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Pricing Products & Services
Pradeep AnandPresident, Seeta Resources
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Be Better…in Important Ways
November 2016
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Agenda
• Introductions
• Business Principles
• Briefly: Seven First “Go-to-Market” Steps
• Competitive Market Value Price
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President, Seeta ResourcesAccelerate Revenue & Margin Growth, Increase Market Valuation
Oil & Gas, Engineering, Manufacturing, Software, Technology, Services
Bachelors Degree, Metallurgical Engineering/Material ScienceIndian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India
MBAUniversity of Houston
Adjunct Faculty MemberJones Graduate School of BusinessRice University
Mentor Startups in Houston AreaAccelerators, Incubators
U of Houston, Rice U
Helped CommercializeTwo Major Oilfield TechnologiesLWD & 3D Seismic Visualization
Sperry Drilling, Landmark Graphics
Member of Advisory BoardsU of Houston, Community, IIT Alumni
Speaker, WriterBusiness, India, FictionNovel: An Indian in Cowboy Country
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Focus: Accelerate Revenue/ Margin Growth to Increase Market Valuation
• Vice-President, Marketing, Landmark Graphics
• Manager, North American Operations, Baker CAC, Baker Hughes
• Marketing/Business Development Manager, LWD/MWD, NL Sperry-Sun
• Co-Founder/President, PointCross, Inc.
• Oil & Gas – AirXChangers, Baker Hughes, Baroid Corporation, Daniel Industries, Dresser Industries, Dresser Oil Tools, Key Energy, InnovationNorway, Integrated Exploration Systems (Germany), Landmark Graphics, NL Industries, Numar, Oildex, OFS Portal, Oildex, Petrabytes, Photon, PGS-Tigress, Praxis, Preng & Associates, Sigma Cubed, Sperry-Sun, Object Reservoir (US Venture Partners), Volumetrix, WOM
• Engineering/Manufacturing — Aggreko, Astralloy, CompX, Continental Carbon, Excell Minerals, Express Integrated Technologies, Fabsco, Fort Lock, Gundle/SLT Environmental, Harsco Corporation, Harsco Industrial, Harsco Infrastructure, Harsco Metals & Minerals, Harsco Track Technologies, Hendrickson Trailer, IKG Industries, Metal Networks, MultiServ, National Cabinet Lock, Nutter Engineering, Ohmstede, OnePoint, Patent Construction Systems, Patterson-Kelley, Reed Minerals, SGB, SteelPhalt, VisionMonitor Aviation Software, Viswa Lab, Waterloo Furniture Components
• Technology — AMD, Sun Microsystems, Wipro, Syntel, WNS, LatentView Analytics, FuelFX, Gnosys, Management Controls, Metasolv, NobleTek, Avalon Imaging, Scicom, Silicus, Laversab, Facet, Zresearch
• Other — Kanaly Trust, Fort Bend Independent School District, American Sleep; Willy, Nanayakkara, Rivera & Goins
• Adjunct Faculty, Rice University’s MBA Program: Teach “Marketing in the Energy Industry”; Commercializing Technologies in the Oil & Gas Industry
• Engineer (IIT Bombay) + MBA (University of Houston)
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I am here to increase your firm’s market valuation through Pricing Excellence
•Businesses consistently undercharge for products
•80% to 90% of prices chosen are too low
•Methods used underestimate the “Competitive Market Value” of products to customers
•Today’s Focus: Discovering your Price Ceiling!
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I am here to increase your firm’s market valuation through Pricing Excellence
•Pricing is the fastest most effective way to increase profits• 1% increase in price=8% increase in operating profit at an
average S&P 1500 company• 50% better than a 1% drop in variable costs• 300% better than a 1% increase in volume
•There’s not much room for improving profitability with operational cost controls
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Principle 1. Purpose of a Business
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Deliver Value to Customers
Realize Value for Stakeholders
• Revenue Addition• Cost Reduction• Improve Return on Capital
Benefits
Value
Products Services
Pricing Effectiveness
Price on Valueand
What the Market can Bear
Get & Keep Right Customers
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Principle 1. Purpose: Create Value Growth
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Deliver Value to Customers
Realize Value for Stakeholders
• Revenue Addition• Cost Reduction• Improve Return on Capital
Benefits
Value
Products Services
Pricing Effectiveness
Price on Valueand
What the Market can Bear
Get & Keep Right Customers
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Principle 2. Execute on Five Gears of Growth
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Market Value
MultipleX
Earnings
IncreaseMargins
IncreaseQuality Revenue
Introduce New Products
Enter New Markets
Increase Market Share
Improve Pricing Effectiveness
Take Advantage of Market Drivers
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Principle 2. Five Gears of Growth
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Principle 3: Aim Before You Shoot!
