"Leming marches. We've all heard the managers' lament that "my competitors are slashing prices, so I have to follow."
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Price cuts rarely boost demand by enough to make them worthwhile. (Moi ici: Recordar os números do Evangelho do Valor) The temptation to cut prices is hard to resist. But restraint is almost always a wise and profitable decision. Keep your fingers off the "down" button unless you are absolutely sure of how your customers and competitors will respond.
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Volume worship. If your sales force has pricing authority, it needs proper incentives. Link compensation to profit goals instead of volume or revenue goals. This move helps to counter their natural urge to burn through a price premium just to get product out the door.
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Without personal incentives to price better, managers succumb to the insidious comfort-zone feeling that their current pricing is "good enough." When asked, managers tend to say that knowledge of the customer's willingness to pay is just as important as knowledge of the product's unit costs when it comes to setting prices. But they do not back their words with action. They prefer to scrutinize internal cost data - which, while transparent, is not exactly relevant - rather than to determine objectively what their customers can pay." (Moi ici: Claro! Isto acontece-me tantas vezes que já arranjei uma explicação - o tempo não é elástico, e a largura de banda da mente dos gestores está sempre abaixo da capacidade necessária, problema comum a todos os humanos, se parte dessa largura de banda é gasta a pensar nos custos e na sua redução, pouco ou nada vai sobrar em termos de largura de banda com qualidade, para pensar noutras formas mais inteligentes de ganhar dinheiro como, por exemplo, subir na escala de valor)
Trechos retirados de "Don't Price Away Your Profits" de Frank Bilstein e Frank Luby publicado pelo WSJ Europe em Setembro de 2002.
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