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• Understanding pricing
• Reading: Pricing and the psychology of consumption
• Setting the price
• Adapting the price
• Reading: The good-better-best approach to pricing
• Initiating and responding to price changes
• Reading: How to fight a price war
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Understanding pricing
• Forms of price
Rates Fees
Salary Bids
Context
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Understanding pricing: In a digital world
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Understanding pricing:
In a changing environment
• Sharing economy vis-à-vis Ownership economy
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Understanding pricing:
Consumer psychology and pricing
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Reading:
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Understanding pricing:
Consumer psychology and pricing
• Price takers vis-à-vis price information processors
• Price perception
Price-quality Price endings
Reference prices
inferences & other cues
• Fair price
• Typical price
• Last price paid
• Upper-bound price
• Lower-bound price
• Historical competitors price
• Expected future price
• Usual discounted price
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Setting the price
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Setting the price
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Setting the price: Selecting pricing objective
Target profit on
Product-quality Market
the entire
leadership skimming
product line
Keeping
Achieving sales Entering new
product
volume market
affordable
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Setting the price: Determining demand
• Price-demand relationship
• Price sensitivity
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Setting the price: Estimating cost
• Accumulated production
– Experience curve or learning curve
• Target costing
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Setting the price:
Analyzing competitors’ costs, prices and offers
• Value-based competitors
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Setting the price: Selecting a pricing method
• Cost-based pricing
• Demand-based pricing
• Competition-oriented pricing
• Product line-oriented pricing
• Affordability-based pricing
• Perceived value pricing
• Value pricing
• Differentiated pricing
• Auction-type pricing
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Setting the price: Cost-based pricing
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Setting the price: Demand-based pricing
• Skimming pricing
• Surge pricing
• Premium pricing
• Penetration pricing
• Predatory pricing
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Setting the price: Competition-oriented pricing
Discount pricing
EDLP
Premium pricing
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Setting the price: Auction-type pricing
English auction
Dutch auction
Sealed-bid auction
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Setting the price: Selecting the final price
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Adapting the price
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Adapting the price
• Differentiated pricing
• Geographical pricing
• Price discounts and allowances
• Promotional pricing
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Reading:
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Adapting the price: Differentiated pricing
Customer-
segment pricing
Product-form
Time pricing
pricing
Yield pricing
Channel pricing
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Adapting the price: Geographical pricing
Barter
Compensation
Offset
deal
Buyback
arrangement
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Adapting the price:
Price discounts and allowances
Discount
Allowance
Quantity
(Trade-in,
discount
promotional)
Seasonal Functional /
discount trade discount
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Adapting the price: Promotional pricing
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Reading:
Authors:
Akshay R. Rao, Mark E. Bergen, and Scott Davis
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Initiating and responding to price changes
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