In my opinion, the quality of a company’s customer service is BY FAR the most important ingredient of the numerous factors that go into a company brand reputation. Unfortunately, there are too many companies–even of the large, successful variety–that just don’t get it. I wrote previously about “The End of Customer Service“. Driven by cost […]
Channel Pricing Strategy for Software and Hardware Products
Pricing software products and SaaS offerings is always a difficult exercise. With high product development costs, but very low costs of goods sold, there are many different pricing strategies that people have followed successfully (and not so successfully!) over time. Somewhat surprisingly, pricing hardware products is a bit simpler. A hardware business is much more […]
Pricing High Tech Products
Pricing is always an interesting topic, but even more so in the Hardware and Software worlds. In the consumer products business, if there is a package of frozen peas from Green Giant priced at $3.99, you’re not likely to see someone else offering the same-size package of peas at $19.99. But it’s different for SaaS […]