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The Pricing Roadmap: How to Design B2B SaaS Pricing Models That Your Customers Will Love

Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt

Pricing can make or break a SaaS company. Get it right and watch your product click with your market, dropping acquisition costs and exploding growth. Get it wrong and join the graveyard of great SaaS products that never turned into great SaaS businesses.

The Pricing Roadmap teaches you how to design pricing models that both your customers and your sales team will love. Learn how to:

  • Create packaging that makes your chief of sales high-five your chief of product
  • Pick pricing metrics that drive demand and expansion
  • Tap into every part of your customers’ budget
  • Validate new pricing before launch and migrate old customers

Written in the trenches of helping hundreds of B2B SaaS businesses, The Pricing Roadmap will help you pour gasoline on the fire of your pricing. Ditch the guesswork with this step-by-step guide to designing SaaS pricing that grows your business—whether you’re a startup, prerevenue venture, or an established market leader.

Game Changer: How Strategic Pricing Shapes Businesses, Markets, and Society

Izaret and Sinha

Many leaders assume that pricing is nothing more than a technical and tactical discipline based on four assumptions: that pricing is a zero-sum game, sellers should extract maximum value, markets set prices, and one "right" price exists. But this is a flawed premise. Pricing is a strategic game based on collaborative growth, value sharing, dynamic opportunities, and strategy.

The Price Advantage

Baker, Morn and Zawada

Updated throughout to reflect changes in the global pricing environment and advances in McKinsey's pricing knowledge, this Second Edition covers a host of new topics including software and information products pricing, lifecycle pricing, custom-configured products pricing, pricing of high-count product lines, pricing in distributed sales environments, and tiered products and services pricing. Also, the building of a sustainable pricing capability and a high-performing pricing infrastructure is covered in much greater detail than ever before.

With emphasis on translating pricing theory into real improvements and bottom-line performance, the Second Edition of The Price Advantage is designed to give today's CEOs and business managers a competitive advantage in any economy.

 

The Strategy & Tactics of Pricing

Nagle, Hogan and Zale

For almost three decades, The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing has served as the leading authority on strategic pricing. The sixth edition brings new perspectives, case studies, and updated approaches from this ever-evolving practice.

Monetizing Innovation

Ramanujan and Tacke

Whether you are a CEO, executive leadership, or part of the team responsible for innovation and new product development, this book is for you, with special sections and checklist-driven summaries to make monetizing innovation part of your company's DNA. Illustrative case studies show how some of the world's best innovative companies like LinkedIn, Uber, Porsche, Optimizely, Draeger, Swarovski and big pharmaceutical companies have used principles outlined in this book.

The Pricing and Profit Playbook

J. Smith

Joanne Smith is well known throughout the pricing discipline as a thought leader and The Price and Profit Playbook bring her expertise to the forefront. Starting with the basics and continuing through the organizational and cultural changes necessary to improve pricing, this playbook will be an invaluable resource to lead managers to profitable growth

 

The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow

Rafi Mohammed

We learn about the author’s concept of value pricing, which is based on how customers make purchase decisions and involves setting prices that capture the value customers place on the product rather than what it costs to manufacture it. The author tells a compelling story of Southwest Airlines and how it has increased revenue by charging more for an added feature that a certain customer segment values. With a goal of win-win for both a company and its customers, the author shares his success story interviews with managers in a wide variety of industries. He concludes with an action plan for a comprehensive pricing strategy and observes, The financial benefits of a 1% price increase . . . illustrate the power of pricing and its direct link to the bottom line.

 

Pricing with Confidence: 10 Ways to Stop Leaving Money on the Table

Holden and Mukherjee

In Pricing with Confidence, pricing gurus Reed Holden and Mark Burton offer a radically different solution—one that actually builds revenues and profits without lowering prices. The key? Linking prices to the value delivered. The real trick is to bring people from marketing, product development, sales, and senior management into the process of discovering and defending the value you create for customers.

Implementing Value Pricing - A Radical Business Model for Professional Firms

Ronald J Baker

An overwhelming majority of professional firms price their services by the flawed hourly billing method. This method is outdated, suboptimal, and driving the best and brightest out of the professions. While lawyers, accountants, and consultants serve noble callings, the predominant method of pricing for their services is not worthy of them. There is a better way.

Implementing Value Pricing demonstrates a superior model to price for professional services: selling intellectual capital with pricing based on the results and value it creates, not the cost or time it took to formulate.

 

Monetizing Data

Stephan Liozu & Wolgang Ulaga

This book focuses on the topics of data monetization and of the value-based pricing of data-driven offers. The authors introduces a newly-developed practical data monetization roadmap that can be used by digital project teams, incubators, and digital factories to better frame their offers and to apply the principles of value-based pricing. They present options in digital pricing models and practical guidelines on how to deploy them.

Readers will learn:

  1. The various monetization and value creation models for data-enabled offers
  2. The 8 steps of the data monetization framework
  3. The best practices in designing differentiated data-enabled offers
  4. The value-based pricing of data and options in digital pricing models
  5. Business model implications of switching from ownership to consumption model

Pricing: the new frontier

Gabor Rekettye & Jonathan Liu

This book is a good introduction to pricing, especially for students interested in a future pricing career.

Health Economic Evaluation

Alastair Gray and Andrew Briggs

The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform an economic evaluation of a health intervention. It focuses solely on cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. The book is developed out of the Advanced Methods in Economic Evaluation course taught at the University of Oxford, and the four main sections mirror the four principal components of the course: Outcomes, Costs, Modelling using decision trees and Markov models, and Presenting cost-effectiveness results.

Series editors Alastair Gray and Andrew Briggs

New Drugs, Fair Prices: Managing the Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable and Affordable New

Brian D. Smith

New Drugs, Fair Prices addresses the important question of how we might get the innovative new medicines we need at prices we can afford. Today, this debate is impassioned but sterile. One side calls for price controls, discounting their impact on investment in innovation. The other points to miraculous new therapies, disregarding their affordability and social inequity. This polarized argument creates more heat than light, threatening the social contract between the industry and society on which pharmaceutical innovation depends.

This ground-breaking book takes a wholly new perspective on the issue and raises the debate to a more informed and productive level. Drawing on interviews with more than 70 experts across the pharmaceutical innovation world and combining a diverse literature from scientific, political, economic and business domains, it describes how a sustainable and affordable supply of new medicines is possible only by balancing pharmaceutical innovation’s complex, adaptive ecosystem. By considering how each of the ecosystem’s seven habitats work and interact with the others, it makes a comprehensive set of recommendations for achieving that ecosystem balance.

The core message of New Drugs, Fair Prices is important to anyone who ever has needed or will ever need a medicine: we can have a sustainable supply of new medicines that are both innovative and affordable if we manage the pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem intelligently.

Digital Pricing: A Guide to Strategic Pricing for the Digital Economy

Frank Frohmann

This is one of the first books to combine the current megatrend of digitalization and pricing as the most effective lever for increasing and sustaining profits. The book presents the basics of digital pricing as well as modeling methods and implementation examples. This structure helps in tackling the latest developments and challenges due to digitalization. Readers will gain a detailed insight into using innovative revenue and price models to generate a sustainable competitive advantage for their companies. The author uses his cross-industry experience to draw on several examples of innovative digital pricing approaches which can be applied in industrial sectors such as automotive, industrial goods and machinery, as well as service sectors like telecommunications, transportation and tourism.

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German Edition:

https://www.amazon.es/Digitales-Pricing-3-Level-Ansatz-Gesch-C3-A4ftsmodell-Pricing-Prozesses-dp-3658379405/dp/3658379405/ref=dp_ob_title_bk