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How to price your first paid tier

A practical way to set your first price, test it, and change it without upsetting existing readers.

How to price your first paid tier

Your first price will be wrong in some direction. The goal is to pick a defensible starting point, learn quickly, and leave yourself room to change it.

Start from what paid readers get

Write down, in one sentence, what someone gets for paying that free readers do not. If you cannot, the price question is premature.