Ask Me Anything: Differentiated Pricing

Stop right now and remove your bias—it’s the biggest hurdle to pricing correctly.

Let me give you an example of why differentiated pricing is so successful. Let’s say you have a performance coming up and you’re going to offer tickets for $20. You figure you’ll sell 400 of them and that sounds great. You’ll make $8,000. But there might be some people for whom $20 is too much. What if you put some tickets on sale at $15? You might sell another 50, bringing your total gross to $8,750. But, also, there are some super fans who are more than happy to pay $30 to sit very close or have access to an added benefit like a signed program. If 50 of those original 400 people paid the premium price, your income would grow to $9,250. So, by just adding differentiated pricing, you’ve increased your gross by $1,250. Its supply and demand; simple Economics 101.

 
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