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Willingness To Pay – A Lesson From Baseball | Strategic Pricing Solutions

I am a lifelong fan of the San Francisco Giants.  I waited a long time before they finally won a World Series in 2010, and then again in 2012 and 2014.  Of course, now that they have won it a few times, I want them to do it more often; and I pay close attention […]

How to Segment When All Customers Look Alike | Strategic Pricing Solutions

Customer segmentation is a simple concept – identify groups of customers who tend to have similar levels of price sensitivity and set distinct prices for each group.  Unfortunately, many companies either think all their customers are the same, or they don’t have enough information to create segments.  In particular, we often see this in retail […]

Is Your Goal Volume or Profit? | Strategic Pricing Solutions

If a company is creating a new market or new market niche, it may be important to build critical mass early in the process.  Doing so might enable them to spread their infrastructure costs over a wider base of business.  In that case, it could make sense to use penetration pricing which offers low prices […]

Behavioral Economics Powered by Machine Learning and AI Techniques | Pricing Matters

There is a growing focus among pricing practitioners to use price science to drive pricing decisions. It’s a fabulous trend with many recent innovations in the use of advanced techniques such as machine learning and AI. It is important however to consider behavioral economics because our economic decision making is often shockingly irrational. Naturally, we […]

Trump Promises Lower Drug Prices, but Drops Populist Solutions | The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump vowed on Friday to “bring soaring drug prices back down to earth” by promoting competition among pharmaceutical companies, and he suggested that the government could require drugmakers to disclose prices in their ubiquitous television advertising. But he dropped the popular and populist proposals of his presidential campaign, opting not to have […]