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The Marketer's View of Price

15 January, 2016 - 09:52

Price is important to marketers, because it represents marketers' assessment of the value customers see in the product or service and are willing to pay for a product or service. A number of factors have changed the way marketers undertake the pricing of their products and services.1

  • Foreign competition has put considerable pressure on US firms' pricing strategies. Many foreign-made products are high in quality and compete in US markets on the basis of lower price for good value.
  • Competitors often try to gain market share by reducing prices. The pnce reduction is intended to increase demand from customers who are judged to be sensitive to changes in price.
  • New products are far more prevalent today than in the past. Pricing a new product can represent a challenge, as there is often no historical basis for pricing new products. If a new product is priced incorrectly, the marketplace will react unfavorably and the "wrong" price can do long-term damage to a product's chances for marketplace success .
  • Technology has led to existing products having shorter marketplace lives. New products are introduced to the market more frequently, reducing the "shelf life" of existing products. As a result, marketers face pressures to price products to recover costs more quickly. Prices must be set for early successes including fast sales growth, quick market penetration, and fast recovery of research and development costs.