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Here's how to price yourself in a category of 1 vs commodity based pricing 👆 #shorts

21 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Eric Deeran advising video professionals to avoid commodity-based pricing by specializing. The speaker argues you must pick either a method (a specific video style/technique) or an industry (a specific client type) so you become hard to compare to others — a "category of one" — which lets you charge higher rates rather than being driven down to commodity pricing.

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You need to specialize in either a method or an industry, a method being some sort of video that you're really good at and an industry being some sort of type of client that you're really good at working with. You need to specialize in one of those two things if you want to be successful. You're a jack of all trades. You're going to be stuck in commodity based pricing instead of being in a category of 1. Commodity based pricing is when they can compare you to any other video person out there, which is why you're probably getting walked down in price right now. Being in a category of one means that they can't compare you to anybody else because they have no one to compare you to. And so if your offer isn't the same as everybody else's, that's when you can charge higher rates because you're in a category of one, or you offer something that those people don't offer.