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SPP’s Chris Mele featured on Better Done Than Perfect Podcast

Sales teams face significant challenges that are often underestimated. Executive management prioritizes a tough stance on pricing, but frequently overlooks...

SaaS Pricing Best Practices: List price or net price, which is more important?

SaaS pricing power comes from the relationship between list and net Is list price or net price more important in...

If you’re right pricing B2B software, you don’t have to push to close sales

How to close software deals without trying too hard  What’s the best way to close a SaaS sale or other...

Three more B2B SaaS Pricing Errors – and how to avoid them

Additional software pricing errors that zap revenue and profit  In my previous post, I discussed the three worst pricing errors...

The three worst B2B SaaS pricing errors – and how to avoid them

These software pricing errors zap revenue and profit  The number 1, absolutely worst error you can make in B2B SaaS...

Why Continuous Monetization is so Vital to the Future of your Software Company

There is a myth about pricing that software companies often let themselves believe. It involves the notion that once a...

How software pricing facilitates value-based selling

B2B software providers can do more to equip their salesforces for success  My first blog in this series explained why...

B2B Pricing: Is value-based pricing undercutting the value of your B2B software?

Borrowing B2C pricing methods doesn’t work for B2B—here’s what does  My previous blog explained why 90% of value-based pricing and selling...

In B2B software, 90% of value-based pricing and selling is a hoax 

Salespeople in the B2B software world are often prodded to “sell on value.” In most cases—I’ll estimate 90%—they’re being asked...

SPP’s Chris Mele featured on SaaS Story in the Making Podcast

Here’s a common and costly mistake software companies make. They spend enormous time and resources planning and building their solution...

Don’t use grandfathered pricing tactics!

This widespread practice greatly increases pricing risk by giving away revenue  In this second blog in our series on the risks...

The Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Monetization Officer 

Last year, we started banging the drum about the need for software companies to place a Chief Monetization Officer—we call...

Get out of Dodge!—time for software pricing to join the modern world

Market Fairness Pricing works better and increases value for both software buyers and sellers  As I discussed in a recent...

Software Pricing is the Wild Wild West

Both buyers and sellers are shooting themselves in the foot As software design and development has evolved into a highly...

Product Led Growth: What No One Tells You About That You Really Need to Know

One of the best things about the software industry is its unwavering belief that there is always a better way. ...

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