A low price can signal a low-quality or immature product, repelling enterprise or mid-market customers. Raising prices can make your product appear more robust and suitable for their needs, thus increasing demand from a more desirable—and previously inaccessible—market segment.

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Introduce a significantly more expensive, highly customized version of your service alongside your main offering. This price anchor makes the actual product you want to sell appear like a fantastic deal, even if it has a high price point, thereby increasing conversion rates.

For luxury goods or services, pricing is a key signal of quality. A price point that is incongruent with luxury branding can make potential buyers skeptical and actually reduce close rates. Raising prices can increase desire and conversions by aligning perception with promise.

Customers don't care about your P&L or that a competitor is a "side hustle." To justify a higher price, you must clearly communicate tangible benefits like better organization, time savings, or superior staff, which directly improve their experience.

To sell more of a $300 package instead of a $200 one, introduce a $500 option. Most won't buy the decoy, but its presence shifts the customer's reference point, making the $300 package appear more reasonable and valuable by comparison.

A blanket price increase is a mistake. Instead, segment your customers. For those deriving high value, use the increase as a trigger for an upsell conversation to a better product. For price-sensitive customers, consider deferring the hike while you work to better demonstrate your value.

The naive view is that lower prices are always better for customers. However, higher prices generate higher margins, which can be reinvested into R&D. This allows the vendor to improve the product much faster, ultimately delivering more value and making the customer better off than with a cheaper, stagnant product.

Many subscription companies employ a "penetration strategy," pricing below cost to attract a large user base. Once loyalty is established, they leverage their pricing power to increase profits, shifting focus from pure growth to appeasing shareholders who now demand profitability.

Even if rarely purchased, a premium one-on-one offer serves as a powerful value anchor. Its high price tag transfers a degree of perceived value to your more accessible, scalable products. To work, you must confront the high price directly with prospects before offering a downsell.

A very high sales close rate (80% or more) is a clear indicator that your product or service is significantly underpriced. Instead of celebrating the rate, view it as a signal to raise prices by 3-4x to maximize revenue, even if the close rate drops.

In a true luxury market, pricing that is too low is incongruent with the brand promise and can actively harm your close rate. A wealthy buyer expects a high price as a signal of quality. If your 'luxury' wedding entertainment costs $30k when flowers cost $500k, the price signals that it's not a premium service, creating distrust.

Raising Your Prices Can Increase Signups by Attracting Higher-Value Customers | RiffOn