PriceBeam

Most people working in the pricing department is aware that pricing is a very powerful tool. Yet still, when engaging with other departments or discussing the overall strategy of the company, price improvements are sometimes ignored, or at least its full value is not appreciated.

Tariffs and trade wars are in the media almost every day at the moment. Many industries find themselves caught in an environment where they may be facing tariffs, from steel production over jeans, whisky, auto-motive, to even indirect products such as the costs impacts for Coca Cola of tariffs on the raw materials for their soda cans.

We are very excited to announce that PriceBeam is taking the next step for growth by bringing on board industry-veteran Chris Clement as head of our sales and marketing efforts in the US and Canada. 

We are excited to now also launching our website in Swedish: www.pricebeam.se. 

That value-based pricing offers a great avenue to strong prices and significant profits is probably clear in many pricing practitioners' minds. But what is also important to remember is that a value-based pricing strategy should be data-driven: data about customers' willingness-to-pay. Data about value drivers. Data about customer segments. And not just a single global set of data, but for each market where the product or service is sold.

Prices can be set and optimized using many different techniques. In this upcoming webinar we will look at how price research can boost the price optimization process and achieve superior results. Recent PriceBeam projects have shown that companies often underestimate their pricing power by 20-30%, especially when it comes to new products in existing businesses, or launches of start-up companies.

We are excited to announce three upcoming webinars in June:

• June 5th: Pricing Right Made Easy - Optimizing prices with research: learn about how to use price research when setting prices, including using different research methods. See how segmentation along customers' willingness-to-pay can drive superior profits.. 
• June 12th: Value-Based Pricing foundation done right: Conjoint Analysis: Build a solid foundation for your value-based pricing strategy by implementing regular price research using conjoint analysis. Understand value-drivers and differences in willingness-to-pay.
• June 19th: Increasing prices more efficiently with research: price increases are sometimes difficult to implement. In this webinar we look at how you can become more efficient and achieve a higher proportion of the price increase potential through price research.

You can learn more about each by clicking on the links and signing up. Once the webinars are live you will receive an email with a personal link to watch the streaming video, at your time and convenience.

Very often, an argument can be heard that "customers" will not accept any price increase. This is invariably an argument from the sales team, sales management, and sometimes even all the way up to the CEO, especially if he/she is focused on market share or e.g. growth in #customers. It is the case in startups and large corporations alike. Truth be told if Customers, as in actual customers, have a problem with the current price, then indeed it can be difficult to increase prices. In some companies it even means the overall business is in danger as it means customers don't (fully) value the products or services sold. The problem is that very often the quoted "customers" are not really all customers, or even representative customers, but rather either anecdotal and based on individual stories, or the result of exaggerated fear amongst the sales team of putting price increases on the negotiation table.