Summary: Give your business a competitive boost by optimizing your pricing strategy. By focusing on four key areas, you can make sure that your sales team is selling on value and not depending on discounting to close deals. In this informative new eBook, you’ll learn how to: Identify opportunities for new customer acquisition Segment your […]
Pricing is a discipline. And that discipline has existed for more than a century and has evolved from a pure economics discipline to be part of the marketing construct. The reality is that pricing is still a fairly neglected element of the marketing mix (the 4 Ps), and that most firms ignore the need to embrace […]
Pricing power is one of the key ways that businesses can create value for themselves. Improving a company’s approach to pricing leads to more opportunities to create and capture value for customers, which results in increased sales and healthier margins. Developing pricing maturity takes time and effort, but understanding how to capture what customers perceive […]
The global service parts industry continues to be highly competitive, borne from a series of trends: a weak economy; automakers’ pressures to cut supplier prices; higher costs for raw materials; and increased competition from global providers, in particular China and India. Facing these challenges and an industry that is slow to change, it’s clear something […]
The 2013 MarketScope for PO&M helps clients evaluate vendor software and service offerings, as well as align their price management strategies with the major trends affecting pricing professionals. The findings in the MarketScope are based on primary research conducted by Gartner, client interactions and inquiries on the multiple considerations that are part of developing a […]
Execute Your Plans with Courage, Not Hubris | Strategic Pricing Solutions
If the team has identified certain products as being superior to competing alternatives, and has quantified how that superiority creates value for customers versus the alternatives, those products should have higher prices than the competitors’. If that means raising some prices more than expected, so be it. If the team is afraid to execute the […]
Customer Value: The Price of Paradise | Strategic Pricing Solutions
Earlier this year, my wife and I moved to Florida. With year-round nice weather, palm trees and white sandy beaches, it seems like Paradise. Last week Hurricane Irma came through and reminded us of the true price of paradise. It also reminded me that buyers make trade-offs in every purchase decision, and your pricing strategies […]
Segmentation Is a Critical Part of Channel Management | Strategic Pricing Solutions
The challenge that Under Armour is facing is the exact reason most luxury brands limit their channels to high-end stores where shoppers are not price-sensitive. If the luxury brands want to target more price-sensitive customers, they develop new products or brands that do not have the same cachet or premium pricing. By doing so, they […]
Lower Concession Prices May Backfire | Strategic Pricing Solutions
The Atlanta Falcons have established a new concessions pricing strategy for the coming season, and they will have the lowest prices in the NFL. They are lowering most prices in an effort to be more fan friendly. I am not a scrooge, but I think it is a bad decision. At best, they will make […]
Focus on the Segments Before Lowering Prices | Strategic Pricing Solutions
Last week there was an article in the Wall Street Journal, So Long, Hamburger Helper: America’s Venerable Food Brands Are Struggling which discussed the declining market shares of some of the largest packaged food companies. It is not a surprise; the large CPG companies have been losing customers for the past few years on multiple […]
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