THE VALUE & PRICING BLOG

The latest stories, blog articles, and pricing news from the Ibbaka team

Steven Forth Steven Forth

Should a buyer care how a product is priced?

There are many different ways to come up with packaging and price: cost plus, competitive, willingness to pay, value based. Each motivates different decisions by the vendor. Over time, they will deliver different outcomes for the buyer. How a product gets priced is more important over the long term than the price.

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Gregory Ronczewski Gregory Ronczewski

Core Concepts: Willingness to Pay

Willingness to pay (WTP) is a popular term in pricing, but it should not be used when designing pricing. It is an outcome of good value-based pricing work and not something that can be optimized directly. Pricing experts who claim to optimize for WTP are leading their customers astray.

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Steven Forth Steven Forth

What is in a price?

Sometimes we think of price as a number, the number, often ending in a 9 or 7 or 5, that we see on the pricing page. But to price effectively one needs to think of a price in the context of what is priced and how the price is presented. Price is a lot more than just the number on the price tag. It is how we frame value communicate differentiation.

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Steven Forth Steven Forth

Pricing and Inflation - How to Respond

Inflation is raising its head. This will lead to pressure on pricing leaders to increase prices. Before making a knee jerk response, find out how inflation impacts your customers and the differentiated value you provide them. Ask what impact inflation will have on demand for your solutions.

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Steven Forth Steven Forth

Usage-based pricing a complement and not a substitute

Usage-based pricing is one part of value-based pricing but it is not the whole story. Recent research from the Subscribed Institute finds that usage-based pricing has the biggest impact on revenue growth when combined with other pricing metrics. Why is this? We look at why usage-based pricing drives higher growth up to a point, and why an excessive reliance on usage-based pricing can slow growth.

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Steven Forth Steven Forth

Why Value-Based Pricing means something

Value based pricing is widely misunderstood. Some people think it can be reduced to willingness to pay (WTP). It cannot. In a recent LinkedIn post Robert Ribciuc asked nine rhetorical questions about value based pricing. We answer them here.

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