The product life cycle describes the steps a product goes through from beginning to end until it eventually disappears from the shelves. Each phase has its own characteristics and requires unique strategies to ensure success.
The Profit Maximizer
Discover how to optimize pricing for your entire product mix. Learn strategies for product lines, bundles, and essential add-ons.
New product development (NPD) isn’t without hurdles. Learn about common challenges during NPD, including legal barriers, distribution issues, and the importance of thorough planning to overcome them.
In order to develop products that provide value to consumers, it is important to understand the key consumer product characteristics. What are the criteria to think of when designing a new product?
The Profitability Perspective
Discover pricing strategies focused on costs, target returns, and the experience curve. Learn how to ensure your pricing covers expenses and generates the desired profit.
The concept of product as a bundle of benefits is a theory which seeks to explain a product from the viewpoint of a consumer… Since marketing involves seeing everything the firm does from the viewpoint of the customer, marketers define products as a bundle of benefits.
Reference pricing means setting your prices based on how they compare to similar products in the market. Understand how customers use reference prices and how to influence their perceptions for smarter pricing decisions.
Value-based pricing requires the estimation of the economic value of a product: to what extent does a good or service provide additional value to a consumer? Estimating differentiation value requires strategic approaches towards measuring monetary and psychological value.
Discover how to calculate economic value, a core concept in value-based pricing. Learn to determine reference value, differentiation value, and their impact on optimal pricing
Understand the crucial role of economic value in setting prices. Learn the difference between use value, economic value, and how differentiation impacts pricing strategies.
