Value-based pricing and the customer journey are coming together as a the new discipline of customer value management. How would you like to go about activating and embedding this capability in your organization?

Pricing strategy is critical to commercial excellence. Without a pricing strategy pricing drifts into throw it at the wall pricing and becomes a frozen accident. What are the key aspects of pricing strategy? This post gives you a concrete introduction. It is a great place to get started.

Why Use Value-based pricing? Pricing can be extremely complex to many as it is a nuanced art but also a strange science. There are many different pricing models and strategies to choose from. It's hard to know where to even start. If your product has differentiated offers and you want the most flexible model that can support different pricing strategies, value-based pricing is for you. Pricing models might seem complicated but here we break down the structure to show the basics of value-based pricing.

Many B2B SaaS companies struggle with pricing implementation and professional services. They often wonder if they should offer professional services at all. If so, how should they be positioned and what role should professional services play in overall strategy? Let’s examine this.

Tom Tunguz is one of the best informed and prolific of the venture capitalist bloggers. His blog is generally well researched and thoughtful. Worthy to be on your read regularly list. On May 9, 2017, he published a piece titled "The Challenge of Performance Pricing for SaaS Companies." This time, I think he got it wrong.