Pay what you want at the door --> Re: Re: It's all out of control

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Perhaps you are correct about the pay what you want option.

I believe carwashes by local organizations do better by asking for donations than they do by asking for $5 or $10 per wash.

 

I've often wondered about how are fees look vs what we should make.

 

If you think you should make $100, $200, $300/hour -- then double your hourly fee - because most practices run at 50%+ overhead.

So to get the $100/hour, you need to charge $200/hour.

So, you would need to charge $50 per 15-minutes of time

 

But Radiohead may be a more realistic explanation of what would happen...

 

http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/40444

 

Radiohead reveal how successful 'In Rainbows' download really was

Facts for pay-what-you-want release finally made public

October 15, 2008 | 13 Comments

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The statistics behind the pay-what-you-like release of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' album, released on October 10 last year online, have been revealed today (October 15).

According to reports most fans chose to pay nothing to download the album. However, it still generated more money before it was physically released (on December 31) than the total money generated by sales of the band's previous album, 2003's 'Hail To The Thief'.

According to Music Ally, Jane Dyball, head of business affairs at Warner Chappell (the publishing company that oversaw the release of 'In Rainbows'), refused to reveal the average price people were downloading the album for.

However, Dyball, set to speak about the release at the Iceland Airwaves conference later, explained that Warner Chappell and Radiohead's management were monitoring the average price daily, and was prepared to cancel the download facility if the average price became too low.

The download facility was taken down after three months, and the album went to Number One in the UK and USA after being physically released.Statistics revealed that most fans downloaded the album through file-sharing service BitTorrent, but that this had been anticipated before the release.

The band sold 100,000 copies of the 'In Rainbows' box set, which contained extra songs not available on the standard download or CD release.Warner Chappell concluded that the new release style was a financial success, but did not reveal whether Radiohead plan to release an album in a similar way in the future.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Sales_and_chart_placings

 

Radiohead released the album as a download available for order from inrainbows.com on 10 October 2007. In a Wired interview, Yorke explained that " every record for the last four—including my solo record—has been leaked. So the idea was like, we'll leak it, then. " [18] Radiohead's managers have said that they would not have released the album as they did unless they were sure the physical CD would sell well.[31] Writing about the unusual release method, Jon Pareles of The New York Times commented, " For the beleaguered recording business Radiohead has put in motion the most audacious experiment in years. " [17] In order to distribute the album through inrainbows.com with minimal technical glitches, Radiohead utilised the services of UK-based PacketExchange to bypass public Internet servers, instead utilising a less-trafficked private network to deliver the digital download to users.[32] The download, packaged as a ZIP file, included the ten album tracks encoded in 160 kbit/s DRM-free MP3 format.[33] Upon purchase, the buyer was prompted to type in their desired price, plus a credit card transaction fee of 45 pence if purchased for more than 0 pence. The staggered online release of the album began at about 5:30 GMT on 10 October, but on 10 December 2007, the official digital download was no longer made available.[34]

Sales and chart placings

In early October 2007, a spokesman for the band reported that " most people [paid] a normal retail price with very few trying to buy [the download version] for a penny " and that most fans had preordered the discbox.[48] Citing a source close to the band, Gigwise.com reported that by the day of its online release, the album had sold 1.2 million copies.[49] The claim, however, has been dismissed by band manager Bryce Edge as " exaggerated " .[50] According to an Internet survey conducted by Record of the Day of 3,000 people, about one-third of people who downloaded the album paid nothing, with the average price paid being £4.[51]

 

Locke, MD

 

 

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Of course you are right, but the conflict is that docs are supposed to help whether someone can pay or not. I wonder sometimes whether it would be better to just collect donations from patients. Put a box out front (must be secure) which reads “Pay me what you think I am worth.” Maybe we can have a listing of what other professionals make for an equivalent amount of time or what the typical medical office charges for different issues as a suggestion. If people pay cool, if not, then cool as well. Obviously insurances make this idea impossible, but if you go insurance free, I think it would be an interesting experiment. It would also be interesting to see who actually pays what (I bet the well off might pay $20 and many of the poor $50-60).