"The primary theme of Pricing Strategies is that pricing should be guided by the marketing concept, which indicates that success is achieved through a focus on the needs and sensitivities of the customer. This customer-focus theme is evident throughout the text. The author helps to overcome the mathematical anxieties of students with an intuitive approach to understanding basic pricing concepts, and presents mathematical techniques as simply more detailed specifications of these concepts"--Provided by publisher.

Pricing is an essential aspect of the marketing mix for brands and products. Further, pricing research in marketing is interdisciplinary, utilizing economic and psychological concepts with special emphasis on measurement and estimation. This unique Handbook provides current knowledge of pricing in a single, authoritative volume and brings together new cutting-edge research by established marketing scholars on a range of topics in the area. The environment in which pricing decisions and transactions are implemented has changed dramatically, mainly due to the advent of the Internet and the practices of advance selling and yield management. Over the years, marketing scholars have incorporated developments in game theory and microeconomics, behavioral decision theory, psychological and social dimensions and newer market mechanisms of auctions in their contributions to pricing research. These chapters, specifically written for this Handbook, cover these various developments and concepts as applied to tackling pricing problems. Academics and doctoral students in marketing and applied economics, as well as pricing-focused business practitioners and consultants, will appreciate the state-of-the-art research herein.

How to Use Price to Increase Demand, Profit and Customer Satisfaction HOW SMART IS YOUR PRICING? For any business, deciding how much to charge for a product or service is crucial. By gaining an insight into the way consumers think and purchase, you can generate more demand, more customer value – and more profit. MAXIMISE REVENUE • How do unwanted products Influence what customers expect to pay? • How does offering extras for free dramatically increases Perceived Value? • Why does changing the timing of a payment make people pay 50% More? TRIED AND TESTED TECHNIQUES Written by the founder of Inon, a leading pricing consultancy, whose clients range from the BBC and Grant’s Whisky to Alzheimer’s Disease International and HM Treasury, The Psychology of Price provides an insight into the strategies used by multinational corporations. Leigh Caldwell is a pricing expert and leading researcher in behavioural economics, writing the UK’s most popular behavioural blog (www.knowingandmaking.com) and appearing as a frequent guest on BBC News. By background a mathematician and economist, he is the founder and chief executive of Inon, the UK’s leading pricing consultancy.

"This book provides the latest research studies, market analysis, and best practices utilized in emerging markets to gain competitive advantage and market leadership"--Provided by publisher.

Few marketers recognize the extraordinary range of metrics now available for evaluating their strategies and tactics. In Marketing Metrics, four leading researchers and consultants systematically introduce today's most powerful marketing metrics. The authors show how to use a "dashboard" of metrics to view market dynamics from various perspectives, maximize accuracy, and "triangulate" to optimal solutions. Their comprehensive coverage includes measurements of promotional strategy, advertising, and distribution; customer perceptions; market share; competitors' power; margins and profits; products and portfolios; customer profitability; sales forces and channels; pricing strategies; and more. You'll learn how and when to apply each metric, and understand tradeoffs and nuances that are critical to using them successfully. The authors also demonstrate how to use marketing metrics as leading indicators, identifying crucial new opportunities and challenges. For clarity and simplicity all calculations can be performed by hand, or with basic spreadsheet techniques. In coming years, few marketers will rise to senior executive levels without deep fluency in marketing metrics. This book is the fastest, easiest way to gain that fluency.

The Price Advantage by three preeminent experts at McKinsey & Company is the most pragmatic and insightful book on pricing available. Based on in-depth, first-hand experience with hundreds of companies, this book is designed to provide managers with comprehensive guidance through the maze of pricing issues. The authors demonstrate why pricing excellence is critical to corporate success and profitability, then explain state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing and improving your own pricing strategy for any product or service. Their advice is critical for readers who need to develop pricing strategies that work in both good economic times and bad.

Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy and marketing strategist Jason Marrs dare you to re-examine your every belief about pricing and empower you to take a more creative, more effective, bold approach to your price-and prosperity. Kennedy and Marrs don't offer little tricks, like new ways to say 50% off, half off, or 2 for 1. They tell you the secret to setting prices for the greatest gain. Then they teach you how to avoid the ultimate price and fee failures-like attracting customers who buy by price. You'll discover how to compete with FREE, learn how to discount without damage, and uncover the key to price elasticity. Most importantly, you'll grasp how to use price to your extreme advantage and grant yourself the power to be as profitable as possible. Reveals: The 9 ultimate price and fee failures The trick behind discounting without devaluing The 5 price-related propositions to be concerned with The million-dollar secret behind "FREE" How to win price wars with competitors Why price cutting isn't the cure for the recession and what is Book jacket.