27 Revenue Model Options B2B (curated by @arnevbalen - Board of Innovation)

Revenue Model Options

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Rules of the game: • Start from a concrete idea • Continue until you are at a location where

you have been already (vicious cycle!) • Check all answers before choosing a path • Don’t judge yet, seriously!

Do you think your users could feel uncomfortable if all their

friends know that they use your product/service ?

Does your product/service remember previous use of a

user? (eg. memory card)

Can the user receive a higher status by using the product?

1. Early Exit

2.Tip jar/donation3. Barter

4. Freemium

6. Vanity/Reputation

7. Loss/Aversion

8. Privacy/Anonymity

9. Mystery/Surprises

16. Data Resell

20. Leasing 21. Pay-per-use

5. Pay-what-you-want

10. Convenience/ Shortcuts

11. Helping peers/ Gifts

12. Exclusivity/ Limited Availability

22. FractionalOwnership

Free!For the user.

Paid!The user = Client

Third partypays the bills

Monetization driver(How to cash in)

18. Flat rate (one-time-fee)

19. Subscription (time related)

13. Get one - Give one

14. Advertising

Do you want to offer a product/service to people

that can't afford it?

Would users value the possibility to share the product with their peers?

Would the status only be relevant amongst the user base of your product?

Hmmm...Making money on your product seems to be a tough one.

Get out of your comfort zone! It's innovate or die.

Answer quick! What comes to mind first is the right answer. Here we go:

Will the majority of users pay for your product?

Will users have to give their personal details in order to use

your product/service?

Is it your goal to have direct revenue from this

product/service?

Do you believe other companies would have interest in targeting

your user base?

Do you generate user-data relevant for others?

Are there any complementary services/products to your offer

that your users expect?

Is the variabel cost per extra user non-existent or negligible?

Can you think of features that only part of your user base would pay for?

Does your product need a critical amount of users to show it's value?

Do your users have non monetary resources the company (or other

users) normally would have to pay for?

Did you develop a feature/product significantly more convenient than

the best alternative users have?

What about offering a box without telling

what's inside?

#Awesome! You have some options that your users

might be willing to pay for.

23. Crowdfunding

Do you want the user to own the product once they pay?

Would you like proof of interest from your users

before you launch?

Do you think the user might have trouble paying the entire

product at once?

Do your users want to pay every time they use your product/service?

Yes!

Damn right about that!

We will launch anyway!

Yes!

Yes!

Will the user have the exclusive right to use

this product?

Not nessecarely!

Not really!

Nope!Yes!

No, let's give it for free!Yes!

Maybe

It's not about the ability to pay. I'm just not sure if everyone will pay!

In fact, yes!Not at all, they already use everything they have!

Exactly!

Check!

Ads, are you crazy?

Not really...

Shht... user data is our competitive

advantage!

No!

My product is all they need!

Yes!

It's not about the money!

Of course!

Definitely!

Nope, no critical mass needed!

That's why we make software!

Yes!

We do have some extra costs...

Afraid that you won't receive

enough donations?

Didn't I say I don't want them to pay?

No!

Of course! How can I let them pay otherwise?

Not relevant for my product!

Obviously...

Not relevant!

They would bedevastated if their user data

was lost!

Nope!Absolutely!

No! Amongst everyone!

Yes, they would love it!

No, it would lower the value!

No...

Hell yeah!

Not knowing what's coming is always kind of exciting!

Sounds like gambling!F*ck off!

That's how it works!

Nothing better than the smell of fresh money in the morning...

Close...but yet so far...

25. Razor-blade

Do you want more than one contact moment with your

user?

Not necessary!

Yes, that would be useful!

Seriously? We are not living in the

Middle Ages anymore!

Charity? No thanks!

Ever played Monopoly? Go back to start!

High chance that you'll find more reasons for

users to pay!

No!

Don't forgetto check this one as well!

Can one product be shared amongst

different users?Yes!

Could you introduce physical consumables to be used

together with the product?

Nope!

No!Goodidea!

Crowdfunding is only the beginning...

No, but we do have a recurring cost in mind!

Cool! You just teleported

yourself here!

Your journey requires a teleportation! Find

the exit...

24. Add-ons

Do you see the option to sell

something extra to part of your

customer base?

Harder, better, faster, stronger!

You can probably make even more

money on this! Just give it a try!

Remember:You can only walk this road once!

