Successful Pricing and Willingness to Pay

Successfull pricing is dreaming about bags of money and much more

Aligning Price with Market Demand This is about the difficult task of maximizing revenue by setting prices, whereby a price is not only a number, it is the sum of the price itself, how it is sold and its properties. A business must avoid over-charging, which drives customers to competitors, and under-charging, which leaves money … Read more

What Your Spreadsheet Can’t Tell You: The Hidden Financial Value of Human Conversation

This ladies have a positive talk. If it is a a sales talk, everything might be good. Maybe the computer helped with automated product proposals

If a customer walks out of your store without buying, looking at the security camera footage won’t tell you why. You can analyze the video (Data) all day, but you will never know if they left because the price was too high, or because the music was too loud. To find out, you have to … Read more

How AI took my side job – Artificial Intelligence Business Plan

Preparing Case Studies for market research

Until Summer 2024 I offered creating simple business plans for startups. I did that on my website and on Fiverr for about 120 € each. I stopped that for the lack of orders and a lot of weird questions regarding my gig which never ended in a purchase. The prospects were obviously looking for excuses … Read more

Why finding trends using only observation often leads to false conclusions

Human and artificial intelligence observe the environment. Observations are interpreted and used for finding trends and experiences are processed and result in learning experiences. Humans learn social behavior by observing their fellow humans; animals learn where food is, how to behave in a herd, and where dangers are present. Learning can be dangerous. If the … Read more

Forecasting and Storytelling – our personal history and decision taking

Memories of the past and buying, investing and other decisions

Asked for predictions and future trends, younger people and elders forecast a different future. The judgement is based on past experiences, where the elders had a longer time to watch. Now there is research which uses stock market predictions and inflation expectation taken from surveys to measure different estimations of future values in age groups. … Read more

How prices are perceived from seller and buyer

Le prix est percu a les clients et les vendeurs

Pricing affects everybody. Selling your apartment, selling used furniture, doing salary negotiations or finding prices for your products. How to find a price liked by the seller and buyer? In my seller history I found situations with low prices where the customer voluntarely added a gift, and many situations where nobody wanted to buy. The … Read more

How probability calculations assist making sucessful price negotiations

Demands and red flags - Vietnames people demonstrate against Red China

Wage bargaining and price negotiations There is a slightly different German version of this article here. Bargaining and trading about wages and prices for personal services is not easy. It may be the price tag for your own work, for yourself. On the other side high wages killed a lot of enterprises or forced them … Read more