"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.

Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Learn how to make pricing decisions that will maximize a firm’s profits by creating and capturing customers with PRICING STRATEGY: SETTING PRICE LEVELS, MANAGING PRICE DISCOUNTS AND ESTABLISHING PRICE STRUCTURES, International Edition. Written by recognized pricing thought leader and principal of a successful pricing firm, Tim J. Smith, this comprehensive book emphasizes the stakeholder’s importance in making decisions, while highlighting key trade-offs to consider when choosing between opposing outcomes. In this book’s balanced presentation of quantitative instruction and qualitative concepts, learn more about the influences that should guide your decision making.

Pricing is hard as it determines your market position, whether your customers buy from you and whether you can provide the level of service required by those customers Lean Pricing is a practical toolkit that will positively influence your pricing strategy, revealing insights in the different pricing methods and tactics used by successful companies. You will discover a great number of case studies where these methods are successfully applied which will help you set-up or optimize your current pricing strategy. This book will answer the following key questions: • What price can you ask? • What pricing strategy will you adopt? • Whether you launched a startup or work for a big tech company is not important. As long as you believe that pricing plays a key role in your success, this book will provide the guidance, insights and inspiration you need. Lean Pricing is part of the Lean series, a series of books tackling the challenges that technology entrepreneurs and companies are facing. A must-have for startups ! EXCERPT The aim of this book is to provide insights in the different pricing methods, strategies and tactics to set pricing, as well as plenty of case studies where these methods are successfully applied. This is not a book for people that are looking for complex economic theories around price setting. It is rather a no-nonsense, ready-to-apply comprehensive guide for creating and reviewing your pricing strategy that will serve as a work of reference for a long time to come. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Omar Mohout is a Growth Engineer. He is an expert in building repeatable, scalable customer acquisition engines for born-on-the-web companies. Omar is an entrepreneur that turned startup advisor & mentor.

This study of retail pricing strategies presents information on the practices used in a variety of sectors, such as supermarkets, banks and airlines. His analysis rests on several basic concepts which are introduced in the book.

Value-based pricing – pricing a product or service according to its value to the customer rather than its cost – is the most effective and profitable pricing strategy. Value First, Then Price is an innovative collection that proposes a quantitative methodology to value pricing and road-tests this methodology through a wide variety of real-life industrial and B2B cases. This book offers a state-of-the art and best practice overview of how leading companies quantify and document value to customers. In doing so, it provides students and researchers with a method by which to draw invaluable data-driven conclusions, and gives sales and marketing managers the theories and best practices they need to quantify the value of their products and services to industrial and B2B purchasers. The 2nd edition of this highly-regarded text has been updated in line with current research and practice, offering three new chapters covering new case studies and best practice examples of quantified value propositions, the future of value quantification, and value quantification for intangibles. With contributions from global industry experts this book combines cutting edge research on value quantification and value quantification capabilities with real-life, practical examples. It is essential reading for postgraduate students in Sales and Marketing with an interest in Pricing Strategy, sales and pricing specialists, as well as business strategists, in both research and practice.

What is Pricing Strategies When it comes to selling a product or service, a company has a number of different pricing techniques at its disposal. The top executives of a firm must first assess the company's price position, pricing segment, pricing capabilities, and competition pricing reaction strategy before they can choose which pricing strategy will be the most beneficial for the company. Pricing strategies and tactics varies not only from one company to the next, but also from one nation to another, from one culture to another, from one industry to another, and over the course of time, as a result of the maturation of industries and marketplaces as well as wider economic conditions. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Pricing strategies Chapter 2: Monopoly Chapter 3: Price discrimination Chapter 4: Product bundling Chapter 5: Pricing Chapter 6: Product differentiation Chapter 7: Porter's five forces analysis Chapter 8: Price skimming Chapter 9: Cost-plus pricing Chapter 10: Porter's generic strategies Chapter 11: Barriers to entry Chapter 12: Yield management Chapter 13: Non-price competition Chapter 14: Rebate (marketing) Chapter 15: Dynamic pricing Chapter 16: Value-based pricing Chapter 17: Marketing channel Chapter 18: Premium pricing Chapter 19: Pay what you want Chapter 20: Customer cost Chapter 21: Types of e-commerce (II) Answering the public top questions about pricing strategies. (III) Real world examples for the usage of pricing strategies in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Pricing Strategies.