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3. Market Value focused Go-to-Market Process
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Market Value
SHOOTAIM
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3. Go-to-Market Process: Answer 3Qs, Start with 4Cs to Execute 5Gs
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4Cs 5Gs
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Principle 4. Use Go-to-Market Process to Mine Your Team’s Tacit Information & Tribal Knowledge
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Competition
Customers
Company
Climate
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7 First “Go-to-Market” Steps
Without sacrificing your future value
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Seven First “Go-to-Market” Steps
1. Where’s the money?• With your customers• With your competition
2. Why do customers buy from you or your competition?
• A unique, trusted source who delivers value
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Today’s Focus: Improve Pricing Effectiveness
1. Where’s the money?• With your customers• With your competition
2. Why do customers buy from you or your competition?
• A unique, trusted source who delivers value
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Step 4. Improve Pricing Effectiveness
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Principle 1. Purpose: Create Value Growth
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Deliver Value to Customers
Realize Value for Stakeholders
• Revenue Addition• Cost Reduction• Improve Return on Capital
Benefits
Value
Products Services
Pricing Effectiveness
Price on Valueand
What the Market can Bear
Get & Keep Right Customers
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Principle 1. Purpose: Create Value Growth
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Deliver Value to Customers
Realize Value for Stakeholders
• Revenue Addition• Cost Reduction• Improve Return on Capital
Benefits
Value
Products Services
Pricing Effectiveness
Price on Valueand
What the Market can Bear
Get & Keep Right Customers
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Three Layers of Pricing
• Industry Strategy• Lead, Follow
• Product/ Market Strategy• Price on Value and What the Market can Bear• Price/Benefit packages for customer segments• Position and reposition products on price/benefits
• Transaction Strategy• Productive terms, conditions and schedules• Pricing architecture—perception & performance• Account level management
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Three Layers of Pricing
• Industry Strategy• Lead, Follow
• Product/ Market Strategy• Price on Value and What the Market can Bear• Price/Benefit packages for customer segments• Position and reposition products on price/benefits
• Transaction Strategy• Productive terms, conditions and schedules• Pricing architecture—perception & performance• Account level management
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Industries
•Oilfield Equipment
•Oilfield Services
• Iron & Steel
•Construction Services
•Power Plant Services
•Petrochemicals
•Software
Countries
• USA • Germany• UK• Canada• France• The Netherlands• Belgium• Czech Republic• Poland• Slovenia
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Improving Pricing EffectivenessCase Studies
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Improving Pricing Effectiveness“Great Recession” Case Studies
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CountryCompetitive
PriceHeadroom Headroom Price Ceiling
(Local Currency) (Local Currency) % (Local Currency)
Belgium 30,000 13,433 45% 43,433
Czech Republic 700,000 218,500 31% 918,500
Czech Republic 700,000 301,000 43% 1,001,000
France 50,000 88,554 177% 138,554
Germany 900,000 740,000 82% 1,640,000
Netherlands 90,000 70,297 78% 160,297
Poland 50,000 10,000 20% 60,000
Poland 520,000 354,400 68% 874,400
Slovenia 35,000 14,464 41% 49,464
UK 50,000 81,302 163% 131,302
UK 22,500 21,102 94% 43,602
USA 30,000 30,260 101% 60,260
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Case Study: Oilfield Equipment
• Challenge• A client’s distributor wanted a 35% discount on a $50,000 air-cooling
equipment for gas compression industry• Competition was selling a similar product at $30,000
• Solution• Brought teams from distributor and manufacturer together• Guided them through the process to determine Ideal Competitive
Selling Price/Price Ceiling!
