Understanding Pricing

Pricing in a digital world

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Selecting a Pricing Method
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 Understanding Pricing
A changing pricing environtment

Sharing economy Bartering Renting

 Understanding Pricing
How Companies Price
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
 Consumer Psychology andPricing

Reference prices Price-quality inferences Price endings

 Reference Prices

• “Fair Price” (what consumers feel the product should cost)

• Typical Price
• Last Price Paid
• Upper-Bound Price (reservation price or the maximum most consumers
would pay)
• Lower-Bound Price (lower threshold price or the minimum most
consumers would pay)
• Historical Competitor Prices
• Expected Future Price
• Usual Discounted Price
Setting the Price

Selecting the Pricing Objective

Determining Demand
Estimating Costs
Analyzing Competitors’ Costs,
Prices, and Offers
Selecting a Pricing Method
Selecting the Final Price
1. Selecting the Pricing Objectives

Survival
Maximum current profit
Maximum market share
Product-quality leadership
Maximum market skimming
2. Determining Demand : Price Elasticity of Demand
 2. Determining Demand : Price Sensitivity

Factors that reduce price sensitivity • The product is more distinctive.

• Buyers are less aware of substitutes.
• Buyers cannot easily compare the quality of
substitutes.
• The expenditure is a smaller part of the buyer’s total
income.
• The expenditure is small compared to the total cost
of the end product.
• Part of the cost is borne by another party.
• The product is used in conjunction with assets
previously bought.
• The product is assumed to have more quality,
prestige, or exclusiveness.
• Buyers cannot store the product.
 3. Estimating Cost

Levels of production : Types of cost :

Short run (small) Fix Cost Total Cost
Long run (massive) Variable Cost Average Cost
 3. Estimating Cost
Accumulated Production :
Experience / Learning Curve
Target Costing :
Market research establishes
a new product’s desired
functions and the price at
which it will sell
This price less desired profit
margin leaves the target
cost the marketer must
achieve
Adapting the Price

Geographical Pricing
Price Discount and Allowances
Promotional Pricing
Differentiated Pricing
1. Geographical Pricing
the company decides how to price its
products to different customers in different
locations and countries
Question ?
how to get paid ?
when buyers lack sufficient hard currency to
pay for their purchases?
Many want to offer other items in payment, a
practice known as countertrade. Several
form for countertrade :
countertrade [imbal dagang]
Barter, the buyer and seller directly exchange goods, with no money and no third party involved

Compensation Deal, the seller receives some percentage of the payment in cash and the rest in
products.
countertrade [imbal dagang]
Buyback agreement, The seller sells a plant, equipment, or technology to a company in another
country and agrees to accept as partial payment products manufactured with the supplied equipment

Offset, The seller receives full payment in cash for a sale overseas but agrees to spend a substantial
amount of the money in that country within a stated time period
• Discount pricing has become the modus operandi of a surprising number of companies offering both
products and services.
• Some product categories self-destruct by always being on sale.
• Only people with higher incomes and higher product involvement willingly pay more for features,
customer service, quality, added convenience, and the brand name. So it can be a mistake for a strong,
distinctive brand to plunge into price discounting as a response to low-price attacks.
• At the same time, discounting can be a useful tool if the customer will give concessions in return, such
as signing a longer contract, ordering electronically, or buying larger quantities
• Sales management needs to monitor the proportion of customers receiving discounts, the average
discount, and any tendency for salespeople to over-rely on discounting.
• Upper management should conduct a net price analysis to arrive at the “real price” of the offering. The
real price is affected not only by discounts but by other expenses that reduce the realized price
 Promotional Pricing

Special Warranties
Loss-Leader customer Low-interest and service
Pricing pricing financing Longer contracts
Special event payment Psychological
Cash rebates.
pricing terms discounting

Companies This strategy

Drop the Establish Offer special Rebates can Using no- Stretch loans
can promote sets an
price on special prices prices help clear interest over longer
sales by artificially
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adding a free high price
brands to seasons to to certain without try to attract and thus
or low-cost and then
draw in more cutting the lower the
stimulate customers more warranty or offers the
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additional customers. service product at
price. payments
store traffic contract substantial
savings
 Differentiated Pricing
Customer-segment pricing.
Different customer groups pay different prices for the same product or
service

Product-form pricing
Different versions of the product are priced differently, but not in proportion
to their costs

Image pricing
Some companies price the same product at two different levels based on
image differences

Channel pricing.
Different price depending on from what the consumer purchases.

Location pricing
20% The same product is priced differently at different locations even though the
cost of offering it at each location is the same.

Time pricing
Prices vary by season, day, or hour.
 Initiating and Responding to Price Changes

Initiating Price Cut

Low-quality trap Fragile-market-

share trap.

Shallow-
Price-war trap.
pockets trap.

20%
 Initiating Price Increases

Escalator clauses

Delayed quotation pricing

02 The company requires the customer
to pay today’s price plus all or part of
The company does not set a final
price until the product is finished or
delivered
01 any inflation
increase that takes place before
delivery.

Reduction of discounts

04 The company instructs its sales

force not to offer its normal cash
and quantity discounts.

Unbundling
The company maintains its price but
removes or prices separately one or more
elements that
03
were formerly part of the offer, such as
delivery or installation
 Anticipating Competitive Responses
The introduction or change of any price can
provoke a response from customers, competitors,
distributors, suppliers, and even government.
Competitors are most likely to react when the
number of firms is few, the product is
homogeneous, and buyers are highly informed.
Price isn't everything but when a
popular retailer with the perceived
edge on quality and service can also
match the low-price leader, it's an
advantage that's hard to beat.
Portfolio Presentation RESPONDING TO COMPETITORS’

PRICE CHANGES
An extended analysis of alternatives may not always be feasible when
the attack occurs. The company may have to react decisively within
hours or days, especially where prices change with some frequency
and it is important to react quickly, such as in the meatpacking, lumber,
or oil industries. It would make better sense to anticipate possible
competitors’ price changes and prepare contingent responses.

Consider the product’s stage in the life cycle

Competitor’s intentions and resources

The market’s price and quality sensitivity

The behavior of costs with volume

the company’s alternative opportunities

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