Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Introduction
• Service pricing process
• Price structures
• Pricing strategies- based on value definition
• Service vs goods pricing
• Types of pricing strategies
You should start by identifying the benefits your service offers to customers, and
attribute a value to each of those benefits.
Pet Sitter?
Wedding
Advisor?
Nutritionist? Braces?
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= or or
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PROBLEMS:
PROBLEMS: 1. Costs difficult to trace
1. Small firms may charge too 2. Labor more difficult to
little to be viable price than materials
2. Heterogeneity of services 3.Costs may not equal
limits comparability value
3. Prices may not
reflect customer
value
PROBLEMS:
1. Monetary price must be adjusted to reflect 12
the value of non-monetary costs
2. Information on service costs less available to
customers, hence price may not be a central factor
“Value is Everything
“Value is Low Price”
I Want in a Service”
Discounting
Odd Pricing
Synchro-pricing
Penetration Pricing
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“Value is Everything
I Want in a Service”
Prestige Pricing
Skimming Pricing
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Value Pricing
Market Segmentation
Pricing
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Price Framing
Price Bundling
Complementary Pricing
Results-based Pricing
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