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We usually recommend no more than two pricing columns. More price columns can confuse your clients and techs, and reduce the effectiveness of the entire Price Book. We recommend that your Value Rate or Standard price column should be your breakeven plus your desired profit margin. Your second price column can be discounted from your Standard price column as a tool to sell your service club or service agreement plans.
What is Value Based pricing? We recommend that most companies use value based pricing rather than using multiple price columns on the same Task. Value based pricing allows your techs to offer your clients a range of choices based on quality and features rather than simply price.
This type of pricing strategy is much easier to understand and to sell than multiple price columns for each Task.
How Do I Increase my Additional Task per Call Average? What we have discovered over the last 15 years while working with hundreds of profitable service companies is that offering a discount for additional work often does not increase the average task per call for most service companies we tracked.
Here's what we have found works best in most cases. Train you technicians to address your client's primary problem first by offering several value based options to fix that primary problem. Let the client choose and commit to the option they deem appropriate. Now have your technician ask three prepared questions that address potential future problems that may be in need of attention. This alone will increase your average task per call number without offering discounts.
How do I identify my price sensitive Tasks? This is a very important part of maximizing your potential with your Price Guides. When you track your key performance indicators like tech close ratios, client satisfaction, and customer complaint calls, you should be able to identify a list of specific Tasks that continually show up as price problems in these reports.
Once these price sensitive
Tasks have been identified, you can determine
a price point that needs to be met. Then you can build value based
repair Tasks that may include a loss leader at
the lowest price option. Be sure to build the middle
option to be your target sweet spot price. Give Mike Conroy a call. He can quickly walk you through the business basics that you need to help make your business more consistently profitable. Take advantage of his experience working with hundreds of companies like yours to help you achieve your own business success.
Mr. Tester was recruited by Nexstar founder Frank Blau to be the first employee of Nexstar (Contractors 2000) in 1992. He was the executive director of Nexstar until 1998. Mr. Tester has been Coaching Manager for Nexstar for the past five years.
Before joining Contractors 2000, Mr. Tester was the Assistant Executive Director of the Minnesota PHCC.
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We know that not everyone has Numbers Cruncher for calculating their breakeven and other numbers critical for setting their prices, so we have created a quick business cost calculator on the NSPG web site. This simple calculator takes your selections from a series of choices, and returns estimates of several values that are critical to setting your profitable prices. The numbers that it returns can be plugged directly into our our order form for printed Flat Rate Price Books. You can also use it to get a quick look to see if the numbers you're using are realistic for your actual costs. This free calculator is designed for a simple one person owner/operator business and includes several financial assumptions with that in mind. If you need a more complete and more flexible way to calculate your key costs and pricing numbers, you should use Numbers Cruncher. The added benefit included with your Numbers Cruncher purchase is a complete Numbers Review by an NSPG Flat Rate expert. We can help you spot where you may be spending too much or too little based on our experience with thousands of businesses.
The Economy  The
economy grew by just 1.3% down from predicted growth of
3.2% in January and the first quarter growth was revised
down to 0.4%. These numbers point to a slide back
toward recession especially with continued and
accelerating reductions in
government spending. Overall expectations are for slow growth and very little improvement in the
employment rate until demand increases.
Consumer confidence hit
its lowest level since November of last year.
Consumer spending is predicted to be up just 0.6% for
the quarter compared to 2.2% for the first quarter of
2011. It appears that corporate profits will
continue to grow while employment growth remains very
slow.
We are seeing service
industry materials price increases over the next few
months from 8% to 10%.
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Value
based pricing can include a number of offer strategies
based on a combination of features, quality and
warranty. For example, on a toilet repair:
Asking
questions does a better job in driving the average Task
per call number higher. Ask Questions, Ask
Permission. Offer to solve potential problems, before
they become urgent problems.
After
11 years of service,
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