E14: Everything You Need to Know About Pricing Products

What's the right way to think about pricing your product? This is a difficult challenge for executives to nail down, and can make or break your company—that's why we brought on Kyle Poyar, Operating Partner at OpenView, to distill how to think about pricing the right way. If you’re looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: https://netsuite.com/metrics
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SPONSORS:
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(01:19) What is price elasticity?
(04:02) Psychology and price hacks
(05:47) On pricing and giving discounts
(08:17) PLG pricing and transparency
(13:57) Negotiation and haggling
(15:27) Sponsor: NetSuite
(17:04) The fun in pricing tactics
(19:30) Raising prices and the rule of nine
(26:18) Raising prices and going public
(27:38) Sponsor: Planful
(28:56) Free trials vs freenium
(36:10) 11 characteristics of the best PLG companies
(42:05) SEGMENT: Long-ass lightning round
(46:56) SEGMENT: Rep Yo Stack - Sponsored by Tropic

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