CHAPTER 10

Understanding Pricing

The pricing of your company’s product or service will have a demonstrable impact on the value equation. Price influences the customer’s perception of what value they’re receiving. Pricing also affects what profit a business captures.

While entire books have been written on pricing strategies, we’re going to concentrate on pricing basics to help your small- and mid-sized business. In this chapter, we’ll demonstrate how to integrate pricing blueprints into your marketing strategy.

Here are three simple pricing truths:

Pricing low may increase demand and the number of happy customers but can often result in lower profit.

Pricing high can increase profit but lower demand and customer satisfaction.

Both strategies ...

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