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How to Build a Killer Private Label Pricing Strategy

Uncover the most compelling reasons that every private label seller on Amazon needs a dynamic pricing strategy and how establishing one can help drive revenue and profits. By Tami Ben-David September 16, 2022
How to Build a Killer Private Label Pricing Strategy

This blog was originally published in 2016 and has been revised to include new and updated information.

The seemingly mass migration into the private label space makes sense from a monetary perspective — private label products allow you to drive incremental revenue and create your own bespoke private label brand that can avoid direct competition. 

However, if you are considering exploring the private label space on Amazon, or have already expanded into that market, a critical piece of your success will derive from putting a dynamic pricing strategy in place. 

However, before we explain why dynamic pricing is pivotal for e-commerce success, we will explain what exactly dynamic pricing is.

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On Amazon prices change every few minutes

What is Dynamic Pricing?

Dynamic pricing is a strategy in which product prices continually adjust in response to current market conditions and real-time supply and demand. 

The more competitive the market is, the more price changes will occur. On Amazon, for example, prices change every few minutes, fueled by the intense competition between sellers, as well as changes in buyer demand and price elasticity. 

Before dynamic pricing, static prices were the norm because the data and machine-learning capabilities did not exist for people to reference or leverage to perform competitive research or find the optimal price points for their products.

Think of dynamic pricing in financial terms. The stock market operates based on share values increasing and declining. Like dynamic prices, the value of shares is calculated by considering things like demand, the specific company, the state of the economy, and so on. Like shares, prices are adjusted to maximize your return. 

Further Reading: How to Start an Amazon Private Label Business

How Dynamic Pricing Can Transform Your Bottom Line

Here are seven reasons why you need a dynamic pricing strategy if you are a private label seller or are seriously considering adding private label SKUs to your catalog in the future.

1. Avoid Leaving Money on the Table

How do you know you are not leaving money on the table by pricing too low or encountering lower profits because your price is too high? In many cases, sellers only change the prices of their private label products once a month or once per quarter, if ever, so they do not know how that price is being received by the Amazon marketplace specifically. 

Dynamic pricing technology allows you to set the pricing strategy according to your business objectives and then price your products appropriately with continuous monitoring and optimization.

Those who are slow to adjust their product prices are, in turn, behind when it comes to changes in market conditions and end up losing out on increased profit potential. By testing various prices and measuring demand, dynamic pricing prevents you from leaving money up for grabs.

2. Better Manage your Time and Catalog

As mentioned, private label products have historically been set to fixed prices and are updated on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis, if at all. Dynamic pricing saves you significant time because you do not have to change the prices manually. 

Additionally, dynamic pricing can help with overall product price management, which is especially beneficial for sellers with extensive private label catalogs. By automating the pricing across all of your ASINs, you can more effectively manage market relevance and discoverability.

3. Gain and Maintain Market Share

Given that dynamic pricing accurately reflects market demand and supply dynamics, you can leverage it to be more aggressive in your target market, helping you become more relevant and usurp market share from the competition.

Moreover, if you are concerned with your Amazon sales and search ranking, you can leverage dynamic pricing technology to optimize for revenue to improve your rankings, accelerate sales, and identify the sweet-spot prices that positively impact your sales demand. 

By keeping pace with your sales ranking, the demand for your product will go up, and your prices will adjust to capture the maximum margin.

4. Find the Optimal Balance Between Revenue and Profit

With dynamic pricing, such as Feedvisor’s ProductSphere™ pricing technology, strategy-based algorithms allow you to set the pricing strategy for each individual product according to your business objectives, such as revenue optimization, profit, or liquidation. Then, explore-exploit algorithms continuously search for the optimal price point and make real-time adjustments, driving your business goals to fruition. 

Customization allows the right balance between revenue and profit. You can effectively achieve your business objectives regardless of the product’s life cycle stage. The technology continuously monitors and optimizes prices on an ongoing basis, tracking how the price changes impact your sales demand.

5. Understand and Outpace the Competition

Identifying who your true competitors are and automating your action plan against them will help keep you competitive within your actual market. It will also help you understand how to compete against those within it. 

While that identification process takes place on the back end, utilizing price optimization technology will ensure your prices are in line with the indirect competition, so you can avoid losing out on sales to a different brand. 

6. Take Advantage of Seasonality

With dynamic pricing, you can automate price changes, which will take the headaches out of seasonality and demand shifts. You can take advantage of seasonality, shopper trends, and market fluctuations to reap the most profit during your busy seasons and set your strategy to focus on revenue during the slower months.

7. Increase Ad Conversions

Dynamic pricing can help you drive demand and, when leveraged in unison with strategic advertising, can help improve your seller rating, sales rank, and organic placements, as well as drive conversions to holistically fuel the flywheel.

A demand curve will help you identify the optimal price for the right amount of sales to bring in the most profit possible.

Feedvisor’s Solution to Dynamic Pricing

Feedvisor’s ProductSphere™ pricing technology is specifically designed to help you maximize profit margins for your branded and private label products, ultimately accelerating your private label business growth. 

You do not need to input any rules or identify any reference products. Our highly intelligent machine-learning algorithms map relevant competing products for each product in a client’s catalog, as well as complementary and substitute products. 

Through an explore-exploit methodology, the algorithms continuously search for the optimal price point and make real-time adjustments, enabling clients to achieve their target business strategy. You can then understand the influence of price changes on demand while the algorithms continuously monitor and optimize pricing on an ongoing basis.

How does Feedvisor’s private label solution enable you to price more competitively?

The technology works by identifying competing, complementary, and substitute products on an SKU-specific level through machine-learning algorithms. Then, it identifies who you are competing against, who is taking demand from you, and the impact of price changes on demand. Then, it determines the optimal price according to your business objectives, such as revenue optimization, profit, or liquidation.

For example, the current price you are selling your private label shampoo for is $5.58. You are debating whether or not to raise the price slightly and risk losing sales, or lower the price slightly and risk lowering profits. A demand curve will help you identify the optimal price for your shampoo so that you are making the right amount of sales to bring in the most profit possible.

When utilized in conjunction with Feedvisor’s other optimization solutions, dynamic pricing holistically drives demand, profit, and revenue growth across your entire Amazon operation. The benefits of AI-based, dynamic pricing for your private label products are unparalleled. 

Learn more about how ProductSphere™ pricing can enable you to win against the competition on Amazon.

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Final Thoughts

Sellers have long struggled with finding the right approach to pricing their private label ASINs. With sophisticated pricing technology, you can set floor and ceiling price boundaries that reflect your brand value, allowing you to maintain equity and stay profitable through seasonal periods and market fluctuations.

A dynamic pricing strategy, backed by intelligent technology, will help you better manage your entire catalog — including closely monitoring SKU-specific performance — and provide you with data you can leverage to set optimal product prices. As a result, you can effectively conquer the balancing act of keeping your prices competitive without sacrificing your profits.

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