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From: Forbes

How Raising Prices Can Increase Your Sales

Forbes:

It’s every business executive’s worst nightmare: you raise your prices, only to alienate your customers and decimate your bottom line. But what if the reverse were true?

Social psychologist Robert Cialdini suggests that in some cases, businesses can actually increase their sales by raising prices. The reason behind this surprising phenomenon, he revealed in a recent podcast interview, is that in “markets in which people are not completely sure of how to assess quality, they use price as a stand-in for quality.”

While most customers wouldn’t pay $20 for paper towels because it’s easy to compare them to other products on the store shelves, it’s much harder to evaluate certain categories of products or services.

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Very interesting when you look at the psychology of this.

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