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BUILDING THE PRICE FOUNDATION. NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF PRICE. What is a Price? Barter. The price of four different purchases. Lamborghini What will this car cost?. NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF PRICE. Price as an Indicator of Value Value-pricing Price in the Marketing Mix
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NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF PRICE • What is a Price? • Barter
Lamborghini What will this car cost?
NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF PRICE • Price as an Indicator of Value • Value-pricing • Price in the Marketing Mix • Profit Equation
STEP 1: IDENTIFY PRICING CONSTRAINTS AND OBJECTIVES • Identifying Pricing Constraints • Demand for the Product Class, Product, and Brand • Newness of the Product: Stage in the Product Life Cycle • Single Product versus a Product Line • Cost of Producing and Marketing the Product
STEP 1: IDENTIFY PRICING CONSTRAINTS AND OBJECTIVES • Identifying Pricing Constraints • Cost of Changing Prices and Time Period They Apply • Types of Competitive Markets • Pure monopoly • Oligopoly • Monopolistic competition • Pure competition
Pricing, product, and advertising strategies available to firms in four types of competitive markets
STEP 1: IDENTIFY PRICING CONSTRAINTS AND OBJECTIVES • Identifying Pricing Constraints • Competitors’ Prices
STEP 1: IDENTIFY PRICING CONSTRAINTS AND OBJECTIVES • Identifying Pricing Objectives • Profit
STEP 1: IDENTIFY PRICING CONSTRAINTS AND OBJECTIVES Identifying Pricing Objectives • Sales • Market Share • Unit Volume • Survival • Social Responsibility
STEP 2: ESTIMATE DEMAND AND SERVICE • Fundamentals of Estimating Demand • The Demand Curve
STEP 2: ESTIMATE DEMAND AND SERVICE • The Demand Curve • Demand factors • Movement Along versus Shift of a Demand Curve
STEP 2: ESTIMATE DEMAND AND SERVICE • Fundamentals of Estimating Revenue • Total revenue • Average revenue • Marginal revenue
How a downward-sloping demand curve affects total, average, and marginal revenue
STEP 2: ESTIMATE DEMAND AND SERVICE • Fundamentals of Estimating Revenue • Price Elasticity of Demand • Price Elasticity for Brands and Product Classes
STEP 3: DETERMINE COST, VOLUME, AND PROFIT RELATIONSHIPS • The Importance of Controlling Costs • Total cost • Fixed cost • Variable cost • Marginal cost
STEP 3: DETERMINE COST, VOLUME, AND PROFIT RELATIONSHIPS • Marginal Analysis and Profit Maximization
STEP 3: DETERMINE COST, VOLUME, AND PROFIT RELATIONSHIPS • Break-Even Analysis • Break-even point • Break-even chart • Calculating a Break-Even Point