Practice question · True or false
Penetration pricing aims to maximize profit on each unit sold from day one.
Hints
- Ask what this strategy is deliberately trading away at launch.
- Adoption and scale are bought with early margin.
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False
Why
Penetration deliberately sacrifices early margin to buy adoption, scale, and habit, profit per unit comes later, once the base is won.
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