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Pricing in the News

Every business day, we scan the Wall Street Journal for stories that illuminate pricing concepts in the real world. We don’t restate the news — we identify the pricing mechanics at work and what they mean for practitioners. Click through to read the full story

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8/24 Pricing in the News

Today's Journal is a study in pricing as a mechanism of control, not just a number on a shelf tag. Nations wield tariff schedules against each other the way a retailer wields a shelf price; a drugmaker's margin gets set by manufacturing economics before a sales team ever gets a say; a merger agreement uses a fee that punishes delay itself rather than any specific unresolved term; and a labor union makes clear that a wage figure means nothing without the structural terms aroun

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Product teams are shipping features faster than the commercial teams can monetize them. Right now, half of B2B SaaS companies are giving away expensive new AI features for free. This is creating a wide-spread monetization log jam, as margins are surrendered to minimize customer disruption and product complexity. Three gates are holding back monetization: internal buy-in, buyer predictability, and competitor anchoring.

When a Price Change Fails, It’s Rarely About the Math

Execution, communication, and timing drive impact more than decimal points. When a price change doesn't stick, leadership often blames the strategy. But more often, the breakdown is in execution, and execution is a team design problem. This article is about what your Pricing team and commercial organization need to be capable of for any price change to survive contact with the field.

Swallowing the Fish

The Commitment That Has to Happen Before Any of the Plumbing Works Professional services firms know their pricing model has to change. Last week I wrote about the plumbing most haven't built. This week's about the conversation that has to happen before any of it does. Earlier this week I wrote about the Journal's piece on consulting's billing crisis, and the operating-model plumbing most firms haven't built to actually fix it: revenue recognition against a milestone instead

The WSJ Named the Problem. It Missed the Fix.

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