5a Price
5a Price
5a Price
Strategic Marketing
Dave Harvey
November 2019
Selecting the Price…
Influencing Factors: Selecting the Pricing Objective
Corporate Objectives
Determining Demand
& Resources
Portfolio Matrix
Life-Cycle Estimating Costs
Product Positioning
Suppliers Prices
Analysing Competitors Prices & Costs
Competition
Differential Benefits
Selecting a Pricing Method
Customer Attitudes
Legal Constraints
Selecting the Final Price
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Price Elasticity…
Ease of Switching
Marketers need to know
Moderstely
how responsive, or
elastic demand, would Very Elastic
be to a change in price
for their product.
Easy
If the demand hardly
changes with a small Moderately
change in price the Elastic
demand is Inelastic
Supply/Demand Conditions
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Pricing Considerations…
Pricing Basis Pricing Objectives Pricing Strategies
Price Skimming
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Pricing Strategies…
Economy pricing usually Penetration pricing refers to
represents the lowest price a a marketing policy used by
company can charge for goods businesses to attract
or services. The economy customers to a new product
pricing strategy can help or service. Penetration
undercut current price levels of pricing is the practice of
current competitors by offering offering an artificially low
a similar product with no frills price for a new product or
or fancy features. The costs of service during its initial
marketing and promoting a offering in order to lure
product are kept to a customers away from
minimum. competitors.
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Pricing Strategies & the PLC…
Guiding Principles:
Introductory Growth Maturity
Decline Stage
Value of product to Stage Stage Stage
production Key
Competitive
Account
Different customer values Bid
Price Consider
Price low to
competitively raising price Raise
win high market
to win as market price
Share OR
market share saturates
Price high in
recognition of
7 novelty &
prestige
Impact of the Internet on Pricing…
The internet is
more than a new
‘market space, it is
rapidly changing Buyers Sellers Both
the rules of the • Get instant price • Monitor customer • Negotiate prices
Marketing Mix comparisons behaviour and in online auctions
and probably has tailor prices and
the greatest • Name price and offers • Negotiate prices
impact on Price have it met in exchanges e.g.
• Give certain eBay
• Get products for customers access
free to special prices
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Price - Relevant Questions…
What pricing policies are appropriate?
How do consumers perceive prices…cost, investment, status, value for money, value?
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Discussion
Think of some examples of products or services
where price is used as a key indicator of quality
Why do you think this is?
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