Module 11 - Pricing Strategies
Why It Matters: Pricing Strategies
Why use pricing strategies to enhance marketing of products and services? When Amazon.com was cr...
Learning Hacks: The Myth of Multitasking
THE HACK Multitasking is actually not possible for humans; what we think of as multitasking is r...
Pricing Impact on Value of Products or Services
What you’ll learn to do: discuss how price affects the value of an organization’s products or ser...
Demonstrating Customer Value
Introduction Rent the Runway is a company that lets customers borrow expensive designer dresse...
The Psychology of Pricing
You will notice that when we discussed the value equation in the previous reading, we referred to...
Video: Value in Branded Eyewear
Many consumers pay a premium price for branded eyewear. How does the brand name influence the pri...
Pricing Considerations
What you’ll learn to do: explain the primary factors to consider in pricing Now that we’ve con...
Pricing Objectives
Introduction Companies set the prices of their products in order to achieve specific objective...
Break-Even Pricing
Introduction Regardless of the pricing strategy a company ultimately selects, it is important to...
Competitor Impact on Pricing
Introduction It’s important to remember that pricing is just one component of the marketing mi...
Benefits of Value-Based Pricing
The Customer and the Pricing Decision We have discussed common company objectives that affect ...
Common Pricing Strategies
What you’ll learn to do: compare common pricing strategies Thus far we have discussed many prici...
Skim Pricing
With a totally new product, competition either doesn’t exist or is minimal, and there’s no market...
Penetration Pricing
What Is Penetration Pricing? Penetration pricing is a pricing strategy in which the price of a...
Cost-Oriented Pricing
Cost-Plus Pricing Cost-plus pricing, sometimes called gross margin pricing, is perhaps the most ...
Discounting Strategies
In addition to deciding about the base price of products and services, marketing managers must al...
Price Elasticity
What you’ll learn to do: explain price elasticity and its impact on price Now that you understan...
Video: Elasticity of Demand
The following video is a little long to watch, but it provides an excellent overview of elasticit...
Elasticity and Price Changes
Introduction With a good understanding of what elasticity means and how it is calculated, we can...
Products with Elastic and Inelastic Demand
Now that you’ve had some practice calculating the value of elasticity, let’s turn to some of the ...
Competitive Bidding
What you’ll learn to do: explain the use of competitive bidding for B2B pricing Generally in bus...
Competitive Bidding
When we discussed buyer behavior, we identified the stages that organizations go through to make ...
Price in the Competitive Bid
What role does the price play in the competitive bid process? The answer to this question can v...
Putting It Together: Pricing Strategies
Let’s return to our discussion of Amazon Prime pricing in the context of the pricing concepts we’...
Module 11 Discussion: Pricing Strategy
Instructions Write a post for the Discussion on this topic, addressing the questions below. You ...
Questions
1. Jack uses several criteria to determine how much he is willing to spend to satisfy his needs. ...
Glossary
Cost-plus pricing: This involves setting the price of a product by adding a markup to the cos...