Dear SaaStr: Why Are Pricing Tiers So Effective?
I’m no pricing psychologist or true expert, but a few learnings:
- Buyers like a >few< choices. Not too many, but 1 or 2. It empowers them. In product marketing and sales, always give a buyer that is interested, but dragging her or his feet … choices. One cheaper but still good and fair. One premium.
- Tiers are understood. Buying is a confusing process. Your job is to take friction out of it (generally speaking). Tiers have been established for decades and are a well-understood process for presenting options where pricing can be at least semi-transparent. 3 Series, 5 Series, 7 Series BMW. Etc. etc. We’ve been trained to expect tiers, and they make us comfortable. Give buyers a well-understood buying process, and the sales process is simply easier.
- Buyers think they know which tier to choose, and quickly self-align to them. When we added an Enterprise tier back in the day, our F500 companies immediately understood that was the product for them. They didn’t try to buy the single-seat Pro version. And they didn’t complain about multiple editions.
- Because of 1-3, pricing tiers done right, can remove friction from sales. And when you remove friction, you close more.
My advice: innovate on product. But generally, don’t innovate so much on pricing per se. Use patterns buyers are already comfortable with.
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