“Behind the term ‘pricing tool’ or ‘pricing software’ you can actually have very different things in mind. A competition monitoring tool, a margin improvement tool, an AI price optimization tool, a sales interface. So the first thing was, can we categorize the use cases that people have in mind behi...
“Well, if the other side just did their job better, we’d be in much better shape."Any B2B sellers or marketers heard this one before? Maybe you’ve said it? At some point in your career, you’ve likely experienced the tension between sales and marketing, two departments that in theory should always be...
Read enough headlines about generative AI and you will start to mull some big questions: Is it the next big paradigm shift? Is it a grave threat to the modern workforce? Can it be smarter than me? “It’s about a six-month-old puppy at this point,” says Lou Simon, vice president of Uptima Elevate and...
Price changes and churn threats occur throughout the customer journey. How your organization handles them determines how your customers will react: either positively or negatively. Do they stick with you and buy now? Or go elsewhere without a word? It’s up to you.This friendly debate between two pas...
“When people talk about the death of the channel, the death of distribution, I just sit back and go, ‘Hold my beer – give me a whiteboard and I will explain to you how wrong you are.’”Channelnomics CEO Larry Walsh is our guest today for a wide-ranging discussion on what the channel is and why it mat...
Zilliant Chief Marketing Officer Lindsay Duran and General Manager of Commercial Excellence Barrett Thompson take a long look at the B2B landscape as considerable macroeconomic uncertainty persists. How should companies adjust their pricing strategies as prices eventually come down? How can sales op...
Senior Vice President of Products & Science Pete Eppele is back to go in depth on the chronic undermanagement of customer price agreements. Although often more than 50% of a B2B company’s revenue is transacted via customer price agreements, this important price type tends to lack the attention i...
Get to know recently-appointed Zilliant Chief Executive Officer Pascal Yammine, who marks 60 days leading the company with his first appearance on the podcast. The former senior vice president and general manager of Salesforce Revenue Cloud brings a customer-focused background and 20 years of enterp...
The newest addition to Zilliant’s Quick Start Program, Quick Start for Revenue Operations & Intelligence, is now available. The purpose-built solution is designed to intelligently derive and deliver revenue-driving, account-specific actions to sales reps, eCommerce and marketing automation tools...
“There is no magic wand to digest all of the information that you have. The only way to actually have true control is by having data-driven platforms.”So says Gonzalo Benitez, pricing and data analytics manager at Rush Enterprises, on our latest episode. The heavy-duty truck parts industry has not b...
In December of 2021, Madison Dearborn Partners acquired Zilliant as a strategic growth investment. John Lewis, an executive partner at Madison Dearborn, became Zilliant’s executive chairman following the closure of the deal.We were excited to welcome John for his first appearance on B2B Reimagined t...
To get you ready for Zilliant MindShare 2022 (June 13-15) in Austin, TX, we bring you a very special episode of B2B Reimagined. Barrett Thompson emcees the show and brings on voices from around the company to share what to expect at the biggest annual event on the B2B pricing and sales calendar, and...
We celebrate our 50th episode of B2B Reimagined with special guest Ian Altman, one of the foremost experts on B2B sales and a keynote speaker at our upcoming MindShare 2022 conference. Ian joined host Barrett Thompson to help us get to the bottom of why it’s so difficult, yet essential, to continuou...
Do you know the true reason “why someone should buy x from you at y price?”Our first guest of 2022 has made it his business to help B2B companies define, communicate and, ultimately, sell their value proposition for more than 20 years. Jose Palomino, president of Value Prop Interactive, joined host...
Digital commerce and self-service channels may grab all the headlines, but your B2B sales team remains critical to building a satisfying customer experience, in both manufacturing and distribution. Yet it’s becoming tougher each year for sales reps to live up to that responsibility. With the so-call...