15. Affiliate/Referral

17. Matchmaking platform

Do you want to have an integrated solution that seems

to be your own offering?

Advice to trusted partner is fine!

Yes, IntegratedSolution

Do you dream of making even more

money with this idea?

Hint >You might find gold at the other side of this tunnel

You won't regret this!

High chance that you'll find more reasons for

users to pay!

Find new revenue models for your idea Start here!

What about these colours?

One Laptop Per Child

Always come togetherAlways come together

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Step 3: Brainstorm template

As an agency specialised in business model innovation, we support our clients to develop sustainable new revenue streams. By asking

the right questions, different options to monetise your idea. Unfortunately, we can’t be everywhere at the same time. That’s why

we made a flowchart to help you and your team to discuss the alternative monetisation tactics & pricing options.

This flowchart will be most effective in one of the following 2 use cases: • You have a new idea and you are wondering if you can monetise it. • You already developed your business model and you would like to

challenge your current monetisation strategy.

Note: This is not a scientific tool. Don’t expect the ultimate solution.

Why did Board of Innovation make a tool to explore ways to find new revenues?

When should I use it?

Rules of the game: • Check cards to understand the

monetisation principle if you need some clarification or examples.

• It’s totally ok to peek into the revenue cards that you didn’t have as an outcome from the flowchart ;)

Rules of the game: • Take all outcomes into consideration • Translate the theoretical outcome

into concrete ways to earn money • Ask all team members to come up

with their own translation

Step 2: Revenue Cards

Step 1: Flowchart

http://www.boardofinnovation.com/FindMyRevenue

A technique used by drugs dealers for many years and also known as locking-in customers: give something for free (or cheap) and provide lots of hassle (€ or effort) when they want to change to a different alternative. 2 Examples to turn theory into practice

Do we really have to explain this one? SAP has roots that reach to the deepest core of your organisation. Trying to kill this parasite will take you sweet blood and tears (without any guarantee of success).

#1 Loss/Aversion Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

2. SAP

Dropbox is the most expensive player in the cloud storage market, but they were first and everyone integrated 3rd party services with their dropbox account. Who knows what might stop working once you switch to an alternative?

1. Dropbox

How much value do you create?Where we would start our pricing strategy:

Costs related to risks of cutting loose the old solution + cost of training all employees to use it

Having something with a certain exclusivity is a show-off. It has always been like that and it will always be the case. The more people have access to the product, the harder it gets to use this as a value perceiver.

Highly intensive programs like the ‘innovation bootcamp’ and services such as ‘Hire a lean entrepreneur‘ require an extensive amount of time and effort from the (limited) corporate disruptors available in Board of Innovation’s team. ‘Be different and be first’ is our advice when you choose this path.

2 Examples to turn theory into practice

Most startup acquisitions are happening in a B2B context. The prime reason for a corporate giant to acquire a B2B startup is getting exclusive use of good people or products. Lots of B2B startups are built and launched to be acquired. (image: Microsoft bought Equivio for $550mio in January 2015.

#2 Exclusivity/ Limited Availability Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

1. Board of Innovation 2. Equivio


Set a (very) high price and lower if you don’t get traction

The acquisition of new customers is an expensive business associated to convincing a customer to buy your product/service. Ultimate convenience is achieved when customers are coming to you without active sales or marketing.

#3 Acquisition convenience Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

Parse.ly is an analytics solution for digital publishers and the entire organisation. It provides them with clear audience insights to answer questions about how readers are responding to content.


Showpad is a mobile sales acceleration platform that delivers contextual content to sales teams or channel partners on any device. They will need less meetings to provide the required (up-to-date) content to close a deal.

1. parse.ly 2. Showpad


Saved cost per acquisition (google ads, working hours, etc.)

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The better your product/service meets (and surpasses) the customer expectation, the happier the customer will be and the longer they will stay customer resulting in less acquisition costs and higher revenues per customer.

#4 Client (of clients) satisfaction (retention) Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

Small business owners are expected to excel at every role — salesperson, marketer, taskmaster, accountant, dispatcher, and receptionist. Breeze works assists them so they can deliver better service to their customers. (eg. It keeps a clear overview of remarks from previous jobs.)


Delighted is a fast and easy customer feedback tool for companies to gather actionable feedback from their customers. Giving customers the chance what they think AND delivering a quick action/respons to it, results in happy clients that stay client longer.

