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Home  /  Death to the Billable Hour

Death To The Billable Hour: How To Develop Value-Based Pricing

Event TypeLive Online Webinar with Ron Baker
**NOTE: This event has both an audio and visual portion (over the internet).
Date / TimeThursday, February 28, 2008
2:00-3:30 PM EST
Price

$99 per connection

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Duration90 minutes - Includes 30 minute interactive Q&A session with Ron Baker
Event Description

No client buys hours, and hence services professionals don't sell time. Yet two generations of accountants, lawyers, consultants, and other services professionals have been taught they do, and by forcing them to account for every six minutes of their day, they begin to internalize this attitude to the detriment of focusing on wealth creation for their clients.

Based on Ron Baker’s best-selling book, Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006), this webinar will give you alternatives to pricing your services based on client-perceived value, rather than hours spent. 

By learning to avoid the deleterious consequences of hourly billing, you will be able to:

  • Communicate better with clients

  • Uncover client expectations up-front

  • Remove surprises from client invoices

  • Involve clients in establishing the scope and value of your services

  • Enhance loyalty and retention

  • Increase your profitability

This program is not just about pricing strategies, it is about a business model change.  From selling time to selling intellectual capital, the chief source of wealth.

Major Topics Include:

  • The Labor Theory of Value vs. The Subjective Theory of Value

  • Utilizing Price-led costing

  • Price psychology and emotions

  • The importance of pricing before work is done

  • The Fixed Price Agreement and Change Orders

  • Offering a Service and Price Guarantee

  • Who’s in charge of value in your firm?

  • Establishing a Pricing Cartel and appointing a Chief Value Officer (CVO)

Plus, there will be a 30 minute question and answer session where you can ask specific questions about your pricing strategies.

Any professional who is interested in being among the leaders in the professions moving away from the hourly billing method to achieve a competitive differentiation and who is tired of sacrificing profits on the altar of the almighty hour should attend this revolutionary webinar.

Registration

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Special Offer

Five attendees will receive a copy of Ron Baker’s book, Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value.

Who Should Attend

Any professional who is interested in being among the leaders in the professions moving away from the hourly billing method to achieve a competitive differentiation and who is tired of sacrificing profits on the altar of the almighty hour should attend this revolutionary webinar.

About the Presenter

Ronald J. Baker is the founder of VeraSage Institute, a think tank dedicated to teaching Value Pricing to professionals around the world.

As a frequent speaker at events and conferences, and a consultant to professional knowledge firms on implementing Total Quality Service and Value Pricing, Ron has toured the world, spreading his Value Pricing message to over 80,000 professionals. 

He has been an instructor with the California CPA Education Foundation since 1995 and has authored twelve courses for them, including: The Shift From Hourly Billing to Value Pricing; Value Pricing Graduate Seminar; Trashing the Timesheet: A Declaration of IndependenceSpecialists Make More Money (with Michelle Golden) and others.

He is the author of the best-selling marketing book ever written specifically for the professionals, Professional’s Guide to Value Pricing, Sixth Edition, published by CCH, Incorporated.  The book has been ranked #1 on amazon.com in Australia and New Zealand. Among others, he has also authored:

  • Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value - published in February 2006 (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
  • Measure What Matters to Customers: Using Key Predictive Indicators - released September 20, 2006 (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
  • Mind Over Matter: Why Intellectual Capital is the Chief Source of Wealth - published November 2007

Ron has been appointed to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountant’s Group of One Hundred, a think tank of leaders to address the future of the profession, named on Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People in the profession for seven years running, and received the 2003 Award for Instructor Excellence from the California CPA Education Foundation. 

Registration Fee

$99 per connection - Gather your colleagues around a monitor in the conference room and have everyone benefit from the advice shared.

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