FairPay: Adaptively Win-Win Customer Relationships

  • 3h 42m
  • Richard Reisman
  • Business Expert Press
  • 2016

Businesses recognize the need to become more customer focused, but struggle to see how. At the same time, our logic and business models for selling digital content and services are broken. Digital relationships enable services at low cost, but we still focus on discrete transactions at prices that consumers see as exploitive. This book explains how a revolutionary approach to pricing can solve these problems. It proposes a new architecture for cooperative service relationships that is personalized and continuously adaptive. FairPay operationalizes a new logic for conducting ongoing business relationships that adaptively seek win-win value propositions in which price reflects value. At a practical level, the author explains how this can be applied to transform a range of industries -- with motivations, and guidelines for implementation in stages -- to enhance loyalty, market share, and profits. At a conceptual level, he explores how novel processes for participative co-pricing can dynamically seek agreement on win-win value propositions -- to approach optimal price discrimination over a series of transactions. FairPay applies modern behavioral economics in choice architectures that enable deep relationship marketing. An online supplement is provided.

About the Author

Richard Reisman, president of Teleshuttle Corporation, has decades of experience innovating in digital content industries, and is an accomplished inventor. He managed and consulted for corporations of all sizes, developed a variety of pioneering online services, and holds 50 patents licensed to serve billions of users. He has been developing FairPay on a pro-bono basis, working with industry and academia on research, trials, and applications. He has an AB in applied math from Brown University and an MS in operations research from Lehigh University.

In this Book

  • Introduction—Digital Disruption and Yesterday's Logic
  • Business Overview—Part 1: Basic Concepts—How and Why
  • Business Overview—Part 2: Rethinking Prices
  • Brief Example: Digital Content Subscription Businesses
  • Conceptual Perspectives
  • A Top Management Perspective
  • Making It Work—Operational Details, Tools, Continuous Learning and Adaptation
  • Case Study: Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Video
  • Variations: Music (and Games)
  • More Variations: App Stores, Indies, E-Books, Virality
  • FairPay for Non-Digital Services
  • FairPay for Nonprofit Organizations
  • FairPay Reputation Management—Databases and Platforms
  • Learning the New Logic—Low-Risk Testing, Sweet Spots, and Continuous Adaptation
  • Increasing Sophistication and Variety
  • Proving the Concept
  • Practical Business Comparison to Conventional Methods
  • Customer-Hostile Value Propositions
  • Producer/Creator Perspectives—Sustainable Value Propositions and Compensation Through the Supply Chain
  • Why It Works—Behavioral Economics, Psychology, and Game Theory
  • New Dimensions of Value—Customer Contributions
  • Societal Perspectives—Markets That Center on Human Values
  • Competing on Vendor Lifetime Value
  • Taking Action—Implementation of FairPay
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