Coaching practices for How to See Through Marketing Pricing

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• I’m staring at three pricing tiers and the top one suddenly feels like the obvious smart buy
• The thing I’m offering sounds expensive the way I keep describing it, and I’m sure it’s worth it
• The "was $1,000, now $700" tag makes it feel like a steal and I almost buy on the spot
• I walked out of that sales pitch about to say yes to the "middle" option, and only later did it hit me that the pricey one they showed first was probably there just to make this one feel reasonable
• I have to put a price on what I’m offering and the number sounds huge said out loud on its own

Practices that may help

1. Identify the decoy tier in pricing and subscription structures
   When one pricing option seems designed only to make another look good, it is probably a decoy — don’t let it anchor your choice.
   The Decoy Effect — How an Irrelevant Option Changes Your Choice
2. Reframe the offer’s reference point
   Change what the offer is compared against, and its perceived value changes.
   The Framing Effect
3. Identify price anchors before they calibrate your sense of value
   The first price you see for a category sets the anchor — recognize it before it defines what seems cheap or expensive.
   The Decoy Effect — How an Irrelevant Option Changes Your Choice
4. Recognize when contrast is being used on you
   Awareness of the contrast principle is the antidote — evaluate options against an independent standard, not the presented sequence.
   The Contrast Principle, Made Practical
5. Reframe a cost against a larger, legitimate reference point
   A price or investment looks smaller when contrasted with a larger relevant figure.
   The Contrast Principle, Made Practical
6. Pricing things in life-hours
   Convert a purchase into the hours of your life it costs to earn, then decide.
   Voluntary Simplicity, Made Practical
7. Evaluate a cost against your whole picture, not its tiny bucket
   A small bucket makes a fixed cost feel huge or trivial depending on framing, not reality.
   Mental Accounting, Made Practical
8. Translate price into hours of work or future value
   Convert a price into concrete terms — work-hours or compound-growth — to make the real cost visible.
   The Marshmallow Test and Your Money
9. Name trade-off anti-goals: conditions that come bundled with attractive outcomes
   Many desirable outcomes come packaged with specific costs — name the hidden costs as anti-goals before you commit.
   Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept
10. Make multiple equivalent simultaneous offers (MESOs)
    Propose several package deals of equal value to you — see which the other side prefers.
    Expanding the Pie: Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference

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