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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Raise Your Prices: Pricing as Small Business's Ultimate Growth Lever
- Codie Sanchez argues that low prices signal low value, and that pricing drives profits, customer quality and brand perception, yet small businesses often underprice out of fear.
- She cites YouTube TV, Netflix, Starbucks and Amazon Prime as companies that raised prices and kept or grew revenue and customers, and suggests copying tactics like value bundling, tiered offers and market position assessment.
- She cites a Y Combinator study claiming a 1% gain in acquisition yields about 3.5% growth, retention about 6.6%, and monetization about 12%, making pricing the biggest lever.
- She lists signs it's time to raise prices, such as being sold out, going over a year without an increase, being cheaper than competitors, lacking tiers or subscriptions, and not incentivizing longer commitments.
- She critiques Netflix's 2025 price-hike email as impersonal and low on value, and recommends personalized, honest messaging that frames increases around value and care for customers.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasLow prices signal low value
Sanchez says charging too little leads customers to perceive the product as low value, while higher prices can make people use and value it more.
Monetization beats acquisition and retention
Citing a Y Combinator study, she says a 1% increase in price monetization yields about 12% growth, versus about 6.6% for retention and 3.5% for acquisition.
Tiered pricing captures more customers and moves them upward
She recommends at least three tiers (basic, pro, premium) and raising prices on each segment while offering lower-tier customers an upgrade path, as in a basic versus premium car wash.
Price-sensitive customers are less loyal anyway
Raising prices filters out bargain hunters and leaves right-fit customers; she says competing on value and quality makes price a triviality.
Know when you're ready to raise prices
Signals she gives include being sold out, not raising in over a year (inflation justifies a 2 to 5% annual bump), pricing below competitors, and lacking tiers, subscriptions or incentives for longer commitments.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesIf you charge low prices, your product will be perceived as low value. Increase your prices, and you will not only make more money, but people will actually use your product and value it more.
— Codie Sanchez
Price-sensitive customers are often less loyal anyway. They'll jump ship the second a cheaper option comes along. By raising prices, you filter out basically bargain hunters and find your true fans or what we call your right fit customers.
— Codie Sanchez
Remind your customer how they trusted you instead of reminding them how long they've been with you and how you don't care.
— Codie Sanchez
You can only price yourself the absolute cheapest to the bottom. There is no value in being the second most cheap. So why play that game anyway?
— Codie Sanchez
If you don't raise your prices, you won't have any margin. If you don't have any margin, you won't be able to beat your competitors.
— Codie Sanchez
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Codie Sanchez
hostEntrepreneur and host of BigDeal, focused on practical business growth and acquisition tactics.
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