• Result/Value• The Ideal Competitive Selling Price was about $60,000• “Pricing Headroom” was $10,000 or 20% more than then current
selling price• Distributor made efforts to get closer to $60,000• Significant impact on Net Margin and EBITDA
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Case Study: Construction Services
• Challenge• Competitive price was €900,000• General belief that we commanded a 20% premium or a price of
about €1,100,000 in the market
• Solution• Brought internal team together
• Management, sales, service delivery• Guided them through the process to determine Ideal Competitive
Selling Price/Price Ceiling!
• Result/Value• “Pricing Headroom” was €500,000 or 45% more than initial
assumption of €1,100,000• Helped client in negotiating and winning the contract• Significant impact on Net Margin and EBITDA
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Barriers to Pricing Excellence
• Anchors/Magnets/Bad Habits• Customer-defined price; sellers are drawn to that price• Internal cost structure• Minimum ROI expectations
• Effort/Expertise• Time/Discipline/Practice/Diligence• Technology, Customer/Consumer Behavior, Competition,
Economics, Negotiation, Finance
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Barriers to Pricing Excellence
• Blind Spots• Institutional
• Limited understanding of Competitive Positions• Limited understanding of Competitive Responses• Limited Historical Knowledge• Limited Processes and Tools to Improve Individual Performance
• Business case framework• Escalation
• Individual• Innumeracy (numerical illiteracy)• Limited comprehension of product’s Monetary Value to customers in
the local context• Lack of Best Practices and Processes• Inadequate training and support in Negotiation• Limited knowledge of Economics
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Barriers to Pricing Excellence: Cost-Based Pricing
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OptimumSale
Price
PoorNegotiations
CompetitiveAdvantages
Value toCustomer
CompetitivePricing
Poor Knowledge
FinalSelling Price
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Consequence: Profit Leaks
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Profit Leak
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Pricing Exercise
•A Product’s Price is $100
•Gross Margin is $35
• If we give a 10% discount, how much more volume in % would we have to sell to generate the same $35 GM?
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New Product Failure ModesIncumbents/Value Chain Acceptance
• Underestimation of inertia in organizations and value-chain players
• Benefits to the end user do not always equate to benefits to incumbents in the buying center and value-chain players leading to resistance to adoption
• Product’s performance along the complete value chain creates risk of unexpected delays in uptake
• Buying Center and Value-Chain complexity influences adoption time
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The Bright Side
•Knowledge usually exists within a company
• It is distributed across employees and other stakeholders in a business
•The Challenge: • Draw out and organize tacit and tribal information to
create astute pricing hypotheses
• Test these hypotheses with customers
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1. Golden Rule of Pricing
Pricing is a function of alternatives
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Make aReasonable Profit
Pricing Sweet Spot
Value-based Market-based
Cost Plus
2. Process: The Pricing Pyramid
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3. Cost-Plus Pricing
Any method used to derive a price based upon your cost to make the product or deliver a service
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3. Cost-Plus Pricing Destroys Value Created by Cost Savings Efforts
$65.00 Cost$54.19
$100.00Price
$83.37
Margin35%
0%
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Cost-Plus Pricing Over Time with a Constant 2% Cost Improvement
Focus on Pricing based on Value and What the Market can Bear
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4. Market Based Pricing
• Market pricing is like hurricane tracking
• Historical data is used to forecast its next location
• The exact location is not as critical as the range
• As newer data arrives the model is revised
• Need good competitive intelligence
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4. Market Based Pricing
Historical data is used to forecast the next location Pricing Curves are derived by segment, market, service to
derive Price Guidance (High, Median, Low) Trajectory and Seasonality of price are estimated for the
next set of ranges
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4. Market Based Pricing
• The exact location is not as critical as the range
• Sales Management is issued advice for negotiating deals/contracts
• As new data arrives the model is reviewed and rates may be updated
• New competitors may change the range
• A strategic opportunity may not change our pricing curves
Quarter1 Quarter2 Quarter3 Quarter4
Ceiling (High) € 999/K € 1025/K € 1050/K € 1000/K
Market (Median) € 900/K € 950/K € 975/K € 925/K
Floor (Low) € 825/K € 875/K € 900/K € 850/K
Segment 1, Service A:
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4. Summary: Market Based Pricing
Market Based Pricing…
•Derived through using existing prices that worked in the market
•Going to be inaccurate, thus requires that we provide ranges of price and allow for negotiation and/or soft factors; e.g. is it $4.99 or $5.00
•Moving target, requiring updating on a regular basis
•Needs great market intelligence!
