Ariel Baños, price management specialist and founder of Fijaciondeprecios.com, explains how there are myths about the "ideal margin" and what are the ideas to overcome these misperceptions.

One of the myths is that the "ideal margin" is a kind of magical percentage that guarantees adequate profitability. For example, rules like: "in your market you should mark with 50% or multiply by two the purchase cost."

But the customer is indifferent to our cost, is only willing to pay for perceived benefits. A fixed margin applied to cost wastes opportunities to capture value and be more profitable.

Another situation is that those who believe that the "ideal margin" exists, use cost as a starting point and apply a fixed margin (mark-up) depending on the type of product or market.

However, there are multiple "ideal margins", even for the same product. Not all customers are equal, nor do they value the proposal equally. So why define a single price for the entire market?

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