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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

The goal here is to set one or few rigid prices. In particular, we propose an architecture for pricing digital goods that is intended to move the exchange between seller and buyer from the transactional to the relational. This architecture reflects three key ingredients of today’s social marketplaces: Empowerment. Reputation.

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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

Harvard Business Review

Companies are now taking advantage of this new marketing reality, becoming more skilled at getting their customers to advocate for them, create peer influence in their markets, and make important contributions in areas like product development and services. They're entirely price sensitive. This is an area of tremendous creativity.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Pricing and revenue modeling. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Core Competencies. Running design sprints.