TRANSFORMING YOUR PRICING AND PROFIT
Trade Your Rate Card for a Pricing Stack
The agencies leading the way in the development of more profitable revenue models have traded their schedule of hourly rates for a “pricing stack” — an array of revenue-generating pricing strategies designed to capture the value they create rather than the costs they incur.
Your pricing stack can include many of the same modern pricing methodologies employed by your clients — dynamic pricing, two-part pricing, subscriptions to packages of services, bundled pricing, tiered pricing, per-use pricing, and even new pricing strategies like use now, pay later. Think of this as “value engineering,” a proactive approach to developing a pricing platform for your firm.
In this webinar, showcasing leading-edge examples of new pricing methodologies used by agencies and other professional firms, Ignition’s Tim Williams demonstrates how you and your firm can benefit from injecting innovation and diversity into the way you price your services.
Workshop Length: 43 minutes
Price: $149
Getting Your Price
At a time when marketers are scrambling to lower costs, agencies are working hard to preserve or improve their margins. Many agencies are dissatisfied with hourly-based compensation systems because it puts their cost structure under a microscope. Clients are unhappy with the system because they often pay for hours without getting results. The truth is a time-based approach is wrong for both sides. By focusing on hours and costs instead of value and effectiveness, neither party achieves what it wants from the relationship.
In this thought-provoking webinar, Ignition's Tim Williams shows how agencies can make the shift from activity-based costing to value-based pricing.
Webinar Length: 56 minutes
Price: $149
Better Pricing as an Agency Strategic Imperative
A global pricing revolution has been underway. Companies of all kinds now employ not just finance professionals who calculate the cost of products and services, but also pricing professionals who know how to determine the value.
That is, everywhere except in professional services. Somehow, the one industry that's almost pure knowledge work is largely stuck in a paradigm of selling the hours they work (costs) instead of the value they create (value). Bottled water is priced based on perceived customer value, but not most marketing consultation.
This in-depth presentation by Ignition’s Tim Williams explores in detail how agencies can join the pricing revolution and start capturing the true value they create for their clients.
Workshop Length: 59 minutes
Price $149
Turning Projects Into Profitable Opportunities
Solving the problem of agency compensation has a direct and simple solution for those firms willing to change their view of what they really sell. This enlightening online workshop presents powerful solutions for transforming agency compensation, dealing successfully with procurement, and improving your pricing as the most powerful way to improve your profits.
While agency compensation appears to be a complex issue, the resolution is surprisingly straight-forward: abandon industrial-age cost-based pricing methods and move to the same modern customer-based pricing methods used by the rest of the business world. This online workshop will show you how.
Workshop Length: 57 minutes
Price $149
The Power of Presenting Pricing Options
When pricing services, most major marketers offer options -- different prices for different versions of the product. This powerful approach can and should be adopted by professional services firms as well. Instead of giving your client a "yes or no" decision, you're providing a choice of "yes's." This presentation by Ignition's Tim Williams will show how.
Workshop Length: 27 minutes
Price: $149
TRANSFORMING YOUR BUSINESS STRATEGY
You Have a Strategic Plan, But You Might Not Have a Strategy
If you have a hard-working team that seems to be working harder and harder by the day, it’s likely because you don’t have a hard-working business strategy. In today’s overworked culture, we unfortunately assume that more success will always require more time at work. More meetings, more emails, more “team collaboration.” But consider that the very purpose of a business strategy is to make it easier to produce the business results we seek.
Join Tim Williams, as he explores the 10 touchstones that represent the litmus test for an effective business and marketing strategy for your firm. Tim will show that strategy isn't about making plans; it's about making choices. By making conscious trade-offs, you create and sustain your firm's competitive advantage.
Webinar Length: 56 minutes
Price $149
TRANSFORMING YOUR VALUE TO CLIENTS
New Leadership Skills for Account Managers
Agency-client relationships have changed dramatically in the last 10 years. The days of exclusive, long-term relationships have been replaced by not only more project-oriented work, but the new reality of agencies functioning in a federation of specialized marketing communications firms serving a single client.
Especially for client service professionals, this new environment requires a more nimble collaborative approach that can introduce a new level of complexity in dealing with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
In this thought-provoking webinar, Ignition's Tim Williams looks at the new leadership and management skills that are required to be a successful client service professional in today’s multi-channel environment.
Webinar Length: 58 minutes
Price $149