Finance departments struggle to keep up with marketing, which has excellent tools to identify narrow customer segments and market new products, services or price plans to those niches.
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Because the price of services rose by more than the price of goods during this period, the inflation rate for the rich was far higher than that for the poor.
Because hospitals and doctors both decide on the services patients must have and dictate the price of those services, they often enjoy a powerful informational advantage over insurers.
Manufacturers that master this new dynamic will thrive on services versus merely price competition.
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Companies sell goods and services at a price, and all those sales together go into an aggregate number called revenues.
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Pandora and the new business models emerging are all aimed at music lovers of all kinds so that we can choose custom services at negligible price points in all sorts of venues.
Frightened by the growth of new services and a price war, they recently forced the bosses of the four firms to take each other's jobs to discourage competition, to the amazement of some independent directors.
This price sensitivity would not only reduce the aggregate amount spent on insurance, but may work to reduce unnecessary utilization of medical services and more price sensitivity when it comes to choosing providers, medications, and treatment plans.
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Many marketers design communications aimed at justifying the price they charge for goods and services, either by emphasizing a low price or touting the benefits the company can provide to buyers.
The way American hospitals price their services, to me, is a source of amusement, frankly.
For if real wages rise we expect services to rise in price in relation to commodities.
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In the same month the price of services was 8.6% higher than a year before.
Firms would compete on a new exchange, vying to give the best services at the lowest price.
Customers will trade voluntarily with any company that offers them valued goods or services at an acceptable price.
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But the odds overwhelmingly favor the company that serves its customers with great products and services at a fair price.
They continued to enhance services while lowering the price of the offerings.
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Competitors responded with a paper version and a cheaper base price, although GED Testing Service said its price includes services the other two test makers don't.
There are sales tax management services available at every price point, including free, and they can handle every aspect of sales tax collection, from calculation to remittance.
We recently completed an analysis where our value added outsourcing ITO services were the same price up to 17% higher than India depending on the specific service.
Mighty IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) is attempting to price IT services the way water and electricity are--pay for what you use.
Regulators may interfere with the ability of entrepreneurs to price their services attractively, and beneficiaries of the status quo may deploy lawyers and politicians to defend their franchises.
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The Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program will offer communities services at a competitive price for innovative projects that range from small neighborhoods of 5, 000 to 10, 000 and up to 100, 000 people.
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So, evidence that we have indeed seen a rise in the price of services in relation to manufactures would seem to be a good argument that real wages have risen.
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In May, the FCC leadership floated the idea of deeming complex and dynamic Internet services equivalent to old-fashioned monopoly phone services, thereby triggering price-and-terms regulations that originated in the 1880s.
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The services barely compete on price right now.
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If Detroit businesses could step up to provide quality goods and services at the right price -- this is a business play, not charity -- then even small upward ticks would represent enormous amounts of investment and, in turn, jobs.
While it does sell travel services under the traditional price-disclosed model, the Name Your Own Price service allows customers (that are flexible on the date and time of travel and the choice of supplier) the option to bid for hotel stays and air tickets.
The office then launched its investigation, comparing gas prices before and after the crisis under the state's Price Gouging Law, which prohibits merchants from taking unfair advantage of consumers by selling goods or services for an "unconscionably excessive price" during disasters.
The increase in the demand for paper currency and gold not only had a quantity effect on the money supply but it also put upward pressure on the price of gold, which meant that dollar prices of all goods and services had to fall for the relative price of gold to rise.
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