Chris Koch

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How much do you “charge” for your content?

Chris Koch

Yet while generally we can’t put a price tag on our content, we do charge for it. The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events. Trouble is, we take a one-price-for all approach to our content. Make no mistake; buyers understand the prices behind marketing content.

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How much do you “charge” for your content?

Chris Koch

Yet while generally we can’t put a price tag on our content, we do charge for it. The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events. Trouble is, we take a one-price-for all approach to our content. Make no mistake; buyers understand the prices behind marketing content.

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How Facebook’s privacy disasters will change B2B marketing

Chris Koch

come at a price. It costs us money to produce this stuff, and therefore our consumers must pay a price. That price is personal information, company information, and buying intent. Both Facebook and we have traditionally believed that the content services that we provide—in our case studies, white papers, webinars, etc.—come

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The power of self-regulation in customer relationships

Chris Koch

When Zane started out, he faced competition from much larger bike shops, so he couldn’t afford to compete on price of the product. Watch the video and you will come away inspired to rethink how you relate to your customers and what your true costs are in serving them. At a 45% margin, that translates to $5600 in profit.

Wikipedia 100
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Social media raises the bar for customer intimacy

Chris Koch

They are focused on lifetime customer value and are willing to incur short-term costs in order to build long-term loyalty and satisfaction—Nordstrom and Amex are a couple of B2C examples. Customers rely on these companies to deliver reliability and quality at a low price. Social media reduces the incremental cost of content.

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How to Grab Readers’ Attention: Be Counterintuitive

Chris Koch

But the high cost of computing power at the time meant that the machine offered no cost advantage over human beings. In 2014, key patents on the most advanced laser-sintering 3D printers will expire, further fueling competitive pricing in the market. The cheapest 3D printers cost as little as $1,000.

Startups 100
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Patents Are Dead

Chris Koch

What has kept musicians and inventors in the basement for all those years wasn’t the promise of financial reward (though that certainly helped), it was that the costs of producing and distributing the thing they wanted to do were just too high for them to bear on their own. The Costs of Production Approach Zero for Everything.

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