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Mastering Pricing Strategies for Success in the Digital Age

Understand consumer psychology, set strategic prices, adapt to market shifts, and respond to competitors in the dynamic pricing landscape. Explore pricing objectives, demand estimation, cost analysis, competitor assessment, and pricing methods for optimal results.

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Mastering Pricing Strategies for Success in the Digital Age

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  1. Chapter 16 Developing Pricing Strategies and Programs

  2. Learning Objectives • How do consumers process and evaluate prices? • How should a company set prices initially for products or services? • How should a company adapt prices to meet varying circumstances and opportunities? • When and how should a company initiate a price change? • How should a company respond to a competitor’s price change?

  3. Understanding Pricing • Pricing in a digital world • Get instant vendor price comparisons • Check prices at the point of purchase • Name your price and have it met • Get products free • Monitor customer behavior & tailor offers • Give customers access to special prices • Negotiate prices online or even in person

  4. Understanding Pricing • A changing pricing environment • Sharing economy • Bartering • Renting

  5. Understanding Pricing • How companies price • Small companies: boss • Large companies: division/product line managers • How companies should price • Understanding of consumer pricing psychology • a systematic approach to setting, adapting, and changing prices

  6. Consumer Psychology and Pricing Reference prices Price-quality inferences Price endings

  7. Reference Prices

  8. Setting the Price

  9. Step 1: Selecting the Pricing Objective Survival Maximum current profit Maximum market share Other objectives Product-quality leadership Maximum market skimming

  10. Step 2:Determining Demand • Price sensitivity • Estimating demand curves • Surveys, price experiments, & statistical analysis • Price elasticity of demand

  11. Figure 16.1Inelastic And Elastic Demand

  12. Price Sensitivity

  13. Step 3: Estimating Costs • Types of costs and levels of production • Fixed vs. variable costs • Total costs • Average cost

  14. Step 3: Estimating Costs • Accumulated production • Experience/learning curve

  15. Step 3: Estimating Costs • Target costing • Price less desired profit margin

  16. Step 4: Analyzing Competitors’ Prices • Firm must take competitors’ costs, prices, & reactions into account • Value-priced competitors

  17. Step 5: Selecting a Pricing Method • Figure 16.4: three major considerations in price • Costs = price floor • Competitors’ prices = orienting point • Customers’ assessment of unique features = price ceiling

  18. Step 5: Selecting a Pricing Method • Markup pricing • Add a standard markup to the product’s cost

  19. Step 5: Selecting a Pricing Method • Target-return pricing • Price that yields its target rate of return on investment

  20. Figure 16.5Break-Even for Target-Return Price

  21. Step 5: Selecting a Pricing Method • Perceived-value pricing • Based on buyer’s image of product, channel deliverables, warranty quality, customer support, and softer attributes (e.g., reputation)

  22. Step 5: Selecting a Pricing Method • Value pricing • EDLP • High-low pricing • Going-rate pricing

  23. Step 5: Selecting a Pricing Method • Auction-type pricing English (ascending) Dutch (descending) Sealed-bid

  24. Step 6: Selecting the Final Price • Additional factors to select final price: • Impact of other marketing activities • Company pricing policies • Gain-and-risk-sharing pricing • Impact of price on other parties

  25. Adapting the Price • Geographical pricing • Barter • Compensation deal • Buyback arrangement • Offset

  26. Adapting the Price • Price discounts and allowances

  27. Adapting the Price • Promotional pricing: • Loss-leader pricing • Special event pricing • Special customer pricing • Cash rebates • Low-interest financing • Longer payment terms • Warranties/service contracts • Psychological discounting

  28. Adapting the Price • Price discrimination Customer-segment pricing Product-form pricing Image pricing Time pricing Location pricing Channel pricing

  29. Adapting the Price • Price discrimination • Yield pricing

  30. Initiating and Responding to Price Changes • Initiating price cuts • Excess plant capacity • Domination of market • Price-cutting traps • Price concessions • Low-quality • Fragile market share • Shallow pockets • Price war

  31. Initiating and Responding to Price Changes • Initiating price increases • Delayed quotation pricing • Escalator clauses • Unbundling • Reduction of discounts

  32. Initiating Price Increases

  33. Initiating and Responding to Price Changes • Anticipating competitive responses • Responding to competitors’ price changes

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