Thursday, January 7, 2010

PRODUCT PRICING STRATEGIES

Starting a price to a new product is not always very easy for brand managers, CEOs and sales executive. It is a real business in a sense that pricing strategy is a hard nut to crack. it has few basic principles which helps us to set a target price.
We consider that there are four basic components to a successful pricing strategy:

  1. Costs. Focus on your current and future, not historical, costs to determine the cost basis for your pricing strategy .

  2. Price Sensitivity. The price sensitivities of buyers shift based on a number of factors and your pricing strategy must shift with them.

  3. Competition. Pay attention to them, but don't copy them . . . when it comes to pricing strategy they may have no idea what they're doing.

  4. Product Lifecycle. How you price, and what value you provide for that price, will change as you move through the product lifecycle.

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