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MKT 346: Marketing of Services Dr. Houston

MKT 346: Marketing of Services Dr. Houston. Chapter 6: Setting Prices and Implementing Revenue Management. Pricing Plays a Critical Role in Services Marketing. Helps consumers Form expectations Make purchase decisions Evaluate service quality Helps service companies Manage demand.

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MKT 346: Marketing of Services Dr. Houston

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  1. MKT 346: Marketing of ServicesDr. Houston Chapter 6: Setting Prices and Implementing Revenue Management

  2. Pricing Plays a Critical Role in Services Marketing • Helps consumers • Form expectations • Make purchase decisions • Evaluate service quality • Helps service companies • Manage demand

  3. What Makes Service Pricing Strategy Different and Difficult? • Harder to calculate cost of creating a service process or performance • Variability of inputs and outputs • How can firms define a “unit of service”? • Time factor may play a role • Same service may have more value to when delivered faster • Customers find service pricing difficult to understand, risky and sometimes even unethical

  4. Objectives for Pricing of Services (Table 6.1) • Revenue and Profit Objectives • Seek profit • Cover costs • Patronage and User-Based Objectives • Build demand • Build a user base

  5. The Pricing Tripod (Fig. 6.3)

  6. The Pricing Tripod – Basis for Any Pricing Strategy Value to customer (Maximum Price) Competition Costs (Minimum Price)

  7. Three Main Approaches to Pricing • Cost-Based Pricing • Value-Based Pricing • Competition-Based Pricing

  8. Value-Based Pricing: Understanding Net Value (Fig. 6.7) • Exchange (purchase) will not take place unless customer sees positive net value in transaction • Net Value = All Perceived Benefitsminus All Perceived Costs • Perceived Costs = Money and non-monetary costs • When looking at competing services, customers are mainly comparing relative net values

  9. Value-Based Pricing: Don’t Ignore the Non-Monetary Costs!

  10. Defining Perceived Total User Costs (Fig. 6.11)

  11. Value-Based Pricing:Managing Perception of Value • Need effective communication and personal explanations to explain value • Reduce related monetary costs • Cut time spent searching for, purchasing, and using service • Reduce non-monetary costs • Time Costs • Physical Costs • Psychological (Mental) Costs • Sensory Costs (unpleasant sights, sounds, feel, tastes, smells)

  12. Trading Off Monetary and Non-Monetary Costs (Fig. 6.12)

  13. Competition-Based Pricing: When Price Competition is Reduced • Non-price related costs of using competing alternatives are high • Personal relationships • Switching costs • Time and location • Managers should not only look at competitor’s actual prices, but should examine all related monetary and non-monetary costs

  14. Maximizing Revenue from Available Capacity at a Given Time • Charge different prices for the same product • Most effective when: • Relatively high fixed capacity • High fixed cost structure • Perishable inventory • Variable and uncertain demand • Varying customer price sensitivity

  15. Maximizing Revenue from Available Capacity at a Given Time • Use real time information plus complex mathematical models that examine historical data to determine • What prices to charge within each price bucket • How many service units to allocate to each bucket • Rate fences deter customers willing to pay more from trading down to lower prices (minimize consumer surplus)

  16. Types of Rate Fences • Physical Rate Fences • Service product differences • Non-Physical Rate Fences • Differences in consumption, transaction, or buyer characteristics

  17. Key Categories of Rate Fences: Physical(Table 6.2)

  18. Key Categories of Rate Fences: Non-Physical(Table 6.2)

  19. Key Categories of Rate Fences: Non-Physical(Table 6.2)

  20. Key Categories of Rate Fences: Non-Physical(Table 6.2)

  21. Ethical Concerns in Pricing • Services are difficult to evaluate • Price/quality association • Complex pricing schedules • Hidden charges and fees • Too many rules and regulations

  22. Designing Fairness into Revenue Management • Design clear, logical and fair price schedules and fences • Use high published prices and present fences as opportunities for discounts • Communicate consumer benefits of revenue management • Use bundling to “hide” discounts • Take care of loyal customers • Use service recovery to compensate for overbooking

  23. Pricing Issues: Putting Strategy into Practice (Table 5.3) How much to charge? What basis for pricing? Who should collect payment? Where should payment be made? When should payment be made? How should payment be made? How to communicate prices?

  24. MKT 346 Key Concepts: Chapter 6 • Three types of pricing objectives • The pricing tripod • Revenue management • Types of rate fences • Ethical issues in pricing • Considerations for putting service pricing into practice

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