Commercial Excellence

Commercial Excellence

Commercial excellence is what turns a good product or service into sustainable revenue — it's the discipline of getting marketing, sales, pricing, and go-to-market motions to work together instead of against each other. These articles offer practical perspectives on building demand, structuring deals, pricing for value, and designing go-to-market models that scale without breaking. Expect grounded ideas on customer acquisition, sales effectiveness, pricing strategy, and the commercial operating model decisions that separate steady growth from stalled momentum. Read this category when you want to sharpen how your organization wins, prices, and grows revenue.

Concentrated Consulting Clients

Use large clients without becoming dependent

Consulting Fee Leverage

Price for value and protect margin

Moving from Cost-Plus to Value-Based Pricing in B2B

Transition away from margin-eroding cost-plus pricing to value-based frameworks anchored in client economic value.

Building a Center of Commercial Excellence: Roles, Skills and Operating Model

Establish a specialized internal center of excellence to institutionalize commercial governance and analytics.

SNAP

A sales methodology simplifies the sales process by focusing on the customer's needs and pain points

Industry Analysis: Restaurants

How Restaurants creates and captures value

Conceptual Selling

A consultative sales methodology focussed on understanding customer's needs and tailoring solutions

The Five Pillars Commercial Excellence

Five pillars drive scalable enterprise profitability.

Industry Analysis: Retail Industry

How Retail Industry creates and captures value

Rakuten's Ecosystem Business Model

Marketplace commissions fund a loyalty ecosystem

Solution Selling

A selling methodology focused on solving customer's problems through customized solutions

BANT

BANT stands for Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeframe