Price Your Way To Profits
Pricing your products and services
is a critical element of a well-conceived marketing plan and suitable pricing
is essential to the growth of a successful business scheme. The rapidly
increasing field of behavioral economics reveals why certain pricing plans work
and how you can incorporate some of them into your pricing strategy.
Have an anchor baby
Your "anchor baby" can
result in a positive outcome for sales and billable hours. A cognitive bias
called anchoring can cause us to identify the price of an item as
reasonable when it is viewed after we've seen a higher-priced version of a
similar item. In other words, a $2000 item may be perceived as a relative inexpensive
after one has seen a similar version priced at $5000 and a outlook could be
moved to envision him/her purchasing that $2000 item.
Placing premium-priced products and
services in proximity to similar, lower-priced, offerings that you hope to sell
can possibly lead prospective clients to perceive the lower-priced items as
providing real value, once they know that functionally similar items can be
more costly.
Zeros kill sales
In marketing sales, it is standard
practice for dealers to list prices that end in.99,.98, or.95, but never.00.
The reasoning behind that individual little tactic is that prices ending in
zeros are often perceived by customers as being comparatively expensive,
according to a 2003 study that seemed in the Journal of Quantitative Marketing
and Economics. According to the study, most buyers feel that $5.99 is
substantively cheaper than $6.00.
A 2011 study conducted by the
Society for Consumer Psychology suggests that when pricing B2B services for a
client proposal, it is best to avoid listing a price as $3000.00, or even
$2995.00, for example, because too many zeros would be included. Prospective
clients apparently will feel more relaxed with your price when it's expressed
as $2995.
Be a Lexus and not just a Toyota
A Vanderbilt University study
demonstrated that customers are willing to pay more for a Budweiser beer in a elaborate
hotel bar than they would for that same Budweiser in a dive bar. Why?
University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler explains that the power of
perceived prestige allows the luxury set to get away with charging higher
prices.
According to that line of reasoning,
Solopreneur consultants (so much more classy and deserving than a mere
Freelancer, no?) are advised to in various ways present cues that make the case
for charging premium prices that increase profits. Let the value you bring be
known to those who matter. Teaching at the college level, speaking at respected
business associations, producing long-form content that appears in notable
print or online publications, or publishing a newsletter or blog that draws
several thousand subscribers will showcase you as a thought leader and an
authority and allow you to reflect that skill in your pricing structure.
How to raise prices
Weber's Law (1834) indicates that
your clients will probably accept a 10% price increase in products or services
purchased from you and some may not notice the change. You already know that
several factors can impact your ability to raise prices, including the urgency
of the client's need for your product or service, the attendance of contenders
and the perception of your brand value.
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