Jonathan Brandon

AMA: Intercom Head of Monetization & Pricing Strategy, Jonathan Brandon on Pricing and Packaging

December 3 @ 10:00AM PT
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What have been your key learnings from any "Pricing/Re-pricing launch" that you have led/seen within your company?
Please share your experiences from successful efforts and also the launches that didn't go well. Any tools/templates that worked for your teams?
Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
The big one....where to start?! Creating your company's first well-researched pricing model is quite different than making a big change later on, but I'd say some of the ...
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Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
Pricing is tough, and it's also never done. That being said, making incremental changes too often without understanding the impact of the previous change is the achilles ...
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Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
Me too! I was, uh, lucky enough to study Economics in college then spend 15 years in the financial services industry. This gave me a really solid background in research ...
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Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
Check out my answer to question "What have been your key learnings from any "Pricing/Re-pricing launch" that you have led/seen within your company?"But it's worth repeati...
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Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
The transition to PMM leading pricing occured before I joined, and led to my hire (yay!) At Intercom, pricing had been a shared responsibility without a clear owner for q...
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Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
Assuming you have a clear strategy, it always comes down to understanding your ideal, target customers. When going from a single product to multiple, you need to figure o...
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Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
At Intercom we believe in value-based pricing, which means we price primarily, but not exclusively, according to the perceived value of our proudct to our target buyers. ...
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Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
They are absolutely linked, and I'd argue that positioning drives both pricing and packaging What features are needed by which buyer personas? What do you call them? How ...
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Jonathan Brandon
Kong Senior Director of Pricing and Packaging5y
If you're lowering your price, you might have bigger problem than how to communicate the change. This sounds like a more fundamental product strategy, positioning, and s...
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