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Discussion on: How to compete with low market prices?

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yellow1912

I think experienced clients who have been burned before know what they expect to get vs what they should pay.

First you should identify your strong points for example:

  1. Business understanding: if you have good understanding of business in general, it will greatly help you the understand and deliver exactly what the clients want. You may even act as a tech consultant.
  2. Languages: if you can communicate with the clients in their language it's also highly appreciated and allow you to get in different markets.
  3. Expertises: it's great to know lots of things, but being a specialist in certain fields make it difficult for your clients to choose anyone else but you.
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Lesly Villalobos

Good point but the percentage of new clients is higher than that of experienced clients. A new customer who doesn't know what to expect usually prefers the cheaper.

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yellow1912

So true. But let them get burned once or twice. It's difficult to tell a child not to play with fire because it's hot till he/she experiences that.

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yellow1912

Another option to get in the low end market is to mass produce. Something that you can work on it once (kind of) and sell to thousands. Those include: templates, plugins, saas services, etc.

I saw some neat simple things such as instagram scrapper got sold as a service for several usd per month.