Explaining the pricing models:
What struck me as sort of odd during our talk was the pricing model. All I’ve ever seen were the two usual ones: flat fee pay per (successful) lead and percentage based off of your own price/rate. This is pretty standard across the whole industry. But what interested me was the consulting based pricing model.
Since it’s not always possible to know how long a job will take, especially in regular consultative type jobs Chris gave me the example of a consulting job that’s usually hourly based. Let’s say you’re a professional organizing consultant, you help people organize their life and office. Well, you and the client agree on a one hour job first because you know it’ll take that long at a minimum. But after arriving at the client’s office you see it’s a scene out of the show Hoarders. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s about people who are unable to throw anything it out, and I do mean they never ever really throw anything out … it’s rather disturbing. Instantly your one hour consultation job turned into a week long project! Oh noes! Except that’s taken care of, at least from the eMazeMe side of things.
It that situation, and since you know your business already, you would’ve selected the consulting feature. The client pays eMazeMe for one hour of your time and makes the reservation, then you go and start the project and any fees extra past the one hour are yours to keep. eMazeMe handles that one hour you and the client officially agreed to through their service.
This gives you the flexibility to use eMazeMe as the lead generator, while keeping your consulting type business in place!
I thought this was pretty sweet!
Finishing up:
At this point Chris had to excuse himself to get back to his day job. We pleasantly parted ways and I signed up Chykalophia Group on eMazeMe shortly there after.
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