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Price Adjustments to New Information: Sony PS3

By Tim J. Smith, PhD August 1, 2007

With experience, professional pricers instinctively learn to laud price increases and denigrate price decreases.  Sometimes though, it is a good idea to…

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Top 6 – August 2007

By Tim J. Smith, PhD August 1, 2007

Communicate, Align, Capture Leegin decision should have a larger effect on prices of consumer products characterized as high-value branded goods, complex product,…

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Executive Conversations: Symantec’s Brian Foster

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 1, 2007

Microsoft has continues their thrust into the enterprise software market with their recent acquisition and expansion of their security software.  As they…

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Symantec’s Non-Price Response

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 1, 2007

Symantec continues to battle Microsoft’s foray into the computer security software market through a public relations campaign, yet they have not responded…

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The Perils of Using the Internet for Surveys

By James T. Berger July 1, 2007

As one who is involved in trademark infringement litigation surveys, I have discovered the Internet as a means of probing the marketplace…

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Top 6 – July 2007

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 1, 2007

Value First, Cost Second Price is not the competitive equalizer. Value is. Consider how to communicate your value proposition properly. Communicating the…

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The Difficulty of Developing Profitable and Unique Sales Promotions

By James T. Berger June 1, 2007

A Universitiy of Houston professor, Betsy Gelb, and two of her doctoral candidate students, Demetra Andrews and Son K. Lam, set off…

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Sadder But Wiser

By Tim J. Smith, PhD June 1, 2007

We have all learned something the hard way, and those lessons tend to be well learned.  Those of us with little gray…

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How Price-Per-Application Can Lead to Mutual Self Destruction

By Tim J. Smith, PhD June 1, 2007

Selling software as a service and pricing it on a per-application has become the vogue thing to do for many good reasons.…

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Top 6 – June 2007

By Tim J. Smith, PhD June 1, 2007

Revenue Capturing People like stories. They are believable and engender trust. Open you coat a little and capture their trust. Poorly imitable…

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