Charging customers the perfect price is the pinnacle of commerce and something online merchants are now in a unique situation to make a reality because of the troves of online consumer data. This year, we’ll see behavioral pricing emerge from two converging trends.
First, ecommerce merchants’ interest in pricing technology has surged in the last two years. Startups like BlackLocus, which has raised $2.5 million, have gained traction by helping merchants price their goods using competitor data. While this is just scratching the surface, the traction demonstrates the intense interest that merchants have in pricing technology.
（创业公司 BlackLocus，已经融资 250万美元，面向商人提供商业竞争对手商品数据，已经开始涉入兴趣定价技术领域）
At the same time, online marketers have dramatically increased the amount of behavioral data they have on consumers. This data comes from a complex network of web histories, demographic records, loyalty programs, and increasingly, social media profiles. In the last few years, behavioral data has matured and gained widespread acceptance and usage in online advertising.
Startups like Demdex (acquired by Adobe) allow advertisers to access “databanks” of behavioral information on users, and target advertising to them. For example, if you are selling healthy food for kids, you could target your online advertising to “moms who purchase healthy living goods.”（创业公司Demdex，已经被Adobe 公司收购，是面向广告商，提供用户的行为数据信息，以便找到目标用户等等 ）
As merchants seek to expand their technology around pricing, behavioral information will quickly be adapted to build behavioral pricing. As these two trends converge, expect to see existing data companies quickly expand to do this and new companies emerge with this goal.
基于行为数据的定价结果
By piecing together your web history, social media presence, and demographics, marketers have a near complete picture of you. Do you own a house, visit home improvement websites, and tweet about DIY? Watch as online stores use behavioral pricing to extract the highest price possible from you.（通过结合用户的网络在线历史，社交媒体信息等，市场研究人员已经开始勾勒出完整的网络上的你，网民。）
As a consumer, behavioral pricing may mean occasionally lower prices, but the purpose is clear: merchants want you to buy more and pay more for it. For merchants, this is their moment. Suddenly, they will be able to offer just the right discount on a laptop to ensure you buy, but at a price that gives them the healthiest profit.（对于消费者，偶尔会出现低价格，但是最终商人的目的非常明确：想赚更多的钱。）
In a world with online behavioral pricing, you will question every price you see. The tables will have turned, and your data will be actively working against you. On the other hand, if you’re a merchant, prepare for behavioral pricing to reshape the world of ecommerce. Perfect price optimization will now be at hand. And if you’re an entrepreneur, there is now an opportunity to disrupt the $152 billion ecommerce market– by being the fabric that ties behavior data to price.
2012 will mark the end of static pricing. The use of your tweets, credit score, and web history in ecommerce pricing is frightening—but ultimately unavoidable.（上面全文结束）
最后，
商业的未来，最终将基于用户网络行为，消费记录，以及社交媒体的信息数据，提供商业产品或者服务，一定是不可避免。
