Common mistakes in pricing strategies

  • Pricing decisions are too heavily biased towards cost structures and fail to take sufficient account of either competitor's or customers' potential response patterns.
  • Pricing decisions are set independently of other mix elements and without sufficiently explicit account being taken of them (advertising, positioning, etc.), taken out of concern for the mix.
  • Too little account is taken of opportunities greatly between different segments of the market.
  • Prices often reflect a defensive rather then offensive posture, will not think through only react against.

Other pricing factors

Corporate objective

Strategic pricing process

Alternative pricing strategies

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