1. Breezeworks 2. Delighted


Average of extra jobs (retention) X cost of acquiring a new client

Employees can be seen as internal clients of a company. Keeping them happy is as important as selling good products/services to external customers. The better you treat them, the better for your clients’ business.

#5 Employee satisfaction Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

Yambla is an ideation tool that helps discover and execute the best ideas in organisations. By endorsing the idea owners and empowering them with the right team members and tools creates a fun, simple and social culture that supports innovation.


Wranx provides employees quick, effective educational tools to become skilled in a number of areas. Employees can use this service wherever and whenever they want. Continuous learning does not require classrooms anymore. #awesome

1. Yambla 2. Wranx


Average cost of hiring per year divided by average turnover time of employees

Risk comes with a ‘risk minimisation cost’. Lowering the perception of risk is often enough to convince a company to buy your service. Go and find those risk factors ;).

#6 Certainty (aka. lower risk) Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

Enprove provides companies a smart monitoring system that not only tracks but also analyses their energy consumption. Their Enalyzer software detects refringent leakages up to 6 times faster than conventional methods.


Viloc is a company automating tool management for the construction industry. By placing a handy little transmitter on all equipment of a construction company, the equipment is directly linked to a web application at their office. No more unused or stolen equipment!

1. Enprove 2. Viloc


Current cost of yearly safety buffer X added risk of changing the current way of working (0-100%)

High investments equal high risk. Keeping investments low equals high flexibility, a goal of every CEO.

#7 Flexibility (aka. lower fixed cost) Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

An international network of rapid prototypers and additive manufacturers. A given company uploads a 3D model to the Additively website in order for the Additively system to help optimise the costs and efficiency of getting the model 3D printed. Only variable costs for their clients to be found here.


A co-entrepeneur that joins 1-2 days per week to keep everyone focused. Most of the time this person will steer the validation of critical business assumptions in the first months of a corporate venture. In case the venture fails, the agreement stops without consequences (Board of Inno service).

1. Additively2. Hire a lean entrepreneur


Cost of a wrong investment (or hire) X the amount of times this happened during the last few years

Allowing businesses to distinguish themselves from other businesses will make them feel important. Often used in gaming!

#8 Vanity/Reputation Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


Gore-Tex is THE membrane to make something 100% waterproof while keeping air going through. Using the membrane provides manufacturers of shoes, jackets, etc. a trademark that distinguishes them from manufacturers using other solutions.

2. Gore-Tex


Pricing interviews are required in this case - and in all other cases ;) -

Pro and Business versions of Windows do not differ that much in features, while Pro is priced much higher than the basic version. But wait… Do you want to be the one opening your ‘Windows Home Edition’ with a new client?

1. Windows 8 Pro

Robin provides an online service that recognises the arrival of people in a certain room. The service automatically schedules in spontaneous meetings, or indicated whether a room is being used or not.

1. Robin

Automation of repetitive tasks and making an organisation ‘lean’ are examples of clean OPEX savings. No company is perfect. Search and find ;).

#9 OPEX saving Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

EEx Charge drives cost reductions and visibility through automatic bill analysis and real-time analytics with smart meter installations in Chinese manufacturing factories.


2. Efficiency exchange


For people: time saved in hours X proportion that can (or will be) used to do something productive for the company X

average wage cost per hour. For other OPEX: fix a reference cost & claim part of the savings after a certain time

Open communication and transparency are key trends in business. The more leaders can share with their employees, clients, shareholders and partners, without unveiling ‘real’ company secrets, the more trust they receive.

#10 Transparency Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

Geckoboard is an online dashboard product that lets businesses monitor company-related information in real time. All relevant data is communicated through the use of widgets across their entire organisation.


By using light, color and patterns on an badge with a LED and e-ink display, Ticto is using a visual indicator that is allowing any group of individuals to regulate itself. Ideal for a flexible workforce with variable applicable rules s on safety, security, allowances, credentials, contractual, etc.

1. Geckoboard 2. Ticto


How much time do managers ‘loose’ by answering questions on information or mistakes based on not enough information?

Barter mill is a trading platform and project management system for a small business: sell, buy or exchange services and goods. Hold a bidding. Find a buyer or supplier.

Cribb is the 'AirBnB for starupts’: startups receive a location to work with their team in return for equity in their startup.

Receiving products/services you want in return for another good or favour: user base, prestige, contact details, a service, knowledge, etc. Often used by startup companies.

