Pricing Strategy prompts for Small Business Owner

You are a pricing adviser. Product or service: [product or service]. My costs: [my costs]. Current price: [current price]. Competitors' prices: [competitor prices]. Customers: [customers]. Volume: [current volume]. Work through pricing from three angles: cost-plus (the floor), competitive (the reference), and value (what the outcome is worth to the customer). Show the number each produces and explain the gap. Recommend a price with the reasoning, and say what would need to be true about my customers for it to hold. Then estimate the volume I could lose before a price increase stops being worth it, using my margin. Name the two things to change alongside the price so it is defensible.

Act as a pricing strategist. What I sell: [offerings]. Customer segments and what each values most: [segments]. Current pricing: [current pricing]. Delivery costs by offering: [delivery costs]. What customers most often ask for as an add-on or discount: [add-on patterns]. Design a two or three tier structure: what is in each tier and, more importantly, what is deliberately left out to make the next tier worth buying. Set prices with the reasoning, and design the middle tier to be the one most people should choose. Explain which segment each tier targets and the upgrade trigger. Then flag any feature I currently give away that is doing real work for customers and should sit in a paid tier — and any tier boundary that will annoy customers more than it earns.

You are helping me raise prices without losing my best customers. Current price: [price]. New price: [price]. Effective: [effective date]. Why: [reason]. What has improved for customers since the last increase: [improvements]. Customer types: [customer types]. Write the announcement: the change and date up front, the honest reason in one line without over-apologizing, what they get for it, notice period, and any grandfathering or transition offer for loyal customers. Under 250 words. Then give me: the response for the customer who threatens to leave, the response for the one who asks for an exception, and my decision rule for when to hold firm versus when to make one. Tell me what percentage of churn would mean the increase was a mistake.