3. PROFIT POOL
A 1% improvement (reduction) in variable costs will improve profit by: 4%
A 1% improvement in volume (revenues) will improve profit by: 7%
A 1% improvement in pricing will improve profit by: 11%
3%A 1% improvement (reduction) in fixed costs will improve profit by:
PROFIT
IMPROVEMENT
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4. Matching Professional Buyers With Professional Sellers
COSTINGPRICING
THE COST TO THE SELLERTHE VALUE TO THE BUYER
Requires the expertise of production
and finance professionals
=
A CALCULATION
TACTICAL
A JUDGMENT
STRATEGIC
Requires the expertise of
pricing professionals
5. Matching Professional Buyers With Professional Sellers
A PRICING REVOLUTION
Dynamic pricing. Setting flexible prices
for products/services based on current
market demands.
Razor and blades. The practice of selling
a base product or service at a low price
then making all the margin on sales of
items required to keep the product/
service functioning.
Freemium pricing. Offering a basic
product/service for free, while charging
for "premium" features or functionality.
Pay what you want. Buyers pay any
desired amount for a given product/
service.
Add-ons pricing. A strategy that
attempts to increase the amount
customers spend by offering individually-
priced “extras”
Bundled pricing. Starting with a
company's popular products/services
and adding other (usually less popular)
products/services to sell as a "bundle."
Congestion pricing. Charging for excess
demand, as in electricity or parking.
Skim pricing. Setting a high price on a
product/service before other
competitors come into the market.
Economy pricing. A lower price for a "no
frills" version of a product/service
(economy cabin in an aircraft, generic
supermarket brands).
Options pricing. Offering several
different versions of the product/service,
each with different levels of value.
Tiered pricing. Pricing is reduced when
buyers hit certain thresholds or "tiers" of
purchases.
Use now, buy later. Customer is able to
use either a trial or full-featured version
of product/service for a fixed time
period.
Per use. Charging for what the product
actually does, rather than for the product
itself.
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KNOWLEDGE
WORK
MANUAL
WORK
COST-BASED
Time Spent
Cost of Labor
Cost Plus
16. The industry1
The buyer (your clients)2
The seller (you)3
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WHOSE JOB IS IT TO
CHANGE PRICING?
17. SELLERS ROUTINELY RE-EDUCATE BUYERS
ABOUT PRICING IN ALL TYPES OF MARKETS
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Software
18. SELLERS ROUTINELY RE-EDUCATE BUYERS
ABOUT PRICING IN ALL TYPES OF MARKETS
Airlines
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25. Trade the language
of cost for the
language of value
A change in language
is a critical precursor to
a change in behavior.
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COST BASED
LANGUAGE
CUSTOMER VALUE BASED
LANGUAGE
Cost
Estimates
Hours
Rates
Billable Time
Labor
Utilization
Time of Staff
FTE’S
Price
Talent
Results
Solutions
Outcomes
Results
Value
Metrics of success
Accountability
2
26. Align the economic
incentives
Instead of a discussion
about who gets the biggest
slice of pie, show how you
can grow the entire pie.
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3
27. Align the economic
incentives
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“The agency offers
pay-for-performance
compensation: it gets
paid when an agreed-
upon business result is
achieved. ‘We put our
own skin in the game,’
says Deloitte Digital
principal Mike Brinker.”
28. Focus on transparency
of expectations in place
of transparency of costs
Guide your client to
focus on “Scope of
Value” before getting
to Scope of Work.
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29. Attach different
pricing to different
classes of value
Proactively decouple
your high and low
value services.
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31. Put your value in
perspective by
offering options
Options provide context
for the value you’re
providing and change
the dialogue away from
inputs to outputs and
outcomes.
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32. Apply the same
creativity to pricing
as you do to solving
marketing problems
Once you take
hourly billing off the
table, there are
virtually unlimited
ways to get paid for
the value you create.
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UNIFORM PRICING
Cost-plus calculations
based on a formula
VARIABLE PRICING
Varying pricing approaches
based on customer value
TO MAXIMIZE YOUR RETURN,
DIVERSIFY YOUR PORTFOLIO
34. THE POWER OF
OPTIONS
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VARIABLE PRICING
Varying pricing approaches
based on customer value
35. CPOChief Procurement
Officer
PURCHASING AS A
CORE COMPETENCY
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CPOChief Pricing
Officer
PRICING AS A
CORE COMPETENCY
PRICING COUNCIL
AT THE CLIENT AT THE AGENCY
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ESSENTIAL ROLES OF THE
PRICING COUNCIL
Identifying and championing the multiple dimensions of value
the firm creates for its clients.
Experimenting with various pricing approaches to maximize
profits and diversify the firm’s pricing portfolio.
Developing tools that will keep the firm focused on value
instead of cost, including changing the language.
Overseeing the development of pricing options and presenting
pricing proposals to current and prospective clients.
Creating new revenue streams by cultivating, packaging and
monetizing the firm’s intellectual property.
37. NEGOTIATE SOMETHING BOTH
PARTIES WANT TO MAXIMIZE
COST PRICE VALUE
SELLER’S PROFIT
(Agency)
BUYER’S PROFIT
(Client)
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