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Where margin leaks, why price increases fail to land, who should own the number, and what governed commercial execution looks like once it leaves the spreadsheet.

Pricing Systems

Admitting the Spreadsheet Is Broken Is the Easy Part

Everyone agrees the pricing spreadsheet is broken. The hard part is choosing what replaces it: why the usual fixes stall, and how to write the job before picking the tool.

Alex Hoff · 8 min read ·
Pricing Systems

What Pricing Looks Like When It Lives in Spreadsheets

If your pricing lives in spreadsheets, it doesn’t actually live anywhere. What Excel-based pricing really costs, and the five things a real pricing system has to do.

Alex Hoff · 12 min read ·
Price Realization

Pricing Guidance 101 - Guidance Your Sales Team Will Actually Use

Give a rep one number and a max discount and you’ve built a slippery slope. How to give sales a Target, Stretch, and Floor they’ll actually use.

Alex Hoff · 11 min read ·
Pricing Ownership

Nobody Owns Pricing at Your Company. You’ve Decided To. Now What?

You don’t need a pricing team, you need three things, in order: a source of truth, one person who can say no, and a monthly rhythm.

Alex Hoff · 7 min read ·
Price Realization

Pricing in an Era of Cost Shocks: A Practical Framework for Margin Agility

Tariffs, energy spikes, supply shocks. A practical three-step framework for protecting margin when costs move against you.

Alex Hoff · 3 min read ·
Price Realization

The Price Waterfall - A Simple Primer and Why it Matters So Much

List price to pocket margin: what the price waterfall reveals, why averages lie, and where the first 2–3 points of margin recovery are hiding.

Alex Hoff · 7 min read ·
Pricing Strategy

There Is No Such Thing as a Commodity. Only Commoditized Thinking.

“We’re basically a commodity” is a decision dressed up as an observation. Why commoditized thinking, not the market, erodes your pricing power.

Alex Hoff · 3 min read ·
Pricing Strategy

The Price Conversation You're Not Having with Your Best Customers

Your most loyal customers are often your most under-priced. And they're usually willing to pay more; if you can articulate why.

Alex Hoff · 3 min read ·
Pricing Strategy

How to Build a Simple Value Map for Any B2B Product or SKU

Value-based pricing is the gold standard and the hardest to execute. A two-axis value map (value drivers against competitive position) gives any B2B product or SKU a working answer without a research program.

Alex Hoff · 5 min read ·
Pricing Strategy

The Three Primary Pricing Methods Every B2B Company Uses (Intentionally or Not)

Every price your company quotes can be traced back to one of three primary methods. You might not have named them. You might not have chosen them.

Alex Hoff · 3 min read ·
Pricing Ownership

Who Actually Owns Pricing in Your Company? (The Answer Might Surprise You)

If everyone owns pricing, no one does. And the result is margin erosion hiding in plain sight.

Alex Hoff · 4 min read ·
Pricing Strategy

The 5 Biggest Pricing Myths in B2B Manufacturing & Distribution

“The market sets the price” is not a pricing strategy. It’s a margin-surrender strategy.

Alex Hoff · 4 min read ·
Pricing Strategy

Why Pricing Is the Most Underrated Profit Lever in B2B

A 1% improvement in realized price outperforms a 1% increase in every other profit lever a company has, by far. Here’s why B2B pricing is the fastest path to margin.

Alex Hoff · 3 min read ·

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Admitting the Spreadsheet Is Broken Is the Easy Part

Everyone agrees the pricing spreadsheet is broken. The hard part is choosing what replaces it: why the usual fixes stall, and how to write the job before picking the tool.

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