You work for a SaaS company. Your team discovered that the current pricing strategy wouldn't improve sales for the year.
You've bravely volunteered for the daunting task of creating a new pricing strategy for your company. You rallied Product Managers, Head of Sales, Head of Business Ops, and anyone you think will have a directly impactful opinion on the path forward.
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You've performed market research, surveyed your customers via the Van Westendorp method, reviewed deals won, reviewed deals lost, segmented your customer's usage via K-means, vetted new pricing ideas with customers, and drew up a grandfathering plan that doesn't cause churn. After a few last-minute edits to deal with executive details, you've got a number.
With pricing strategy in hand, you begin to design the technical integrations and document business logic changes. The engineering team reviews your proposal and responds:
We would have to change how the data is processed and figure out a way to support both systems. That will take about 3–6 months, but we don’t have enough resources to allocate towards it.
Re-allocating engineering resources from core features to change product pricing is assigned as low-priority. Your plan to migrPricingcing is blocked.
You've weighed the pros and cons of three possible choices:
Finding a budget or requesting prioritization is an uphill battle that will only elongate the time to improve the overall sales pipeline. A professional services company will take 12–18 months to install a new solution.
People don't believe it's going to ship at this point in the process, and a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt starts to ruminate.
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This post was originally posted by Adam Ballai on April 16, 2018, on Medium.
