Posts by: Anirban Sengupta

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Managing Value: Where the Problem Lies

By Anirban Sengupta February 17, 2015

After a firm adopts value based selling it comes face to face with the next big challenge: How to manage the process of value based selling?

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Charging a Premium for Reliability

By Anirban Sengupta November 24, 2014

You charge a higher price for a more reliable product if reliability is perceived as a benefit by the customer. But how do we to make a customer perceive reliability as a benefit?

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Moore’s Law & Semiconductor Pricing

By Anirban Sengupta September 28, 2014

Why does a paper published in 1965 have customers calling looking for discounted prices? And when are these requests reasonable? Anirban Sengupta discusses.

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The Next-Best Alternative

By Anirban Sengupta July 7, 2014

Innovation is a great thing: it sparks our creativity, fills needs or streamlines our lives, and fuels our economy. But even the newest-to-the-world products and services face competition. We need to be able to gauge the market outlook for any of our potential offerings, from the most evolutionary to the most revolutionary…

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Decoy Pricing Part 2: Profitable Implementation

By Anirban Sengupta June 9, 2014

We’ve explored what decoy pricing is and how to recognize it, now let’s get into how to do it profitably.

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LinkedIn and Apple’s Psychological Pricing Tactics

By Anirban Sengupta May 5, 2014

How can counterintuitive pricing and bundling help make ear additional profit? Take a look at some successful tactical moves that accomplish just that.

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Abenomics: Why, What, and Now What?

By Anirban Sengupta March 6, 2014

Economic policies advocated by Japan prime-minister Shinzo Abe, since his return to the helm after the 2012 general elections, are referred to as Abenomics. This article aims to provide a first-level understanding of the principles of Abenomics and its effects on the global business environment.

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The Art of Price Discrimination – can Ayn Rand teach us a lesson in pricing?

By Anirban Sengupta November 4, 2013

In traditional sense “discrimination” is a word with a negative connotation.  However, in the pricing context, by discrimination I mean that I will make some customers pay more and some customers pay less for the same product.  However that is pure discrimination and by no means an art.  Discrimination becomes an art only when all the subjects concerned accept the price they pay without a grudge.

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Value-Based Pricing 101

By Anirban Sengupta October 2, 2013

Despite abundance of available and accessible literature, value-based pricing (VBP) as a concept remains mystified. The key reason is the difficulty of implementation. This article’s aim is to provide the reader a concise review of the ‘do’s and ‘don’t’s of VBP.

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About The Author

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Anirban is a core-team member at Lifkart (an Early stage Indian Construction Start-up). Prior to the current gig he worked for about 5 years as a pricing manager at Cypress Semiconductor. He holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology , India and an MBA in Marketing from Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune, India.