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PRICING INNOVATIONS
From Good Product to Good Business Using Visualization to Build the Right Business
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Pricing InnovationsTechnology Marketing
Product Management
Product Marketing
Business
Chemical Engineer
About me: Esra Kucukciftci
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OUR GOAL
1Understand how we can utilize visualization to build the right product
2Use this knowledge to build the right business
3 Talk about specific examples and reference the methods used
In the next 45 minutes or so…
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4Before we dive in…
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Great, you have a product. But do you have a business?
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of new products fail. The cost of failed new products to the US economy in 2010 alone is USD $260 billion.Source: Product Development and Management Association - PDMA
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of new products fail to meet their revenue or profit goals. Source: Simon Kutcher & Associates study across 1,600+ new products across 37 countries.
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of the start-ups were still in the business in the end of a six year period.Source: Harvard Business School study across 2,000 VC backed start-ups, between 2004-2010.
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of businesses profit from digital.Source: Accenture
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Product Cost Price Value Customer
“Product” innovation
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“Product-focused” innovation
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Product Cost Price Value Customer
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Product structure
Cost structure
Offer structure
Pricing structure
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VALUE =
Willingness to Pay – Opportunity Cost
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Value Stack
Value
Gap
Value Innovation
Value Metric
Product structure
Cost structure
Offer structure
Pricing structure
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Cost structure
Offer structure
Pricing structure
Value Stack
Value
Gap
Value Innovation
Value Metric
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Product structure
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1 Identify the gaps in perceived value
& customers’ willingness to pay
2 Quantify the perceived value of
benefits
3 Uncover reference sets that
influence their willingness to pay
Value Gap
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PaulaPrincipal
Investigator
EvaEvaluation
Professional
UrsUniversity
Central Purchasing Director
GloriaGraduate Student
Whose problem are you solving? 21
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AM
Background
Demographics
Goals
Challenges
How we help
Common objections
Real quotes
Need differently
Buy differently
Benefit differently
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$1 $2 $5
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$45
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User 1 User 2 User 3 User 4 User 5 User 6 User 7 User 8
Opportunity size in USD millions
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Three use cases make up 80%
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Opportunity size distribution
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Only 70% of the use cases are addressable.
70%
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Functional Transformational SocialEmotional
26What ‘s the value of the benefits?
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Estimated economic benefits per user per year in USD.
Functional Emotional Transformational Social
What ‘s the value of the benefits?
In B2B, we focus on thefunctional benefits
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What if we cared about emotional benefits?
Comparing these is hard
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What if we cared about emotional benefits?
Comparing these is easy66 75 100
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Estimated Economic Benefits per User per Year in USD.
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And the last step before we can come up with a pricing window is understanding the buyers’ reference sets.
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How do customers decide what’s “valuable”?
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When it comes to value perception, people are sensitive to differences and not to absolute values.“Coherent arbitrariness” - Dan Ariely et al, 2003
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Reference value Differentiation Perceived value
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“Perceived value” is the only one that matters and we can influence it.
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Replace
Augment
IntegrateInnovate
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“Perceived value” is the only one that matters and we can influence it.
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Ready for your pricing window?
Well, not so fast.
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Product structure
Cost structure
Offerstructure
Pricing structure
Value StackValue
Gap
Value Innovation
Value Metric
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1 Uncover different types of stacks
2 Inform your product structure
3 Quantify the economic value per stack
Value Stack
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Taxi cab
Lifetime Value per User - LTV 39
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Taxi cab Hourly carflat fee rides
Lifetime Value per User - LTV 40
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Taxi cab Hourly carflat fee rides
Ride-share
Lifetime Value per User - LTV 41
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Taxi cab Hourly carflat fee rides
Ride-share Uber/Lyft
Lifetime Value per User - LTV 42
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Taxi cab Hourly carflat fee rides
Ride-share Uber UberBUSINESS UberPOOL
Lifetime Value per User - LTV 43
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Word of caution:
NEVER visualize one dimensional data with multi-dimensional display.
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Users per Account ID
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Your offer structure must reflect your value stacks.45
Frequency distributions can greatly inform your
1 Caps
2 Triggers
3 Fences
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Frequency distributions can greatly inform your offer structure.Percent of revenues per pricing plan
46%
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16%
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Stack optimization is slightly different for existing products and technologies.
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Now… for the pricing window
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49 49Competitive pricing
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Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5
Our new offering
Competitor ACompetitor B
Repeat the factor comparison for each of the target segments.
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50 50Strategic pricing
24%
46%
60%
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We derive the price by reverse engineering the overall revenue and segmented growth goals, and reconfiguring the product and offer structures accordingly.
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We derive the price by valuating positively and negatively differentiated benefits in comparison to buyers’ reference sets or to the basis of competition.
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1 Customers who benefit more
should pay more.
2 A good value metric benefits
both you and the customer.
Value Metric
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What’s the one dimension which would allow your revenues to grow as your buyers’ businesses grow,if you acquired no new customers today?
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Sometimes innovating your value metric can be the innovation in and of itself.
A good value metric benefits both you and the customer.
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Let’s revisit our ed-tech story.
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And let’s finalize our offer structure.
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Product structure
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Value Metric
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Product Cost Price Value Customer
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“Value-focused” innovation
Go-to-MarketTest & Plan
Cost & ProductStructure
Value Metric & Pricing
Value Stack
Value Gap
Analytics & Metrics
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Final thoughts…
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People don’t buy features; they buy benefits.
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Visualizing can help your product and business teams to identify, communicate, and build the right benefits that will fuel your growth.
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