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Think What Price Can Do, Not What Price Should Be

During a recent conversation, a pricing manager from a client confessed he felt frustrated with his current state of affairs. He felt the way his company manages pricing is reactive. Exasperated, h…

Tech Giants Apple, Google, and Amazon Get Pricing Right

In an article published recently in the “Technology” section of The Wall Street Journal, the author, Jack Nicas, alluded to pricing excellence in the three giants of U.S. and global technology: App…

Field Report: Using Give-Gets Nets Sales Team $150k Profit Improvement

I received a call late Friday afternoon from one of our clients, a $800m DaaS company. The VP of Sales Transformation had attended a recent Negotiating with Backbone workshop and played the role of…

A Pricing Buzz Saw is Not Exclusive to Procurement: Expect Aggressive Negotiation Tactics from All Angles

In our book Negotiating with Backbone, Reed Holden describes strategies and tactics designed to combat the Procurement Pricing Buzz Saw. The situation was described well in a white paper by Reed Ho…

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