#11 Barter (non monetary) Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic

How it usually works - General visualisation

1. Bartermill

2. Cribb


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Service

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Lower price than service cost(often free)

Data, the right to use data or something elsenon monetary and valuable for the MyStartup.com

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Company

Dropbox gives more online space to their PRO users that paid for the service. Meanwhile, Business users have unlimited space and extra services for teams to collaborate.

Slack is a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. Slack is free to use for as long as you want and with an unlimited number of people. Functionalities will be limited once your organisation reaches 10k messages.

Segmenting your user base in users that get the service for free and users that pay, is called a freemium business model. The paying customers usually have access to superior features.

#12 Freemium Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


1. Slack

2. Dropbox


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SME

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SME Pro

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Corporate

Free Service

Pro Service

Pro Service

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Subscription

Offer what you want for their services and they pick the offers they like. Apart from money, value drivers for 8k could be: availability of their designers, big brands for their portfolio, etc.

One bundle with 8 different useful template packs for (small) businesses with a total value of $1500: business cards, ppt templates, logo templates, email templates, etc. The reference is everything here. Real value is probably much lower.

Similar to donation but with a stronger focus on revenues, not users. Here you get to choose what you pay for the product. Only works when variable costs are negligible (e.g. music, games, virtual books, software, etc.)

#13 Pay-what-you-want Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


1. Stack Social

2. 8k design agency


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MyStartup.com Consumers

Information

5

Money

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Company

Product

Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Imagine the impact of a powerful lecture with 200k students attending…

All (big) industry conferences and fairs are sponsored by companies in return for exposure: a speaker, an exhibitor stand, a logo on all flyers, etc. Sponsorship is a way of advertising (with a nice fiscal advantage).

The user becomes the product. Companies pay to reach the customers of your service. The desired result is to drive consumer behaviour with respect to a commercial offering.

#14 Advertising Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


1. Coursera

2. Mobile World Congress


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Company

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Advertiser

Service

Exposure

5

Pay per X

5

Money

Zenefits is offering free cloud-based HR software to any company. So companies can centralise all of their employees’ information in one dashboard, which is a big win. In this dashboard, there are suggestions for health care insurance plans, which the employer will pay for with a 5% referral fee.

Receive miles by flying with Lufthansa’s Miles & More program and exchange them to discounts at all partners of the Star Alliance: airlines, hotels, consumer goods, etc.

When referring your customers to another company, you are driving their sales. Depending on the product and program, 5-10% of the product price, is a good indicator of the lead fee you’ll receive.

#15 Affiliate/Referral Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


1. Zenefits

2. Miles & More


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My organization

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Company Buyer

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Company Seller

Leads

5

Referral fee

Contact data

5

MoneyProduct

Free Service

KISS metrics connects all marketing data to real people. Companies can see everything a person has done, from the first touchpoint to the last and are able to anticipate on this behaviour.

Selling customer data is a lucrative business for many purposes: targeted advertising, medical research, personalised services, etc. Being transparent is one of the keys to success!

#16 Data Resell Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


2. KISSmetrics


PatientsLikeMe offers a valuable (and free) P2P service for people searching for the best treatment of their disease. Anonymous data is sold to Pharma, so they can come up with better treatments.

1. PatientsLikeMe

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My organization

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Users

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Data Buyer

Free Service

Data

Insights

5

Access fee

When matching 2 relevant parties to each other, both value your service and might pay for it. Dating platforms are the best known example of matchmaking platforms.

#17 Matchmaking Platform Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic



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My organization

Consumer

Consumer

Experience Experience

Service

5

Money

Service

5

Money

Jobr is a ‘Tinder’ for jobs matching companies with open applications (and looking for ‘the perfect applicant’) with applicants searching for ‘their perfect job’.

Babelverse is P2P translator for spoken communication available on-demand in any language and remotely on any device. Fact: Launched as a business service but envisioning a tool that will helps bridging the language gap between oversees volunteers and victims of nature disasters.

1. Jobr

2. Babelverse

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FLOOW2 ‘World's Reset Button’, the sharing marketplace for business equipment, services and personnel. Perfect if you need short term resources or if you have overcapacity.

StyleSeat is the platform for professionals in the beauty and wellness industry to run and grow their business. Consumers receive a one stop shop for beauty & wellness appointments to be copied to for example the healthcare industry.

