Penetration strategies aim to attract buyers by offering lower prices on goods and services. While many new companies use this technique to draw attention away from their competition, penetration pricing does tend to result in an initial loss of income for the business.

Premium pricing is the practice of setting the price of products or service artificially high. Premium pricing is often most effective in the early days of a product’s life cycle, and ideal for small businesses that sell unique goods.

Pricing strategy helps you determine the price point at which you can maximize profits on sales of your products or services. Factors to be considered includes:

Costs: Overheads, production and distribution.

Competitors: Offerings and positioning str...

Bundle pricing is a strategy to sell multiple similar products packaged together at reduced price. This is an effective way of moving unsold items that are taking up space, but it can also increase the value perception in the eyes of the customer and increase the average sale value.

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Used by a wide range of businesses including generic food suppliers, commodity traders and discount retailers, economy pricing aims to attract the most price-conscious of consumers. Businesses using this strategy should be well positioned for cost savings and higher sales volumes.

Make sure overheads are adequately included in the price of products at reasonable sales volumes.

It is much easier to reduce prices in the future than to increase them. Start high and offer temporary discounts.

Keep your pricing system as simple as possible. This will assist with fu...