I imagine the more people looking at product lifecycle costs and planning to reduce them can only be a good thing. Price is heavily driven by competition so the trick is to produce a product that everyone wants yet nobody except you can produce. Apple pie and motherhood I suppose.
"Price is heavily driven by competition so the trick is to produce a product that everyone wants yet nobody except you can produce"
flyingscot,
Umm I agree with you to a point. I think that it's not about you being the only one to produce it, but you must make the user ONLY want it from you, or prefer you over any other competition. At that point, price no longer matters, especially if it is considered a premium offering.
@Pocharle. I agree with you on that.On the other hand, being the first to enter has its advantages and disadvantages but as you rightly said- do things that make users to prefer you above others. Sometimes "others'' too don,t just fold their arms and go to sleep.
I agree with you. Brand name has amazing influence on people. I do agree also with @Kayode that being first to market is also key. Apple wrote the book on a successful company with a respected name brand that is consistently innovative in its product offering. I think one without the other can be beat but the combination of the two has proven quite successful.
This is an excellent article that brings up some very valid points. Lowering prices of older models as new ones come out is a common practice and one that many consumers pay close attention to. Take Apple for instance. Right now if you go to an AT&T store to purchase a phone with a contract, you have a few choices for Iphones. You can get the "old" 3Gs for about $49; get the "close to old" Iphone 4 for about $199. With the introduction of the Iphone 5 in the next couple of months, these older models will drop in price and be more attractive to others. This in turn will hurt the sales of the Iphone 5, though not drastically since we are talking about Apple.
Exactly jbond, I agree with you even your example gives the chance to share something more in addition. People are really attracted by special price (low price) from ads of flyers, but quite often if you go to store for acquiring a product at the time of a promotion, it is not available with the result reseller tries to sell another one more expensive...
Among the consumers , there are leaders and there are followers. The leaders are the one who want to grab anything that is something new. They wan't to be the first to show off a new gadjet even before it is available in the open stores. For these consumers the price really does not matter. More the price , more reason to show off !
Then there are followers who are drawn by the charisma of the leaders and want to nuy a product because the leader has bought it.
Finally theer is class of consumers, always looking for cheap bargains. these are the consumers who are happy with end of life products or cheap used products.
It is essential for a product company to carry out market reasearch to find out the percentage of each of these category for their future products and plan their pricing and procurement plans accordingly.
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