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		<title>Commoditization in the insurance industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last decade websites used for comparing auto insurance rates such as onlineautoinsurance.com and insurance.com as well insurance firms’ own websites have become a popular way for consumers to shop for insurance. By 2005 it was estimated that nearly 70% of insurance shoppers used the internet to obtain price quotes[1]. Naturally, this kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Label Pricing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Let’s just take the store brand,” I heard a wife tell her husband as they perused an aisle at a local supermarket. “It’s about a dollar cheaper” she continued, “and it’s just as good as the one we used to buy.” It should come as no surprise that a middle class family was willing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pricingconnection.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Bundling and professional sports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the football season comes to an end with the Super Bowl, many sports fans look forward with eager anticipation to spring training and the start of the baseball season.  A perpetual optimism reigns for most fans, even though for some this hope will be replaced by doubt in a few short weeks. In recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pricingconnection.com/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Pricing in (and out of) a recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pricing is always important for any business, but in these hard economic times the role of pricing is crucial for a company to succeed or simply survive. In 2009, as home foreclosures, bank failures, and layoffs mounted, consumer spending habits changed to reflect the increasingly bleak economic climate. Large swathes of firms reacted by lowering [...]]]></description>
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