Oil and Gas Marketing Plan: Why Transparent Pricing is the Future

And here we see the oil and gas marketing plan of a first mover.

Don’t you hate when you can’t find out how much something costs on a company’s website? Your customers don’t like it either. As you can imagine, this is not a good look for your oil and gas marketing plan.

Let’s discuss.

Oil and Gas Marketing Plan Transcript

Let’s talk about your oil and gas marketing plan and why transparency in pricing is the future.

I saw a fantastic video by Colin McClellan this week on LinkedIn. He talked about how the old-school mentality in oil and gas has to die. I could not agree more!

The old-school mentality he was speaking of was around a video he created talking about how guys can use LinkedIn to make videos, start to build a resume, attract an audience, and get jobs online. He was shocked to find so many people comment negatively on the video saying “Well, that’s just now how it’s done” or “That’s not how I do things”.

I appreciate his frustration in the video because I’ve been fighting this mentality tooth and nail for over six years in this industry. Transparency in pricing is another of these old-school mentality things I would like to see die immediately.

What do I mean?

How Much Does It Cost Already?!

When you go to a company’s website you want to buy from, what’s the most frustrating thing for you? If you’re like most people, the most frustrating thing is trying to figure out how much it costs to work with them.

You’re left wondering, “How much does this cost? Do I have the budget for this? I have no idea … Is this a premium service? Is it an entry-level or commodity service? How much is this going to cost me?”

This leads to embarrassing thoughts like, “I don’t even know if I want to fill out a lead form. Because if I fill out this form and have their salespeople contact me, is it going to create an uncomfortable situation where I have to admit I don’t have the money for it?”

You see how we are only making our problems worse by not having pricing on our websites?

You should know up-front this is some bleeding edge, way far out there, waaaay down the far end of the adoption curve stuff if you come along with me on this journey. Because I only implemented this philosophy last month thanks to — whiteboard — PetroValues.

Transparent Oil and Gas Marketing Plan: PetroValues Steps Up

PetroValues, full disclosure, is a new client of ours. But I’m not making this video because of that. I’m making this video to genuinely thank them. I’ve been waiting for several years for someone to come along and be transparent about their pricing. Because what I’m asking you here about the frustration of not being able to find prices on websites is not a new idea.

I saw Marcus Sheridan, formerly The Sales Lion and now merged with Impact Branding, ask this question in a keynote all the way back in 2014. So I’m really just stealing Marcus’s material, which he thankfully lets me do.

And I have to thank PetroValues because they finally are the first company I’ve seen step up and be 100% transparent about the pricing of their products and services.

By the way, PetroValues does online valuations for your acreage. That’s a whole other game-changing thing, but to me the transparent pricing is the real game ...