Difference between revisions of "Switching costs"

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'''Switching costs''' (or barriers) is a term used in pricing, strategic management, and marketing to describe any impediment to a customer changing suppliers.
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'''Switching costs''' (or barriers) refers to any product-specific psychological or financial investment that a customer makes in a firm’s product that they have purchased in the past which reduces their willingness to select an alternative firm’s products.
  
  
  
 
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Latest revision as of 11:29, 10 January 2013

Switching costs (or barriers) refers to any product-specific psychological or financial investment that a customer makes in a firm’s product that they have purchased in the past which reduces their willingness to select an alternative firm’s products.