Confessions of the Pricing Man
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The world’s foremost expert on pricing strategy shows how this mysterious process works and how to maximize value through pricing to company and customer. In all walks of life, we constantly make decisions about whether something is worth our money or our time, or try to convince others to part with their money or their time. Price is the place where value and money meet. From the global release of the latest electronic gadget to the bewildering gyrations of oil futures to markdowns at the bargain store, price is the most powerful and pervasive economic force in our day-to-day lives and one of the least understood.
The recipe for successful pricing often sounds like an exotic cocktail, with equal parts psychology, economics, strategy, tools and incentives stirred up together, usually with just enough math to sour the taste. That leads managers to water down the drink with hunches and rules of thumb, or leave out the parts with which they don’t feel comfortable. While this makes for a sweeter drink, it often lacks the punch to have an impact on the customer or on the business.
It doesn’t have to be that way, though, as Hermann Simon illustrates through dozens of stories collected over four decades in the trenches and behind the scenes. A world-renowned speaker on pricing and a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executives, Simon’s lifelong journey has taken him from rural farmers’ markets, to a distinguished academic career, to a long second career as an entrepreneur and management consultant to companies large and small throughout the world.
Along the way, he has learned from Nobel Prize winners and leading management gurus, and helped countless managers and executives use pricing as a way to create new markets, grow their businesses and gain a sustained competitive advantage. He also learned some tough personal lessons about value, how people perceive it, and how people profit from it. In this engaging and practical narrative, Simon leaves nothing out of the pricing cocktail, but still makes it go down smoothly and leaves you wanting to learn more and do more—as a consumer or as a business person.
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- Springer Nature
- 9783319204000
- 9783319203997
- Page Fidelity (PDF)
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- Hermann Simon
- English
- 2015-10-20
- 100
- 2
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- Preface: Confessions
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Author
- 1: My First Painful Encounters with Prices
- Pricing Student: The Journey Begins
- Pricing Professor: Academia Was Still My Only Option
- Pricing Consultant: We Take Theory into the Real World
- 2: Everything Revolves Around Price
- What Does “Price” Actually Mean?
- “Price” Goes by Many Aliases
- Price = Value
- Creating and Communicating Value
- What Smart Pricing Can Achieve: The 2012 London Olympics
- What Smart Pricing Can Achieve: The BahnCard
- Supply and Demand
- Scarcity and Boom-and-Bust Cycles
- Price and Government
- Price and Power
- Pricing Pushes Its Boundaries
- 3: The Strange Psychology of Pricing
- The Prestige Effect of Price
- Price as an Indicator of Quality
- The Placebo Effect of Price
- Price as a Defused Weapon
- Price Anchor Effects
- The Magic of the Middle, or the Story of the Padlock
- Neither the Cheapest nor the Most Expensive Wine
- A Profit-Generating Product No One Ever Buys
- Creating Scarcity
- Selling More by Offering Additional Alternatives
- Price Thresholds and Odd Prices
- Prospect Theory
- Prospect Theory and Price
- Business or Economy?
- Free or Paid: A Big Difference
- Better to Pay in Cash
- The Temptation of Credit Cards
- “Cash Back” and Other Absurdities
- Moon Prices
- Price Structures
- Mental Accounting
- Neuro-Pricing
- In Conclusion: Be Cautious!
- 4: Price Positioning: High or Low
- Success Strategies with Low Prices
- Aldi
- IKEA
- H&M and Zara
- Ryanair
- Dell
- Less Expensive Alternatives
- Amazon and Zalando: Revenue vs. Profit
- Success Factors for a Low-Price Strategy
- Ultra-low Prices: Can You Go Lower than Low?
- Dacia Logan and Tata Nano
- Honda Wave
- Ultra-low price Positioning in Other Consumer and Industrial Goods
- Ultra-low Price Products Also for Sale in Highly Developed Countries?
- Success Factors for an Ultra-low Price Strategy
- Success Strategies with High Prices
- Premium Pricing
- Apple vs. Samsung
- Gillette
- Miele
- Porsche
- Enercon
- “Bugs” Burger Bug Killers
- Premium Strategies Can Also Backfire
- Success Factors for a Premium Price Strategy
- Success Strategies for Luxury Goods Pricing
- How Much Does a Luxury Watch Cost?
