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August Bootstrap B2B: Beyond Cost-Plus: Pricing Your Products on Markets Old & New

August 14th, 2010

This month’s B2B Subgroup meeting will be led by Christopher Hastings.

Other than adding up their own costs and adding a % margin on top of that, most businesses have little knowledge of how to price their products. We are going to look at a few of the best tricks and tips for developing your pricing model for your business. Whether you are trying to build a SAS subscription model or running a retail store and fighting prices on commodities, we’ll identify some of the key considerations to know when pricing your products.

Our presenter Christopher Hastings has studied at both the Acton School of Business and the London School of Economics, building expertise in both entrepreneurship and international development. He is the founder of two startups, one focused on providing CPAs with the tools they need to counsel entrepreneurs (including on topics of pricing) and the other focused on location analysis for economic development. Despite having written textbook chapters on entrepreneurship and run budgets of 150MM+ supply chain projects, he is never happier than when working one on one with entrepreneurs to improve their businesses.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cjhastings
Twitter: @HastingsCJ

Date: August 23, 7:00 p.m.

Location:
Business Success Center
Chase Bank Tower
7600 Burnet Rd.
Austin, TX 78757
933-1983

More info: http://www.meetup.com/BootstrapB2B/calendar/14292134/

What I’m up to…

April 11th, 2008

I’m in the process of demoting the Blue Danube translating business to become one in a range of export support services. What I want to be doing is facilitating export of American clean/renewable energy technologies to European markets. Depending on how things evolve, I may also be looking at import opportunities later. For the moment I’m still very much in a process of learning and building contacts, but I intend to have a solid starting business structure in place by mid-May. I’ll be visiting Germany and the Czech Republic in May, June and July; my goal is to be representing at least three American companies during that trip and for the trip to at least pay for itself.

More to come….