Pricing Strategies :: Business Market Marketing Price

price Strategies (graphics not included)One of the four major elements of the marketing mix is price. determine is an important strategic issue because it is related to product positioning. Pricing also affects other marketing mix elements as well, such as product features, road decisions, and promotion. A set strategy is a course of action designed to achieve pricing objectives. This strategy helps marketers set prices. There are many shipway to price a product. The following, figure 1.1, shows a list of five major types of pricing strategies. (Business, 8th Ed., pg 421)Figure 1.1New-Product PricingThere are two base types of new product pricing strategies, price tireming and penetration pricing. An organization can use one or both of them over a deliberate period of time.Price Skimming involves charging the highest price possible for a short time where a new, innovative, or much-improved product is launched onto a market. The objective with skimming is to skim the cr eam off customers who are willing to pay more to generate the product sooner. Prices are lowered once demand falls. (Business, 8th Ed., pg 422)Penetration Pricing is the opposite extreme it involves the setting of lower, rather than higher price for a new product. The main purpose is to build market share quickly. The seller wants to disapprove competitors from entering the market by building a large market share quickly. (Business, 8th Ed., pg 422)Differential PricingDifferential pricing occurs when a phoner attempts to charge different prices to two different customers for what is essentially the same product. For this to be effective, the market must have multiple segments with different price sensitivities. Differential pricing can happen in several ways negotiated pricing, secondary-market pricing, periodic discounting, and random discounting. The following describes two of the ways.Negotiated Pricing happens when the final price is established through negociate betwe en the seller and the buyer. This occurs in various industries and at all levels of distribution. Prices are normally negotiated for houses, cars and used merchandise. (Business, 8th Ed., pg 423)Periodic Discounting is the temporary reduction of prices. This normally happens when retailers have holiday sales or seasonal sales. The downside of this is that customers can predict when the price reductions will occur and hold off on buying until the sales bear away place. (Business, 8th Ed., pg 423)Psychological PricingPsychological pricing is a marketing practice based on the theory that certain prices have a mental impact.