“Companies often design products to satisfy needs and create customer delight. Customers love to be delighted – as long as they don’t have to pay extra for the experience. When price is factored into the decision, however, many customers are willing to give up some delight in exchange for lower prices. The pricing challenge, therefore, is to understand what creates meaningful value for different customers in order to set prices that reflect the actual value received. Instead of creating products to satisfy customers, companies should create meaningful values that customers will pay for.”
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V. Kumar no seu livro “Managing Customers For Profit” ou neste artigo da Harvard Business Review, chama a atenção para o perigo de crer acriticamente que clientes satisfeitos são clientes rentáveis.
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Nagle e Hogan voltam a colocar no centro das atenções a criação, ou melhor, como refere Larreche, a originação de valor.
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Uma empresa tem de se concentrar na criação de valor. Como referimos aqui, acerca do marxianismo entranhado, o valor não é intrínseco às coisas, o valor é atribuído pelos clientes.
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Isto leva-nos a relacionar preços com segmentos de clientes e com proposta de valor, ou voltando a Nagle e Hogan:
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Quantas empresas conhecemos que não identificaram os seus clientes-alvo e que não racionalizaram a sua proposta de valor? Sendo assim, qual a base para a sua definição de preços?
“setting one price for the product ensures that at least one group of customers will be getting the wrong price. If you price high for high-value customers, then you risk overpricing to low-value customers and reducing profits. Conversely, pricing low to serve low-value customers leaves money on the table at the high end and also reduces profits. Many companies try to solve this dilemma by setting prices for the “average” customer. But this approach also fails to address the problem because the price will still be too high for low-value customers while still leaving some money on the table for high value-customers.
The solution to this dilemma is to create a price structure aligned with the value received instead of the products delivered.”
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