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Make aReasonable Profit
Pricing Sweet Spot
Value-based Market-based
Cost Plus
2. Process: The Pricing Pyramid
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Make aReasonable Profit
Pricing Sweet Spot
Value-based Market-based
Cost Plus
2. Process: The Pricing Pyramid
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Customer Cares Customer Cares
Customer Cares Not!
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5. Competitive Market Value-Based Price
• Define Value in Monetary Terms• Define a Relevant Alternative to your product/service• Discover its price
• Determine Ideal Competitive Selling Price (ICSP)1. Create Competitive Product Positioning2. Monetize your product/service’s Incremental Benefits compared
to defined Relevant Alternative 3. Monetize its competitive deficiencies4. Subtract (2) from (1)5. Add Price of Relevant Alternative + Result from Step 4
• That’s the Price Ceiling!
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Determining Your Price Ceiling!
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For the: (Target Segment)
Who Needs:
Firm/Product is a: (Category)
That provides: (List of compelling reasons to buy)
Unlike competition (Name), the company/product, also provides:
– List of key differentiators
•Features
•Benefits
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Create Competitive Product Positioning
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Value: Defining Value
Value=Benefits – Cost
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$Cost Reduction
Revenue/Margin Increase
Return on Capital Improvement
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Total and Net Value to Customers
• Sellers deliver total value to customers
• Buyers receive Net Value
• Buyers want to maximize their Net Value
•Use alternatives to create competitive pressures
• Practical solution is to Price on Value and What the market can Bear
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Create Competitive Product PositioningAdd the Monetized Value
For the: (Target Segment)
Who Needs:
Firm/Product is a: (Category)
That provides: (List of compelling reasons to buy)
Unlike competition (Name), the company/product, also provides:
– List of key differentiators
•Features
•Benefits
Value
Cost Reduction
Margin Increase
Others
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Value Contributors
Total Valueto Customer
Net Value To Customer
Cost of Search,Acquisition, etc.
Supplier MarginSale Price
Supplier Cost
Total Customer Cost
Features
&
Functionality
Process
Knowledge
Risk
Relationship
Market
Others
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PositiveDifferentiation
Value
Our NegativeDifferentiation
Value-$
Our Added Value to the Alternative
+$
Cost of Relevant Alternative
$
ReferenceValue
The Price Ceiling!
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Pricing Models
•Freemium
•Consumption
•Tiered
•Perpetual License
•Other Options
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Freemium
• Value is learned through customer experience• Core services or features for "Free"• Sophisticated components at a "Premium"• Free + Premium=Freemium
• Capacity based: free version up to a capacity or number of users
• Feature-based: key features locked until customer converts
• Time-based: free trial expires after a period•Use-case: free for certain categories
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Freemium
•Quickly establishes adoption and market share, gain customer insights
•But:• Make sure the market is large• Make sure people convert to premium and become
repeat users• Know your conversion rates and times for profitability• And there are network effects—more users, exponential
effects
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Consumption
•Value varies with usage
•Price tied to usage
•Scale up or down at will, without significant penalty
•Useful for scaling-up products
• Lower revenue predictability
•Trade off adoption versus stable revenues
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Tiered Model
• Value varies with volume of usage
• Common for Service• Seats, Modules, Data Volumes, Servers, and other scale
dimensions• Longer sales cycle but predictable revenue•Need predictable, long term relationship with customer• Segment customers by value metrics and customer
expectations of service level• Lower average customer acquisition cost•Higher customer lifetime value through renewals and
up-selling
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Perpetual License
•Value varies with volume of usage
•Upfront payment + "maintenance and support" + professional services
•Assumption was 3 to 5 year payback period
•Works for:• Investments >3 years• Cost of Capital is low• Customers prefer CAPEX to OPEX
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Other Options
•Packaging• Tied to product features and functionality
•Bundling• Put Complementary Products together• Leverage off "Star" products• Pulls in non-core products• Helps transition out core on premium products without
sacrificing revenues
•Capex & Opex considerations
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Pricing Proficiency comes through Practice!
I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understandConfucius
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Competitive Price Ceiling!
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Price Ceiling created by a solid, logical, reasonable and simple methodology based on:
“Price on customer value and on what the market can bear”
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THANK YOU!Pricing
Products & Services
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