price and pricing in pharma marketing
DESCRIPTION
A brief description of the role of price and pricing for pharmaceuticals marketing, especially in dispensing market in Malaysia and Singapore. Price is often an easy and common excuse that doctors gave to a medical sales rep. A better understanding of price and pricing will help a sales rep to handle this most common sales objection.TRANSCRIPT
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Price and Pricing : The Ultimate Selling Objection?
T.Y.Ko
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Price – the ultimate sales objection?
Dr says…..• I have cheaper alternatives..• My patient can’t afford it• Your price is too high…….• I will switch to generic the moment
you increase price!
What actually your customer mean?
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Price – the ultimate sales objection?
Salesperson says…..• If only my product cheaper than
competitors…• If only it is cheaper, I can get more
sales…• If only it is cheaper, I can have more
customers…
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Being as a Sales Person
• How do you feel?• Are you happy?• Do you satisfied, proud of your job?• Do you enjoy your job?• Do you see your job as value
adding/creating?• Are you making a difference in your life,
your family, society & the environment?
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Price – the ultimate sales objection?
• Scenario 1 – sell cheaper– Can it helps you to achieve your sales target?– Can it helps you to sell easier? Samples?– How much cheaper? – At 50% price reduction, how much do you
think you can sell more?
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Price – the ultimate sales objection?
• Scenario 2 – sell at premium price– Can it helps you to achieve your sales target?– Can it helps you to sell easier? Samples?– At 10% price increase –would be more difficult
to sell?
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Price
• Is price your selling tool? • Or marketing tool?
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Price
Major considerations in setting price
Product costs
Competitors’ prices and other external and internal factors
Consumer perceptions
of value
No possible demand at this price
No possible profit at this price
Low price High price
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Price
Factors affecting price decisions
Internal factors: Marketing objectives Marketing-mix strategy Costs Organizational
considerations
Pricingdecisions
External factors: Nature of the market
and demand Competition Other environmental
factors (economy,resellers, government)
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PricingProduct Adjustment Strategies
Strategy Description
Discount & allowance Reducing prices to reward customers’ response
Segmented pricing For difference customers, products or locations
Psychological pricing Adjusting prices for psychological effect
Promotional pricing Short term price reduction to increase sales
Value pricing Right combination of quality, service at a fair price
Geographical pricing Factor in geographical location
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Marketing mix
The 4 P’s of MarketingProductProduct varietyQualityDesignFeaturesBrand namePackagingSizesServicesWarrantiesReturns
PriceList priceDiscountsAllowancesPayment periodCredit terms
PlaceChannelsCoverageAssortmentsLocationsInventoryTransportationLogistics
PromotionAdvertisingPersonal sellingSales promotionPublic relations
Targetcustomers
Intendedpositioning
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Positioning
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Who is your
target market?
Can cheaper price
makes everyone
to buy?
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Price – The Ultimate Question
How can we provide more value for money
products (more value than our competitors’ are selling) to
our customers?
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Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value
Philip Kotler
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What is value?
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Adding Value (4 Ps & 1B)• People - Rapport? Friendships? Dr’s window to
the world? Solution provider?• Promotion - CME activities? Patients educational
tools? Patients support? Help to keep the patients?
• Product – Positioning? Clinical Benefits?• Place – Service?• Built the Brand!
Are the 4 Ps & B able to add value / match to the Pricing structure of your product?
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Branding is the key to halt price deterioration and sustain
profitability!
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“ An orange is an orange…is an orange. Unless …that orange happens to be Sunkist, a name 80 percent of consumers know and trust.”
Russell Hanlin, CEO of Sunkist Growers.
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“ All our factories and facilities could burn down tomorrow but you’d hardly touch the value of the company”
Roberto Goizueta,Late CEO of Coca Cola
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How are brands built?
through the orchestration of a variety of tools over time consistently such as advertising,public relations, sponsorships,events,social causes, clubs, spokespersons and the front liners!
Philip Kotler
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Advertising vs Personal SellingBrand Advertising Sales
ForceSeeding
trialsCME talks
Gimmicks
Unawareness
Awareness
Interest
Evaluation
Trial
Usage
Repeat Usage
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How to justify price increase?
• Inflation?• Highlight product USP!• Add bonus?• Offer CME activities?• External factors?• Use Emotional Softener – Who?• Provide patients educational / support
tools?
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Price and Pricing
Which one you prefer?
Higher Pricing or Cheap Price??
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Pricing Integrity
• Is your pricing consistent or lack of it?• Does it build trust and long term
relationship with your customers?• Would the pricing leads your customers
into being your advocates or vice versa?
Pricing is the second most explicit form of company positioning, image & reputation!
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What is our pricing policy?• Cost-based Pricing (reactive)
Product Cost Price Customers
• Market-based Pricing (reactive)
Competitors Position Price Cost Product
• Value-based Pricing (proactive)
Customers Value Price Cost Product
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What your customers really want?
• Cheaper price?
Or• Better Margin?• Reliability & Predictibility? ( Quality & Branding)• Patients keep coming back?
Why? • Dr charged cheaper price than Rx?• Pt satisfied with tx?• Pt satisfied with dr?
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Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value
Philip Kotler
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What customers really need?
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“1% improvement in price yields bigger gains in operating profit than a similar improvement in variable costs, fixed costs or volumes – almost 8% on average across the S & P 1000”
McKinsey Quarterly Update 2000 (marketing)
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Preventive Medicine
• “If you think health and wellness is expensive, try illness”
• “If you think medications for diabetes/ hypertension/cholesterol are costly, try blindness, dialysis, amputation, stroke and heart attack”
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Is this Value-adding?
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Thank You