What is Cost-Plus Pricing?
A Popular Pricing Methodology with Significant Flaws
Cost-plus pricing involves adding a markup to the cost of producing or acquiring a product to establish the final price. It's a popular pricing methodology with some significant flaws.
In this video, I’ll:
- Dig into the components of "cost" and "markup" to see some of the challenges of this pricing policy.
- List the pros and cons of cost-plus pricing
- Identify some insights you may gain from cost-plus pricing
- Explore a "chicken vs. the egg" problem with cost-plus pricing and how to solve it