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Don’t sell your products, sell what your products do

Customers buy your products for a reason—namely, the impact your products have on their business results. If they could get the same results without buying your solution, believe me, they would. They would gladly refocus their time and money on ru…

Metromile Takes Page from GE Pricing Playbook to Disrupt Auto Insurance Market

In Pricing with Confidence, Reed Holden described the profit power of choosing the right, and sometimes innovative, pricing model. A stellar example of innovative pricing is when GE disrupted the market for aircraft engines.  They introduced …

Translating Value for Sellers and Customers

I recently spoke with a major supplier to semiconductor manufacturers. The semiconductor industry has a handful of global players owning 80% of the market. Predictably, the supplier’s business model is heavily reliant on a few large customers. Bec…

Field Report – Are You Saying “No” Too Much in Your Team?

| Adele Mclean |
I have been reflecting on Travis Umpleby’s article, 3 Qualities of a High-Performance Pricing Team, and I wanted to share some observations from my recent client work about teaming and its impact on project success or failure.