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Common Competitive Pricing Intelligence Questions Answered

Ask the Expert: Follow Up From September 2012 Webinar Our latest webinar, "Competitive Intelligence and Pricing", featured Brian Clarke, VP of Pricing Evaluation at IDC, who described the ...

How To Deal With Aggressive Discounting Competition: Ask the Expert

Guest Post by Chris Provines, Founder at Value Vantage Partners The post below is a response to an interesting question sent to our pricing experts. Q: The marketplace I compete in uses ...

Quantifying the Value of Social Media

HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes published an interesting article on Fast Company that examined the misguided perception in the C-suite that social media is harmful to the bottom line. As he puts it, ...

Bridging the Gap With Value Modeling

Guest Post by Stephan Liozu Firms are composed of various departments, functions, departments, regions and divisions. It is therefore not uncommon to find information silos, mini “kingdoms” ...

Promoting Value Propositions with Social Media

Why Understanding Value is Critical for Revenue Performance Management Revenue Performance Management (RPM) is transforming B2B marketing, and how marketing and sales processes interact. The ...

Big Data Meets Pricing

"Big data is where cloud computing was 5 years ago..." Quoted from a recent conversation with an executive at a major cloud infrastructure company. That statement strikes us as a bit ...

10 Pricing Mistakes Suppliers Make With Procurement

Guest Post by Jerry Bernstein. This was originally published in the Sept 2010 edition of 'The Pricing Advisor' Customers who involve procurement in their purchases are in a stronger ...

The Power of Value Modeling in the Pricing Council

 Guest Post by Stephan Liozu Our July pricing council at ARDEX Americas was probably one of the best council meetings since the launch of the process 18 months ago. We engaged in ...

Parker Hannifin’s Best Practices for Pricing New Products

In a LeveragePoint webinar, Improving the Value Proposition for New Products, Dick Braun described Parker Hannifin's WinStrategy, which transformed the company into a top-tier financial ...

Value-Based Pricing Hygiene Factors

For a value-based pricing (VBP) strategy to be successful two elements are essential: 1. there needs to be a company-wide focus on customer value creation 2. the processes necessary for the ...

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