A marketplace always has clear supply and demand. Bringing these 2 sides together might require a platform (marketplace) or a serviceprovider (broker) The one delivered most value to is mostly the one that pays the commission fee (can be buyer, seller or both).

#18 Marketplace Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


1. FLOOW2

2. StyleSeat


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ConsumerConsumer

5

Money

Experience Product Service

Community

5

CommissionPlatform

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This is how most products are sold. You pay a one time fee and you own the product or you receive access to a lifetime service.

#19 Flat rate Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic



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MyStartUp.com Consumer5

One-Time Fee

Service Product

VPN Unlimited is your one-stop shop for protecting your WiFi connection, securing your online activity, and bypassing web content restrictions. You pay €40 for a lifetime subscription.

2. VPN Unlimited

You buy it. You draw a face on it to extent it’s lifetime for 3 more minutes. You eat it. You’re done.

1. A banana

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Zubie is a connected-car app that provides location tracking, driver scoring, alert and location sharing services by connecting each car to the internet with a Zubie key. Subscription fee of $149/year/key

A subscription is a service you sell in a certain timeframe. The service can vary: receiving a newspaper every day, using a cloud service (software), being able to call car assistance when needed, etc.

#20 Subscription Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


2. Zubie


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Subscription

Service

Adobe Creative Suite has had a ‘single purchase for life’ for a long time. Now they switched to a cloud service: you only pay for what you need for the time you need it. According to Adobe it’s cheaper. Disclaimer: for frequent users it’s not ;).

1. Adobe Creative Cloud

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The fast pace of projection disruptions resulted in cinemas to either work with outdated technology or spend more than they earn. Barco proposed to deliver a projection service instead of selling the projectors with a cost per hour projected.

Customers receive a physical product for a limited period to fulfil their needs. Within the leasing period, a product can only serve the needs of one customer (exclusive use).

#21 Leasing Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


Leasing of cars is a service used by all companies worldwide. Leaseplan is one the leading providers of this service.

1. LeasePlan

2. Barco Leasing Program


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Fee/Time

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Flat Fee

Product (bought)

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oDesk is a global online work platform and services commerce business where businesses and independent professionals connect and collaborate remotely. Prices per hour start at $1/h.

Uber automatically ensures that only trips that follow the company’s policy can be charged to the company account - for example, only from the office after 9pm. All trips are billed per ride to one payment method, so all expenses are in one place.

Some products are only used a limited amount of times per customer (a car is idle 97% of the time on average). Paying only for the times you need a product/service creates flexibility and increases the value per use.

#22 Pay-per-use Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


1. UpWork

2. Uber for business


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Fee per use

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A pricing strategy with highly flexible prices for products or services based on different variables: demand-based, time-based , profile-based, etc.

#23 Dynamic pricing Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


Parking spaces are provided with a sensor, detecting parking availability. To help achieve the right level of parking availability, SFpark periodically adjusts meter - and garage pricing up and down to match demand. Fact: ’14 pilot project in San Fransisco

2. SF Park


Airlines change prices depending on the day of the week, time of day, and number of days before the flight, number of seats, departure time and average cancellations on similar flights

1. Qatar Airways

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Price based on one or multiple variables

Service

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Company

Simple: you sell before you manufacture to minimise risk of overproducing something expensive nobody wants.

Pre-sales is a way to offer a product/service/right for sale before it is developed entirely. Mostly used to fund a project or to receive proof of customer interest before launch. Always to be combined with another pricing tactic!

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Fund Seeker Community Member

Community Member

Service

5

% Commission Small Reward

5

Small Micro-Funding

Large Reward

5

Large Macro-Funding Funding Crowd

#24 Pre-Sales Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


1. Boeing


Intraboot is a tool to organise crowdfunding campaigns within your firm. All employees receive a budget and choose together where investments go to. IBM is one of the pioneers in this area.

2. Intraboot

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Salesforce offers lots of own apps in their AppExchange. Through acquisitions and own development they make sure to sell as much extra products as possible once a company chooses for SalesForce.

aka. Add-ons. Some customers might have deeper pockets than you think. Always allow them them to spend all the money they have! The gaming industry understands this aspect, the music industry does not.

#25 Up-selling Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


Wordpress is a free open-source DIY website platform. If you need a more custom solution or if you do have some trouble, you can pay for a support service.

