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Re:Show HN: 7courses - The easy to use online recipe manager. by jeffclark on Monday January 30, 2012 @03:51PM (#3530602)
Old marketing pro once told me: "it's really easy to lower your prices, but fucking impossible to raise them".

I agree with tjic's sentiment, especially the "free trial" bit.

EXCEPT, that maybe instead of charging $10, make it APPEAR as if your intention is to charge $10/month "but signup now to get it for $x FOR LIFE".

Re:Show HN: 7courses - The easy to use online recipe manager. by dmix on Monday January 30, 2012 @04:16PM (#3530684)
> "it's really easy to lower your prices, but fucking impossible to raise them"

I think this is true for big companies with huge customer bases.

But when you're just launching a startup, it's not that risky to experiment.

Re:Show HN: 7courses - The easy to use online recipe manager. by bigiain on Monday January 30, 2012 @05:14PM (#3530863)
I think it's also "really easy to get yourself pigeonholed in the '_way_ too expensive' category, where people don't even _consider_ buying from you" (think "Photoshop")