Value pricing for local businesses
The worst way to price a website is to add up the effort and mark it up. Effort-based pricing punishes you for being efficient, and you are about to be the most efficient agency in your market. Price the outcome instead: what is this site worth to THIS business?
The customer-value anchor
On the discovery call you asked what a new customer is worth. That number is your pricing anchor, and for local service businesses it is almost always large: a roof is five figures, a legal case is five figures, a dental implant patient is four. Now the math writes itself: if the site brings even one or two extra jobs a month, what is that worth a year? Your price sits far below that number, which makes it feel small in the only comparison that matters.
"You told me what a booked job is worth to you, and the site is losing calls your ads already paid for. If the new site gets you two extra jobs a month, add that up over a year. The build is a fraction of one job. That is the whole decision."
How to set your actual numbers
- Set prices per product, not per client (Module 3). Same package, same price, every buyer in a market tier.
- Anchor to their customer value, sanity-check against your market: call three agencies in your metro as a fake prospect and learn the going range. Position at or above the middle, never the bottom.
- Higher-ticket niches pay more for the same work because it is worth more to them. That is not gouging; that is what "value" means.
- Raise prices every few clients until deals stop feeling too easy. If everyone says yes instantly, you are underpriced.
Margin thinking
Know your delivery cost per product before you sell it. When your agent fulfills, the cost is mostly your review time. When Agency Label fulfills white-label, the wholesale rate is fixed and known in advance. Either way: price minus delivery cost is your margin, per product, visible before the deal closes. Never sell anything where you cannot say the margin out loud. That one habit puts you ahead of most real agencies, which discover their margins at tax time.
The recurring layers
Care plans price against "never think about it again," which busy owners value shockingly high. Management retainers and SEO price against the growth they drive, reported monthly so the value stays visible (Module 10). The build fee is how you get paid for the project; the recurring layers are how you get paid for the relationship. Price both deliberately.
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Everything in these lessons runs on the Agency Label platform: clients, requests, the portal, reporting, invoicing, all on the free tier. Create the account when you're ready, or book a call if you want to talk through your setup or white-label delivery.