This document outlines the six steps involved in setting a price for products and services:
1. Selecting the pricing objective such as maximum profit, market share, or product leadership.
2. Determining demand through surveys, experiments, or analysis to estimate how price impacts sales.
3. Estimating costs such as fixed and variable to ensure the price covers costs.
4. Analyzing competitors' costs, prices, and offers to understand the competitive landscape.
5. Selecting a pricing method like markup, target-return, or value-based approaches.
6. Selecting the final price by considering the pricing method output and impacts of being too high or low.