Jody Padar: Make Radical Changes Now If You Want to Be Relevant in 2030 | The Disruptors

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Your pricing isn’t aligned with the future, and neither is your business model. Plus: 18 more takeaways.
The Disruptors
With Liz Farr
Jody Padar, The Radical CPA, has been pushing for big changes in accounting for years. Her latest book, Radical Pricing, is a blueprint for firm owners who want to fully transform their businesses to serve clients better, make employees happier, and be more profitable. Padar maintains that combining pricing with standardization and productization drives firm profitability.
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This handbook isn’t just about “putting pricing on something,” Padar says. “That’s putting lipstick on a pig.” Many firms that have tried value pricing say it doesn’t work, but Padar says that’s because their business model isn’t aligned with their pricing. “If you leave the old school model and just put pricing on top of it, you're going to struggle,” she says. Radical Pricing walks readers through a process of standardizing and productizing services, defining the ideal customer, developing pricing, and even explaining how to bring legacy customers on board.