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Episode 39 of the eCommerce Matter's Podcast is now available, entitled 'Pricing in 2023'. On this episode, Philip Huthwaite, BlackCurve CEO, and Rob Horton, BlackCurve Chief Product Officer, reflect back on the key talking points from episodes in 2022, and make their predictions for what eCommerce companies should be doing to up their pricing-game in 2023.

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In this article, we will dig into how BlackCurve tracks the prices of your competitors in order to support your competitor pricing strategy. It is presented through the lens of helping eCommerce companies.

In this article, we define competitor pricing and introduce the pros and cons of using competitor pricing to make price decisions in your eCommerce business.

Getting started with BlackCurve’s Competitor Pricing and Marketing Insights product, called ‘Tracker’, is really quick and easy. In this post, we will take you through the simple steps needed to start your trial. 

Firstly, head over to https://blackcurve.io/mdb/activate/, which can also be accessed by clicking the button in the top right-hand corner of our website, which currently looks like this 👇.

The latest episode of The eCommerce Matters Podcast is here, entitled "What are the best pricing rules for SMBs".

It's not "Pick of the Pops", but "Pick of the Pricing"! 

We're lucky enough to see pricing rules applied across many different sectors. In this episode we pick our top five, and also share with you, the pricing rules that don't live up to all the hype! 

We cover competitor pricing, rounding rules (psychological pricing), marketing rules, pricing safeguards, and more.

The latest episode of The eCommerce Matters Podcast is here, entitled "Pricing 101".

We go back to basics – and take you through a checklist of how to get the most of your pricing with BlackCurve.

Tease out every bit of optimisation!

We discuss what is price competitiveness, pricing outliers, the importance of communicating pricing insights across departments, price automation, the connection between pricing data and digital marketing metrics, and much more!

A competitive pricing strategy is setting your prices using your competitors’ price points as a benchmark. This pricing strategy is used extensively by eCommerce companies selling branded goods that are available to consumers from multiple online shopping stores.

In this post, we cover:

1. What is the Digital Shelf?
2. Why is the Digital Shelf important to eCommerce businesses?
3. A check-list of how to use BlackCurve to optimise your own Digital Shelf and win online market share.

How do you price a product? You look at the margin you want to make. Look at what your competitors are charging.

There is a real danger in “race to the bottom” pricing – basically, no one wins. 

By automatically diving to the bottom price all you’ve done is dented your profit margin and your reputation – and lowered the perceived value of your product.