1. Salesforce AppExchange

2. Wordpress Support


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MyStartup.com 5

Low Price

Cheap product

Consumables

5

Recurring Premium Price

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Revenues are spread over the lifetime of a product. After a flat fee, customers have recurring expenses they can’t refuse. (e.g. Razor blades, coffee pads, updates GPS devices, etc.)

#26 Razor-blade Third Party pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


Nespresso doesn’t earn (much) on their coffee machines (they don’t even make them themselves). All of the money comes from the pads. Interesting fact: Dyson chose for the opposite strategy by taking away vacuum cleaner’s bags.

“An update is still cheaper then a new GPS system, right?” This is exactly how Tomtom and Garmin made big money for years. Users choose to either pay or use outdated maps.

1. Nespresso

2. Tomtom GPS updates


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MyStartup.com Customer5

Low Price

Cheap product

Consumables

5

Recurring Premium Price

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Company

The da Vinci Surgical System is a robotic surgical system made by the American company Intuitive Surgical. It is designed to facilitate complex surgery and allows remote surgery. Often several hospitals share the cost of one device.

IMEC is a cutting edge research center based in Leuven, Belgium. Together with partners from across the value chain they tackle challenges to co-develop an economically scalable route to high-volume manufacturing of innovative products.

When customers are not able to pay for the entire product, you can allow them to buy it together with peers. Another variation of buying together with peers is ‘group buying’ to achieve a discount on everyones product or service.

#27 Fractional ownership Third Party

pays the bill

Free! For the user.

Value Proposition

Pricing tactic


1. Da Vinci Robots

2. IMEC


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Does your product/service

remember previous use of a

user? (eg. memory card)

Can the user receive a higher

status by using the product?

2.Tip jar/donation

3. Barter

4. Freemium

9. Mystery/Surprises

16. Data Resell

5. Pay-what-you-want

10. Convenience/ Shortcuts

12. Exclusivity/ Limited Availability

Free!For the user.Third partypays the bills

13. Get one - Give one

14. Advertising

Do you want to offer a

product/service to people

that can't afford it?

Would users value the possibility to

share the product with their peers?

Would the status only be relevant

amongst the user base of your product?

Hmmm...

Making money on your product seems to be a tough one.

Get out of your comfort zone! It's innovate or die.

Is it your goal to have

direct revenue from this

product/service?

Do you believe other companies

would have interest in targeting

your user base?

Do you generate user-data

relevant for others?

Are there any complementary

services/products to your offer

that your users expect?

Is the variabel cost per extra user

non-existent or negligible?

Can you think of features that only

part of your user base would pay for?

Does your product need a critical

amount of users to show it's value?

Do your users have non monetary

resources the company (or other

users) normally would have to pay for?Did you develop a feature/product

significantly more convenient than

the best alternative users have?

What about offering a

box without telling what's inside?

#Awesome! You have some

options that your users

might be willing to pay for.

Do you want the user to own the

product once they pay?

Would you like proof of

interest from your users

before you launch?

Do your users want to

Yes!

Will the user have the

exclusive right to use this product?

Not nessecarely!

Not really!

Nope!

It's not about the ability to pay. I'm just not sure if everyone will pay!

In fact, yes!

Not at all, they already use everything they have!

Exactly!

Check!

Ads, are you crazy?

Not really...

Shht... user data is our competitive advantage!No!

My product is all they need!

Yes!

It's not about the money!

Of course!

Definitely!Nope, no critical mass needed!

That's why we make software!

Yes!

We do have some extra costs...

Afraid that you won't receive enough donations?

Didn't I say I don't want them to pay?

Not relevant!

devastated if their user data was lost!

Nope!

Absolutely!

No! Amongst everyone!

Yes, they would love it! No, it would lower the value!

No...Hell yeah!

Not knowing what's coming is always kind of exciting!Sounds like gambling!F*ck off!

Close...but yet so far...

Do you want more than one

contact moment with your user?

Not necessary!

Yes, that would be useful!

Seriously? We are not living in the Middle Ages anymore!

Charity? No thanks!

Ever played Monopoly? Go back to start!

Don't forgetto check this one as well!

Your journey requires a teleportation! Find the exit...

Do you want to have an

integrated solution that seems

to be your own offering?

Advice to trusted partner is fine!

Yes, IntegratedSolution

You won't regret this!

High chance that you'll find more reasons for users to pay!

What about these colours?

One Laptop Per Child

Always come together

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