Alessandro Monti is a pricing enthusiast and expert on all topics related to monetization, conversion, upselling, digital pricing, price management, and business and pricing history.

In this episode, Alessandro highlights the importance of adopting a monetization-led growth approach for your business and emphasizes the need to start implementing this strategy early on in your business.

Why you have to check out today's podcast:

• Learn to redefine growth in the sense of making it profitable and sustainable
• Discover the importance of a monetization-driven growth strategy for the long-term success and sustainability of your business
• Find the ideal pricing metric for your business to attain optimal product-pricing-market fit and achieve success

"Choosing the appropriate price metric seems to be probably one of these game-changing moments for your businesses."

- Alessandro Monti

Topics Covered:

01:32 - What brought him to pricing and what made him choose SKP

02:43 - Why he believes in supply and demand

06:01 - Delving into the concept of "growth at any cost" and shifting our focus away from it

08:31 - Defining digital industry and turning away from this 'growth at any cost' mentality

09:36 - Redefining growth

12:25 - Challenging the tools and techniques to get to this ultimate growth

14:49 - Deciding between freemium and free trial [and starting monetization-led growth early on in the business]

20:25 - Extracting value to monetize a product and what is true business success

23:03 - Alessandro's best pricing advice that impacts anyone's business

24:05 - Finding the best pricing metric to use

Key Takeaways:

"Let's redefine growth in the sense of let's make profitable business." - Alessandro Monti

"We don't need the free, just for the sake of having free because there is value in having free users. But besides that, I think you need to seek the conversion and the monetization as early as possible." - Alessandro Monti

"It's growth understood as profitability using all of our modern monetization techniques and there's room for alternative content." - Alessandro Monti

People / Resources Mentioned:

• Taylor Swift: https://www.taylorswift.com/

Connect with Alessandro Monti:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/profmonti/

Connect with Mark Stiving:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stiving/
• Email: [email protected]