Pricing of healthcare services is notoriously opaque and it is difficult to shop around.
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Managers should think long and hard about the pricing of their services.
Assessing the quality, breadth of services and pricing of investment advice can be a daunting task for consumers.
Inevitably fees will come down as investors become more sophisticated regarding the pricing of investment advisory services.
By the way, the pricing of institutional investment advisory services is also irrational and often excessive.
In Netherlands, the unusually high pricing of text-messaging services drove strong early adoption of WhatsApp messaging service.
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Congress left the job of enforcing of minimum pricing rules exclusively with the Dept. of Health and Human Services, she said.
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Apparently investment consultants are not effectively negotiating on behalf of their pensions clients, managers are not being consistent in pricing their services and clients are not carefully reviewing the recommendations of their consultants regarding fees.
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If you need a refresher: Netflix announced it would split the pricing of its DVD delivery and streaming services, basically doubling the cost of similar service, then flinched at customer outrage, renamed its DVD service and then changed its mind.
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Apple launched iCloud.com for developers Monday, offering a sneak peek at the web interface for its iCloud suite of online services and revealing its pricing plan for additional storage on the service.
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Mr. Gallin declined to comment on his pricing but says his services can save a client millions of dollars because he knows how to cut deals with contractors, landscape designers and antiques stores after decades of doing it for his own homes.
Looking beyond logical changes to performance on products and services in terms of innovation, style and pricing, this new crisis-induced variable is key to our business and redefines the breakdown of the marketing mix.
With a closed looped of its own related products and services and marketing, AXP pricing has a built-in competitive advantage.
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One of the most difficult tasks for a young independent business woman is pricing her services.
They can borrow and lend using the gold-linked currency of denomination, or simply use it as a basis for pricing goods and services.
But if these services do attract significant numbers, they could affect pricing for and usage of the entire Internet, suggests one analyst.
Maybe, but only if Walmart can figure out a killer pricing model and achieve a level of ubiquity that other paid, on-demand Web video services have not.
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They claim to bring the pricing and risk management strategies of the financial commodities markets to cloud computing via revenue-generating services that add convenience and value to the cloud user.
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Capgemini, a consultancy, has found that most mobile-phone operators vastly overestimate the importance that customers place on premium services, while equally vastly underestimating the importance of simplicity, both in handsets and in pricing plans.
Of late, the U.S. oil field services sector has been impacted by weak natural gas pricing, which has taken its toll on companies that offer pressure pumping services.
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This has driven down demand and pricing for pressure pumping services like fracking that are used to extract gas from shale rock formations, severely impacting margins of most large oil field firms including Baker Hughes.
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