- Swiss Watches
- LVMH and Richemont
- Stumbling Blocks in Luxury Goods Marketing
- Maybach
- Are There Limits to Prices of Luxury Goods?
- The Challenge of Creating Enduring Value
- Observing Volume Limits
- Success Factors for Luxury Goods Price Strategies
- What Is the Most Promising Price Strategy to Pursue?
- 5: Prices and Profits
- Chasing the Wrong Goals?
- How Does a Price Increase of 2 % Affect Profits?
- Price Is the Most Effective Profit Driver
- Now … Let’s Change Your Prices and See What Happens
- Back to the Future: The General Motors Employee Discount Program
- Prices, Margins, and Profits
- Price Is a Unique Marketing Instrument
- 6: Prices and Decisions
- Who, What, Where, When, Why … and How?
- The Effects of a Price Decision
- Price and Volume
- Using Costs to Set Prices
- Following the Competition
- Market-Based Price Setting
- Sharing Value Fifty-Fifty
- How to Determine Demand Curves and Price Elasticities
- Expert Judgment: Making Direct Estimates of Price Elasticities
- Asking Customers About Prices Directly
- Asking Customers About Price Indirectly
- Price Tests
- The Big Data Myth: Using Market Data for Demand Curves and Price Elasticities
- So … What About the Competitors’ Prices?
- The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Let the Game Begin
- Price Leadership
- Signaling
- Competitive Reaction and Price Decisions
- Inflation: What It Is and Why It Matters for Price Decisions
- Price and Inflation: A Lesson from Brazil
- 7: Price Differentiation: The High Art
- Going from the Profit Rectangle to the Profit Triangle
- What Does a Can of Coca-Cola Cost?
- The Difference Two Prices Can Make
- Why the First Beer Should Be More Expensive
- Nonlinear Pricing for a Cinema
- Price Bundling
- Price Bundling for Optional Accessories
- Unbundling
- Multi-Person Pricing
- The More, the Cheaper? Be Careful!
- Differentiation or Discrimination?
- Price and Location
- Price and Time
- Perishable Goods
- Patents for Dynamic Pricing
- Juggling Capacities and Prices
- Price and Scarcity
- Hi-Lo vs. EDLP
- Advance Sale Prices and Advance Booking Discounts
- Penetration Strategy: Toyota Lexus
- Skimming Strategy: The Apple iPhone
- Information and Profit Cliffs
- Fencing
- Pay Attention to Costs
- 8: Innovations in Pricing
- Radical Improvements in Price Transparency
- Pay Per Use
- New Price Metrics
- Introducing a New Price Parameter: The Case of Sanifair
- Amazon Prime
- Industrial Gases
- ARM
- Freemium
- Flat Rates
- Prepaid Systems
- Customer-Driven Pricing
- Pay What You Want
- Profit-Oriented Incentive Systems
- Better Price Forecasts
- Intelligent Surcharges
- à la Carte Pricing
- Harvard Business Review Press
- Auctions
- 9: Pricing in Crises and Price Wars
- Crisis: What Does That Mean?
- Cut Volume or Cut Price?
- Making Intelligent Price Cuts
- Offer Cash or Goods Instead of Lower Prices!
- Staying Off the Customers’ Radar Screen
- The Arch-Nemesis: Overcapacity
- Price Increases in Times of Crisis
- Price Wars
- 10: What the CEO Needs to Do
- Price and Shareholder Value
- How Price Can Increase Market Capitalization
- $120 Million More Through Pricing
- Price and Market Capitalization
- The Day the Marlboro Man Fell Off His Horse
- 20 % Off on Everything: The Praktiker Case
- The Devastating Effect of Price Wars: The Potash Oligopoly Case
- Pride Before the Fall: The Netflix Case
- A Failed Attempt to Trade Customers Up: The J.C. Penney Case
- Discounts and Promotions: The Abercrombie & Fitch Case
- Price Discipline Increases a Company’s Market Value: A Telecom Case
- Pricing and Financial Analysts
- Price and Private Equity Investors
- The Key Role of Top Management
- Name Index
- Companies and Organizations Index
- Subject Index