{"id":1385,"date":"2014-11-06T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:54:10","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-a-few-thoughts-on-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/thoughtful-thursdays-a-few-thoughts-on-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; A few thoughts on pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today`s thought comes as a result of a workshop I recently presented to a group of business owners to be about price strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics support the statement that of Canadian business that fail, greater than 33% adopted a poor pricing strategy. Let&#8217;s learn from this statistic.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two suggestions I&nbsp;have for&nbsp;every business I have the pleasure of working with. If you want to know why, contact me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not be the lowest price if you are not the lowest cost<\/li>\n<li>Best price does not mean the lowest price<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The easiest path&nbsp;to a sale &nbsp;is to caving on price. Do yourself and your business a favour and find another way to differentiate yourself. It will be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a title=\"Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact me <\/a>and I will respond.<\/p>\n<p>Please share Thoughtful Thursdays posts with people you feel may find the topic interesting and helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today`s thought comes as a result of a workshop I recently presented to a group of business owners to be about price strategies. Statistics support the statement that of Canadian business that fail, greater than&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/thoughtful-thursdays-a-few-thoughts-on-pricing\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,3],"tags":[60,35,73],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}