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Just Double Your Prices

Name: Just Double Your Prices
Uploaded: 2025-04-09T00:00:47+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this short monologue, the speaker tells a parable about a baker who sells the town’s best bread for a low price, working long hours yet barely making…

9 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker tells a parable about a baker who sells the town’s best bread for a low price, working long hours yet barely making ends meet. An experienced merchant advises him to double his price. Though initially skeptical, the baker follows the advice, losing half his customers but earning the same revenue while working half the time. The freed time lets him experiment with new recipes, improving product quality and attracting higher‑valuing customers. Over time, he repeats the price increase, eventually selling the same volume of loaves at four times the original price to a loyal, quality‑focused clientele. The merchant concludes that the price a creator sets signals the value of their work to the world, and that perception aligns with the price set.

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A baker sells the best bread in town for 1 copper coin, and so he's working 18 hours a day, but he's barely surviving. One day, an old merchant sees him turn away customers halfway through the day when he runs out of bread. He says, just double your prices. And of course, the baker is like, that's impossible, I'll lose all my customers. But eventually he's like, fine, I'll double my prices. And when he does, he loses half his customers, but he makes the same money working half the time. And with his free hours, he then experiments with new recipes, and his bread gets even better, and he sells even more. And over time, he keeps selling more until eventually he doubles his prices again. And so a year later, he sold the same number of loaves he used to, but at 4 times the price to his favorite customers because they valued the quality over the price. And so the merchant then said to him, the price you charge is how valuable you tell the world your work is. And the world believed you as soon as you did.