This is what most services people do. They set their prices by the hour, or by the day. The biggest problem is this makes it way too easy for prospects to compare your price. It also puts them in control of your time if they do buy.

Price to competition. This is the most common form of pricing, and is the core of all prices based on market research. And it makes sense if your offer is comparable to that of your competitors.

One last common pricing structure is front-end or loss-leader pricing. Loss-leader pricing is not designed to generate operating profits. Its purpose is either to take market share from competitors or create customers to whom you will later sell other things.

If your goal is to drive your competitors out of business, and you have deep pockets to sustain an unprofitable price war, this can work brilliantly. Many big box retailers, including Staples and Home Depot have followed this strategy. Long years of low prices eventually crushed their competitors, and both raised prices when their markets thinned out.

If you have a profitable and expensive product or service, an effective approach is to sell something that is cheap. For instance, if you have a high-end seminar, a low end ebook or free consultation can bring in all the customers you want.

There are other considerations to pricing besides the bottom line. But if you want to understand how to increase your profits, stay tuned for Part 3.


About the author:
Paul Lemberg is the President of Quantum Growth Coaching: More Profits and More Life for Entrepreneurs, Guaranteed. To get your copy of our free report with detailed steps to grow your business at least 40% faster, go to www.fastergrowthnow.com


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Rental Property Investment - Finding The Properties
 by: Steve Gillman

Rental property investment starts with finding the best deals. To do this, you can increase your odds by finding more deals. Who's more likely to get a cheap apartment building, an investor that looks through the MLS listings and calls it a day, or the one that uses ten resources? Here are those ten:

1. Look in old papers to find "For Rent" ads. Call if they are a few weeks old. The landlord may be ready to sell, especially if he hasn't yet rented the units out.

2. Look up old FSBO ads. Call on two-month-old "For sale By Owner" ads, and if they haven't sold, they may be ready to deal. Owners often give up the effort, but still would love to sell. Help them out!

3. Drive around looking for "For Sale By Owner" signs. Owners often don't want to pay to keep the ad in the paper every week, so you won't see all properties there.

4. Find abandoned properties. That's a pretty clear sign that the owner doesn't want to deal with the property. He might sell cheap.

5. Talk. Let people know you are looking and sometimes the properties will come to you. There are a lot of owners out there who want to sell, but haven't yet listed their property.

6. Talk to bankers. You might get a foreclosed rental property cheaper if you buy it before they list it with a real estate agent.

7. Offer someone a finder's fee. There are people that always seem to hear about the good deals. Have such people coming to you.

8. Eviction notices. If your local papers publish eviction notices, or if you can get the information at the courthouse, it can be useful. A landlord who just went through the procees of evicting tenants is a likely seller.

9. Use the internet. Go to a search engine and enter the type of real estate you are looking for, along with the city you want to invest in. You never know what you might find.

10. Put an ad in the paper. "Looking for rental properties to buy," might be sufficient to generate a few calls.

There is a lot more to learn to do it right, but finding good properties is a good place to start for rental property investment.

About The Author
 

Steve Gillman has invested in real estate for years. To get a free real estate investing course, and see a photo of a beautiful house he and his wife bought for $17,500, visit http://www.HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com.

 

 



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