We all like to look at companies with our pricing practitioner eyes and try to establish how mature they are in their pricing management processes. There are several different models available today which tries to ‘score’ a company. One of the most frequently used is a 5 step maturity model which goes from a mild […]
I hear people use sentences like: “That is a commodity, so the market dictates the price” and “You will only sell commodities if you have the same or lowest price in the market compared to your competitors”. It’s great to get these arguments thrown at you because I like to discuss pricing and it is […]
Asia Pricing Professionals (APP) was established in 2011 by a few pricing practitioners. I was one of them. At first we were just meeting up to share ideas and challenges from our daily jobs. There wasn’t many pricing practitioners in Singapore back then. Most people working with pricing were either doing so in a marketing, […]
Execute Your Plans with Courage, Not Hubris | Strategic Pricing Solutions
If the team has identified certain products as being superior to competing alternatives, and has quantified how that superiority creates value for customers versus the alternatives, those products should have higher prices than the competitors’. If that means raising some prices more than expected, so be it. If the team is afraid to execute the […]
Customer Value: The Price of Paradise | Strategic Pricing Solutions
Earlier this year, my wife and I moved to Florida. With year-round nice weather, palm trees and white sandy beaches, it seems like Paradise. Last week Hurricane Irma came through and reminded us of the true price of paradise. It also reminded me that buyers make trade-offs in every purchase decision, and your pricing strategies […]
Segmentation Is a Critical Part of Channel Management | Strategic Pricing Solutions
The challenge that Under Armour is facing is the exact reason most luxury brands limit their channels to high-end stores where shoppers are not price-sensitive. If the luxury brands want to target more price-sensitive customers, they develop new products or brands that do not have the same cachet or premium pricing. By doing so, they […]
Lower Concession Prices May Backfire | Strategic Pricing Solutions
The Atlanta Falcons have established a new concessions pricing strategy for the coming season, and they will have the lowest prices in the NFL. They are lowering most prices in an effort to be more fan friendly. I am not a scrooge, but I think it is a bad decision. At best, they will make […]
Focus on the Segments Before Lowering Prices | Strategic Pricing Solutions
Last week there was an article in the Wall Street Journal, So Long, Hamburger Helper: America’s Venerable Food Brands Are Struggling which discussed the declining market shares of some of the largest packaged food companies. It is not a surprise; the large CPG companies have been losing customers for the past few years on multiple […]
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