About this Course
Organisations are using pricing strategies to drive more profitable growth in response to relentless pressure to produce profits.
Although pricing is an easy-to-understand marketing mix element, changing prices can have an impact on the company, the products and portfolio. An uncoordinated pricing strategy or trial-and-error approach to pricing can reduce a firm's bottom line.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the framework that supports a set of pricing strategies
- Identify customer value as the basis for successful pricing and understand how dynamic customer needs can influence pricing decisions
- Examine the fundamental basics for pricing like the economics of supply & demand and the overall determinants of demand
- Plan and create relevant pricing strategies for the products
Course Outline:
Introduction: Purpose of the course & expectations
- Warm-up exercise: "The Price is Right"
Issues & Challenges with Pricing Products
- Pricing factors: problems
- Distinguishing successful pricing strategies from unsuccessful pricing strategies
- Align pricing with other marketing mix elements
Factors Affecting Pricing Decision: Internal vs. External
- Role of demand
- Influences of supply
- Elasticity of demand and the impact on pricing
- Pricing & its relationship to forecasting
- Pricing & regulatory environment
Pricing Influence Puzzle
- Customers & Value
- Industry & Competition: Porter's Model & Market share issues
- Costs/Profit: Impact of profitability when dealing with cost & volume
- Marketing Mix: How it affects pricing strategies
- Impact of Life-cycle state on products, technology & market adoption
- Exercise: Your Pricing Strategy
Who Will Benefit?
Any sales, marketing or product personnel of the management team whose responsibility is to develop an effective pricing and communication strategy for their products/services.
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Course Info
- Course Provider Marketing Institute of Singapore
- Course Category Business
- Course Price $780
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