Raise Your Agency Prices by Selling Outcomes, Not Services
Corey Quinn
Founder, Deep Specialization™
Want to charge more? Stop selling services. Learn how outcome-based pricing helps agencies increase revenue, prove ROI, and close high-value clients faster.
The easiest way to raise your prices?
Stop selling what you do. Instead…
Sell what you’ll achieve.
Focus on what really matters to them:
→ Their ROI.
Example: A repiping job for a plumber is worth $10K.
If your marketing efforts brings in 10 new jobs per month, that’s $100K in revenue for that client.
Now your $5K monthly fee isn’t an expense, it’s an investment. 🙌
This is how top agencies command higher prices, deliver stronger results, and close easier sales.
Stop selling what you do.
Start pricing based on the outcomes you drive.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why does selling outcomes make it easier to raise prices?
Because a fee tied to what you'll achieve gets compared to the value it creates, not to a list of deliverables. When the outcome is clear, the price feels like an investment instead of a cost.
How does this actually work in practice?
Take a plumber whose repiping job is worth $10K. If marketing brings in 10 new jobs a month, that's $100K in revenue for the client. A $5K monthly fee next to that outcome isn't an expense, it's clearly worth it.
Why do clients see a fee as an investment instead of a cost when framed this way?
Because the ROI is explicit. Once a client can see the revenue a service generates relative to its cost, the fee stops being judged in isolation and starts being judged against the return.
What's the shift agencies need to make in how they price?
Moving from pricing based on the work performed to pricing based on the outcomes driven. It's less about what gets delivered and more about what that delivery is actually worth to the client.
About Corey Quinn
Founder, Deep Specialization™
Corey helps founder-led agencies scale through Deep Specialization™ and programmatic M&A. Former CMO of Scorpion ($20M to $200M). Author of "Anyone, Not Everyone."
