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Pricing is one of the most important but least understood marketing decisions. Learn and practice concepts, techniques, and get to grips with the latest thinking on assessing and formulating pricing strategies. Analyze how firms attempt to capture value, as well as profits, in the revenues they earn.
Along this course, you will learn pricing strategy key concepts such as pricing psychology, price discrimination, willingness to pay of customers, optimal price and price elasticity. This course has an additional focus on pricing dynamics and the reaction to and by competitors, taking a highly pragmatic approach and one that is directly applicable to your day-to-day professional life.
After this course, you will be able to contribute to the process of formulating pricing strategies for your own products and services, or those of your firm.
Martin Boehm - IE Professor and former Dean of the Business School with over 20 years experience - will guide you through four modules. We begin with the importance of pricing and how it ultimately can affect the bottom line. Then, we move on to methods to help you decide what is the optimal price for your product; and then price discrimination - should all your products follow the same pricing strategy or should you differentiate depending on the customer segment? Finally, we look at pricing psychology and how you can influence customers in order to drive the highest possible price for your product.
In this module we will start with the importance of pricing, especially for the bottom line. Having this in mind, and after showing how pricing is the most important driver of profitability, when you finish this module you will be able to execute cost, competition and customer-based pricing. You will also be able to use the concepts of price elasticity and optimal price while setting prices for your products and services.
What's included
12 videos7 readings4 assignments
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12 videos•Total 51 minutes
Trailer•1 minute
Introduction to the Course•3 minutes
Importance of Pricing•5 minutes
Pricing Complexity•4 minutes
Pricing Approaches•3 minutes
Cost Based Pricing•4 minutes
Cost Based Pricing Printer Example•4 minutes
Competition Based Pricing•3 minutes
Customer Based Pricing•5 minutes
Price Elasticity•7 minutes
Optimal Price•3 minutes
Expert Interviews: Felix Krohn of Wolters Kluwer•11 minutes
7 readings•Total 64 minutes
How to Price Your Products•10 minutes
12 Techniques For Selecting The Right Pricing Strategy•9 minutes
Spanish restaurant unveils world’s most expensive burger priced at $11,000•10 minutes
Methods to Price Your Product•10 minutes
Pricing Fashion with Science•10 minutes
Price Elasticity •5 minutes
Why Pricing Is so crucial to get right In a Launch•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 57 minutes
Practice Quiz on the Importance of Pricing•3 minutes
Practice Quiz on Price Elasticity•15 minutes
Practice Quiz: Determining the Optimal Price•4 minutes
Module 1 Graded Assessment•35 minutes
Determining Willingness to Pay
Module 2•5 hours to complete
Module details
After finishing this module you will be able to take advantage of four different methods to determine the willingness to pay from customers. Whether using Market Data or Experiments (Observation based) or Expert or Customer Surveys (Survey based), you'll be able to use this information in order to identify the optimal price.
Willingness to pay – definition and meaning•10 minutes
Measuring Willingness-to-Pay•50 minutes
Experiments in Pricing•10 minutes
Best practices for every step of survey creation•5 minutes
15 Best Online Survey Tools and Apps•10 minutes
A Review of Methods for Measuring Willingness-to-Pay•50 minutes
2 assignments•Total 33 minutes
Practice Quiz on Price Experiments•3 minutes
Module 2 Graded Assessment•30 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
Link to the Pricing Simulation•60 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Results of the Pricing Simulation•10 minutes
Playing the Pricing Piano or Price Discrimination
Module 3•3 hours to complete
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What we see in the real world is that companies don't only charge one price for all their products, but rather set different prices for different products with respect to different customer segments. After looking at the benefits of price discrimination (and the significant revenue and profit potential behind it), you will be able to figure out what type and how to implement price discrimination for your products and services.
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11 videos2 readings3 assignments
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11 videos•Total 75 minutes
What is Price Discrimination•6 minutes
Forms of Price Discrimination•4 minutes
Expert Interviews: Alejandro Hermo of Burger King•12 minutes
Investopedia: What is Price Discrimination•15 minutes
Pay-per-laugh: Customers charged exactly for what they "consume"•10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 55 minutes
Practice Quiz on Bundling•5 minutes
Price Discrimination•15 minutes
Module 3 Graded Assessment•35 minutes
Pricing Psychology
Module 4•2 hours to complete
Module details
In this final module we will look at pricing psychology. You will then be able to "manipulate" customers so they perceive a higher value in the products and services that you deliver, or so that they feel less pain by paying the price of purchasing your products. You will have in your toolkit multiple ways to maximize your sales, revenues, and profitability. We will also conduct a couple of experiments with volunteer customers to see how price affects perceptions, and how you can profit from it.
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9 videos3 readings1 assignment
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9 videos•Total 36 minutes
Pricing Psychology•3 minutes
Pricing experiments: Price as a quality indicator•3 minutes
Price Anchoring•6 minutes
Pricing experiments: The Decoy Effect•3 minutes
Prospect Theory•6 minutes
Price Endings•4 minutes
The Pain of Paying•7 minutes
Brief of the course•3 minutes
Ready to continue on this journey?•1 minute
3 readings•Total 55 minutes
Psychological Pricing: 4 Strategies, Examples and Tactics•10 minutes
Price Endings' Field Experiments Results•40 minutes
Pain of Paying – Everything You Need to Know•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 40 minutes
Module 4 Graded Assessment•40 minutes
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Reviewed on Nov 12, 2016
Very Good course on Pricing. Relevant real-life examples. Great articles on theory and examples. Would definitely recommend to anyone. Enables one to have a quality discussion on pricing.
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Reviewed on Jun 20, 2017
In my opinion it is the best course in the specialization. Excellent sources articles and book to study and expand the price knowledge. The course gave enough encouragement to learn more.
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Reviewed on Jul 21, 2019
Good course on pricing. It was a review of a similar class I have taken elsewhere, but even so I learned new concepts or ways to approach pricing. Some of the readings were very technical.
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