Category: Value Pricing
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Does Strategic Pricing Stop Value Leakage to Optimize Profits?
Many times when we talk to clients about pricing, they say that they have already worked out pricing because consultant XYZ did a strategic pricing initiative for them. As we ask questions about what they actually did, we usually uncover that the initiative was really more of a transactional pricing…
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Five Requirements to Being a Value Pricing Champion
Value pricing is an elusive topic but when done properly it can lead to long periods of exceptional profitability. We often hear companies improperly refer to their pricing methods as “value pricing,” when they are far from it. Like anything else, just using the words does not improve results, you…
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5 Pitfalls to Avoid when Value Pricing Software
We had a client many years ago that was struggling with how to bring a new software offering to market, specifically how to price it. Their core product was equipment used in manufacturing processes and the associated parts and accessories. The equipment was a large capital purchase for their customers,…
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How Does Inflation Impact the Value You Deliver?
Inflation is hitting every sector of the economy, and almost every company we talk to is grappling with raising prices to compensate for their rising costs. Invariably someone will say, “Raising prices is value pricing, right?” Our answer is, not really. Although value pricing could lead to an increase in…
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Who Should Own Pricing in Your Organization?
Pricing is one of the most important levers your organization has, therefore pricing decisions are some of the most important it will make. Set the price too high, and you won’t sell anything. Worse yet, set the price too low and you are leaving money on the table. That leads…
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Value Pricing Relies on Effective Segmentation
Bottom line, effective value pricing relies on first having a good segmentation that is based on customer needs. Or, as we often say in our workshops, “value and segmentation always go hand in hand.”
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You think you know value pricing… and it can still surprise you
Our book, “Grassroots Strategy: Cultivating B2B Growth from the Ground Up” has just been published, so driven by some combination of curiosity and vanity, we have been somewhat obsessive about checking our page on Amazon.com.