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you think when someone offers to sell you a perfectly


                              decent-looking car for a thousand dollars is that


                              something must be wrong under the hood.



                              “So, if you want to be


                              judged on your abilities,


                              not your hourly rate,                           “The first thing you


                              you have to go through                           think when someone

                              this process. It’s better                        offers to sell you a


                              for you and your client.                         perfectly decent-
                                                                               looking car for a

                              “But having said all                             thousand dollars is


                              that, let’s be clear about                       that something must be


                              one thing: this value-                           wrong under the hood.”


                              based pricing and


                              positioning stuff isn’t

                              just a bunch of consultancy voodoo. Because I dig


                              in and come to understand the problems my clients


                              have, I design solutions that are more strategic. I wind

                              up taking a different and more impactful approach to


                              what on the surface can sometimes seem like the same


                              project. So my clients may pay more for my services,


                              but they get more too. You know the saying, ‘You get


                              what you pay for?’ Well, this is why.”














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