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14 responses to the objection "Your price is too high"

Davidson Hang · HubSpot Free Beginner

Practical scripts for the exact moment interest collides with price, so you have something better than a nervous discount. It teaches you to pause after the objection, separate "too expensive" from "I do not see the value," and reframe toward outcomes. Keep it handy for the conversation right after you finally name your price.

  • Stay silent after a price objection so the buyer reveals what is really behind it
  • Reframe the conversation from cost to the return over the next year
  • Discount is rarely the answer, clarifying value usually is

The question it answers

  1. I keep getting warm interest and 'this is great' but no one pays. How do I turn the first yes into money?

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