pricing strategies at TJ's Weblog

Techdirt runs a good headline on a research paper about pricing strategies. Although I do not share the great concern about privacy issues, pointed out by the author, it gives good insight on how to implement a pricing strategy in consumer markets. A good introduction into pricing from MIT is here. I have written another entry about rationality of individual pricing and the endowment effect that might be of interest too - [...] Read More


the ultimate pricing guide at TJ's Weblog

That has been a bullet point in the outlook section of any business plan about marketplaces some years back. It now happens at ebay. ebay is selling pricing data for certain heavily traded product categories. That is the dream of any marketplace to have such a liquidity to provide historic data about pricing for certain products. ebay is late to catch on with the idea, but I'm impressed.... [...] Read More


ALDI's strategies at TJ's Weblog

ALDI the famous Germany based retail chain has lately ventured into the eastern part of the US. aldi is well known for high quality private label products and it's policy of total intransparency. Almost no financial data from this symbol of Germany's economy are available. Now incredibly enough one 8 year old strategy paper (in German only) is available. It gives some nice insight about retail markets and private label [...] Read More


Pricing... at Biz Plan Hacks

Are you pricing your services right? The After the Launch blog has an interesting entry about pricing your services correctly. Now this is geared toward service base businesses but can also be of use to retail businesses to figure out if they are pricing their products right. Pricing is probably one of the toughest things you will have to do. First of all you are usually afraid to price your products [...] Read More


Wii Pricing Official Press Release at House of Nintendo

Thanks once again to Go Nintendo, we have an official press released from Nintendo concerning the pricing of the Wii. Following its overwhelming debut at E3 2006, Nintendo today announced the current fiscal year unit shipment forecast for its new home game system, Wii™. Nintendo also confirmed that the price of the Wii system, which incorporates unique freehand control, will not exceed $250 in America, or ¥25,000 in Japan. The company [...] Read More