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Learning to use Canva
Some of the most engaging dashboard have background images that frame the content and provide visual separation. Although its possible to create dashboard backgrounds in ppt, I’m exploring Canva to see if its faster or easier. First 10 minutes – Features I like: .
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Tax Day: Repost
In honor of income tax day I am reposting my 2013 blog about the Payment Terms element in the price waterfall. Taxes, Procrastination & The Payment Cost Adjustment By Christine Carragee March 20, 2013 There is still one month left until tax day, but I’m already impatiently awaiting my refund. As usual, I managed to…
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Ferris Bueller Approach To Pricing: Part 1
PPS Ferris Bueller Approach To Pricing For the past six months I’ve been mulling over a framework I read about when I worked for Capella University: what is the value of higher education and work experience and how can you unbundle the aspects of education and training that add value to your career. At the time…
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(Un)Ethical Maximization: Recent Red Flag Cases
Tim Smith of Wiglaf Pricing and Mark Stiving of Pragmatic Pricing have both written blog posts about what is and isn’t Pricing Power, countering those who define Pricing Power as simply, inelastic demand, the ability to raise price without a commensurate reduction in volume. As always, I’m interested and impressed by the thought leaders in the Pricing…
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Distortionary Pricing
I read this article a couple of months ago in the Atlantic about how the Saudi’s are investing heavily in solar energy. It calls out how distortionary the government subsidized oil is; promoting massively inefficient use of the resource domestically even while the price of oil abroad is strong. “Most of Saudi Arabia’s power plants…
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You can donate as much as you want
This weekend I was in Santa Cruz at a brewery that was packed. As we sat down to a table a gregarious young boy approach us selling rocks. He showed us a tray with flat rocks with painted symbols on one side and words written on the other. He was so young it didn’t seem…
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Spaving for your Stach: Learn about Value Pricing from the Master
My favorite blog is Mr. Money Mustache (MMM). It is written by a “crazy” guy who retired at age 32 and lives in Colorado with his wife and son. He’s a not a trust fund kid or a venture capitalist or a lesser known Mark Zuckerberg. He is financially independent, but only because his family…
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New Work Clothes and a New Type of Discount
I recently had to buy some new clothes for work. If you know me, you know I’d rather be buying a new pair of climbing shoes than black dress slacks and collared shirts, but it had to be done. I, of course left that task to the last minute, and so decided to shop only…
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Selling from your price waterfall: our leakage is your discount
Recently I was facilitating a one-day pricing workshop with a mix of employees from different functional areas and geographic regions of one company. Assembled in the group were ETL experts, Product Mangers, Finance, Sales and Executive Mgmt. When it came time to cover the Price Waterfall construct, I was doing an exercise where the group…
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The Phonies are delaying your dinner: How Customer buying behavior drives costs
In the past 40 years Americans have shifted to eating nearly half of their meals away from home, up from 30% in 1970. This increase has been driven by some fundamental changes in our way of life, including; an increase in the number of women working outside the home, the decline in the cost of…
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